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Refecting on 20+ years working in the technology industry, offering advice, insight, and stories. Click to read Tech Reflect, by Chris Hynes - cricket, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Patents are rarely what they seem
I'll start with my all-time favourite diagram found in a patent.Someone beat me to the punch on this one: US6158742A: Vampire count hide and go seek gameI've been involved in a number of patents over the years, but I've not written about them before, most
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Inserting random email sigs in Mail on iOS
I've always had hundreds of sigs in Mail on macOS that are randomly added to newly created messages. On iOS, though, you can only create one signature per account.I recently created some Shortcuts that approximate this functionality on iOS. They are easie
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How I predicted the rise of Twitter, barely used it, and amassed 35,000 followers
Once in a while, I make a stellar prediction. When I joined Twitter in December 2006, it seemed incredibly dumb to me. I knew it wasn't for me and that's still true today. Twitter had so few users at the time that I was able to grab @cricket as a username
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Killing one bird with two-and-a-half stones in Mac OS X Mail
This story is important to me because it was the first software I ever wrote that shipped to more than just a few friends or colleagues. What started as some scripting turned into Cocoa development, which is not something I ever expected to find myself do
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