Repartee at LAUNCH

Announcing our party-planning app on stage at Jason Calacanis’s LAUNCH festival. From demo pit improvisation to getting roasted by Kara Swisher to Product Hunt day.

The Finger Incident

What started as a ridiculous-looking finger injury ended with surgery, exposed bone, and a surprisingly gnarly recovery.

SMShadowedLayer

A CALayer subclass that fakes realistic lighting and shadows during Core Animation. Uses Lambert illumination math and a custom animatable property to keep shading correct mid-transform, specular highlights included.

Why The Best Developers Do Backflips

In 2010, Forbes profiled MeLLmo and its culture of hiring athletes and risk-takers. I was the centerpiece example — Senior Software Developer by day, professional jet skier on the side.

A Decade of WWDC

From the first keynote in 2009 to watching from a Southwest flight in 2019. A decade of WWDC, told through tweets.

WWDC and PegJump

Spotting your own app icon in the Apple Store window, heading into the WWDC keynote, and the eternal struggle with App Store reviews.

The Mellmo Days

Beer floats, Guinness ice cream, custom Adidas, a barista after launch, and CAKE at the WWDC beer bash. Startup life at Mellmo was something else.

Jetski Days

Lowering skis down cliffs, prepping for the world tour in France, and discovering why the ski wasn’t revving out. The freeriding life circa 2009.

The Twitpic Archive

A time capsule of photos from 2008–2012 recovered from the now-defunct twitpic.com — dogs, sunsets, Datsuns, cake pigs, and the early iPhone era.