Repartee

Introducing the party-planning app we built Spaceman Labs to make. A tour of the cool tech under the hood — from Foursquare venue lookup to time zone awareness to a photo stream that sizes shots by interestingness.

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.

Compares

Announcing Compares, our side-by-side photo sharing app. Built from scratch with a custom backend, onion-skinning camera, and a social layer for sharing before-and-after shots.

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.

Goodnight Safari

We shipped a kids’ interactive storybook and learned a ton doing it. Custom animation frameworks, texture atlases, audio — the whole nine yards of getting out of our comfort zone.

Sim Deploy

A drag-and-drop tool for getting simulator builds to non-developers. It even supports a custom URL scheme so distributing a new build is as simple as sending someone a link.

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.