All websites persuade a visitor to do something. All websites call a user to perform a certain action. Some websites try to persuade a user to buy poop. (Unfortunately not joking.) Some more dignified websites encourage a user to read about philosophy. (http://plato.stanford.edu) Every single website exists to influence a…

One tap messaging apps are awesome. They’re fast, free, and fun. I built one of these apps. The app I created, called Bruh, shows a list of friends, and if you tap one of them, their phone says “Bruh!” Despite its simplicity and stupidity, it is drawing rave reviews, being…

I built an iPhone app. Yep. I learned a lot through the process, and wanted to share some of the takeaways with other developers, and aspiring app builders, offering encouragement and advice. I developed the app in Swift, Apple’s new language. Swift is clean, functional, and a whole lot simpler…