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The only way to create smart messages, that respond to your touch.

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Andy Dent
Sep 13, 2024

Screenshot of the XCode Particle Editor settings showing a complex dialog with many controls

Purrticles and a Belated BuildInPublic

A product design (hurried) story

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Andy Dent
Sep 10, 2024

Touchgram 1.3.5 Improving Usability

Unwinding a complicated editor and a reducing annoyances.

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Andy Dent
Jun 6, 2022

Onboarding Touchgram with Touchgrams

Why the next version of Touchgram teaches you how to use it, with…

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Andy Dent
Mar 15, 2022

How Touchgram is Developed — Backwards

The summary of how Touchgram is developed is simple:

  1. Write playable experiences (like a games programmer)
  2. Add encoding of supporting data
  3. Add a user interface
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Andy Dent
Mar 15, 2022

Touchgram’s new Core Engine & a long year

A technical and cautionary tale for startups

This is mostly about engineering decisions and an overall look at how Touchgram works under the hood. If you’re a startup founder or engineering manager, you may find it…

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Andy Dent
Feb 25, 2022

Ever wonder what life is “really” like for developers?

A Text Tale. My Worst Bug in 40 Years

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Andy Dent
Feb 1, 2022

Four phones representing different OS versions, with crosses and ticks to indicate only iOS15 OK.

How Apple broke apps on old phones

Blindsided by Bitcode. Another Apple bug tale, this one almost…

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Andy Dent
Jan 25, 2022

Telling us how Touchgram Crashed

Sometimes weird stuff happens — this is how to tell us about it.

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Andy Dent
Sep 27, 2021

Bug report lodged that changing text causes a page to draw as all black after page change

Apple’s bug, or mine (Sprite bites)?

Programming and debugging life — what a really hard bug looks…

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Andy Dent
Jun 6, 2021

Apple IAP and Marketplace Currency

How Apple’s pricing works for digital goods and designing the…

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