Although I’m sad in some ways that my post-NBC News sabbatical has come to an end, I couldn’t be more excited about the reason for it: I’m joining a startup! I am the Director of User Experience for Twistle, a leader in the remote patient monitori...
After nearly three years, I’ve made the decision to leave NBC News. It’s been a great journey. I was delighted to get to build the TODAY, NBC News, and NBC Nightly News apps for the iPhone and iPad, and I’ll never forget three of the craziest week...
I’m excited to announce that I am joining NBC News as a Principal Software Engineer where I will be taking the lead on building their suite of iOS apps! I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to work for such a storied company, and help br...
Earlier today it struck me that, although I know about and frequent the Broadway Farmers Market, there are a ton of other markets in the Seattle area that I never go to. I went off to find out how many, and was surprised to discover that there app...
I don’t know why this never occurred to me before today, but it struck me that the Kindle Fire would be a great system on which to play old-school video games. I’m not a big fan of the virtual controller setup, but I bet that the 7” screen would w...
I finally bit the bullet and moved off Wordpress today after learning that my blog had been hacked at some point in the recent past. I decided to switch over to Octopress, which is based on Jekyll, in part because there’s an easy-to-use Wordpress ...
A couple weeks back, I noticed that when you ‘like’ an article in Instapaper, it will publish a link to it on your Twitter account with a predictable suffix, assuming of course that you have enabled Twitter integration. The most interesting part o...
Regarding http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/15/dorli-rainey-84-pepper-sprayed-by-spd-at-occupy-seattle-protest This needs to stop. Now. I voted for you because I thought Nickels was a useless idiot. I don’t think the same of you, ...
Begin forwarded message: From: Aaron Brethorst Subject: What is there to say? Date: August 25, 2011 1:54:21 AM PDT To: steve@apple.com For some reason, i feel like i am emailing santa claus. I’m saddened to hear that you’ve resigned. You’ve bee...