Programming

Apple’s contact framework doesn’t understand how we actually connect. In my previous post, I wrote about how Apple’s Contacts app treats your relationships like a filing cabinet — a flat list of static cards with no context, no history, and no awareness of how people actually matter to you. That’s a product problem. But it’s also a technical one. Underneath the Contacts app sits a framework called CNContact, introduced at WWDC 2015 as a replacement for the widely despised AddressBook.framework. AddressBook was a C-based API with no Objective-C layer, opaque types like ABRecordRef, and virtually no error handling. When Apple announced its deprecation, the WWDC audience cheered — one of the loudest reactions in the conference’s history. ...

And it was never that good to begin with. When I was a kid, my dad carried a Filofax everywhere. A thick leather binder stuffed with business cards, meticulously organized. It was his most important professional tool — his grail. He could flip to any section and find exactly who he needed, with notes scribbled in the margins about when they’d last spoken and what they’d discussed. I sometimes wonder if he had a better handle on his network than any of us do now with our phones. ...

Sometimes I get a crazy notion to put something together and decide to do it on a whim. That is the story of font-awards. It is my first fully AI project (sort of, as in sort of fully AI). A former coworker and good friend was talking about how they created a quick prototype of a project using nothing but Windsurf and AI, and how they were able to build out the project’s scaffolding very quickly, with very little manual input. ...

This is the fifth post about putting dynamic forms on a static Hugo site. Please see the previous steps to understand where we are: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 4 Now it is time for SQL and input! Talking about input The plan for input is something like the following. The body of the post request should look like this: ...

Previous posts: Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 1 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 2 Web Forms On Hugo Sites - Part 3 The saga of the web forms continues. Last, we left our intrepid project and were dealing with an issue with the self-signed certificate for our database. After poking around TLS, one of my brilliant friends sent me the following links: For postgres - https://github.com/porsager/postgres#ssl For pg - https://node-postgres.com/features/ssl#self-signed-cert To use the pg library we would use the second one. The issue is that I only have the self-signed certificate. ...