April 2010
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May 2009
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Non-Photoshopped Action Photos →
March 2009
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BSJSONAdditions Update
I still regularly get feature requests and bug fixes for BSJSONAdditions, but have had very little time to actually work on them. I made the Subversion repository housing the code public, but that still doesn’t solve the problem of letting other people easily track different versions of the code or submit changes. So today, I moved all of the BSJSONAdditions code over to GitHub. Along with...
November 2008
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Proposition 8.
Proposition 8. Originally uploaded by blakeseely.
April 2008
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BSJSONAdditions Public SVN Repository
UPDATE: I’ve updated the BSJSONAdditions code, moved the repository to github, and created a Google Group to discuss bugs, features, changes, etc. Please check out the github repository for the latest code. Holy shit. A new post on my blog! Yes, I’m as shocked as anybody. There’s been a recent uptick in the use of BSJSONAdditions, along with quite a few patches sent my way. This...
June 2007
2 posts
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MBA Revisited.
I posted earlier on my general thoughts about MBAs here. But I saw this FSJ post today and made the mistake of following the links and actually reading this guy’s essay. If you can read that and don’t immediately understand what’s wrong with Microsoft, then you probably have an MBA. I also saw this little beauty. Sigh. Microsoft is doomed.
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WWDC2007
WWDC is upon me…er, us… er, WWDC is next week! Everybody around here has been scrambling to get everything ready - including me. I’m giving the Extending the Aperture Workflow session on Thursday afternoon, so if you have any interest in Aperture’s export API, come listen. I’ll also be working the Graphics & Media lab next Friday from 2pm onward. Come say hello....
May 2007
2 posts
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The Kentucky Derby
A few weeks ago, a co-worker and I had the opportunity to join Bill Frakes and his staff at the Kentucky Derby. We spent three unbelievably exciting, long days working with Bill, shooting the races, and seeing how professional sports photographers work. It was an amazing experience from just about every angle - being able to get up close to the horses and the track; watching amazing...
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Please. No.
This is the most terrifying thing that I’ve read in a long time. Please, MBA graduates, stay away from Apple. I beg you. Apple is doing well, it’s making killer products, and your education and skill set will only serve to kill the company. I’m only partly kidding here - but mostly not. After working at and with large consulting firms in my “previous life”, the...
April 2007
5 posts
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Relationships.
Brent Simmons makes some excellent points in his latest post - and he got me thinking. I like his recommendations about Notifications and KVO, and when to use them. What he says about Notifications is right on: It’s difficult, when doing research, to know what’s going to happen when I encounter a notification-send… Another thing I do - which may sound like heresy - is just to admit that...
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Dreamscapes
I submitted a version of this photo for JPG’s “Dreamscapes” theme. I don’t know if I really like this photo for the theme, so I may try to shoot something better. But for now, I do like the surreality of the speeding lights compared to the bridge. (This is a shot of the SF Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island). So, as with the America shot below, if you like it, head on...
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America
This photo is my entry to JPG Magazine’s “America” theme for the upcoming issue. It’s my somewhat cynical take on the theme - consumerism, uniformity, and pre-packaged crud. if you like this photo and think it belongs in the issue, click here and vote for it! And if you’re into photography, definitely subscribe to JPG - it’s been my favorite magazine since...
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Please don't go.
We have a rogue lily growing just outside our front door. Most mornings, I don’t even see it as I leave for work. But after it rains, the flowers and leaves always have beautiful, distinct water droplets on them and I can never resist grabbing a quick picture. This is especially true in the spring when overnight showers are followed by bright, sunny days. My favorite picture of the lily...
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Rift
When I noticed that my own blog had gone “dead” in my NetNewsWire feeds, I knew that something was wrong. It’s been too long since my last post. I swear I’m working on a post or two, but nothing complete yet. In addition to posting more articles and code, I also want to post more of my recent photography. I took this shot on my drive home a couple weeks ago - the light...
January 2007
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It's just a crush.
I hate to continue my string of non-Cocoa- and non-development-related posts, but… oh well. There’s more Cocoa and development topics coming, I swear. But for now, I’ve posted another song over on my Vox blog. Check it out.
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PhotoWalking with Thomas Hawk and Robert Scoble
Our Destination. Originally uploaded by blakeseely. This past Sunday, I spent the afternoon in Sacramento taking pictures at the California State Railroad Museum for a “photowalk” organized by Thomas Hawk and Robert Scoble. There were about 20 people that showed up - we walked around the museum and old town Sacramento. I brought a Canon 5D from work and took a couple hundred...
December 2006
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Rain.
I posted another song over on my Vox blog. Check it out.
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Redesign
I just updated the design of my main site. At first, I thought it was time I built a proper, decent looking, CSS site. But then I started up iWeb to brainstorm some ideas, and just ended up publishing with it. Oh well. Maybe I’ll do a “real” site next time :) Anyway, check it out at blakeseely.com. I obviously haven’t updated my blog theme to be similar to the rest of the...
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Hosting Switch
Well, if you’re reading this, blakeseely.com has moved over to TextDrive today from A Small Orange. I really liked ASO, but hosting my Subversion repositories there was difficult (they don’t offer http/https/WebDAV access), and TextDrive’s Mixed Grill plan offered me a lifetime of services at a really good value. The DNS updates are propagating now, and so far everything seems...
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Aperture-dev Mailing List
Apple has opened up an aperture-dev mailing list. It’s focused on the new export API available in Aperture 1.5 - questions, discussion, tips, tricks. If you’ve considered writing an export plug-in for Aperture, or are interested in hearing what others are working on, join up!
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Sniper 0.5.7
This is a very minor update that only fixes the hang-on-launch that people were seeing in the previous version. Sniper was hanging because it was finding a tag in the contacts list which it didn’t expect. That should be fixed now - so if Sniper wouldn’t launch for you, try this latest build. I can’t personally reproduce this error, so this build has very limited testing - give...
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Check it out: Cocoa Blogs
Scott Stevenson just put up a new site called Cocoa Blogs. It’s meant to be a one-stop shop for finding out what’s going on in the cocoa-programming blogosphere. If you have any interest at all in Mac development, check it out.
November 2006
2 posts
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Wii?
If anybody has any idea where to get a Wii in the SF bay area right now, let me know.
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Color Management
At the recent PhotoPlus Expo, I had a LOT of questions from attendees about color management hardware - what do I use? What does Apple recommend? Does Apple make color management or color calibration hardware? Are Apple’s display’s calibrated? How important is calibration? Can Aperture work with or without a calibrated monitor? And so on… They were all good questions - and if...
October 2006
3 posts
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MUPhotoView 1.2
At long last, I’ve updated MUPhotoView to version 1.2. This version incorporates several changes from a coworker - Cameron Esfehani - to update the selection behavior to be more like iPhoto. But that’s not all! I made several other additions and fixes: Fixed a bug where the view would either stop drawing permanently, or would not draw photos until resized. I made the major cocoa...
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World Spins Madly On
I posted a song to my blog over on Vox - I haven’t posted much there at all, but this is a great song, off a very good album, so I’m linking to it here. World Spins Madly On
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Fleet Week
Upside Down Arc Originally uploaded by blakeseely. This past weekend was Fleet Week in San Francisco. There’s all kinds of events, but the most exciting is the Blue Angels. They performed on Saturday and Sunday over the bay. Tom and I hiked up Twin Peaks on Sunday - not as good as being right on Marina Green, but still a great chance to use the Canon 20D. It was my first time with...
September 2006
4 posts
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Nostalgia
Frito Boat! Originally uploaded by blakeseely. In my carpool home from work last week, somebody was eating Fritos and commenting that they only have three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt. (And no trans-fats!) We all found that pretty amazing for a junk food. I’ve never been a huge fan of Fritos, but thinking about them brought back the memory of swim meets as a kid. I remember...
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C4: 14.2% Cooler. I know who the new speaker is.
It’s George Ou! Or wait, maybe it’s Brian Krebs! Or SecureWorks! OK, just kidding, I don’t really know who it is. But I seriously wish I were going to be there. Is the new guest me? Please?
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Virtual Keys
Earlier this week, Wolf posted about Virtual Key Codes. His main points are that (a) virtual key codes are a level of detail that you should almost never care about, and that (b) they can be handy if you need to use some lower level key handling. But one thing I really want to reiterate is that virtual key codes do NOT constantly map to a given character. Wolf used ‘Z’ as an example -...
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Sniper Mockup
Sniper Mockup Originally uploaded by blakeseely. Of screens that never were. This is a quick mockup I did for a possible Sniper window style about six months ago. Instead of using the current black-and-red three-pane view, I tried going with a two-pane view plus a small info panel. It combines concepts from iPhoto, and Pixadex. The icons and colors don’t all match, but there are some...
August 2006
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Rockstar Developers
This year was my first WWDC, and with it came the excitement not only of new hardware and learning about Leopard (Yes, even employees don’t always know the details), but also getting to meet and mingle with other Mac developers - people whose work I admire, whose blogs I read, and who I was truly giddy about meeting. Gus Mueller, John Gruber, Jonathan Wight, Brent Simmons, David Watanabe,...
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Highly Selective
John Gruber discusses the behavior of Shift-Selection in Mac OS X and various applications. I have to admit… he’s right. And I use the unanchored selection style in MUPhotoView (and therefore also in Sniper). I never really considered what the “right” behavior was when I wrote it - but, there may have been some cognitive dissonance there. Why cognitive dissonance? Well, I...
July 2006
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Sniper 0.5.6
This release of Sniper (previously known as Mugshot) is simply a rename of the application and an update to all the text and graphics that used the previous name. There are no other bug fixes or changes to the application. If you find any references to “Mugshot” in the application, please let me know: feedback@blakeseely.com Click here to download. Update: I also updated the downloads...
May 2006
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Friday Bullets
I know I haven’t posted here much over the past couple weeks, but I swear there’s a few new things coming! I have a couple useful features that are “almost complete” for you on the Flickr front. Plus a few other cool things. But, on to the Friday bullets: IronCoder v1 is ON! The API is iTunes Visualizations. If you’re at all interested in Mac development,...
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Growing Plumeria In San Francisco: May Update
Smaller Leaf Originally uploaded by blakeseely. If you read my post last summer about attempting to grow a plumeria in an area that’s not tropical, this is the follow-up. Take a look at my Green Thumb set, you’ll see that my plumeria has made quite a change in just the last month. With all the sunny weather we’ve had in the past month, your “dead stick” thing...
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Big, big mistake.
Since I started this blog, most of my posts have been accompanied by an icon. I got most of these icons from The Iconfactory - they regularly release beautifully designed icons and even have an icon management program called Pixadex. I thought the icons were free to use, but somebody recently pointed out to me that the icons are free for desktop use only. So I’ve essentially been breaking...
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Mugshot 0.5.5
I haven’t finished the main features I planned for 0.6, but there are enough bug fixes to warrant publishing an interim release. New Features: Includes Andy Matsuchak’s Sparkle software update system. Uses the newest MUPhotoView for the thumbnail area - which provides speed improvements and bug fixes in several areas. Bug Fixes: Fixed 12 different memory leaks. The...
April 2006
11 posts
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Meltdown.
After some very heavy traffic to this site, I was mucking around with some of my files and folders… and it looks like I accidentally deleted my source directory! This is where several downloads were stored, including BSJSONAdditions, MUPhotoView, and a few others. I’m working to get all of the files re-exported from my Subversion repository, but it will take some time. If you try to...
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MUPhotoView 1.1
I listened to your feedback, and made the most requested improvements in this version - without changing much of what you, as a developer, will need to implement in order to use MUPhotoView. Here’s a list of what’s new: Photo Removal Support: Whether you implement MUPhotoView via bindings or via delegate, the new photo removal methods will notify you when the user attempts to delete...
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Better Late Than Never.
I know I’m totally late to the big ol’ musical Web 2.0 party, but I finally created myself an account on Last.fm and am busy tracking all my listening habits. I’m a total addict of any sort of massive data tracking and cataloging - whether it’s on the web or on the desktop. So, check out my initial listening tastes here. And if you’re on last.fm, too, feel free to...
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Change.
Change, is good. One of the reasons I left my previous job was to focus all my time and energy on Cocoa and Mac OS X. Well, a little over 6 months has passed, and I’m ready to solidify my Mac OS efforts a bit: Starting this Monday, I will be joining the Aperture team at Apple. I don’t have a whole lot to say about the change except that I’m incredibly excited. (And hopefully this...
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Feed Me.
You may already know that Flickr provides RSS and Atom feeds for every user’s photo stream. (There a link at the bottom of each user’s main photo page - here’s my page and a link to my RSS feed.) But what you may not know is that Flickr supports output in quite a few formats besides RSS2.0 and Atom - just change the value of the “format” tag in any feed URL. I...
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BSJSONAdditions 1.3
UPDATE: I’ve updated the BSJSONAdditions code, moved the repository to github, and created a Google Group to discuss bugs, features, changes, etc. Please check out the github repository for the latest code. There’s only one change in this update: the parser now skips any characters before the first object definition. For example, Flickr wraps their JSON object definitions in...
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MUPhotoView 1.0
I finished version 1.0 of MUPhotoView (previously mentioned here). The download includes all the code included in the previous demo application, and additionally supports keyboard selection navigation, better scroll adjustment during photo resizing, and a couple other minor fixes. Download the source code, project, and documentation here. Quick Feature List: Dynamically resizable photo...
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NSMatrix and Bindings
Update: I accidentally deleted most of my source downloads, and this was one I didn’t have a stored copy of. If you have one, please email it to me at this domain at mac dot com. In the meantime, the downloads linked from this post will get a 404. While I was reading Wil Shipley’s latest post about NSOutlineView, I noticed that one of the comments had a posting about trouble binding...
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30 Years, 30 Miles
I turned 30 this weekend, and in celebration, spent a few days at Mammoth with some friends. We snowboarded for six straight hours - no lunch break, no nothing - on Friday. I let the Forerunner 205 run the entire time, so it recorded any movement - whether that was boarding or riding on the lift. Somebody suggested we try to go for 30 miles in celebration of my 30 years, so that’s what we...
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Just Like iPhoto Used To Make
Liscio and dcj were having a conversation on the #macsb IRC channel last week about designing better reusability between model, view, and controller components. That, of course, got me thinking about Mugshot, and that many of the pieces I wrote early on know way too much about the internals of the other pieces. The main thumbnail photo view, for example, maintains references both to my app...
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FAlbum
I sat down this morning to start adding a running list of my recent Flickr photos to the sidebar of this site. And, as usual, found that there’s already a WordPress plugin that can provide an API for this. The awesome FAlbum plugin not only provides methods that I can use to add recent photos, but it provides an entire UI to access my photos. And it even provides nice URLs. So, with the...
March 2006
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Mugshot 0.5.1
This build fixes one issue that was causing launch failures on Intel Macs. It should at least allow you to get the app launched. After that, I can’t guarantee a problem-free experience :) Click here to download or visit the Downloads page. I’m tracking other bugs for drag-selecting, the “downloading photos…” status message not going away, and photos not displaying...