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Removed to only memories…

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Removed to only memories…

Recently I lamented to my Friend’s Facebook feed that I missed family holidays. My dear Aunt Linda, living in Maryland, saw that post and contacted me over Messenger. She wanted my address for something. Days later a package arrived – …

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Farewell to our sweet Molly…

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 21, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Farewell to our sweet Molly…

For over sixteen years a beautiful Beagle named Molly blessed our family with her presence. We first met Molly at a pet store in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She was the only Beagle puppy there, and we instantly fell in love. We …

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Metadata and Apple’s App Store Connect

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 10, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Metadata and Apple’s App Store Connect

I recently updated an old but still fairly popular analog clock application I originally uploaded in 2017. Apple wants apps updated to a list of certain criteria or face removal from the store. So after digging around, I found my …

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📻 Escape to Cornwall

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 8, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
📻 Escape to Cornwall

This self-isolation from the office, our parks, and generally anywhere out in the world has caused mild discomfort to me. And I am sure to a great many others. I recently installed an iOS application that was new to me …

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GitHub… I lost my repo Settings tab?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on January 17, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
GitHub… I lost my repo Settings tab?
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I recently had the need to invite a few people to a private GitHub repository of mine. No big deal, log in, go to my repositories, select the repo I want, and then click… on… wait a minute. Where is …

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Heilung – Ofnir for coding

By Eric Dolecki Posted on January 8, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Heilung – Ofnir for coding

Sometimes when coding, you need music to develop a rhythm that you can attach your mind to. The code flows easier, and you start thinking about connections that you need to wire up in your code to expose and procure …

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Pastis drinks

By Eric Dolecki Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Pastis drinks

Summer is about over, but your Pastis drinking doesn’t need to be. Here are some alternative Pastes-Related drinks to try before the leaves turn. La Soleil (The sunshine) – with a dash of Lemon syrup La Mazout (Fuel) – with, …

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Henri Bardouin Pastis Inbound

By Eric Dolecki Posted on June 26, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Henri Bardouin Pastis Inbound

I am an enthusiastic fan of a cocktail called Perroquet. Perroquet is a traditional French drink, which is very popular throughout France. Perroquet is a Pastis-based drink with peppermint syrup and water. I purchased a glacial mint French syrup instead …

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Tagged with: French, Pastis

Learn slowly to develop quickly.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on June 24, 2019 Posted in Blog, Swift No Comments
Learn slowly to develop quickly.

I’ve seen something happen many times during my longish tenure as a software developer being amidst to some others who are new to it. They seem to have a complete lack of wanting to understand something before tearing into it. …

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AVAudioPlayer setVolume with fading – properly

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 9, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
AVAudioPlayer setVolume with fading – properly

It’s been a while since Apple added Swift fading support to AVAudioPlayer. I can’t remember when exactly, but I think it might have been since iOS 10.0. I have not used it in quite some time and recently had the …

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Tagged with: Developer, Swift

Notre Dame

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 15, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Notre Dame

I’m at a loss just like everyone else who has a sense of place in the world. History. Artworks. Architecture. Style. Burning to the ground. My heart goes out to the world right now as this painful destruction slowly takes …

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The dumbing down of screen content?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 14, 2019 Posted in Blog, General, User Experience No Comments
The dumbing down of screen content?

It used to be that the main screen in homes sat in a corner of a living or room in wooden appliance. The television. After time passed and technology grew at a larger scale, some homes would have perhaps two …

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Mobile Safari and page background images…

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 13, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Mobile Safari and page background images…

I have yet found a satisfactory way to apply a fixed background image to a page for mobile. For some performance reason, as I understand it, a fixed image for mobile is a dancing unicorn. Which has so far eluded …

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Pruning, shearing, and producing

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 11, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Pruning, shearing, and producing

I’ve owned this domain since 2001-03-09. I’ve had all sorts of stuff hosted and served from it. A lot of that junk is still mildewing on this platter located somewhere out there. If I want the domain ericd dot com, it …

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Tagged with: Cleanup, General

AirPods 2. Even better.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 2, 2019 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
AirPods 2. Even better.

My AirPods Series 2 arrived today. Engraved on the front of the case… “Five Ohhh…” I got them as part of my turning fifty years-old. I already have a pair of the series 1, but the upgrades seemed quite interesting. …

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Aqua di Parma Colonia Quercia Review

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 5, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Aqua di Parma Colonia Quercia Review

I am fascinated by great scents. I don’t know why, it’s probably not that common amongst developers, but I am always on the trek to find a signature scent. When we travelled to Nassau, I went into a boutique and …

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Tagged with: Blog, Cologne, General

Swift delegation

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 1, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Swift delegation

There are times when you have Class objects that you need to communicate back to some part of your application. With delegation, it’s a 1-to-1 relationship. Generally where the object(s) are instantiated is where you’d like to gain insight upon …

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My Atlantis Bahamas Review: The Reef

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 27, 2019 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
My Atlantis Bahamas Review: The Reef

Before we departed for our Atlantis vacation, I spent far too much time watching YouTube reviews and reading packing lists. I wanted to know what to expect. The most prevalent thing I noticed people talked about was the price of …

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Tagged with: Vacation

Adafruit Feather 32u4 communicating to iOS

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 5, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Adafruit Feather 32u4 communicating to iOS

I recently had a project request to allow a user to experience different rotary encoders and how they might react with digital LEDs. In short, getting encoders wired to a board to directly control the UI in an iOS application. …

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It has been quite some time since I’ve last posted.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 29, 2018 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I have been quite busy with any number of interesting things.  I recently found and purchased a most excellent medieval hat at King Richard’s Faire in Carver, Massachusettes. I wore it while there, and since I love it so much, …

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