The Ambronite 10-meal packages sent to me are based on 160 calories servings. Umm… that hardly qualifies as a snack. That’s $49 per bag. There is no way you’ll get 10 meals out of each bag. 3.125 scoops = about 500 calories. It’s really confusing in regards to that language about serving and meal. Seems …
Look. At. That. Here is $500 worth of Ambronite, berries on the top. This box is full of pouches. No scoops or anything else in the box though. I totally forgot the powder portion size without a scoop. The bag says 90-something grams = 1 full meal. Each bag says it contains 10 meals. I …
Good morning everyone. I’ve had my Huel this morning after about an hour in the refrigerator. I’m not quite sure that three scoops and about 600ml is enough for me. It’s quite thin. Less water might be the ticket. I need some coffee at some point this morning too. The weather today in Holliston is …
I am currently using Huel. I am a very strong proponent of Huel. For a long time, I wished I could order it – as the FDA did not approve it’s sale in the United States – until very recently. Before Huel was available in the United States, I was using bottled Soylent (regular and …
I’ve long loved my PRW 1300t-7v. It’s gorgeous but it lacks the version 3 sensor cluster. My 3100 has that but it’s a negative display and basically everything on it is black. The band is comfortable but it’s not metal. I like metal. Best of both worlds… the PRW 3500t-7v. Looks a bit like my …
[wp-svg-icons icon=”location-2″ wrap=”h1″] iOS allows each application to monitor up to 20 regions. That seems like a lot, especially when you figure that the regions are registered and can be triggered (entry and exit) even while your app is backgrounded or your phone is on standby. So what do you do when you have more …
I have long envied those living in parts of the world where Huel could be delivered. For a very long time, Huel could not ship to the United States because of some FDA work that needed completed first, shipping location that made monetary sense, etc. But I happened to stumble upon their site and found …
There were a few things I found invaluable while attending. My Snooz white noise generator to replace a fan for sweet slumber at Hyatt Place. It kept me from needing to pack an actual and unwieldy proper fan. Anker 20000 portable USB charger. I used it a lot when I wasn’t near an outlet in …
So I am traveling from Chicago to San Jose on United Airlines, and I was struck by the lack of small display on the back of any seats. Surely something would drop from near the light controls? No. Touted on the rear of the seats is something called private screening. What this is… bring your …
Some very minor predictions of mine for WWDC17 There will be barrels of Odwalla juice again. I haven’t been to WWDC in a few years due to coming up empty on the lottery – but I have always liked when Apple did that in the past. If you’re peckish between sessions, a quick grab is …
If you’d like to detect a long press on a UIButton or just for a view that has no buttons – it’s pretty easy. There is one simple gotcha, however. You’ll trigger your selector twice. Once when detected (down on the glass pad Apple TV remote), and again on the pad’s release. So you’ll need …
It’s almost time for WWDC17, this year in San Jose, CA instead of San Francisco. I haven’t been in several years because my lottery skills are obviously lacking. I managed to score one this year and I’m pretty excited. What will I take this year? Well, to be honest, taking a laptop to sessions in …
I am currently working on something that will display time in different time zones. However, you need to compare the user’s current time versus those at the target time zones to be accurate. This is what I figured out. It’s easy to get the user’s local time. let cal = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian) let date = …
A post about tvOS UIFocus enlightenment and a helper Class that I use to help debug my user interface work. Above you’ll notice four buttons (a screenshot from my actual Apple TV). You’ll also notice a total of eight purple boxes with dashed outlines. Each is labeled in all capitals. Those are instances of my …
If you’ve been involved in tvOS application development, or you’re new to the whole process, you might find this post interesting in regards to user interface. I have recently been involved in tvOS dabbling. I’ve been creating a custom application (no TVML) and I wanted one of those nifty parallax-style buttons that Apple uses in …
This post is silly simple, but in the past, I remember doing things like this using Ranges. You have a 2-line UILabel and you want a bold font for the first line, and then regular for the second. In Swift, this is quite simple and straight-forward. This is all the code you’d need to pull …
I’ve never been to Blackpool, and according to Ian Anderson, it’s not the nicest place to visit. That said, I was listening to “Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull (Live)” and when “Up the Pool” played into my sweet, sweet Bose QuietComfort 35s, I had a wonder about the place. So I fired up Google …
If you’re ever using asynchronous network operations (say GET or POST) and want to return data when calling a method, you’ll quickly understand that it’s not so easy. But you’ll see below how you can do this fairly easily. Let’s say you have a Class that handles all kinds of network communication. I call mine …
I recently had a section of user interface where I had a UILabel that took up an iPhone’s full width. It contained text which would be dynamic over time, meaning that the text would update at times. I wanted to place an image icon beside the first character of the label, but I needed to …
A little bit about how I work. There are a few important things I do while working on any project. I document design and development decisions in my personal customized wiki. I work with source control and a server-based, centralized location for assets. I spend the late afternoon organizing & cleaning my area. I also …