Four Questions
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I recently got an email from a college sophomore that had some questions about getting started. Asked him if it would be okay to answer publicly and he was for it.
#1 How did you begin programming?
I started “programming” for the first time when I was 10 years old. My mom took me to an HTML class our local ISP was offering for free. I thought it was amazing you could type some stuff and make visual stuff happen. Started writing HTML in all of my free time in Notepad on our white Dell tower.
Swift
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Yesterday, I did an interview on Venture Beat about Swift, Apple's new programming language. Here's an excerpt:
I think one of the best parts about Swift is a lot of the simplicity they were able to bring to the language due to not being built on top of C. Explaining Objective-C to someone who has never programmed is pretty difficult. You have to explain all of the exceptions to rules and get into pretty deep computer science topics right from the start. Swift let’s you bypass all of that and just get into the code.
In short, I'm a big fan of Swift. Checkout the full article.
Quantum Data Teleportation
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A few days ago, scientists at Delft University reliably got teleportation to work with 100% reproducibility. (Read the full story at CNET.) This is huge.
First we need to understand qubits. Basically, a qubit is a quantum bit. Qubits have 3 states where classical bits (the ones in our computers, phones, etc) have two: 1 & 0. Qubits have a “spin” which can be up, down, or both. Quantum stuff is a little mind blowing since things can be doing two things at once.
Here’s a really great video explaining quantum computing if you want to know more:
The Mother Futon News
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The Mother Futon News Season 2 is coming soon! If you haven't seen season 1, it is incredible.
Update: It's out! Go watch season 2 episode 1.
Litely
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For the last 5 months, I’ve been working on Litely for iOS. It’s a photo app for iOS designed by my friend Cole Rise that I had the pleasure of building. Litely is available for iPhone and iPad, in 14 languages, starting today!
Cole is an amazing photographer and designer. I’ve been following Cole since 2010 when I saw some of his photography as my friend’s iPad background. I immediately bought his Litely presets for Lightroom when they were released. (By the way, you should follow Cole on Instagram.)
Litely started as a set of photo presets for Lightroom, Aperture, Photoshop, and Adobe Camera Raw. They are very subtle effects that make a huge difference. I bugged him on Twitter one day to make Litely for iPhone and he was into the idea. A few weeks later, he hired me to start working on it.