Customizing the new Firefox Megabar with userChrome.css

By Mike in Firefox on

Firefox 75 brings this new Megabar interface to improve the speed at which you find websites such as using the sites you visit most to improve results. Pretty cool right? But even with its "mega-ness" I'm not a fan of it being somewhat gaudy and oversized in relation to other…

Remote Work Gear

By Mike in Productivity on

Happened to come across an article from a writer at Slack on lessons that he shared while working from home over the last 17 years! I share my personal setup that works for myself as a remote developer.…

The alternative interview framework

By Mike in culture on

Making a case against those textbook and mundane interviews. If you ask me the high stress technical interview process isn’t demonstrating anything but a hostile work environment. John Montgomery from Microsoft shares insight into their process …we were still asking the same interview questions we’d asked for the…

Static Table View Containers

By Mike in InterfaceBuilder on

Static table views are the most straight forward way of laying out a list of items using Storyboards in Interface Builder. (You are using Storyboards by now right?) These type of table views are better suited for a static list of items like a menu or settings screen inside of…

Apple Pay with iPhone 6 in a nutshell

By Mike in Apple on

With the announcement of iPhone 6 comes a unique way of paying for products using a combination of the NFC antenna and Touch ID. Apple accelerated the popularity of portable MP3 players with the introduction of iPod and in a similar fashion it appears as though Apple is well positioned…

My blog has a new look!

By Mike in General on

You can see the difference from how it was for the last three years. Around a week ago I set out to update my blog’s theme and I was able to find a quality theme and customize it to my liking without much trouble. This speaks to the big…