2023-03-09: I updated a couple of my minor apps today so that they look correct on the latest macOS releases. …

2023-03-07: Drag Boat Race in Parker, AZ About a month ago Nic and I went to drag boat races in Parker, AZ. The start of them is right …

2023-03-07: If someone has to tell you how good they are at something, their work doesn’t stand on its own. If …

2023-03-06: The main project I work on, @NetNewsWire got a shout out in the Atlantic today. How to Take Back …

2023-03-06: I messed up a @NetNewsWire merge recently. I left some Git merge conflict markers in a couple files. …

2023-02-03: Just another day at the office.

2023-02-01: I got new wheels and tires on the van. They look great, but the larger size puts more strain on my …

2022-12-25: Christmas dinner this year is Ramen on Sunset Blvd.

2022-11-14: I really like Dan Rather’s Substack newsletter, Steady. It has some great social commentary on …

2022-11-14: It would be great if Substack had RSS feeds for its Inbox and Discover timelines. I understand why …

2022-11-07: Yeah. It’s one of those days.

2022-11-01: I’d love to have Universal Links on the Micro.blog Apple apps. Since they are Open Source, …

2022-10-30: Ventura’s System Settings I have to admit, when I saw screenshots of Ventura’s new System Settings stuff, I was very …

2022-02-10: I wrote a blog post about how I blog to Micro.blog using Zavala and Humboldt. Blogging this way …

2022-02-03: Software Development And Vanlife Part of the year I live out of my self-converted E-250 Campervan. My wife and our 2 cats are also …

2022-01-31: Zavala is a modern outliner for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Version 2.0 has just been release with a …

2021-12-17: This is awesome: blog.iconfactory.com/2021/12/n…

2021-12-10: Radford Racing School Cars I’ve always loved fast cars. Most of my adult life has been focused on being the best software …

2021-12-04: Vanlife 2021 2020 Sucked (For Everyone) We got back to Centerville, IA just as the world was entering lockdown in …

2021-11-01: Shortcuts for Micro.blog Announcing Humboldt Humboldt is a new Open Source project I put together so that I could use …

2021-10-17: Drummer The Oldest and Newest Thing in Blogging Dave Winer just release a new project called Drummer. …

2021-10-13: Shortcuts I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working with Shortcuts. I have some thoughts about them. …

2021-10-08: Some cool stuff is coming in Zavala 2.0. zavala.vincode.io/2021/10/0…

2021-09-28: My outliner, Zavala, has a new release in beta testing. There are lots of new features and I sure …

2021-06-24: Here’s a great article about @NetNewsWire with some excellent quotes from @brentsimmons. It …

2021-06-14: Zavala 1.0 released For the past 8 months or os, I’ve been working on a new app called Zavala. It’s a modern …

2021-04-11: Sourdough Bread A lot of people have taken up sourdough bread making during the pandemic. My wife is one of those. …

2021-04-08: The open source outliner, Zavala, that I have been building now has a website and is available for …

2021-04-03: Keeping Busy Update I thought I’d let people know what I’ve been working on lately. I’ve been keeping busy! …

2021-02-16: My wife’s best friend is #1 & #2 in Amazon’s Women in Politics category! She’s …

2020-12-14: My Uncle Terry Last February, Nicole and I were wintering in Arizona. We were down there living out of the van, …

2020-09-02: Privately owned firetrucks I was reading a blog post about firetrucks and it reminded me of a #vanlife post I never got around …

2020-05-29: Feed Spider - Update 8 I’ve been doing a lot of reading and a lot of soul searching lately. Having to dig deep into …

2020-05-26: Feed Spider - Update 7 I made two changes in my latest run. I probably should only make one change at a time to be able to …

2020-05-24: Feed Spider - Update 6 It took around 40 hours to expand and extract all of Wikipedia using WikiExtractor. In the end, I …

2020-05-23: CloudKit Extended Pauses I’ve got something strange that happens with NetNewsWire’s Cloudkit integration. I consider the code …

2020-05-22: Feed Spider - Update 5 My first run at classifying blogs ended predictably bad. Not horribly bad, I guess. If you squint …

2020-05-20: Feed Spider - Update 4 I put a test harness around the prediction engine for fastText. The test harness downloads and …

2020-05-20: Feed Spider - Update 3 Yesterday, I had just gotten the categories and category relationships loaded into the relational …

2020-05-19: Feed Spider - Update 2 Wow, the Wikipedia category data I loaded was bad. Really bad. I guess that should be expected …

2020-05-18: Postico I’ve been analyzing the database I created for Feed Spider that models the Wikipedia …

2020-05-17: Feed Spider - Update 1 I’ve been working to get Feed Spider development started and it has started. One of the …

2020-05-15: Feed Spider - Part 2 In the first post about Feed Spider we discussed the motivation behind creating a feed directory. We …

2020-05-14: Feed Spider - Part 1 I’d like to make a directory of blogs that users can search or browse to find blogs that they …

2020-05-12: I found an old photo from a couple years ago. It’s of my wife, Nicole, sitting along the bank …

2020-04-24: I was interviewed about @NetNewsWire and accessibility yesterday. You can check it out on AppleVis …

2020-04-09: CloudKit Impressions from a NetNewsWire Developer I just got done implementing iCloud support in NetNewsWire. We are still doing preliminary testing …

2020-03-25: The new iPadOS cursor is amazing. I’m so impressed by Apple on this one. They successfully …

2020-03-22: If you have any problems or questions about the code, be sure to jump into the NetNewsWire Slack. …

2020-03-22: Looks like a good day to stay inside and code.

2020-02-23: I think this is the first time that @NetNewswire for iOS has been featured by a publication. …

2020-02-13: This is what it typically looks like while I work on @netnewswire. #vanlife

2019-12-28: I’m trying to get some @NetNewsWire coding done today and my “E” key on my keyboard is …

2019-12-25: Kearny, AZ Since we wanted to stay close to Phoenix while we waited for our heater parts to come in, we went to …

2019-12-24: It is 50 degrees here in Kearny, AZ. It is also 50 at my home back in Iowa. I’m beginning to …

2019-12-22: This is how I spent my summer. NetNewsWire for iOS testing

2019-12-22: Winter in Arizona It was cold. Colder then it was supposed to be and Nicole was shaking me awake. I looked at my phone …

2019-12-21: I just migrated my personal website to micro.blog and shut down my old AWS/Wordpress site. Now I …

2019-12-16: Verde Valley After leaving Centerville, we mostly drove straight through to Arizona. We weren’t in a hurry …

2019-12-13: Back to Vanlife Wow. It’s been over 10 months since I’ve done a van life post. I’ll have to get people caught up and …

2019-06-02: Proposed NetNewsWire Branching Strategy Branching Strategies are controversial. Why is that? Why can’t we just pick a strategy like Git Flow …

2019-04-05: Feed Compass 1.0 Released I’ve put the finishing touches on Feed Compass 1.0 and uploaded it to the App Store. Feed Compass …

2019-03-24: Algorithmic Blog Lists In my previous post, I talked about curated listings of blogs. This time I want to talk a little bit …

2019-03-21: Curated Blog Lists The Problem I recently wrote app for the Mac called Feed Compass. It is an app that displays lists …

2019-02-06: The Road to Padre Island One of the things I wanted to do on this trip was figure out where good places for Nic and I to stay …

2019-01-29: Bradenton, FL Our next stop after the Everglades was Bradenton, FL. I wanted to stop and visit with some friends …

2019-01-23: Everglades We left Key West after only a couple days. Looking back, there was more we would had liked to done …

2019-01-19: Key West Parking in Key West was very challenging. We got there late and there were few parking lots that …

2019-01-15: Diagon Alley Universal Studios was directly on our way to Key West. Since Nic is a huge Harry Potter fan, we …

2019-01-02: Osceola National Forest - We're still here We’re still in the Osceola National Forest at the West Tower Campground. This is the same campsite …

2018-12-03: Deer Hunting: Deep South Style I was working on a program at the picnic table today when the rain kicked up again. It’s been …

2018-11-28: Charleston and Osceola National Forest We visited Charleston on our way south into Florida. It was a beautiful city. We parked the van in …

2018-11-16: The Strangest of Campsites Nic and I are still in the Francis Marion National Forest. We’ve been camping at different campsite …

2018-11-09: Francis Marion National Forest We left Croatan National Forest a couple days ago. We enjoyed our time there, almost 2 weeks, but it …

2018-10-26: Croatan National Forest We’ve been in the Croatan National Forest for a couple of days now. Nicole has been doing a bunch of …

2018-10-23: Wolf Gap, VA Nic and I considered our time with Lisa and Flash to be a vacation. We spent more than we usually do …

2018-10-22: Flash and Lisa - Part 3 We had a couple of big items that we wanted to accomplish while being in New England. We wanted to …

2018-10-20: Lisa and Flash - Part 2 Everyone told us that all the tourist go to Bar Harbor. So we went. We just visited the town and …

2018-10-19: Flash and Lisa - Part 1 We spent 10 days with our good friends Flash and Lisa. Nic and I had a great time with them and it …

2018-10-08: Niagara Falls On our way to meet up with Lisa and Flash we stopped at Niagara FallsYeah, some people are so stupid …

2018-10-05: Volo Auto Museum I wanted to stop at the Volo Auto Museum after I saw it on Roadkill. If you haven’t watched …

2018-10-04: On the Road Again Nicole and I left Centerville on Monday, Oct1, 2018 to travel around New England with our friends …

2018-09-17: Me and Jude Here I am hanging out with my little buddy.

2018-09-14: iPhones Are Getting Expensive I just ordered a new iPhone. I’ve been using the same iPhone 6 Plus for 4 years now and am tired of …

2018-09-11: Xcode 10 Apple has a winner with Xcode 10. With macOS Majave it gained Dark Mode which many of you have seen …

2018-09-10: Let's try this again I started the blog and a couple others in early 2017. My thought was that I would write posts about …

2018-09-08: Flashback: June 2018 - Yellowstone and Grand Teton We lived just outside Yellowstone and The Grand Teton parks for over a week. The West Yellowstone …

2018-09-08: Flashback: June 2018 - Cooking in the rain This is shot I took while trying to cook foil dinners in the rain. Nic is hiding inside and all the …

2018-09-08: Flashback: June 2018 - Northern Cali Napa Valley, The Lost Coast, and Wolf Creek.

2018-09-08: Flashback: Big Sur and Yosemite Big Sur and Yosemite we some highlights from when we left LA this spring (2018). We stayed at some …

2018-09-08: Low Top Van Here is one advantage to having a low top van. I was able to park it in a friends parking garage in …

2018-09-08: Flashback: May 2018 - Mojave Desert Lake Havasu was too hot for us, so we went to the Mojave Desert. Really. It was much cooler in the …

2018-09-08: Van Solar and Sand Ladders Here we are camping near Lake Havasu, AZ. On top of the roof rack, you can see our 400 watts of …

2018-09-08: Flashback: May 2018 - Grand Canyon Here’s is the family enjoying the Grand Canyon. We didn’t spend much time there. We basically looked …

2018-09-08: New Van Suspension Here are a couple of pictures of the van with the new suspension from Weldtech Designs. I had it …

2018-09-08: Flashback: Driving to the 2017 RTR Here are a couple shots I took while driving to the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous in 2017.

2017-05-07: The Business Side of App Development Introduction Bind It is an iPhone and iPad app that converts webpages into eBooks that can be stored …

2017-04-28: Now Live in the App Store There is now a soft launch of Bind It in the App Store. Version 1.0 is up now and version 1.0.1 with …

2017-04-23: Flashback 2 - Heading to Graceland As a child of the 70’s, Elvis was everywhere. He was on the movies that Channel 13 played in the …

2017-04-17: Announcing: Bind It Bind It is an new iOS and macOS application from Vincode. See the About sidebar to see what it does. …

2017-02-03: Classic VW Beetle The Beginning and Facebook Drama With all the drama from this car getting stolen, I thought I would …

2017-01-29: Flashback: The first leg of the first trip. Dad and I had had just about enough of trying make this 2014 Ford E-250 into the perfect cross …

2017-01-27: Burnout For those who don’t know, I lost my mind in the summer of 2015. As I told a friend who asked if this …

2017-01-23: Site Kickoff Hi. My name is Maurice C. Parker and I am the sole founder, President, and head janitor of Vincode. …

2017-01-17: Blog Kickoff I'm at the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous or RTR for short. For those not familiar with the term rubber …