Crypto So Easy My Mother Uses It

If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of the use of encryption for the sake of privacy.  I’ve ranted about PGP and S/MIME, tried to break steganography and complained about the privacy issues I face as a Gmail user. ...

Barista: a New Embedded Web Server for Objective-C

I came across a new and interesting open source embeddable web server written in Objective-C for Mac and iOS apps called Barista. It’s inspired by the Express web application framework for Node.js and allows you to compose a processing pipeline by connecting...
Found on GitHub: PrettyTimestamps

Found on GitHub: PrettyTimestamps

Jon Hocking recently released a simple category on NSDate that generates relative timestamps such as "3 hours ago" or "2 days ago" from an NSDate instance. The code is available on GitHub at jonhocking/PrettyTimestamp and is available as a CocoaPod...

Found on GitHub: MPFoldTransition

Mark Pospesel has a couple of nice repos that demo the popular folding and flipping animated transitions and effects seen in so many iOS apps these days. Take a look at MPFoldTransition and MPFlipViewController on GitHub or include them in your Pod file since...
Found on GitHub: ObjectiveSugar

Found on GitHub: ObjectiveSugar

Marin Usalj has written a collection of extensions for the NSNumber, NSArray, NSSet, NSString, and NSDictionary classes that brings many of the commonly used methods from their Ruby counterparts such as each or times. If you’re familiar with Ruby and doing some...