James Thomson

@jamesthomson

Indie iOS / Mac developer, maker of PCalc and DragThing. Occasional writer, conference speaker, and podcast pundit.

Glasgow, Scotland
tla-systems.co.uk
Joined March 2008
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  1. 1 hour ago

    Who says you can't create on an iPad? Jean-Michel Jarre would disagree.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    I just realised that one of the cowboys in Westworld is Trevor from GTA V. Spot on casting.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    I’d missed this PCalc feature on the App Store - nice! Doesn’t seem to be in the US, but UK and parts of Europe at least.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    Brutal.

    Is there an app for healing a broken heart?
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  5. 15 hours ago

    I had somehow missed the fact that Boaty McBoatface didn’t actually exist, and all the pictures were just renders…

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  6. Oct 15

    We got a touch of during talk. So great

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  7. Oct 14

    iPhone 7 Plus camera performed very well given the difficult conditions too.

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  8. Oct 14

    Jean-Michel Jarre was excellent this evening, really enjoyed the show!

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  9. Oct 13

    You know, I have a suspicion this isn’t really an email from . Just a suspicion.

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  10. Oct 13

    Thankfully, I don’t have to work for anybody else other than myself. But my day to day work is so different to what I learned at university.

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  11. Oct 13

    I consider myself a pretty experienced developer / designer and I seriously doubt I could pass an Apple / Google job interview these days.

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  12. Oct 13

    I have a computing science background, and studied algorithms, but 99.9% of the time, the sensible choice is to use somebody else’s code.

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  13. Oct 13

    I have to agree with Janie - sure, it helps to know the fundamentals, but when was the last time I wrote a sorting algorithm from scratch?

    I cross posted the transcript from my podcast if you're like me and like to read more than listen:
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  14. Oct 13

    The political implications of the new Rogue One trailer, with .

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  15. Oct 12

    My idea of living on the edge: still using this MacBook Pro on battery after the 5% power warning has gone off.

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  16. Oct 11

    I used my iPhone 7 Plus as an actual phone today for the first time since I got it. Felt weird, like my head shrunk.

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  17. Oct 11

    Solving Dash: Written after recording /w and guest

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  18. Oct 11

    I wonder what you do with millions of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones after a recall? How do you transport them? Where do you store them?

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  20. Oct 10

    I think the one thing I have learned tonight is that I shouldn’t stay up to 3am posting Hot Takes on complex situations…

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