With the release of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, together with the iOS 9 operating system, Apple introduced 3D Touch. What it allows is the addition of pressure-based interactions into your apps, which can be added in a variety of ways. In this article I'll introduce a couple built-in standard 3D Touch interaction models, but iOS also provides a direct API to the pressure sensors, allowing you to leverage the data in any way that…

I had the pleasure of guesting on my friend Jesse Liberty's podcast again yesterday, where he allowed me to ramble on about instrumenting and monitoring apps and give a bit of a sneak preview of what we're doing at Olo and what I'll be speaking about at Evolve. Check it out!…

It's been a little over a year since the last FluentLayout update, so it seemed like a good time to get some little improvements in. I also definitely want to give a shout out to Diego Ponce de León for prompting some of these changes and helping brainstorm some things! If you're using FluentLayout, I'd definitely love to hear your input on improvements you'd like to see, shortcomings, etc. There's a lot more we can do…

As part of my continued mission to add instrumentation and monitoring into basically everything, Datadog is a tool that I've come to really love. In addition to the built-in metrics it can record, such as things like CPU usage, the real power comes in being able to easily define your own metrics and create meaningful visualizations of the true running state of your systems. At Olo we run a Hubot instance that connects to our Slack…

Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Developer On Fire podcast, which I highly recommend checking out if you haven't already. It's a really interesting show where Dave Rael asks all sorts of interesting guests a similar line of questions that get a bit more personal than most technical podcasts, allowing you to see what really makes them tick. Check out my episode here: Episode 079 - Greg Shackles - Not Just…