Industrial engineering manager, patent holder, and indie iOS developer, bouncing between Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Processing data as 1's and 0's.
By day I manage industrial engineering work, mostly hydraulic hose assembly and the test equipment around it, which is where my patents come from. By night I build iOS apps, mostly small, private, on-device tools, plus Skyscraper, a Bluesky client for iPhone and iPad.
Before that, I spent years in mobile. I co-founded the app studio 9magnets, shipped 150+ apps, and wrote two books on mobile interface design. That was a decade ago. These days it's engineering by day and side projects by night, and I'm a Valparaiso University economics grad who never stopped building things. Outside of work: soccer, marathons, camping, and the Chicago Fire.
A native Bluesky client aiming for the polish of Tweetie, Tweetbot and Ivory. Pinned custom feeds, DMs, push notifications, alt-text-first posting, moderation tools, and a real two-column iPad layout. Free, with an optional Pro tier.
Hydraulic Crimp Pressure Feedback Methods
Cryptographic Transducer Calibration System For Hose Assembly Test Benches
Test Results Transfer Protocol
Systems And Methods To Facilitate Hose And Fitting Identification And Assembly
Systems And Methods For An Integrated Hose Assembly
User Interface for Crimping Hydraulic Hose
Die Holder Verification
Perfecting Interface Design in Mobile Apps. Co-authored with Josh Weinhold. Addison-Wesley.
Practical recipes for building great iPhone interfaces. Packt Publishing.
A weblog, plus a Now page and saved bookmarks, all on my main site.
A maker community, the Unicode Consortium, and the home of my main site.
older: iOS interview questions (1.6k★) · HopePoint · GitHub
This page is the whole site: one file, no framework, no web fonts, no images, no trackers. It's served by a tiny Python process on Alpine Linux from a VPS with 128 MB RAM and 1 GB of disk. The numbers below are live, written by a cron job on the server once a minute.
Bar shows share of a 1 MB budget. A 1.44 MB floppy could hold about 100 copies.