Mike Williams

Project Consolidate

I am working on pulling all of my websites into one place. It will have a name that makes more sense than chipheadmike.com. The only reason that anyone knows what that means is because I told them.

This new website is more like a journal for me and less about someone reading about me on the web.

The new site will be based on my name. I have a database issue to contend with but once that is complete, I plan on having the new site up and running this weekend. If the database doesn’t cooperate, it could be a bit longer.

I am NOT transferring all of my books over to the new site manually.

More to come.

July 10, 2020 by Mike Williams Random Thoughts

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 4 – Loops

Today, we went over the various types of loops.

Most of the loops covered, I don’t use. I still enjoyed visiting them again.

July 9, 2020 by Mike Williams 100DaysofSwiftUI

My First Digital Art or Bad Art#1

This was my first digital “doodle” where I was actually trying to create something.

It is supposed to be a planet scape, of sorts.

July 9, 2020 by Mike Williams Digital Art

This Looks Good!

Comes out on Friday.

Screen Shot 2020 07 09 at 5 40 52 PM

July 9, 2020 by Mike Williams Netflix Review

Social Distancing

Acceptable risk

July 9, 2020 by Mike Williams Comics XKCD

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 3 – Operators and Conditions

If I post nothing else in the next 96 days, it will most certainly be a Swift update!

This is one of my favorite topics and one of the first reasons I fell in love with programming back in the 80s. I love logic statements and how you can create a program that can “reason” things out.

July 8, 2020 by Mike Williams 100DaysofSwiftUI

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 2 – Arrays and other things

Complex data types and I are not friends but I muddled through the 2nd day.

I don’t use most of the data types that we went over nor can I see right now where I would use some of them in my day to day work.

That either means that I don’t really need them or that I really do need them but are too stupid to realize it.

July 7, 2020 by Mike Williams 100DaysofSwiftUI

Fester The Extortion Artist

My kitty cat Fester loves Vienna Sausages. He comes up to my bedroom and stands in the door and stares at me until I relent and give in. No words or meows are spoken. The whole evolution has a dark alley feel to it. Cats. Just. Cats.

July 7, 2020 by Mike Williams Kitty Cats

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 1 – Variables and other things

I am working through 100 Days of SwiftUI. I’ve been watching Paul Hudson videos for a while and he is a great teacher when it comes to Swift in general.

I highly recommend the FREE course if you are interested in programming in Swift.

Post my progress on here daily? Absolutely.

Topics covered…

Group: Simple Types

Variables
Strings and Integers
Multi-line strings
Doubles and Booleans
String interpolation
Constants
Type annotations

Tomorrow: Complex Types

July 6, 2020 by Mike Williams 100DaysofSwiftUI

Phantom Controls

One of the fun things that happen when we are testing beta software.

Screen Shot 2020 07 05 at 6 30 50 AM

This random control was left over from Chrome. I was saving an image to the desktop and the control just stayed there long after I shut Chrome down.

July 5, 2020 by Mike Williams macOS Big Sur

Project Consolidate

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 4 – Loops

My First Digital Art or Bad Art#1

This Looks Good!

Social Distancing

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 3 – Operators and Conditions

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 2 – Arrays and other things

Fester The Extortion Artist

100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 1 – Variables and other things

Phantom Controls

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