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I tell this story, not to gain your sympathy, but more to be a cautionary tale. As we head into Apple’s OS release cycle, I don’t have a lot to show for it this year. Not nothing, but not any...

https://tla.systems/blog/2021/09/13/subscribe-to-burnout/

Catalyst is in some ways a miraculous technology – just click a check box and instantly have a working Mac version of your app. And, given the source code of a relatively modern iOS app, it cer...

https://tla.systems/blog/2019/10/08/catalytic-converter/

25 years sounds like a really long time. A quarter of a century sounds even longer. Yet, that is how long it has been since PCalc 1.0 was released. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:41:10 GMT From: thomson...

https://tla.systems/blog/2017/12/23/a-long-time-ago-in-a-glasgow-far-far-away/

I originally wrote this piece way back in April 2015, just after returning from speaking at Úll. It ended up not being published, but I figured since I’m preparing for my trip to Úll 2016, ...

https://tla.systems/blog/2016/10/03/rise-of-the-ulluminati/

Reprinted from issue 28 of The Loop magazine from March 2014, with thanks to Jim Dalrymple.  It seems ironic, that despite our invention of near-instantaneous global communication, we are still ...

https://tla.systems/blog/2014/03/13/state-of-mind-machine/

Today, I would like to complain about the following two groups of people who are cheap: Developers Users Ok, not all of them, some of you are quite lovely. But I’ve been noticing a couple of tr...

https://tla.systems/blog/2010/08/03/universal-cheapness/

“So”, I hear you thinking, “I remember James being very anti-software bundle earlier this year. He had that spat with John Casasanta and everything. Imagine my surprise when I saw this offe...

https://tla.systems/blog/2009/12/09/four-legs-good-two-legs-better/

You might have seen that we have a number of new PCalc releases out today, two for the iPhone, and one more for Mac OS X. On the face of it, these might look like minor upgrades to fix a couple o...

https://tla.systems/blog/2009/10/19/taking-a-stand/

Well, that was exciting. So, you probably all saw my little marketing effort for PCalc at the beginning of the month. It started out as a conversation a while back with some of the usual suspects...

https://tla.systems/blog/2009/10/12/going-viral/

UPDATE: Yes, this was intended as satire. Here at TLA Systems, we take our responsibility to protect innocent minds very seriously. Have you, or somebody close to you, ever turned your calcula...

https://tla.systems/blog/2009/09/30/pcalc-prevents-iphone-profanity/