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Sarah Streza

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Software developer, co-owner of Doki Dreamers, VTuber fan, technomancer, and patron of the arts.

Mobile / iOS / AndroidTech news / industryGamingFPGA / HDL

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308 from 30 Jul 2004 to 1 Oct 2026
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2026 1

  1. A Brief Reintroduction

2025 4

  1. What Apple Executives Cared About in the Epic v. Apple Injunction
  2. Framework's February 2025 Event
  3. Why I Experiment With LLMs
  4. Hello Again

2020 8

  1. Decrypting TLS Traffic to Debug SwiftNIO with Wireshark
  2. iOS Shortcuts Workflow for Docspell
  3. WWDC Should Stay Online-Only
  4. Notice of PGP Key Change
  5. Final Fantasy VII Remake is Looking Incredible
  6. Graphaello: Declarative GraphQL Queries for SwiftUI
  7. The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware
  8. My First FPGA Experiments

2019 8

  1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 In-Depth Preview
  2. Campaign Diary: Setting Off
  3. The Icon Garden Episode 19 SwiftUI and Native Apps
  4. Remote Camera Access Exploit in Zoom for Mac
  5. WebSub and Microformats
  6. No title
  7. Noclip Documentary on the Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy XIV
  8. The Verge's PC Build Copyright Strike Fiasco

2018 27

  1. New York Times on Data Mining in Mobile Apps
  2. Software Development on iPad
  3. 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid
  4. CBC: Undercover Footage of Apple Overcharging for Repairs
  5. Microsoft's New Surface Lineup vs the Mac
  6. Gatsby 2 Upgrade
  7. - Sarah Streza
  8. Separating Apple Watch from iPhone as a Public Health Good
  9. Designed Survivor Revived for Season Three on Netflix
  10. More Aggressive Tracker Blocking in Firefox
  11. Digital Foundry's Analysis of Spider-Man for PS4
  12. AWS is a Pain Without a Big Budget
  13. Elon Musk's New York Times Interview
  14. Find me on Mastodon
  15. App Store Removes a Bunch of Gambling Apps That Don't Have Gambling
  16. Homebrew Website Club Seattle Notes
  17. Threadripper 2: The Killer CPU You Haven't Heard Of
  18. Fortnite Skipping the Google Play Store
  19. Dungeon Master Jenova
  20. Setting up Website Notifications with Serverless
  21. Apple is Shutting Down the App Store Affiliate Program
  22. Mac Sales Down 13%
  23. TypeScript 3
  24. Get Out, a Really Fun Metroidvania Web Game
  25. Microsoft to Acquire GitHub
  26. Lessons from the Screenplay: The Last Jedi
  27. Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2018

2017 11

  1. LG V30 Review - The Underrated Flagship Android Phone of 2017
  2. Unboxing the LG V30
  3. Epic Watercooled PC Build Done! D.Va PC Build Log #5
  4. Custom Watercool Loop is Finally Ready! D.Va PC Build Log #4
  5. ESLint: Make Your JavaScript Consistent and Catch Bugs Before Production [What the Stack]
  6. How to Build an SNES Classic for Under $100
  7. Babel.js [What the Stack]
  8. Leaks Everywhere! D.Va PC Build Log #3.5
  9. Dual 1080 Tis on Water! D.Va PC Build Log #3
  10. Ryzen 1700X + 1080 Ti Build Time! D.Va PC Build Log #2
  11. How to Invert the be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Case. D.Va PC Build Log #1

2016 2

  1. John Gruber Misses the Point Completely About Lightning Headphones
  2. App Subscriptions and Premium App Experiences

2015 3

  1. Why the iPad Pro needs Xcode
  2. I’m joining the iOS team at Tumblr!
  3. How Apple Watch changes Apple Retail

2014 1

  1. Replacing Objective-C and Cocoa

2013 8

  1. Ohai 1.1
  2. Discounted App Upgrades are a Terrible, Complex, Outdated Idea
  3. DevCenter.me
  4. Ohai 1.0
  5. Thoughts on the Dropbox Datastore API
  6. Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin
  7. Project Amy
  8. Files as UI vs API

2012 16

  1. The Ragequit
  2. Your App Needs to Sync
  3. Hopes for the iPad mini
  4. Managing Dependencies with CocoaPods
  5. iPad mini
  6. Apparchy
  7. Wii U Chat: How Not to Design Features
  8. Apple Buying Color Tragically Makes Sense
  9. Declaring Blocks in Objective-C
  10. Starting Over
  11. async.js
  12. My Giant Hard Drive: Building a Storage Box with FreeNAS
  13. So I Made a Mashup...
  14. Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC
  15. Shout Out to the Server Teams
  16. PlayStation Vita Review

2011 8

  1. Best Apps and Games of 2011
  2. Flash, HTML5, and Innovation
  3. Guest Post: Patent Trolls Used To Be Easy to Ignore
  4. I Don't Know - Thoughts on Women in Tech
  5. iCloud and Ecosystem Lock-In
  6. Some Things are Neither Right nor Wrong
  7. Reflections on Twitter, and on Ending Innovation
  8. Streamlines: The Social Network iPhone Client That Never Was

2010 21

  1. Thoughts on the Rally to Restore Sanity
  2. Follow Freely, a Safari Extension for Twitter
  3. Jailbreak Responsibly
  4. The Next Episode - ngmoco:)
  5. Caboose
  6. Demo of Air Video for iPad
  7. Rap Lyric Generator, Coming Straight Out of Stanford
  8. Fork of MGTwitterEngine and Related Projects
  9. Flash Player with Core Animation
  10. iPad's Different Store UIs
  11. Last Minute Apple Media Event Guesses
  12. Numb3rs Has No Idea What IRC Is
  13. Redditors Raise $160k for Haiti
  14. Mac/iPhone Devs Raise $143k for Haiti
  15. YouTube's New HTML5 Player Beta
  16. 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time
  17. Greenpeace: Apple Tied for 5th in Greenest Tech Company
  18. Merging NSManagedObjectModels
  19. Android Catching Up to iPhone in Interest, Satisfaction
  20. Glenn Beck is actually a Kids in the Hall skit
  21. OAuthery

2009 55

  1. Another year, another blog redesign
  2. Muse + The Known Universe
  3. OpenEmu
  4. VillainousStyle
  5. Better Xcode Templates
  6. URL Shrink
  7. On iTunes 8.1, Remote 1.2
  8. America Runs Out of Chicken Wings
  9. Breaking CAPTCHAs With JavaScript
  10. Chrysler Buys Ads Thanking America
  11. Obama Got Help From McCain on Cabinet
  12. Apple: We Won't Make Low-End Phones
  13. EVE Player Runs Off With ISK 86 Billion
  14. Oath of Office, Take 2
  15. Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO
  16. XBinary: Extended Binary Format Support for Mac OS X
  17. Welcome to the White House
  18. Dr. King's Prediction
  19. Boston.com Picture Essay: Inaugural Preparations
  20. South Park Is Going HD
  21. Reflecting on the Onion From Bush's Inaguration
  22. Lifehacker's Guide to Catching the Inauguration From Anywhere
  23. Bastard Tetris
  24. The Wootable Awards at CES 2009
  25. Movie Trivia: The Princess Bride
  26. Why Haskell Is Beyond Ready for Prime Time
  27. Support EFF's DMCA Exemption for Jailbreaking
  28. "Don't Forget..." Photo Set
  29. Bush's Achievements
  30. WALL•E + EVE Icon Set
  31. Meet Carl Tanzler, Radiologist
  32. Unlocking the formula for perfect bacon
  33. Some Developer Insight on Palm WebOS
  34. On Building Applications for Palm's WebOS
  35. Palm Pre WebOS, Browser Based on WebKit
  36. Engadget: Palm Pre Hands-on (Video)
  37. Palm Announces Their New Palm Pre, webOS
  38. Creating a thumbnail from a CGImage on iPhone
  39. MIT Team Solves Mystery of 1918 Pandemic
  40. Boxee Goes Public
  41. EFF: Apple Shows DRM's True Colors
  42. Nine Inch Nails Release 400 GB of HD Concert Footage
  43. New York City Overrun by Smell of Maple Syrup
  44. Macrumorslive.com Raided by 4chan
  45. Apple Introduces the MacBook Wheel
  46. A Conversation With an iPhone Pirate
  47. Gizmodo Demonstrates That They Truly Are Hacks
  48. No Better Time to Get Fit
  49. Inconsolata, a Great Monospaced Font
  50. Table Cloth Challenge
  51. Home Intruder Scared Away by Man Dressed as Thor
  52. On the Web-Based iWork Rumor
  53. Bells and whistles for google mobile
  54. Video 234
  55. Changing things up

2008 9

  1. Chronotron
  2. Homicidal bug invades home
  3. Charles jolley of sproutcore on the uncanny valley
  4. Metal gear solid touch announced
  5. Video 193
  6. Lockbox taking slide to unlock to the next level
  7. Release and an announcement
  8. Woah its 2008 already
  9. Macworld 08 sarahnote predictions also my wildest dreams

2007 7

  1. Iphone web apps not sweet but not sour
  2. Some iphone safari properties
  3. Iphonesafari notes
  4. Growing pains
  5. Codas 5 fatal flaws
  6. Objective c method signature regex
  7. What happened to itunes

2006 20

  1. Zune vs ipod hands on
  2. Tubular see whats on
  3. Introducing desktunes now playing on a desktop near you
  4. Wwdc 2006 experiences
  5. Internet explorer isnt gonna die soon guys
  6. I actually wrote content
  7. Java exception class generator
  8. How the internet saved snakes on a plane
  9. On interesting statistics and saving the earth
  10. Wordpress 2 k2 and ajax
  11. Holy crap i podcasted
  12. Csh widget redux
  13. Mc chris vs mindless self indulgence fetts vette remix
  14. Shut me up mindless self indulgence
  15. Quicksilver asploded
  16. Nine figures 3
  17. Ati remote wonder 2 first impressions
  18. Snapshooter 15 public beta 2
  19. Ozzdesigncom
  20. Snapshooter 15 public beta

2005 53

  1. Xbox 360 first impressions
  2. Bizarre katamari damacy shirts
  3. Snapshooter 15 private beta released
  4. Universal binaryd
  5. Priceritephoto
  6. Evening at adler
  7. Csh drink widget tabled
  8. Csh drink widget scrolls
  9. End o quarter
  10. Ati delivers gpu accelerated video transcoding
  11. Blogging from flock
  12. See saw dont see saw 2
  13. Yet another hard drive boost
  14. A winner is csh freshman project
  15. Divx files in itunes
  16. Steve jobs and the music store the theatrical presentation
  17. Xbox 360 modding
  18. String pointers
  19. Mooninites wallpaper
  20. Csh programming weekend hour 3
  21. Csh programming weekend hour 1
  22. Programming weekend has begun
  23. Gallery integration
  24. I hate emacs
  25. Omg n00z
  26. Nine figures 2
  27. Spongebob squarepants battle for bikini bottom
  28. Finale of 24 season 4
  29. Pre3 sony nintendo and microsoft
  30. Itunes 48
  31. What an easy ourcolony challenge
  32. Kbye ty 4 teh
  33. Predictability
  34. 24 episode 17
  35. I am very bored
  36. Sycopod vii photo edition
  37. Snapshooter 11
  38. 24 episode 16
  39. Subways toasted subs
  40. Lots of goings on
  41. Spooky ipod happenings sycopod vi
  42. 105 6 miles
  43. 24 episode 14
  44. Looking for a good way to do ftp
  45. 24 episode 13
  46. Snapshooter released
  47. Snapshooter
  48. 24 episode 12 spoilers only in extended entry
  49. Cold redux
  50. Rip raskin
  51. Iflicks got pwned review
  52. 30 gb ipod photo
  53. Holy crap im back

2004 46

  1. What time is it its vacation time
  2. Madden sucks now imagine them after 5 years of no innovation
  3. Cold real friggin cold
  4. Scott peterson trial
  5. Newpod
  6. Diepod
  7. No maildrop win
  8. 24 hours until earth must be defended
  9. Countdownapp
  10. Qotd halo 2
  11. And like that its done
  12. Yet another site design
  13. Way to go guys
  14. God damn no
  15. Saw saw
  16. Go usa today
  17. Touch screen voting machina
  18. San andreasd
  19. Marsedit
  20. New design
  21. Mail pwned
  22. Bush is a flip flopper
  23. College essays suck oh so hard
  24. Nice ploy intel
  25. John kerry 44th president of the united states
  26. Mt 31d
  27. Round one knockout
  28. Wardrobe malfunction
  29. Menupod etc
  30. Electoral college part 2
  31. Electoral vote projection
  32. Practical application of 3rd derivative
  33. Being held back by bush
  34. Gpg key
  35. Wide awake and physical
  36. Switchboardd
  37. Unseal the hushed casket
  38. Alien vs predator
  39. Its almost time
  40. Holy crap
  41. Teh bak11
  42. Team america
  43. Coming soon
  44. Nsbundle extension
  45. Big weekend day 2
  46. Long weekend at work