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When I first started writing on carpeaqua way back when, one of my ultimate goals was to share as much information as I could. Whether that be my opinion on why tab bars are a poor UI choice in your iOS app or how to create an OS X Service for Amazon affiliate links, my goal has always been to help out Joe Googler.

I have also done a few code-level posts, but I have tended to shy away from them because they seem to provoke a holy war much like any mention of religion or politics would. In fact, it seems like a lot of people have shifted from posting tutorials and development tips on their blogs in favor of sites like StackOverflow or just nothing at all.

In my case it is because I don’t have the time or desire to defend every decision I make to anyone who finds my site via a search engine.¹ No matter how correct or accurate you assume something is, there is always someone on the Internet who will have to challenge you on it and find fifteen different ways you are wrong or “full of fail.” As someone who cannot think of anything more boring than arguing the merits of an open source library, dot syntax or the technical benefits of behavior driven versus test driven development, I’d rather not even bother writing in the first place.

Why am I telling you this? Because as I make a more concerted effort to share information on this site rather than in 140 character snippets that will forever be lost in Twitter’s datacenter, I am going to be slowly shifting the site’s focus. Instead of writing a site for Mac and iOS developers, I am going to write the site I want to read, which is what I should have been doing all along. Think of it as a long-form version of my Twitter stream where you’re bound to hear anything from why Android users are cheap to my ongoing war with Justin Bieber.

I still have plenty to say and share about Apple and the world of mobile computing, but there’s so much more I’m interested in outside technology that is worth sharing. If you come here looking for tips on Xcode 4 or how to manage memory inside of a ^block, you’ll probably want to unsubscribe.