2018-12-19: I am moving my personal blog to bennorris.org (@bennorris) and keeping bsn.design to become more …
2018-12-16: My 9-yr-old walked over holding a slice of lemon, showing us that he was licking it. My wife said, …
2018-12-04: These are a couple of wallpapers I sketched recently for my phone to help me with mindfulness. 🧘🏻♂️
2018-12-01: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Thrawn By Timothy Zahn
2018-11-28: This has been a great week. I’m thrilled to release another new app: Carrier. For those times when …
2018-11-26: Thanksgiving carving As I return back to work after a nice vacation with family, I have to face questions about …
2018-11-24: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Outbound Flight By Timothy Zahn
2018-11-22: Happy Thanksgiving all! Even in a crazy world, there is so much to be grateful for.
2018-11-21: 🎥 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018-11-21: Really excited to ship my new app Agendum just before the holidays. If you’ve ever needed to present …
2018-11-16: I’ve been working on a new app the last couple months, and I’m getting really close to wrapping it …
2018-11-06: Gorgeous view on my way in to work this morning. Feeling blessed.
2018-10-31: Feeling lucky to be a dad today. Halloween is such a magical time! 🎃
2018-10-21: Found a gorgeous old building in Mt. Tabor park out walking in Portland last night
2018-10-19: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Vision of the Future By Timothy Zahn
2018-09-20: UI-TDD with Xcode Part II As I wrote about last month, I was able to speak at Cocoaheads on some work we have been doing with …
2018-09-04: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: The Last Command By Timothy Zahn
2018-08-28: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Dark Force Rising By Timothy Zahn
2018-08-21: 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Heir to the Empire By Timothy Zahn
2018-08-18: 📖 Rules of Deception By Christopher Reich
2018-08-18: Feeling like a lucky guy today. Brought my daughter to a teen motivational conference and my wife …
2018-08-17: 📖 🛏 Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest By Wade Davis
2018-08-17: Just before the dark, a brilliant burst of light
2018-08-16: At a Cocoaheads meetup listening to a presentation on shortcuts and tricks in Xcode. I was reminded …
2018-08-14: UI-TDD with Xcode Last week I had the opportunity to present at our local Cocoaheads meetup. At work, I have been …
2018-08-14: 📖 🎧 The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work By John M. Gottman
2018-08-06: 📖 🎧 Radical Candor By Kim Scott
2018-08-03: I have felt pretty overwhelmed lately. Keeping everything I need to get done in Things has been a …
2018-07-31: 📖 🎧 Measure What Matters By John Doerr
2018-07-28: 📖 Hondo By Louis L’Amour
2018-07-24: 📖 The Haunted Mesa By Louis L’Amour
2018-07-23: 📖 🎧 The Five Love Languages By Gary Chapman
2018-07-16: 📖 🎧 The Power of Vulnerability By Brené Brown
2018-05-18: Thoughts on Peers 2018 I am lucky enough at work to be able to choose a conference every year to attend for professional …
2018-05-12: 📖 Five Weeks in a Balloon By Jules Verne
2018-05-09: I love that micro.blog is so open that @hartlco can launch Icro, a really nice app for it. I’m …
2018-05-08: As a white male of ever-increasingly-conscious privilege, I loved the additional perspective of …
2018-05-05: Moving my blog to bsn.design My blog at bsn.io has been a great experience. I set it up a few years ago to be a Jekyll blog and …
2018-05-04: ☑️☑️☑️ Transition to micro.blog complete! I moved my religious sketchnotes to mormonsketcher.com and …
2018-05-03: ☑️☑️⬜️ Set up my business sketchnotes as a micro.blog account with a hosted site and a separate feed …
2018-05-02: ☑️⬜️⬜️ Moved my blog and site over to my hosted m.b site: bsn.design 🎉
2018-05-01: Peers 2018 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2018-04-11: 📖 The Silmarillion By J. R. R. Tolkien
2018-03-29: Crucial Conversations Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2018-03-21: Automating Scripture Quotes Part of being a Mormon is regularly speaking or teaching in church. The official Gospel Library app …
2018-03-17: 📖 🎧 The Martian By Andy Weir
2018-03-01: 📖 🎧 The War of Art By Steven Pressfield
2018-02-26: Just finished training another family member on YNAB. Pretty soon we’ll be good enough to be …
2018-02-20: 📖 🛏 Anne of the Island By L. M. Montgomery
2018-02-15: 📖 🎧 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life By Walter Isaacson
2018-02-05: 📖 🎧 Love & Respect By Emerson Eggerichs
2018-01-31: 📖 👨🏻💻 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less By Greg McKeown
2018-01-25: 📖 Crucial Conversations By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
2018-01-24: Silicon Slopes 2018 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2018-01-23: Getting started with iOS development I have been asked frequently how to get started making iPhone apps. Having taught at an iOS …
2018-01-17: Just lovin’ my Star Wars character color palette shirt from my good friend @stotion, designed by …
2018-01-13: 📖 🛏 Anne of Avonlea By L. M. Montgomery
2018-01-03: 📖 Artemis By Andy Weir
2017-12-27: 📖 Dust By Hugh Howey
2017-12-24: Finally have everything ready for the kids’ Christmas. Such a magical time with little ones! 🎄❄️✨
2017-12-22: Excited to update my free scorekeeping app Pointedly in time for the holidays. Check it out here.
2017-12-18: 📖 🎧 Hero: Becoming the Strong Father Your Children Need By Meg Meeker, MD
2017-12-07: 📖 🎧 Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage By Alfred Lansing
2017-12-06: 📖 Shift By Hugh Howey
2017-11-26: 📖 🛏 Anne of Green Gables By L. M. Montgomery
2017-11-23: Enjoyed a lovely holiday with family today. Hope everyone had a chance to reflect on gratitude. …
2017-11-23: 📖 Wool By Hugh Howey
2017-11-21: Updating layouts for iPhone X Apple generally provides us as developers plenty of notice to make updates, whether explicit or …
2017-11-17: Final micro.blog photo challenge entry for day seven: shadow 📷
2017-11-17: Simpler blogging with Working Copy I have written before about my attempts to publish to my GitHub Pages blog from iOS. I have recently …
2017-11-16: Day six of the micro.blog photo challenge: seasonal 📷
2017-11-15: Day five of micro.blog photo challenge: liquid 📷
2017-11-14: Day four of the micro.blog photo challenge: up close 📷
2017-11-13: Taking the day off with six kids running around is so different than you expect a sick day to go. …
2017-11-13: Day three of the micro.blog photo challenge: on the move 📷
2017-11-13: 📖 Leverage Point By Gerald N. Lund
2017-11-12: Day two of the micro.blog photo challenge: tasty 📷
2017-11-11: Entry for micro.blog photo challenge day one: squares 📷
2017-11-10: Riding the wave I think that all humans are phasic to some degree or other. As a strange mix of emotion and logic, …
2017-11-08: Been playing with Working Copy to make it easier to post to my GitHub Pages blog from my iPad and …
2017-11-04: Beautiful fall full moon
2017-11-03: I have large hands and have gotten used to the Plus-sized phones, but the iPhone X is the perfect …
2017-11-02: Getting pretty excited about my delivery tomorrow… I was delightfully surprised when my ship …
2017-10-31: 📖 The Walking Drum By Louis L’amour
2017-10-24: 📖 Origin By Dan Brown
2017-10-18: 📖 Children of the Fleet (Fleet School) By Orson Scott Card
2017-10-18: 📖 🎧 As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride By Cary Elwes
2017-10-12: 📖 The Chemist By Stephenie Meyer
2017-10-07: 📖 The Lonesome Gods By Louis L’amour
2017-10-05: 📖 🛏 Candide By Voltaire
2017-10-01: 📖 The Freedom Factor By Gerald N. Lund
2017-10-01: Oct 2017 General Conference Sketchnotes posted on @mormonsketcher ✍🏼⛪️
2017-09-23: 📖 Last of the Breed By Louis L’amour
2017-09-14: Apr 2017 General Conference Sketchnotes posted on @mormonsketcher ✍🏼⛪️
2017-09-13: 📖 🛏 Moonwalking with Einstein By Joshua Foer
2017-09-09: 📖 Education of a Wandering Man By Louis L’amour
2017-09-04: 📖 The Alliance By Gerald N. Lund
2017-08-29: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows By J. K. Rowling
2017-08-13: 📖 The Princess Bride By William Goldman
2017-08-11: 📖 Enchantment By Orson Scott Card
2017-08-10: 📖 Janitors Book 5: Heroes of the Dustbin By Tyler Whitesides
2017-08-09: 📖 The Host By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-30: 📖 The Chemist 👩🔬 By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-28: 📖 Breaking Dawn By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-24: 📖 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-23: 📖 Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-20: 📖 Real Friends By Shannon Hale
2017-07-20: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince By J. K. Rowling
2017-07-19: 📖 New Moon By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-19: 📖 🛏 Deep Work By Cal Newport
2017-07-17: 📖 Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-14: 📖 Midnight Sun (excerpt) By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-11: 📖 Life and Death By Stephenie Meyer
2017-07-05: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix By J. K. Rowling
2017-07-02: 📖 Changer By Matt Gemmell
2017-06-07: WWDC 2017 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2017-05-28: 📖 🛏 David and Goliath By Malcolm Gladwell
2017-05-18: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By J. K. Rowling
2017-04-12: 📖 🛏 The Screwtape Letters (with Screwtape Proposes a Toast) By C. S. Lewis
2017-04-12: Úll 2017 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2017-04-07: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets By J. K. Rowling
2017-03-30: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By J. K. Rowling
2017-03-23: 📖 🎧 Mere Christianity By C. S. Lewis
2017-03-19: 📖 🛏 Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler By Mark Riebling
2017-03-06: 📖 🎧 The Four Loves By C.S. Lewis
2017-03-04: Apr 2016 General Conference Sketchnotes posted on @mormonsketcher ✍🏼⛪️
2017-02-23: 📖 🎧 Jesus the Christ By James E. Talmage
2017-02-04: 📖 🎧 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By J. K. Rowling
2017-01-30: 📖 A Man Called Ove By Fredrik Backman
2017-01-17: Such a great view on my way in to work. Headed from one DevMountain location to another. 🏔🚈🏔
2017-01-12: Public drafts with a GitHub Pages blog I wrote last week about publishing to a GitHub Pages blog using Workflow on the iPad. As I worked on …
2017-01-12: I love how J Dawgs knows and owns their brand 🤣
2017-01-09: Wow, what a game! 🏈 Huge congrats to Clemson for winning the #NationalChampionship for the first …
2017-01-09: Having a great time explaining my crazy Workflow->GitHub Pages stuff to my team at Tanner Labs.
2017-01-09: Got to baptize my oldest son on Saturday. We are blessed to have so much family support. What a …
2017-01-06: Using Workflow to publish to GitHub Pages Update: I published a follow-up post about incorporating drafts into the process. Microblog posts …
2017-01-04: I set up Workflow to publish to my GitHub pages blog from my 📱/iPad the last couple days. Excited to …
2017-01-03: Oct 2016 General Conference Sketchnotes posted at @mormonsketcher ✍🏼⛪️
2017-01-02: Set up a Slack team this morning for my Elders Quorum presidency and drew an icon for us to use.
2016-12-29: 📖 🛏 All Things Wise and Wonderful By James Herriot
2016-11-02: Úll 2016 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2016-10-30: 📖 Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom
2016-10-10: 📖 🛏 All Things Bright and Beautiful By James Herriot
2016-09-30: Takeaways from Release Notes Old Union Station in Indianapolis This week, I attended Release Notes, and it was great. I …
2016-09-30: Fantastic reminder from Cafe Patachou: “A human created the problem, a human can fix it.”
2016-09-29: 📖 Shadows in Flight By Orson Scott Card
2016-09-29: Release Notes 2016 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2016-09-27: 📖 Shadow of the Giant By Orson Scott Card
2016-09-21: 📖 Shadow Puppets By Orson Scott Card
2016-09-16: Adding automation to open-source projects One goal that I have had for all of my open-source projects is to have run automated builds and have …
2016-09-07: Apple Special Event Sep 2016 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2016-09-02: 📖 Shadow of the Hegemon By Orson Scott Card
2016-09-02: The value of iOS test-driven development (TDD) This will not come as a surprise to most people—writing tests makes your code better. I have come to …
2016-08-31: Handling live text reload elegantly In my current project at my day job, we are using Firebase and ReSwift. I plan to write more about …
2016-08-26: Installing on iOS 10 with Xcode 7 Like many developers, I was anxious to install iOS 10 on my devices. This summer, I went all in and …
2016-08-19: 📖 The Swarm By Orson Scott Card
2016-08-12: Lopsided relationships Since deciding that I wanted to change careers to become a full-time developer, I have started …
2016-08-05: Retrieving iOS shared web credentials The problem One of the most annoying interactions with any app or service is logging in. None of us …
2016-08-01: 📖 🛏 All Creatures Great and Small By James Herriot
2016-07-31: 📖 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Play by J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
2016-07-30: 📖 Ender’s Shadow By Orson Scott Card
2016-07-16: 📖 Ender in Exile By Orson Scott Card
2016-07-14: Leveling up with automated testing As I approached the end of 2015, I was thinking of my goals for 2016, and how I wanted to grow and …
2016-07-09: 📖 Ender’s Game By Orson Scott Card
2016-07-05: Writing reusable code At the beginning of this year, I was put on a new team at work. We had the chance to a build a …
2016-07-02: 📖 Changer By Matt Gemmell
2016-06-20: iOS 10 and my apps After consuming much of WWDC last week, I wanted to take a few minutes and consider how my apps …
2016-06-19: 📖 Leverage Point By Gerald N. Lund
2016-06-14: 📖 Life and Death By Stephenie Meyer
2016-06-13: WWDC 2016 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2016-06-11: UHEA 2016 Sketchnotes posted on @sketchnotable
2016-06-06: Fixing local problems with a Carthage version number As I discussed previously, we are using Carthage and Git submodules to manage our dependencies. …
2016-06-02: Using Carthage to add third-party code In almost every project that I create, I bring in frameworks and libraries. After trying a number of …
2016-05-31: The Luxury of Launching into Obscurity As I was getting my blog ready, there was a large part of me that wanted to hold back until I had …
2016-05-27: Finally getting started Back in January of 2016, I had a discussion with my manager and made some goals for the year. One of …
2016-05-19: 📖 🛏 The Boys in the Boat By Daniel James Brown
2016-04-01: 📖 Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
2016-03-20: 📖 The Sculptor By Scott McCloud
2016-03-15: 📖 Shift By Hugh Howey
2016-03-08: 📖 The Sculptor By Scott McCloud
2016-03-07: 📖 🛏 John Adams By David McCullough
2016-02-02: 📖 Wool By Hugh Howey
2016-01-20: 📖 Tactics of Mistake By Gordon R. Dickson
2015-12-20: 📖 Star Wars: The Force Awakens By Alan Dean Foster
2015-12-13: 📖 Stardust By Neil Gaiman
2015-12-08: 📖 The Martian By Andy Weir
2015-12-01: 📖 What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Questions By Randall Munroe
2015-11-24: 📖 The Host By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-16: 📖 Breaking Dawn By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-15: 📖 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-14: 📖 Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-12: 📖 New Moon By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-11: 📖 Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-09: 📖 Midnight Sun (excerpt) By Stephenie Meyer
2015-11-07: 📖 Life and Death By Stephenie Meyer
2015-10-13: 📖 The Elusive Pimpernel By Emma Orczy
2015-10-06: 📖 The Scarlet Pimpernel By Emma Orczy
2015-09-30: 📖 The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
2015-09-19: 📖 🛏 Dust By Hugh Howey
2015-08-22: 📖 Rules of Betrayal By Christopher Reich
2015-08-16: 📖 Rules of Vengeance By Christopher Reich
2015-08-12: 📖 Rules of Deception By Christopher Reich
2015-08-02: 📖 Starclimber By Kenneth Oppel
2015-07-31: 📖 Skybreaker By Kenneth Oppel
2015-07-30: 📖 🛏 Shift By Hugh Howey
2015-07-05: 📖 Son (Book 4 of the Giver Quartet) By Lois Lowry
2015-06-28: 📖 Messenger (Book 3 of the Giver Quartet) By Lois Lowry
2015-06-27: 📖 Gathering Blue (Book 2 of the Giver Quartet) By Lois Lowry
2015-05-18: 📖 🛏 Wool By Hugh Howey
2015-03-15: 📖 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By J. K. Rowling
2015-03-12: 📖 The Freedom Factor By Gerald N. Lund
2015-03-08: 📖 🛏 Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand
2015-03-08: 📖 Alliance By Gerald N. Lund
2015-02-27: 📖 Breaking Dawn By Stephenie Meyer
2015-02-25: 📖 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner By Stephenie Meyer
2015-02-24: 📖 Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer
2015-02-23: 📖 New Moon By Stephenie Meyer
2015-02-22: 📖 Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
2015-02-16: 📖 Insurgent By Veronica Roth
2015-02-12: 📖 Divergent By Veronica Roth
2015-02-08: 📖 The Host By Stephenie Meyer
2014-12-24: 📖 🛏 To The Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson By Heidi S. Swinton
2014-09-08: 📖 Janitors Book 4: Strike of the Sweepers By Tyler Whitesides
2014-08-29: 📖 🛏 1984 By George Orwell
2014-08-17: 📖 Allegiant By Veronica Roth
2014-08-17: 📖 Insurgent By Veronica Roth
2014-08-16: 📖 Divergent By Veronica Roth
2014-08-16: 📖 Four Divergent Stories By Veronica Roth
2014-07-29: 📖 The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
2014-07-14: 📖 Children of the Mind By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-11: 📖 🛏 Frederica By Georgette Heyer
2014-07-10: 📖 Xenocide By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-07: 📖 Speaker for the Dead By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-04: 📖 Ender in Exile By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-03: 📖 Shadows in Flight By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-02: 📖 Shadow of the Giant By Orson Scott Card
2014-07-01: 📖 Shadow Puppets By Orson Scott Card
2014-06-28: 📖 Shadow of the Hegemon By Orson Scott Card
2014-06-25: 📖 Ender’s Shadow By Orson Scott Card
2014-06-22: 📖 Ender’s Game By Orson Scott Card
2014-06-16: 📖 First Meetings in Ender’s Universe By Orson Scott Card
2014-06-14: 📖 Earth Awakens By Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnson
2014-06-12: 📖 The Princess Bride By William Goldman
2014-05-31: 📖 Creativity, Inc. By Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
2014-05-04: 📖 🛏 The Complete Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2013-12-29: 📖 Timeline By Michael Crichton
2013-07-30: 📖 🛏 The Chronicles of Narnia By C. S. Lewis
2013-07-25: 📖 Twilight Series By Stephenie Meyer
2013-03-16: 📖 🛏 Harry Potter Series By J. K. Rowling
2012-12-09: 📖 The Hunger Games Series By Suzanne Collins
2012-09-22: 📖 Twilight Series By Stephenie Meyer
2012-04-24: 📖 🛏 The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien