Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

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October 24, 2012 • General

Fix for Safari not loading google.com and many other sites

I had the weirdest problem: Safari couldn't load most HTTPS sites and many others. It hadn't for many days, even though Chrome, Firefox etc worked fine. Turned out it was all solved by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.revocation.plist

September 14, 2012 • Discussion

Properties in Cocoa and OOA&D

The past month or so I’ve reviewed a lot of code, and one issue is cropping up all the time: too much use of @property

August 11, 2012 • General

We're expecting a boy this Christmas

Dear Friends, Followers, and random people of the internet,

July 25, 2012 • Photography

Auto-stack and auto-process HDR in Lightroom 4

My camera marks HDR images quite clearly: They are a sequence of images, where the first second one and third one are equally many stops removed from the first one, and they're usually within a couple of seconds from one-another, with all other settings the same. That sounds like something that should be easy to stack in the import-process, right? Preferably followed up by a rendering to a 32-bit pr channel image straight afterward that is set as the stack top image.

April 28, 2012 • Calabash

Alertview steps

Today I needed to work with an alertview, so here are two steps for pressing them:

March 24, 2012 • Calabash

My reusable Calabash steps

As promised, here are my reusable Calabash steps. Now, some of these are probably more inspirational than reusable (or ignorable, if you like ;-) ), but this is ALL the steps I use SO FAR apart from the standard steps. Like I said before, there are so many great steps already defined, so check them out. Anyway, here they are, all 134 lines:

March 21, 2012 • General

Automatic UI Testing with Calabash from #nsconf

As promised, here's the link from automatic UI testing. And here's the PDF.

March 4, 2012 • iOS

March iOS predictions

Everyone else is doing it, so I figured I could play "bingo" as well. :-)

February 5, 2012 • iOS

Compile Protobuf for iOS

For a project I'm doing at work, that I hope will eventually be open source, I needed to have protobuf compiled for iOS. A colleague of mine showed me how it had been compiled on iOS 4, using these scripts, but with iOS 5 I ended up with binaries compiled for the arm architecture instead of the armv7 architecture.

December 18, 2011 • In Danish

Glædelig jul og godt nytår

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