The Tech Blog of Charles Teague

Embed Social Posts Using Share-Post Extension

Quarto
Product
A new extension that makes embedding posts in your Quarto documents easy.
Jan 26, 2024
Charles Teague

Now Shipping - Quarto 1.4

Quarto
Product
Dashboards and Typst, a new manuscript project type, a cross-reference overhaul, Shiny for Python support, and a ton more.
Jan 25, 2024
Charles Teague

2 New Extensions for Quarto

Make Placeholder and Test Document Great
Quarto
Extensions
As a part of my work on Quarto, I find myself creating test documents with placeholder content. This is something I while creating a document used in a test, trying to reproduce a bug, or while testing a new feature. I’ve created a couple of Quarto…
Nov 11, 2023
Charles Teague

Great Writing

A favorite novelist weighs in on scientific writing
Writing
Random
Science
Cormac McCarthy is a favorite author of mine. I find his direct, short, and almost terse style of writing to be engaging. Little did I know that he had actually weighed in on what it takes to do great scientific writing. He did!
Mar 9, 2022
Charles Teague

Build and Test Analytics

Analytics
Product
Continuous Integration
Startup Ideas
One of the things I’ve been maintaining on the Quarto team is the GitHub actions that build installers, run tests, and so on. A few times over the last year, we’ve run into problems in our pipeline which didn’t appear as explicit failures, but…
Feb 16, 2022
Charles Teague

Welcome to the Blog (2.0)

News
Years ago, I worked on a popular for authoring blogs, Windows Live Writer. That tool provided a WYSIWYG experience, giving users a Microsoft Word like experience for editing their blog. During this time period, if you manged to find my blog, you’d…
Feb 7, 2022
Charles Teague

App Store Data for December 2009

iPhone
Ok, so it has been a while since I’ve posted an update of the App Store data. Since it’s been so long, I’m including a special bonus. But first, a couple of notes:
Dec 14, 2009
Charles Teague

It’s been a while!

iPhone
News
Yes, it has been a while. Hopefully everyone is off to a good start to their holidays, as  I am.
Dec 6, 2009
Charles Teague

Radio Silence

iPhone
It’s been a long time since I’ve had anything to say. That’s mostly because I have been busy working on Lose It! Things are going well on that front, but I’ve been spending every free moment on it, leaving me little to say about anything else. I’m…
Jul 11, 2009
Charles Teague

Comparing App Store Categories

iPhone
One of the frustrations that I’ve had with the data from the App Store is the difficulty in comparing the various categories of application on the store. The popularity score appears to be related to the category, so you can’t effectively compare…
Apr 21, 2009
Charles Teague

 

Updated Data from the App Store

iPhone
For anyone who is interested, here is the latest data (csv) from the App Store, as of this morning. Looks like just over 24,000 applications are currently available.
Mar 31, 2009
Charles Teague

20,000 Applications and Counting

iPhone
Ok, there are now more than 20,000 applications in the App Store. Amazing.
Feb 26, 2009
Charles Teague

The App Store Model Business Model: Lite

iPhone
Since the beginning, figuring out the right way to monetize applications in the App Store has been confusing. Not only was the marketplace completely new and unlike any other software marketplace, but the App Store still itself was incredibly…
Feb 17, 2009
Charles Teague

There’s an App For That

iPhone
You probably have seen the ads highlighting the App Store- ‘There’s an App for That.’ I’ve seen a ton of them, and one of the greatest things about them is that they aren’t lying. There really is an app for that.
Feb 5, 2009
Charles Teague

 

App Store Raw Data

iPhone
News

For those that are interested, here is recent (well actually, today’s) CSV file with the raw data that I’ve been using to look more closely at the App Store. Feel free to use it for good.
Dec 19, 2008
Charles Teague

One Last Note on Trends

iPhone
News
Prompted by Nate’s comment, here are a couple more looks at application trends on the app Store. First, if you have a look at the distribution of applications by price over time, you can see the rise of $.99 and $1.99 apps, along with the…
Dec 19, 2008
Charles Teague

Down and To the Right By Design

iPhone
News
If you’re looking for market feedback on the value of applications, here it is. Using updated data to take a look a pricing trends confirms what I think everyone already knows. Each month, the average price of apps on the store just declines. For…
Dec 11, 2008
Charles Teague

A Closer Look at App Store Category Growth

iPhone
News

Taking a closer look at the growth rate of various categories confirms what everyone already knows- games are the high growth area of the App Store. There are a couple of interesting things that can be learned from the category trends, however.
Dec 5, 2008
Charles Teague

It’s True - 10,000 Applications

Random
iPhone
News
For those waiting for my official acknowledgement, the App Store now has more than 10,000 applications available. Congrats!
Dec 4, 2008
Charles Teague

Apps for a Song

iPhone
If you take a look at the growth rates of the App Store by price, something that you may have already intuitively known starts to become clear. $.99 has become the default price of applications on the store. In face, more than 1 in 3 of the…
Dec 4, 2008
Charles Teague

5 months and 9,000 Applications Later

iPhone
The App Store has now been around for a little more than 5 months. And so, this afternoon I was curious about the state of the world in the App Store. After digging around on the net for some up to date analysis, I gave up and decided I’d do some…
Nov 25, 2008
Charles Teague

Brown Zune, Windows Live Writer, and My MacBook Pro

Technology
Random
I’m more than a month into my conversion to a Mac, and so far I’ve adjusted nicely. The largest issue for me was the fact that I didn’t know any shortcut keys, so I was using the mouse a lot more than I’m used to. I’m overcoming that, though I…
Oct 21, 2008
Charles Teague

Hope for Expensive Apps iTunes

iPhone
One of the challenges that has faced developers of apps on the iTunes App Store has been how to price their applications. Early customers complained about applications with high (read: more than $9.99) prices. Since those early days, a competitive…
Sep 29, 2008
Charles Teague

App Store Comments Are Crappy, But Let’s Not Get All Draconian

iPhone
Everyone who has spent some time on the App Store realizes that there are a large number of pointless or even harmful comments. Whether the post simply says ‘first’, disses an application that the commenter has never used, or complains about an…
Sep 23, 2008
Charles Teague

 

Transition 2

Venture Capital
iPhone
News
So on to part 2. After a couple of years focused on Windows Live Writer and blogging, the time has come for me to  work on something new.
Sep 8, 2008
Charles Teague

 

Transition Part 1

iPhone
News
So I’m going through a bit of a transition in my life (more about this later). As a part of this transition, the focus of this blog is going to change. It remains my personal weblog, but rather than mostly playing around with features of Windows…
Aug 25, 2008
Charles Teague
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