Author: Ashley Nelson


Accessibility

Last week, a blog post I wrote went live on the Dropbox blog. Making Dropbox for iOS More Accessible details some of our recent efforts to make the Dropbox for iOS app truly universal. 

I became interested in accessibility last year when my friend Doug

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Debug Roundtable

Last week I participated in a roundtable discussion of extensibility on the Debug podcast, along with James Thomson of PCalc and Bryan Irace of Tumblr.

The day before we were scheduled to record, WatchKit dropped. I’ll cover my initial impression of WatchKit in another

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Moscow

Last month I spoke at Yet Another Conference,1 hosted by Yandex in Moscow. My talk, Building Quality Code That Lasts: A Dropbox Story, is now available online.

Thank you to Yandex for sponsoring my talk and visit to Moscow. Special thank you to Irina

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Podcasts

I’ve been listening to podcasts since 2005. For me, talk radio is a far more interesting use of my idle listening time than music.1 Naturally, on demand access to people speaking about my hobbies felt like a perfect fit for my personality. In

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4 Years

4 years ago I moved to San Francisco to begin employment at Apple; my first job out of school. I knew that I wanted to be a developer, but I was at a platform crossroads. Should I focus on the web’s promise of “build

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