Earlier this year, I wrote and released a password management app for the iPhone called PassDrop. I created it because I was highly unsatisfied with the state of password management apps on the app store at the time—most were either lacking a painless method of synchronization, or lacking a desktop counterpart altogether. PassDrop took a considerable amount of my free time for a few months to complete.

At the time, I had decided not to add iPad support since I didn’t have an iPad, and didn’t want to invest additional resources into the app when my time to work on it was already so limited.

Much has changed since then—I do have an iPad now, I have even less free time than I did before, and many of the competing password managers have evolved to a point where I find them rather usable (mSecure in particular, now that they’ve added (admittedly glitchy) DropBox support).

What all of this means for me is that I’m no longer motivated enough to continue working on and supporting PassDrop for the time being. What all of this means for you is that PassDrop should be considered more or less feature complete as it is now (with the exception of bug fixes).

As for the future of PassDrop, you are unlikely to see any major updates or improvements coming from me. However, seeing as how I’m using a GPL'ed library (libkpass), PassDrop itself falls under the GPL (albeit a slightly modified version since it makes use of OpenSSL for crypto). As such I can, have, and will provide the complete source code to anybody who wants it, so there is a possibility that other apps forked off of the PassDrop source code may one day appear on the App Store.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment below, or email me at the address I provide on the PassDrop support page.

I wrote and illustrated a little Christmas poem for everyone. It's up now on the Friendly Atheist.

This one was drawn and inked on paper, then scanned and colored in the Gimp. It took about a week of writing and drawing off and on to create. I chose a girl as the main character as a sort of spiritual successor to Lacey Cuskin from my External Delivery series on Cectic.

I hope it's enjoyed!

My first comic for FA can be seen here. I'm not super pleased with the art--I whipped it up really quickly shortly after the ad came out and didn't spend too much time on it. I am quite pleased with the comic as a whole though.

I actually used Toon Boom Studio to draw it. I purchased the animation suite a few months back with the intention of some day adding rudimentary animated cartoons to my arsenal of weapons against the absurd. I suppose you'll probably hear more about my progress on that front in coming days on this blog.

I found Toon Boom to be a huge time saver, since you can draw a few elements, then re-use them in different panels by simply rearranging them slightly and changing the camera angle and zoom level. It's a technique that I strictly avoided back in my Cectic days (prefering instead to draw each frame by hand even when they were essentially identical), but like I said I wanted to finish this one quickly so that it could go up while the ad was still timely. The fact that it's the first real project I've done in Toon Boom also contributes to the roughness of the art.

My favorite response to this comic was (I believe) a comment on Reddit, expressing great dismay that the comic was merely a re-wording of Rick Perry's actual ad--I hadn't changed the core message at all. So true, and so sad.

On the topic of Reddit, this comic got some love over there when it got posted. I really enjoy seeing my stuff pop up there spontaneously. I enjoy it so much, in fact, that I never post my own comics there myself--it's much more gratifying to see it pop up on its own, and I don't mind spreading the karma around to others with my work. The thing that doesn't particularly give me warm fuzzies inside, however, is when people link just the image, or even worse re-host the image on imgur and post that. Back in my Cectic days I didn't care too much because I wasn't making any money from the website, but Friendly Atheist is another story, and by directly linking the posts instead of the images you're helping to ensure that the blog and all of its contributors can continue putting out the fresh, original content that you've all grown to trust and love.

Hey there, welcome to my new space on the web. I used to draw a skepticism and atheism themed webcomic called Cectic. I was able to put out several comics a week at first, because I had just moved to the United States from Canada, and was legally unable to work until my immigration status was updated. Once I got a job, it became harder to keep updating the site and I eventualy slowed down and stopped.

I still enjoy writing and drawing, however, and recently Hemant Mehta asked me if I would consider drawing comics for the Friendly Atheist blog. I am really excited about that because it allows me to work at my own pace, and lets me share my comics with a much wider audience than I could have ever hoped to achieve and maintain on my own.

I plan on updating this space with links to each of my new comics as they appear on the Friendly Atheist blog, and perhaps provide a kind of "director's commentary" around them. I'll also post any work I do that appears elsewhere on the web, and maybe even some original content that appears nowhere else.

I've never really had a personal blog before, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this one shapes up. Anyway, due to my inexperience, I haven't really figured out the best way to end posts yet.

The End.