What is inertiaBlogs?

InertiaBlogs is named after Newton’s First Law of Motion - inertia. A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless it is acted upon by a force. Similarly, I find that for me, being productive works in a similar way. Once I’ve started working towards a certain goal whether to research or to code then I’m much more motivated to finish it whereas if I take a break between projects or in the middle of projects, I tend to be stuck in that position and find it difficult to get back to work. ...

September 3, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Jimin Lee

Housing-swapping an Aluminium Apple Watch to Stainless Steel - pt.1

Recently, I checked out the titanium Apple Watches at the Apple Store. Image credit: Apple Now the thing is, I currently own an Apple Watch Series 7 in Black Aluminium but I’ve always really liked the stainless steel Apple Watches but could never really justify the price difference. So I thought “Why not just housing swap my Apple Watch the way people housing swap their gameboys?” ...

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Jimin Lee

iOS Simulator Problems when Animating Changes with UIKit/MKMapView

In one of my personal projects, I needed to use a custom annotation as a location marker rather than using the default location marker as the user’s location was determined by a network of Bluetooth iBeacons rather than using the native Core Location framework. But when I tried to update the position of an annotation by changing its coordinate attribute, it flashed to the new location rather than being animated to that location. ...

November 21, 2023 · 2 min · 267 words · Jimin Lee