CocoaPatterns values communication with our readers. Below are the many ways you can reach us, most of which do not work.
General inquiries: contact@cocoapatterns.com
This email address forwards to a Gmail account that Brad created in 2009. The Gmail account has 14,847 unread emails. Brad checks it "when he remembers," which is approximately once a quarter. If your inquiry is urgent, it will be equally urgent when Brad sees it in three months.
Technical corrections: corrections@cocoapatterns.com
This address does not exist. We registered the domain but never configured this mailbox. If you've found a technical error in one of our posts, consider the possibility that the error is intentional and you're the one who's wrong.
Social Media
Twitter: @cocoapatterns
This account was active from 2009 to 2012. Our last tweet says "Excited to announce our new blog series on Core Data best practices!" The series was never published. The account is now used exclusively by Brad to like tweets about cats.
Physical Mail
CocoaPatterns
c/o Brad Kowalski
[ADDRESS REDACTED — Brad moved in 2014 and we never updated this]
Do not send physical mail. We have no way to receive it. If you have already sent physical mail, we apologize. Someone in Brad's old apartment may have your letter. We hope they enjoyed it.
In Person
Members of the CocoaPatterns team occasionally attend iOS conferences. We can be identified by our lanyards, which say "CocoaPatterns" in a font that was trendy in 2011. If you see us, you are welcome to approach. Brad will talk to you about Swizzle-Driven Development for as long as you let him. This is not a warning. This is just information.
Bug Reports
If you've found a bug on the website, please file an issue on our GitHub repository. Our GitHub repository does not have Issues enabled. We turned it off after someone filed an issue titled "none of the code in these articles should be used in production" and 14 people upvoted it.
Response Times
- General inquiries: 1-3 months
- Technical corrections: never (see above)
- Legal inquiries: Brad's cousin is a lawyer and will respond within 2-4 weeks, though his area of practice is family law and he has described our blog as "not my problem"
- Compliments: immediately (Brad has notifications on for emails containing the word "great")
Thank you for reading CocoaPatterns. We mean that. Everything else on this page may be unreliable, but our gratitude is genuine.