I’m doing pretty well with YNAB so far. Having fixed expenses in their own bank account was a great idea, too. I should be able to start funding some of next month’s expenses when I get paid tomorrow, which is much better than I had been doing. My immediate goal is to be funding 30 days in advance.
Trying to get into the sport of precision pistol shooting. It turns out it is pretty difficult to hit the middle of a target one-handed from 50 plus feet away.
Has anyone experimented with integrating AppIntents as a sort of core part of their SwiftUI apps architecture? It seems like it could be an interesting idea at least for manipulating data? AddItemIntent().perform()?
I know how I would define the difference, but I’m curious for others — how would you explain the difference between a View Model in MVVM and a Controller in MVC?
Kind of nuts, I can’t use SwiftUI’s TextEditor for something as simple as basic syntax highlighting. It’s easy enough to pull in NSTextView, but still, it’s surprising how not-powerful the text editing abilities of SwiftUI are.
I don’t understand how people drive fancy cars. I got a Subaru Outback, which is nice but not fancy, and the payment is $701 a month with only 2.5% interest. I wanted all of the fancy safety features, and that’s been worth it, but after this, I’m never buying a new car again.
Don’t get shingles. It’s the worst thing.
Have about 15 rolls of film to scan 😅
I’m playing with the NextStep emulator at infinitemac.org. This must have felt like it was sent from the future in the 90s. This really feels like early Mac OS X with a different UI, and that UI is kind of awesome.
All this talk of Swift NSCache replacements makes me want to make my own, even though there are seemingly multiple good ones 🤣
I’ve been doing a really good job at work lately, and also figuring out my financial stuff to be more sustainable. Feeling good about life in general.
I’m a little nervous getting rid of my credit card, but I think it’s probably silly. I have great credit. If I really needed money fast, I could get a short term loan for a way lower percentage, or worst case, another card pretty much overnight.
By the end of this week, I’ll no longer have a credit card. I get that some people make them work, but they aren’t for me. I think this is going to make things a lot easier going forward.
I am going through and cancelling any subscriptions I don’t need, and wow, a lot of websites don’t make it too hard, but a lot do.
The reasons I hear people use Substack are that it’s easy and has a community. My experience with a basic WordPress.com account is that everything is taken care of for me technically and that I get a decent number of views from the WordPress Reader community.
This typography page in the Apple HIG is so useful I have it pinned open for my work profile. developer.apple.com/design/hu…
Has anyone ever made an a single SwiftUI app which spans watchOS, tvOS, iOS, and macOS? I seem to remember an initial promise being that you’d just have one app with a bunch of build targets but the platforms are so different I almost can’t imagine what that would look like.
My feeling with custom control styles on macOS is that either they’re really different and adding value in some way, or we should be using the standard controls. Being slightly different means we’re putting the work to customize the styles and create custom controls without adding value.
After work today, I need to collect all of the rolls of film I took on this trip. It was several. Part of me wishes I also had a digital camera in addition to film. I’m disappointed that I will never be able to afford a digital Leica. They just aren’t made for people like me.
Even posting inconsistently, I find having a blog is as feasible and worthwhile as it’s ever been. If I post things people like, I still get as many views as I did years ago. And it’s not like I’m some kind of influencer; I’m just a normal guy with a WordPress.
AOC is the only Democrat who is a generational talent in Congress right now, and instead of lifting her up, they sideline her. It’s like if Obama gave his 2004 speech and they made him wait until 2024 to get any power.
I turned off predictive completion in Xcode. It doesn’t work well enough to be useful. The code it writes is too often broken in really dumb ways (leaving off a parenthesis), which makes it more of a hinderance than anything else.
I feel like a little bit of a traitor for this as a person who develops for and has worked at Apple — but I think I’m going to start using Google Maps. The UI isn’t as nice and I hate that it doesn’t integrate with Contacts on iPhone, but otherwise, it’s got a lot going for it.
I just heard that Gen Z plays beer pong with water instead of beer? That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
Something cool about Portland is that we seem to have more homegrown regional stores. I’m thinking of WinCo and Bi-Mart. WinCo is employee-owned and gives equity to employees. I’ve stopped shopping at Target at all since the election and don’t miss it. #Portland