Collin Donnell

Trying out using my Hobonichi Techo for my everything/bullet journal. I was missing too many days and I like the size and paper, so why not?

After this week, C++ is starting not to look as crazy as it used to. I’m also beginning to think there might be as much C++ in Swift as there is Objective-C (or more).

The Saturn V LEGO set I’m constructing is halfway complete. For never having built any LEGO before (even as a kid) I feel like I’m doing pretty well. Apparently, this is one of the harder sets, and I haven’t felt more than mildly frustrated at any point, and then only once.

Ever since I heard of the idea of gender quotas in politics, I’ve thought we should implement this in the United States. Maybe make it about 95% women. Men are too emotionally volatile for this kind of work.

I think I may have bit off more than I can chew.

Does anyone have the Beats Studio 3’s and have an opinion on them? I want some wireless noise cancelling headphones for work, can get them for $250 on Amazon, and feel like if I don’t get something with a W1 chip I’ll just fallback to my AirPods.

I would bet that in a world where the only other version control system I’d ever used was Subversion, I’d probably think Perforce was quite cool. Unfortunately, I have used Git, so that is not the case.

I feel like I am reliving something @marcoarment went through several years ago as I hop between several text editors trying to. BBEdit, Sublime Text, Atom, VS Code. Trying AppCode at the same time as well, although that’s a separate issue.

Bought the yearly membership for Grammarly, and I like it quite a bit. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on Micro.blog for some reason 😔

As simple of a tool as it is compared to the competitors, YNAB (You Need a Budget) is insanely effective if you use it. My spending/savings situation has changed dramatically in the last couple of months.

I bought a Waterpik and I have to say… it’s pretty rad. I always thought they were more expensive but the big fancy crazy one is only about $60.

What I really want is a version of Automator where you can create a little form in it and use values you get from it to populate variables. Too bad they’ll never update it again.

If this was 2009 I’d totally be starting a Mac automation podcast right now.

Editing and posting the new episode of The Run Loop tonight! Moving to a bi-weekly schedule after this.

Weirdly I think that being able to write AppleScript (combined with shell scripts) and use Automator has been one of my secret weapons in my career.

Looking for a guest for the next episode of The Run Loop after the one coming out end of this week. Hit me up.

Giving using a Pomodoro timer a shot again to help increase focus. It’s helped in the past, but I’ve just never really stuck with it. I should really see if there’s a good book on the method.

Managed to get Outlook working again! I actually think it was an issue with our SSO provider and not so much Outlook itself.

This is a lovely situation to be in: Outlook for Mac prompts me to log in, and then freezes and crashes everytime I try to. Amazing.

Oh man. Rough day.

Today I have worked with code in: Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, Java, and I even updated a little bit of a Python script. Oh! I wrote an AppleScript too! Does that count? Big day.

I have a feeling that setting my 401(k) to max out is going to end up being one of the smartest things I could have done. Not the whole plan, but I think it will be a good base.

A bit run down today but still stayed focused and got a lot done. Feeling good about that.

The Run Loop is officially being relaunched and the next episode in a couple weeks is going to be a really exciting one 😃

After watching Shape of Water and Star Trek: Discovery this year, I think Doug Jones might be my favorite actor.

Also, people whose performances are CG augmented should be able to be nominated as best actors.