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Alright Vancouver and Southwest Washington, I know I give you a lot of shit, but you elected Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, to congress, so I’m going to give you a break for the time being. You did good, nerds.
I wonder if there are people in Twitter right now who think everything is great and just really believe in Elon or if 95% of them are miserable. If so, someone needs to tell them about “quiet quitting.” Even if you need the check you don’t have to work this hard for a sociopath.
I have not been able to get to my photos on Mac since upgrading to Ventura, and I have no idea how I can fix it.
Low-key, I think screencasts are so popular because it’s a lot easier to monetize than a blog where you walk someone through the steps to complete a task with minimal fluff, and you can just go off the cuff for the most part and do minimal editing.
I heard Mar-a-Lago is in the required hurricane evacuation zone, and Trump refuses to leave.
Listen, Poseidon, god of the sea, I’ve never asked you for anything before…
I think I’ve confirmed stimulant medications which raise your resting heart rate have a significant effect on your VO2 max estimation from Apple Watch. In the four days I haven’t taken them, it’s gone up a little each time I measure and nearly 1.5 points so far.
I am so relieved this night is not turning out the way we’ve been led to believe it would.
I still can’t get over how majestic this goat I met last weekend at the apple farm was.
I don’t know if Apple is making weird choices or if I am weird, but the number of it’s “time to walk” things I am interested in on the Apple Watch are few and far between. I struggle to express the level of disinterest I have in going on a musical journey with Jamie Oliver while he tells me his backstory. 
70 mg of Vyvanse feels like too much. I want to try a lower dose combined with exercise first thing in the morning. Ever since I switched to that dose my sleep has been really bad, and I constantly get those high heart rate notifications.
Mastodon is a compelling open alternative to Twitter in the same way that Emacs is a compelling alternative to Word.
MetaWeblog support is now available in Linefeed.app, so it can be used with third-party blogging apps, such as MarsEdit. It was a bit more work to get everything working and fully tested than I expected, but really glad to have gotten this in.
I had a thought driving downtown today. Neither of the languages I know the best and use, Swift and Ruby, are self-hosted, which is sort of notable since most languages seem to be.
The way I would describe Mastodon is that it seems like something nerds came up that is completely inscrutable that someone in a fedora would tell you is actually better and really easy before taking 45 minutes to explain the Fediverse or whatever.
Mastodon truly seems like tradeoffs all the way down. I am sure there are very good technical reasons, but also I don’t care. I can’t change servers without losing my followers, I can’t use a domain I own with sacrificing it to Mastodon. Woof. What a nightmare.
Got my resume updated and sent out to the people who needed it today and also got the rest of the test coverage for MetaWeblog support in Linefeed done, so I’m going to be nice to myself today.
Sometimes I like to use an IDE — Xcode, RubyMine — for language or framework-specific or language features, but even then, I will always have BBEdit running in parallel. If you need to search and replace or create and edit a file, it is incredibly fast.
I have officially reached “my knees hurt” years old and I am not here for it.
At the very least with screencast tutorials, please have the demo project set up beforehand. WWDC videos don’t spend half the time creating a project and the scaffolding to show off one tiny feature.
I wanted to buy myself a Montblanc Meisterstück 149 (diplomat) fountain pen 🖋️ when I bought my house last year, but a $1000 pen wasn’t in the cards then. Next job I get I’m doing it.
I saw someone remove the feed from a Lamy Safari style pen on YouTube and it looked easy, but I cannot get it out and cleaning this thing is a totally pain 🖋️
If the tools were better, I think Apple developers would test more. Not being able to easily have fixture data for a Core Data model generated is nuts. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen, automated tests aren’t that common within Apple, so it’s not really recognized as an issue.
I don’t know what’s going to happen precisely with finding a new job, but I do want to say I am incredibly grateful and lucky to have the network, friends, and small amount of reach that I do. I really hope in the future, I’m able to do the same for others.
I haven’t found OmniGraffle to be that easy for creating a full UML thing — which I’ve tried a couple of times — but for drawing out little things like this to explain my thinking, it’s pretty ideal.
