Oof. This is a crammed week of stuff. We’re having new floors installed and the house is wrecked, I have a dentist appointment this afternoon, an after-hours application deployment for the day job tomorrow evening, Thursday’s calendar is jam packed, and then an eye exam Friday after work. What was I thinking?
Hey, I’m Jim Mitchell. Wrangler of nerds, herder of cats, and butcher of code, though not always in that order. This is my place on the web to explore technology, design, and simple living through the lens of someone who uses ellipses like punctuation should be optional... Indieweb is punk.
I just received a slew of budget review meeting invites from my group VP. This is one of the ickier parts of my role now.
OutPost for Mac Public Beta Available
I'm pleased to announce that OutPost for Mac is publicly released today as a beta for adventurous users to try out.
Let’s try that again… My work on OutPost is coming along really well, but just when I think I’m about ready to turn it loose for others to try, I’ll get another idea for something I think the app should do. Nonetheless, here’s a tease of some iOS screenshots (plus a Mac screenshot).
We finally took the recliner chair that I rehabbed in after heart surgery to Goodwill today. It’s weird that it’s not here anymore, but it was time to get back to normal and fully close that chapter of my life.
Doing some OutPost testing this afternoon, I was pleased to discover that the app kind of works with Pika.page too, though not quite as feature complete as it is for some other blogs.
Valley
Seasons come, seasons go. I'm in a bit of a slump right now. What I need is to get away from the usual day to day and do something different on my own.
I spun up a site to centralize all of my Mac/iOS apps this afternoon, mostly to have a place for the necessary pages OutPost will need for iOS Test Flight and Mac beta test distribution. We should be close (I hope) to making it publicly available.
The apps are working great for me with nearly everything I’ve posted lately using OutPost.
Hanging with the goodest boys.
My wife and I decided to watch Normal over the long weekend, not knowing anything about the movie other than it starred Bob Odenkirk, who, of course, everyone loves.
In hindsight, we were expecting something a little different I think. Nonetheless, we ended up enjoying it enough to finish watching, mostly due to the absurdity. The gore wasn’t really our thing, but it was an hour and a half filled.