Quick notes, scattered ideas, and candid updates from whatever’s on my mind.
While trying to catch up some lost time from the day, I thought I could enable a seemingly innocuous environment setting without testing it properly in a sandbox first.
What do you think happened?
You’re right! Shit broke and I can’t roll it back.
Yay me!
Waiting for Sequoia updates to complete on the Intel work laptop. 2 hours and counting so far…
If it were Apple silicon, I’d be back working already. 😑
My wife and I had a fantastic lazy weekend in Palm Springs with no agendas or timelines other than laying by the pool and dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Our time is over now and it’s back to the real world…
Let this be a lesson, kids… Always double check the QA work of someone else. RV backup camera was NOT tested properly and still needs to be worked on. No pickup for Breezie happening today… 🤬
We get our RV back from the shop today. 🎉 It only took four weeks to get fixed–which is actually pretty good. Thankfully, the service contract we purchased covers the cost of it all. After I bring it home, we’re headed to Palm Springs for a mini-vacation weekend. ☀️😎🍹
I had the strangest dream… @manton showed up at my house with his pet kangaroo because a post I published somehow broke Micro.blog. After debugging and fixing it together, we watched family videos of my kids from 30 years ago, watched the sun set, and then he took pictures to remember the visit.
I had the best health insurance experience yesterday! While scheduling some costly tests, three incredibly friendly representatives went above and beyond to assist me. I barely had to lift a finger. This was not the American healthcare system I’m used to!
I had to zap the PRAM on my work laptop this morning to get it to boot properly. I haven’t had to do that to a Mac in years, maybe even decade, but my fingers remembered what to do without giving it any thought…
Maybe it’s just me, but the Micro.blog web servers seem to be a bit snappier lately. I’m liking it…
Had a lunch date with my wife today at a place we haven’t been to in 15 or 20 years that overlooks the pier. Then we walked the pier afterwards. It was an enjoyable afternoon with my bestie. I’m a lucky guy.
I’ve been going to a local shoe store for more than 25 years that has a “spin the wheel for a free pair of shoes” game. In all those years, I’ve never won a free pair… Until today. Score!
My youngest turns 28 today. As each year passes, it gets harder and harder to fathom the actual number.
A small/moderate earthquake in SoCal this morning (5.2, located in 📍Julian, CA). It’s a reminder that the big one is long overdue… 🫨
I got a great start to a macOS browser cache management app worked up this weekend. This one’s the new passion project to get more familiar with SwiftUI.
Tax checks mailed. 😩👋🏻💸💸💸
I always get the brew update and brew upgrade commands backwards. To me, “update” should be updating packages, and “upgrade” should be installing the latest version of brew.
I vibe coded a mini-cms for LAMP stack with Cursor last night and a little this morning. While not the cleanest or securest of code, it got the job done. I can create posts in Markdown and they render as HTML. All code was generated solely by prompt. A fun distraction to see what the app could do.
I knew as soon as I launched OmniFocus 3 that I’d have to see if v4 was as good or better. Of course it is and I’ll have to drop the $75 USD for an upgrade. Good Mac apps would make me really poor if I weren’t careful.
After listening to @canion and @martinfeld talk about Andrew’s appearance on the Omni Show on Hemispheric Views Ep. 134 this morning, I remembered I had an OF Pro 3 license. So I downloaded the Mac & iOS versions to use for work projects. I used to be a huge OF nerd. Not sure why I strayed…
Taking my first foray into vim. Don’t ask why. I like to torture myself sometimes…
It looks like the RV will be in the shop for our early May trip as well, so we’ve rescheduled and booked a hotel in Palm Springs for that weekend instead. Early May is the perfect time to visit “The Springs.”
WTAF, Apple??? If I delete a stupid app like Playground from my phone, don’t reinstall it, please… Jeez. 🙄
I finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers today. I’m starting it over again tomorrow, reading an entry every day or two and making notes on it. There’s no rush to get through the book this time around. I plan to take it slow and really think about what I’m getting from what I’ve read.
Wearing my Micro.blog tee at work today and a coworker asked me what it was about. Had the opportunity to share and answer questions for about 10 minutes. Maybe she’ll sign up…
Eh, what the heck… I’m back on Bluesky again.
Well, I didn’t get a bike ride in this weekend, but my wife and I did make the mile walk down to pier plaza to sit and watch the tourists for a while. Thankfully, only a minor contingent of whackos were out (it is a beach city after all) and no MAGAts to deal with whatsoever.
I have a ton of chores to catch up on this weekend, but the weather is going to be absolutely gorgeous. I need to whittle down that chore list to spend some time doing a beach bike ride. The weeds in the yard will still be there (only bigger) next weekend.
I think if I had a dream job, it would be to work with HTML and CSS styling all day. That’s where I find my flow state.
There’s something about being in the desert at night. Total stillness and then coyotes calling out to one another. Or the brightness of so many stars you could seemingly reach out and touch each of them. I’d forgotten that the desert is where I feel the most at peace. I needed this.
I sit on the HOA board for my community. We’re trying to put together a flyer to get more people engaged. Coming from a design background, I’m finding it amusing to hear all the ideas coming from other board members, though they have no design experience whatsoever.