Notes

Maybe I’m too much of a skeptic now, but when your half-sibling who you haven’t spoken to in 10+ years suddenly makes an effort to track you down on the internet and send a contact form message to “talk to you” about something they’d “like to do,” it can only mean one thing… They want money. 🤣

I went for my lunchtime two-mile walk today without listening to music, audiobook or podcast, opting instead for the natural sound of everything going on around me. Oddly enough, I found it to be far more invigorating than doing otherwise, even with all the car traffic.

I took a little time this morning to finish up removing old posts from Micro.blog that moved to the new server and then added redirects as necessary. I’ll continue to use MB for the quick ephemeral thoughts and occasional photo post going forward.

It seems the mnml Archive by Years plugin needed a little love too. That’s been handled as well.

I’ve been away from the Micro.blog timeline for a minute… Thanks to Mark Twomey (@Storagezilla) for alerting me to mnml‘s incompatibility with Hugo 0.158 and an opengraph image generation issue. I’ve addressed both and released an update to 2.8.5 2.8.6. You should see an update available soon.

🎉 Woohoo! We have officially planned and booked all of our spring & summer RV trips. It feels good to finally have something on calendar again since we weren’t able to do any trips last year due to my heart surgery and recovery. I think we may need to do a few in September, October and November too.

After reading Terry Godier’s post about his new app, Current, it piqued my interest enough to part with the $10 for a multi-device app just to see what it can do. I like the premise a lot, and think it speaks to my own nuking of nearly all feeds I was following in NetNewsWire the other day.

I made some really, really good progress on my new Mac app today. I’m super happy with how it turned out and where it’s headed. The domain name for it was available too (miracle of miracles), so I grabbed it. Yes, I’m being a little vague right now. When it’s ready for testers, I’ll put out a call.

A tremendously productive day today. Overgrown weeds in the backyard cleaned up, TV in the RV rewired, toolbox cleaned up (a little) and, thanks to Claude Code, great progress made on a new Mac app I’ve always wanted to write. It was a good day.

As a Claude Code test this morning, I spun up an empty Xcode project, gave a short prompt about the history of my old Mac maintenance app, Yasu, and then provided it a screenshot, telling it to write me the SwiftUI code for it.

Holy moly, the results were pretty darned good…