Author: mike

Getting boosted…

Took my daughters (9 and 12) to a Today at Apple session called Code Your First App. They loved it! Starts with a SwiftUI tab bar demo app in Swift Playgrounds and they spend an hour customizing and adding features. This isn’t the first time they’ve coded in Swift, but to see their eyes light up as their code change is updated on the canvas is priceless.

I used Undo Send in Mail for the first time just now. It’s not something I’ll use often, but it’s nice to have the option.

This past week has been full of ups and downs. It’s been emotionally draining. Here’s hoping some loose ends get wrapped up next week.

Flight Simulator Standard Edition is 50% off at Target for Black Friday. Couldn’t resist picking it up. See you in the virtual skies…

I was wondering why my IPsec VPN was so slow between two endpoints running pfSense. Ended up changing the MSS cap from the default 1400 down to 1350 and now I’m getting 10x the bandwidth.

So great to see lots of hobby posts on Mastodon and not so many political posts. It’s a breath of fresh air.

It’s funny seeing all the new Mastodon apps, just like the first few years of Twitter.

Somehow I only learned of The Composable Architecture a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why I hadn’t seen anything about it before. Making my way through a tutorial and I’m generally impressed. I could see myself using it in a future project.

So the question is: what new way will elon find to ruin Twitter over the weekend?

There’s a lot of things I’ll miss about California. This is not one of them…

Starting my day in the California desert where temps are in the 80s and ending it in the Rockies where temps are in the 40s. Can’t decide whether to wear shorts or pants.

Think I’ll go with shorts because this might be my last chance to wear them this season.

Me vs bears

Checkmate

Huh… Just felt an earthquake. Nothing major, just barely strong enough to make the house creek and the dogs start barking. Ended up being a 3.1 magnitude about 25 miles west of here.