Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
I came across my grandfather’s Canon AE-1 a few days ago. I got the shutter to trigger one time, then it didn’t work.
The internet says a non-functioning shutter could be due to a dead battery. The camera hasn’t been used in years (decades?). On a whim I ordered a new battery.
It arrived today and the shutter is working great! I’m guessing it triggered once before the battery swap due to a remaining charge in a capacitor, which amazes me thinking about it.
Time to buy some film…
Even though there are a few head-scratchers with the M3 Pro, in general the new M3 MacBook Pros look like a nice update. The Max with 12 P cores and 4 E cores looks like an especially nice configuration, albeit at a price.
I’m still holding tight with my M1 Max (maybe an M4 will have my name on it), but it’s exciting to see the performance gains continuing to made with each generation.
That wraps up the car maintenance this week.
On Tuesday I took it in for new summer tries (Continental ExtremeContact Sport O2’s…so far they have been super-sticky). Then yesterday it had an oil change.
Feels pretty smooth after everything’s been done.
Replaced the engine and cabin air filters in the subie tonight. Judging by the state of the old ones, I should have swapped them long ago.
Had a drive die in my TrueNAS SSD pool (8x 2TB in mirrored VDEVs) earlier this week.
Decided to order 2x 3.84TB replacements to swap the entire VDEV, because solid state prices have plummeted this past year. I’ll have an unbalanced pool, but thinking unbalanced SSDs shouldn’t have too big of a performance impact.
Will keep the good 2TB SSD as a cold spare for the next failure.
Today was a perfect day to go mountain biking. Hit up a relatively new trail called Michigan’s Dragon and had a great time. Biked about 17 miles of rolling single track along a lake.
Can’t wait to go back, though I’d probably pick a slightly shorter section next time. I’m definitely going to be feeling this tomorrow…
Damn…two desktop UPSes dead in as many weeks. One little power blip and it just gave up.
I could probably just replace the battery, but the screen backlight has been out for awhile now too, which is a hassle, so I’ll probably just replace the whole thing.
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Here’s one of the original App Store screenshots for MyWeather Mobile. We’ve come a long way…
Seasonality Go was just a glint in my eye, and wasn’t available until day 1 of the iPad App Store a few years later.
Looks like someone already put MyWeather Mobile on that list of the first 500 apps on the App Store. That was a heck of a project to pull together in just a few weeks. So much fun.
@gruber@mastodon.social I appreciate your take on the Vision Pro. Before the keynote, I was skeptical a product like this would be anything but a toy.
After seeing the keynote and reading your take on it, I can say with certainty that I was completely wrong. The Vision Pro will cement itself as an important part of future computing.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos
I’m a little surprised the Apple silicon Mac Pro didn’t go directly to PCIe 5 support. That’s been standard on desktop and server PC hardware for months now.
One of the nicer places I’ve had the privilege to eat lunch.
This morning I took the path less traveled (it’s not even on most maps), and it paid off big time.
Tonight’s sunset was one for the books.
I knew it was bound to happen, but I was foolish enough to keep going.
I’ve only seen this a handful of times in my 20 years in Michigan, but we’re getting thundersnow!
It has been just over 3 weeks since starting the new job. The learning curve has been intense, but I love it. It has been like being at WWDC three weeks in a row.
I always look forward to learning new tools and development methods when joining a team. Gives me a chance to become a better developer.
I missed using Tweetbot since switching to Mastodon. Great to be able to use @ivory@tapbots.social now that it has hit the App Store.
Somewhat ironically, now that I’m working full-time again, I’ve become quicker at responding to support email for personal apps. Not because I have more time (I don’t), but because of changes I’ve made out of necessity.
The biggest help has been setting up an online knowledge base. Now if a question comes in that isn’t documented, the response first gets added to the website, and then a link is sent to the user. Subsequent responses are much quicker now. Wish I would have done this years ago.
Bummed that the Bills’ season ended today. Glad to see the 9ers are still in it though.