Chaos Server

Move the thing, or the me. They are equivalent - Mathematician (SMBC) I’ve been mostly exclusively writing on my iPad to get stuff up here these days, which isn’t as easy as it should be.  I am truly contemplating that this might be the end of me needing a “personal laptop” around the house and that I can do everything exclusively by either working on my iPad or using Screens/Prompt to connect to the home server when a I need to do more complex stuff in my person life. Posting pictures up here though, so much harder than it should be.  All of the main iOS apps I’ve used over the years have gone away for this business - Google no longer has a Blogger app. I used to use and love Blogsy, but retired after some API changes made it not worth upkeep by the developer. Blogo stopped working for silly reasons, it does it’s Google OAuth in a UIWebView and Google now requires OAuth to occur in OSes main browser (or SFVC). Without a native app, I should just be able to upload directl...

Being bad at everything you try is kind of the definition of being a kid. - David Kestenbaum Far an away, one of my favorite Podcasts is the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP).  When it pops up on my Overcast feed (of course), I make sure it jumps above all the other shows I might be listening to. Three hosts, with three different personalities. I often think about which of those hosts is the most like me. The cool indie developer? The hypercritical logical observer? The friends-with-everyone consultant? Yeah, probably that last one. Which is okay, they are all cool. ATP did a live show at WWDC this year, so I made the pilgrimage down. As we were standing in front, Casey went running by and I asked for a selfie and... well.  I held up my phone and hit the power button (instead of volume to take the picture). I swiped and opened and hit the volume button! But it was on video mode. You know what, here, just accept a picture of me attempting to take a selfie with Casey.

The story is that which occurs, after all. - Corinna Nicolaou I’m among the AirPod fan boys for sure. I order them on day 1, got them nearly on day 1 and they are either charging or in my pocket, just those two places. The pods themselves? Always in my ear or in the case. No other places. I’m constantly out with kids who go off to play and I can just pop them in and listen to a podcast, book, etc. they are fabulous. I’ve misplaced them a couple times and that usually means the whole case with the pods falls out of my pocket. I would think that the “Find My AirPods” feature would be amazing at resolving this but seems to me like this feature is only useful to locate a single lost bud. Every time the case is missing? Nope, can never locate it and the app never seems able to tell me the location. So it caused my great anxiety when my AirPods went missing one day, and I could not find them. "I had them last night for sure, so they definitely came home with me." I kept looking,...