Nothing feels better than cleaning up the Developer folder on my Mac of various projects I’ve finished or abandoned. Making “room” for more projects!
Finished reading: The Dominion War: Book 1 by John Vornholt 📚
Still watching the CHM Oral History of Bertrand Serlet interview about his life and career. Got to an interesting part where he mentioned Database Kit at NeXT. Hadn’t heard about it, but was able to find this interesting PDF scan of the “NeXT Database Kit” sell sheet on the Internet Archive!
Launching my very first “AI” website today…looking for immediate Series A funding from all interested parties! dineinorout.com
Tinkering on a new website that has been a lot of fun to work on. Hoping to have it finished up by the end of this weekend.
I’m still pretty early into Bill Gates’ Source Code memoir, what a great read! I’m always a sucker for any firsthand retelling of the computing revolution in the mid to late 60s. The closest thing I think I’ll ever experience to that time period would have been the App and iPhone revolution in the late 2000s.
One of the things I miss the most from older versions of the iOS Music app is the ability to change the placement and order of the tab bar items. As someone who rarely uses the New and Radio tabs, I would love to put Albums and Playlists in their position for fast access.
So awesome to see a great Mac App published by John Siracusa today! Even better to see an old-school style Mac App Icon to go with the amazing name, Hyperspace! Makes me wish John would make more “Hyper”-related apps in the future!
Found a great Vinyl, CD, and VHS store near University of Washington called Neptune Music. Picked up some great boxset CDs!
Great rainy day at Gas Works Park in Washington!
Great finds from REPC yesterday. Almost bought the AutoCAD box set for $40 as an avid AutoCAD user in high school. However, I didn’t have anything to run Windows 3.1 easily.
Photos from day one in Washington
Finally started the new season of my favorite Apple TV+ show, Mythic Quest. Of all the possible businesses for Apple to have gotten into over the years, an HBO-style production/distribution studio was never on my bingo card.
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This Humane buyout by HP reminds me a lot of when HP bought Palm. However, in that case, the Palm brand and tech lived on for a bit longer than I expect Humane.
Swift Playgrounds is nice and all…but nothing beats the good old macOS Command Line Tool project template!
Still tinkering with SwiftData and finding a lot of nice improvements to CoreData. Little things like support for external storage of data for images aren’t too bad. Although, I do wish SwiftData came with more out-of-the-box support for basic external data types like images, just to make it easier for everyone.
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Out of Scope Sunday: My favorite part of any new hobby…organizing and cataloging!
Tried yet again to use SwiftUI on a Mac app, and it didn’t quite work out. Thankfully, I was able to use SwiftData, which really is such a big improvement over CoreData.
Great episode of Reconcilable Differences today, all about deciding where to put your work on the web so that you end up owning as much of it as possible.
I feel like this pro-personal web sentiment has been growing a lot over the past few months, and I’m really hopeful it continues to strengthen over the rest of the year. If the history of the web has shown us anything, it’s that all of the social platforms, even the ones we view as the “good” ones at any given point, will eventually fade away or become one of the “bad” ones.
It’s not clear whether you’ll be able to boot up a Macintosh five years from now or not”
Steve Jobs, Interview about Pixar, November 22, 1996
Managed to last a whole lot longer than 5 years…30+ years and counting.
