I checked in at Breakside Brewery / Portland / OR
started experiencing so much psychic damage at work that i decided to WFB for the afternoon
just spent 15 minutes typing up a bug report about suddenly getting 401s from Apple’s WeatherKit API (it’s happened to me multiple times in the past, usually only for a day or so, but their status page is always green) and then i realized…
my Apple Developer Program membership expired 🙃
so i guess the public URLs for Apple Maps Guides just encode the name and individual locations right in the URL… which means that every time i add places to my PDX Food guide, i have to re-share it. why is Apple like this.
I checked in at Pizza Thief / Portland / OR
more pizza needs to come with stracciatella IMO
woke up this morning with armpit pain and immediately started spiraling, “oh no, oh shit, it finally happened, i got COVID at #xoxofest”
it was a pimple
wait i know #xoxofest is over but what do you mean i’m supposed to just go back to work tomorrow
weirdest #xoxofest experience:
thinking someone was leaning in for a hug (i thought maybe we’d met before and i forgot) when he was really just trying to tell me my fly was unzipped, then him stepping back and being like, “oh hey! you’re the guy on the horse! i love your whole online deal”
least favorite #xoxofest experience:
random dude mansplaining how important “marketability” is for software and offering unsolicited advice about how i should “only be building things for others, not yourself”
favorite #xoxofest experiences:
- not being able to choose a favorite talk (ok maybe Erin Kissane’s and Ed Yong’s talks about COVID, and Molly White’s talk about online community and a better web)
- (re)connecting with internet friends and so many people i admire
- DELICIOUS BURGER
- bustin’
so incredibly surreal to think about how #xoxofest is over, and so incredibly happy about how many people i finally got to meet in person after years and years of interacting online. FOURTEEN YEARS in one case! how wild is that??? i just love this community. and i just know it’ll live on.
but also if i’m going to write Yet Another Blogging Engine, i need a good name for it (do not say “yabe”)