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.
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”)
i’ve had multiple people at #xoxofest tell me how much they like how i’ve built up my website and how they wish they could do something similar and… i think i’m actually feeling inspired to make that possible? i’ve been meaning to make the whole thing customizable and easier to run. is it time???
docker is the ultimate sin. computers were a mistake, yet we made smaller computers in our existing computers. you can’t make that make sense
had an extra dough ball from a pizza night earlier this week and i couldn’t stop thinking about making a breakfast calzone 👀 stuffed it with soft scrambled eggs, american cheese, smoked cheddar, bacon, potatoes, corn, green onions, chives and hot sauce
every so often, TikTok flips me into some kind of A/B test and makes it so most of the videos on my fyp have under 100 views and maybe 3 likes at most. and then TikTok just sucks until they finally put me back on the normal algorithm
the dems keep making seemingly good decisions and i just almost don’t know how to react! i’m excited about Harris, i’m excited about Walz, and the GOP just continues to flounder. we can… actually win this? my brain keeps producing hopium but i’ve forgotten how to process it
i love single sign-on. i love getting logged out of websites multiple times a day. i love getting emails with a link to log in instead of just using my password manager. i love having to get up to grab a physical device that i have to plug into my computer and touch just so i can use a website. i lo
our neighbors have a couple plum trees they aren’t harvesting so we picked a bunch. the wrinkled ones are unbelievably good.
