The most surprising thing about enabling email newsletters for my blog is that I enjoy getting a copy of my own recent posts on Monday mornings. It's a nice mini review of what I have been interested in over the last week.
2022-05-09
I submitted a request for WWDC's in-person day, but now I'm much less interested in attending than I was when we recorded the last Core Intuition. I don't think WWDC will ever return to what it was. 8 years ago I blogged about the "eras" of WWDC... Just feels over now.
2022-05-09
"A day, a week, a month, a year. Every second brings me here." — Arcade Fire 🎶
2022-05-09
Driving through our old neighborhood, a lot has changed in the 20 years since we lived there, but the little grocery store and deli remain.
Good morning! Busy day but first a little work and coffee. ☕️
This is the last week to order Indie Microblogging in e-book or print editions. I know I've said that before, but really this time. I'll be deploying some Micro.blog changes that disable the book order page after this week. It'll be available to read on the web, but not offline.
2022-05-11
Wondering if I should be concerned that I haven't received any truly negative feedback about my book. I know there are some sections that need work, but not hearing anything makes me question whether I should rework them or just continue to fix minor problems and ship it.
2022-05-11
Last month we quietly added some better server monitoring to catch problems on hosted blogs. Happy that our uptime now shows 100% for the last month. Might be closer to 99% since it only checks every 5 minutes and won't catch seconds of downtime, but still solid.
2022-05-11
Safari back button shortcut
Sometime recently, Safari's back button keyboard shortcut ⌘← stopped working. I've preferred this to ⌘[ because it's much easier to reach when my right hand is on the MacBook Pro trackpad. Unfortunately I can't seem to reset this using System Preferences.
After a few days of unsuccessfully re-training myself to use ⌘[, I gave up and reached for FastScripts to rewire the ⌘← shortcut. I wrote the following AppleScript:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "[" using {command down} Then set it in FastScripts to only be used when Safari is running. There's got to be a more straightforward way to get the old Safari behavior back — and this solution annoyingly interferes with moving the cursor if a text field is focused in a web page — but for now I'm up and running again.
2022-05-12
Posted episode 513 of @coreint. We talk about whether we got accepted to the WWDC special event at Apple Park, and related thoughts and speculation about the event.
2022-05-14
Avoca Coffee in Denton. ☕️
