I have been using Xcode for so long and I just now realized that Control+Command+Left/Right Arrow goes back and forward in the editor’s navigation stack. Is there a head-smack emoji? 😅

I am back to tracking my food intake—because, well, reasons (haha)—with the Keto app. I am not on a keto diet, though. I don’t know how that would be possible for me with only going to the grocery store once per week now. Salad greens don’t last that long.

My buy-and-hold strategy with flip-flops finally paid off tonight, in that I threw out my worn-out pair from last year and swapped them for the identical copy of them I bought at a tremendous discount off-season last year. I still have one more pair for next year.

⌨️ Oh, cool, my new Anne Pro 2 keyboard supports Bluetooth, and here I am, clicking away, wirelessly, on my Mac. 😀

Does Xcode 12 beta 1 crash less than Xcode 11.5?

📚 Based on the prologue I read last night, which was a lot of fun, I think the next novel I’m going to read is Dan Moren’s The Caledonian Gambit. I hope I can stick with it. Lately, I have been starting books and dropping them well before finishing them.

My day one experience with iPadOS 14 beta 1 is astounding. It is fast and stable. All my third party apps work. The UI updates to the Music app, which I use all the time, are most welcome. The Scribble feature with Apple Pencil exceeds all expectations; it isn’t perfect, but it is really well thought out, and it reads my printing and cursive writing. The new three-column layout for Apple apps looks great, too.

Well, my Schiit Magni Heresy just got fried. 😢 While listening to it over headphones, it made a popping sound, then started humming and crackling loudly. I hope Schiit honors their warranty, because I loved that thing. I use it as a headphone amp and a preamp for my desktop speakers, the latter of which have just been rendered useless.

I decided to install the iPadOS 14 beta on my iPad Pro. Let’s see how it goes!

I just had my butt saved by Microsoft Outlook’s “did you forget to attach a file to this message” feature. 😅

Right now, my family is in a weird state of (1) seeing each other more often again without PPE, and (2) starting to panic more about the recent rise in COVID-19 cases nationwide. We are all concerned about schooling in the fall; both in-person and distance learning seem fraught.

One cool thing about the Anne Pro 2 ⌨️ is its tap layer. It does not have arrow keys, but the cluster at the lower right of the board (right shift, FN, FN2, and Ctrl) act as arrow keys when you tap them, and as normal modifier keys when you hold them. It works perfectly.

I love mechanical keyboards, and I treated myself this week to an Anne Pro 2, which is a 60% board with Kailh Box White switches (clicky!), RGB lighting, multiple function layers, and Bluetooth connectivity to up to four devices. I’m really happy with it so far.

The iHeartRadio ads that are now intercut into the “Slate Political Gabfest” podcast are so irritating that I am considering unsubscribing entirely. If I wanted to listen to annoying radio ads, I would listen to the radio.

When iOS 14 comes out, will there be a third party app that basically is Mail.app from iOS 12? I would make it myself if I had the time.

Hmm… I don’t think my MacBook has enough disk space for a new partition to install the macOS 11 Big Sur. Almost half my disk is full of “Other”, whatever that is. 😕

I got my way-too-expensive, but hopefully useful for a long, long while, reusable facemask from Tom Bihn delivered today. I feel a little silly buying it, considering we still have a stack of disposable facemasks left, and they started showing up in stores around here (finally) a couple weeks ago. That said, I feel like we will be wearing facemasks—at least sometimes—for a long, long time.

I have been coding quite a bit at night lately. The visible UI of my app rewrite is nearly complete, minus keyboard shortcuts and some of the settings. I am excited to get this update out of the door sometime later this year, because it has been in flight for far too long.

The best WWDC takeaway for me is that all of my hardware—even my 7-year-old MacBook Pro—is still going to be supported by the new OSes, so I don’t have to upgrade anything if I don’t want to.

I have tried to avoid most of the talk about the Apple vs. Hey kerfuffle about in-app purchasing rules. It does not affect me, and I have enough to worry about at the moment. Apple is really handling this situation incredibly badly, though. It’s astonishing to me, because this is the sort of thing that will make Congress consider them a monopoly and, maybe, drop the hammer on them. For the record, I do not think that Apple really is a monopoly, because it does not have sufficient market share, but I don’t think that will matter in the court of public opinion.

Both of my kids now are on iPads all the time, and I started to worry about them running into porn and malware online. Luckily, I found CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families product. It makes blocking that stuff at the DNS level as easy as changing two settings values on my router. It’s free, which is a requirement for me, because I could roll my own service with a Raspberry Pi, but I would rather not have another thing in the house to support.

It’s certainly a hot day when I have to turn on my office air conditioner before noon. It’s loudly whirring now.

I’m working my “day job” now because time no longer has any meaning.

Re-opening is beginning now in my state. I don’t plan to go out any more than I have been for the past couple months, though. Let’s see what happens, first.

The recent buzz about ARM-based Macs maybe being announced at this year’s WWDC is pretty exciting. Maybe I will finally update my MacBook Pro when they appear.