I upgraded my hosted micro.blog’s Photos page to the new, built-in one that @manton released last week. It loads very quickly and I’m happy with how it looks and works. I love that the hosted blogs keep getting better.

I am thankful for Panic’s Transmit app today, as it tears through terabytes of file moving on my home network. Now, if only I knew why my SeagateNAS, which I am emptying in case of failure, has had blinking LED lights, since our power failure last week.

I use git almost every day, and I still have to look up commands and workarounds to error messages sometimes. Merging is still a little hard for me, though git-flow helps with my normal workflow.

My family and I enjoyed the local county fair this weekend. We went right after it opened for the day, before it got very crowded and before the temperature got too high.

The “Bat out of Hell” Broadway musical is oddly fascinating to me. I actually love how bombastic and over the top Jim Steinman’s songs are. Seeing them in a show, though, could be either great or just too much.

I got my first iTunes “Uploaded with warnings” message for my Mac app tonight. It was easy to solve (I didn’t need to check StackOverflow), but I am puzzled why it didn’t pop up over the prior 6 versions I uploaded this year.

🎵 It’s a bright and cheery “Country Caffeine” afternoon for me, as I close out my work week.

I started the most important part of packing for my vacation: syncing some TV shows to my iPad via Plex.

I wish I had purchased my first pair of (good) open-back headphones about 8 years ago, when I started on this headphone hobby of mine. I think they sound better, though their sound leakage means I can only use them while I’m alone. I work alone, so that’s not a problem for me.

I enjoyed reading this article from the New York Times:

Estrada was playing a Pocket Operator, a device released four years ago by a Swedish company called Teenage Engineering. To date, the company has made nine different models of the same basic design, and it has sold more than 350,000 of them worldwide, making the Pocket Operator one of the most popular synthesizers in history. The Korg M1 — famous for producing the sound of Seinfeld’s slap bass and Madonna’s “Vogue,” and one of the best-selling and most influential synths of all time — is estimated to have sold 100,000 fewer units over nearly twice as much time. The “portable” version of one of the Pocket Operator’s earliest forebears — the telharmonium, constructed more than a hundred years ago — cost more than $5 million to build in today’s dollars, weighed 200 tons and required a team of specialists to achieve peak performance. A Pocket Operator costs about $60 and fits in the palm of your hand.

The pocket synth by Teenage Engineering, the company that designed Panic’s upcoming PlayDate handheld gaming console, looks really cool. I kind of want to pick one up, even though I no longer consider myself a musician of any kind.

I just had to re-send a fax to my health insurer because the prior fax, sent last week by a third party, did not fully print out. No one notified me until now. I am 99% certain that my insurer’s fax machine ran out of ink, which is the cause of the problem. Companies should not be using fax machines anymore.

Panic’s Nova code editor, which is entering private beta soon, looks incredible. I wish I were in the market for a code editor on the Mac. I only code in Swift on the Mac, and Xcode is fine for that. I only code in other languages on the PC, for work.

I was thrilled to re-learn today that WinSCP can connect to SharePoint sites via WebDAV. I know SharePoint sites can be opened in Windows Explorer, but, for some reason, my user account does not have that ability. WinSCP gives me a more reliable method than a WebDAV share anyway.

I updated my iPad Air 2 to iPadOS 13 Developer Beta 4, which is the only device I have that I can live with beta-related bugs for a month or two. So far, the app that I develop, SwiftoDo, works, though it did not work prior to this beta, so I am happy.

I don’t think the person who put a hard-coded limit on Excel file path names, one that is way lower than the longest path name allowed on the file system, ever imagined how much grief it would cost me at work.

I may finally set up a RetroPie “for the kids”. 😀🕹

I had a plumber repair my bathroom faucet today, and I am starting to question the intelligence of having running water altogether. 💸 😀

I think that every bit of this article from the New York Times illustrates what is wrong with the way we pick presidents in the US.

Five Democratic presidential candidates raised a combined $96 million from individual donors in the last three months — about three-quarters of the total fund-raising by the entire Democratic field, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.

I have to admit that I am annoyed because my favorite candidate is not at the top of the fundraising list. That is a small worry, though. Overall, I am annoyed that all this money is spread out so widely amongst candidates, many of whom should gracefully drop out and run for lower, but still very important, offices.

Meanwhile, Trump looms over everything like Calamity Ganon over Hyrule Castle in “Breath of the Wild”:

Trump has more than twice as much cash as the best-funded Democrats.

President Trump has a big head start on the Democratic field in raising money for the 2020 election. He ended the second quarter with far more cash on hand than even the best-funded Democratic candidate.

I don’t think the Democratic candidates and campaign strategists have a real plan to win. I know there is still a good amount of time to make such a plan, but I’m not sure if there is enough time. I am already tired of the primary process, and it has barely even begun.

Sometimes I think I should run for office so I can share my political opinions endlessly and, just maybe, someone would listen to them.

Like a true nerd, I am drafting a technical document for work using five Markdown tabs in a Sublime Text window, rather than in a huge Word document. Word will get used in the end, though, when I integrate all the Markdown sections together.

I think another Amazon Prime Day will pass me by without enticing me to purchase anything.

I’m proud of myself for teaching myself so much of Microsoft Powershell this week. I really get it now. Unfortunately, since I’m not a Windows administrator, my list of uses for it are short. At least I can write elegant scripts now, though.

I don’t know what’s better: (1) having an email address that is not tied to Gmail, or (2) deleting almost all of my incoming emails rather than archiving them forever. (Most of my emails are notifications from companies.)

My summer project is to get into drinking fizzy water…which is not particularly ambitious. 😃

I added some “pages” to my Micro.blog

I fleshed out my hosted Micro.blog with a few new pages tonight:

• Elsewhere
• Photos (thanks, @cleverdevil, for the code)
• On This Day (thanks again, @cleverdevil, for the code)