Mandaris

About two days ago, I had a friend start shouting some stuff in a group chat that a few of my friends were in. Nothing wrong with that by itself, it’s a private chat that we use our personal devices to connect with. The problem is that some of the stuff was just 100% not cool and we could all tell that he’d been drinking that night.

I didn’t make a big deal about it but thought I’d text him the next day privately to ask him if everything was alright. The text messages had gone out on a school night¹ and from my experience it could mean something more.

Here is basically what the text chain was. No changes to highlight that I don’t edit my text even when I post them for you fine people.

Me

Are you ok?

Him

Ya man….why?

Me

Picture of conversation

Him

I was talking shit man…and then talking about baseball…the Giants. I see now I wrote decisions when it should have said “division”. Then talking more shit. Sorry, I’ll add more emojis from now on.

Me

Do you think I care about the emojis?

I’m ask about you.

Wow, you can really feel the drama there…

Anyway, I haven’t heard back since, and I’m not going to wait around for an appology.

It’s just kind of weird for me to have this kind of reaction.

I went into the office today to have a little bit of a change of pace as my productivity at home has kind of wound down in the last couple of weeks.

I had forgotten how much of a hassle it can be.

First, I had to pack up my laptop. And even though I didn’t need to pack all the dongles because I have a docking station at work, I still need to unplug my current home set as I don’t have one here. Working from home is only a “temporary thing”¹.

Then I had to drive in, find parking, badge in, and clean my desk area. All things that aren’t too bad when I compare it to not getting a paycheck, but time consuming compared to just getting to work when I’m ready.

And after that…

Nothing.

No magic.

No automagic switch that turns on the magic productivity.

I’m the same person.

I’m doing the same thing.

This time, I have other problems like getting my laptop on the company’s Wi-Fi that doesn’t recognize the device.

Our dog, Lillie, has gotten a friend. It’s the cat next door. She comes running to the door to see her when I open the verticle blinds and stare at her. After a while Lillie will come and paw at me to let her outside to play with the cat.

The thing is the cat only likes my dog for a little bit of time and will play with her for 3 minutes before laying down and ignoring her. That’s when Lillie starts barking. The cat doesn’t seem to care at that point but the rest of the house has to listen to Lillie throwing a fit because her new friend refuses to play with her.

This is the pilot episode of a podcast covering the Apple TV+ show “Schmigadoon”.

Behold these beautiful mutants, hoisted on petards of their own solid-aluminum-unibody construction. We salute these voyagers, flown too close to the blood-red suns of their own fever dreams, on wings made of oh-so-flammable dollar bills, whose inexplicably sincere hopes became our most surreal entertainment...

Came across this site on twitter. It stuff like this that keeps me entertained.

Swift Concurrency by Example walks you through the many and varied ways of running concurrent code in Swift, including async/await, tasks, actors, and more.

I wrote the following email and sent it to my fellow officers. I haven’t heard back but it’s only been a day and we’re all getting back from the holiday.

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Hello, I’m sending this to all of this year’s officers.

I want to get it in writing what your goal is for yourself as an officer and to have open and honest communication with the people that I share the responsibility of leadership of this club with.

So… Why are you here?

I’ll go first and I’m going to be brutally honest.

1. I don’t want the club to die.

Yes, I know I don’t “own” the club. If I was get another job outside of FTB, I’m sure that the club will continue in one form or another. Still, this club allows for people to become better and seeing how many people have come to our meetings and then moved on is a good reason to keep it going.

2. This is an opportunity for me

We’ve got a lot of people who have been part of the club and then moved on to “bigger and better” things in their career. I want that too and this is a great way to show “leadership”. In addition, there are things that I wanted to do more of and this gives me both incentive and leverage to do that.

3. I do enjoy toast masters

This can be a lot of work sometimes and there have been times that I wanted to walk away, but I do enjoy working with all of you.

I’m hoping that me sharing this with you will get you to think about your own motivations and what you want to get out of Toastmasters this year. If you want to share, feel free. I added everyone in the Bcc field so you can share with just me or the other officers at your digression.

Another company has been acquired.

Today, I’m excited to announce Nitro’s acquisition of PDFpen, the much-loved suite of PDF productivity apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone developed by Smile, Inc.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Day One is being acquired by Automattic Inc. This is incredibly exciting news. For the past 10 years since I started Day One, I’ve worked to not only create the best digital journaling experience in the world, but one that will last. By joining Automattic, I’m now more confident than ever that the preservation and longevity of Day One is sure. This acquisition will provide Day One access to the same technological, financial, and security benefits that WordPress.com, Tumblr, and other Automattic entities enjoy.

I thought it was important to high light this section in the announcement of the new version of Firefox.

Backed by Mozilla, the non-profit that puts people first

Firefox was created by Mozilla as a faster, more private alternative to browsers like Internet Explorer, and now Chrome. Today, our mission-driven company and volunteer community continue to put your privacy above all else. Even as the internet grows and changes, Firefox continues to focus on your right to privacy — we call it the Personal Data Promise: Take less. Keep it safe. No secrets. Your data, your web activity, your life online is protected with Firefox, on your computer, your phone and anywhere you use it.

I’m going to try it out for now but I’m probably going to switch to whatever beta Safari version that is released after WWDC.