Mandaris

I just finished watching “Wolfwalkers” on AppleTV+ with the family.

Wolfwalkers follows the story of Robyn Goodfellowe, a young apprentice hunter who arrives in Ireland with her father during a time of superstition and magic to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to turn into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

I really enjoyed it but I was filled with a low level of dread throughout the movie because I feared for the safety of the children. Although, it is in a world of magic, there is very real danger for all the main characters.

When I think back to the time period that the story takes place, I’m surprised by the joy that could spring forth.

Spent some time looking at the grapher application found on the Mac.

I like the fact that I can just put an equation into it, but it’s frustrating in the fact that it looks like there hasn’t been any improvements in the usability of it for a while.

I wonder if this is because the program is meant for “serious” math? The examples that it ships with is a whole bunch of things I haven’t seen since college.

All I want it to find a nice way of showing my daughter some cool graphs. Finding the intersection for two lines is fairly simple, but doesn’t give you a lot to do with it afterward.

When the window dialog for intersections is model and you can’t move the main window to zoom in or out of the graph.

I wonder if Apple thinks of the application as feature complete and uses it to have new hires to practice updating software. The properties to update intersections could use a little bit of pizzazz. As well as the inspector.

There are some other issues as well, where the main window goes completely blank if I click the graph area after doing an integration and information not showing up if I pick one line over another. I think Apple probably has the QA team on other stuff.

All in all, making graphs isn’t something that I’m trying to do at this point in my life, but I think my daughters could probably use it to make their homework look a little nicer if they wanted to.

It’s been a while since I posted a score on one of the tests. I’m doing it this time because I’m pretty proud of myself for doing this section again. I really want to understand this part going forward.

Today felt much better when it comes to getting the material. I’m really glad that I decided to do it again, and wish that I had done it earlier in the day so that I can reflect on it more.

Maybe I can sleep on it?

It feels good to accomplish something like this. The first time I looked at the material, I felt I was just going through the motions. Maybe it was a little bit of burn out with changes at work.

Today, I spent as much time just messing around with what I can do and I think that it’s a much more enjoyable experience.

Sometimes life changes a little bit or something comes along and makes you rethink what you are doing.

I was going through the last couple of days and I realized that this portion wasn’t sinking in as much as I would like. I could power through it, but I don’t want to.

Animations are really cool and can make an application really pop.

Also, this whole process is self directed. I don’t want to push something if I am not satisfied.

So, I’m going to do the section again.

I’m pretty happy that today’s lesson lands on a Friday. It will allow me to do more experimenting over the weekend!

Today we’re going to be getting into more advanced animations, and it’s where you’ll start to get a deeper understanding of how animations work and how you can customize them to a remarkable degree.

Today is an introduction to animation and I’m really looking forward to it.

Today we’ll be looking at easier animations, but tomorrow we’ll progress onto more difficult stuff – it’s a good idea to be aware of both, so you can tackle whatever problems come up in the future.

Today’s post is going to be short because I’m going to be doing some experiments in swift with binding animation and the xcode-beta that I’m running has already crashed twice.

The apps continue to show more and more of what I can do in Swift and I’m really enjoying the feeling of getting through the challenges.

Obviously I want to get you towards SwiftUI greatness as fast and effectively as possible, but that takes a lot of consistency from you. To be fair, it is already day 31 and you keep coming back, so you’re fulfilling your part of the deal – well done!

What I liked about this particular app is that I had an opportunity to go back to an older project and cherry pick things from that to make this one better. With more experience and understanding, I really reinforced what I was learning.

For today’s activity, I started it in the afternoon after a long day. I spent too much time looking up keyboard short cuts to get the Xcode preview to start (command+option+p).

Here are some good links.

• Git Tower Xcode cheat sheet PDF
• Swift Education PDF
• Mobidev talk Website and Videos
• Better Programming (Medium site)

After I got that out of my system, I was able to start focusing on the task at hand.

Yes, there will be a fair chunk of practice here, and yes, hopefully this will be an easy project for you. But that shouldn’t stop you from tackling it with gusto – give it your best shot!

After spending 5 minutes with that, I got even more in the weeds and made a video to show something cool with the mini map in Xcode.

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Then I settled in and made a really cool app with Paul. It’s exciting to see how all the little pieces come together to make something a lot more.

I think this is a great take away. Learning that these things can be broken into smaller pieces and accomplished.