Introduced ourselves to our new neighbors across the street at our new house. They’re super nice and have a granddaughter around Leo’s age. Such a relief.

It took getting a mortgage for me to get a credit card in Japan. The registration process was polished using the camera to read the card details and Messages to auto fill the verification code sent via SMS. Paying for things just using FaceID is so fluid. Not to mention the privacy and security benefits of using a dynamic card number. Hats off to the designers and engineers behind it all. Well done!

Apple needs to contract Johnny Ive’s new company to do voice overs for the product videos. I miss the accent.

As a huge proponent of typecheck at work, this was a fascinating read. [“Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python” - Dropbox Tech Blog](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/09/our-journey-to-type-checking-4-million-lines-of-python/)