A bit longer and a bit further.

Apple has made an announcement that by 2030 they’re entire business, including the Macs and iPhones you purchase will be carbon neutral. This is a great step in the right direction and I’m glad to see Apple taking the lead.

Sometimes I get disappointed with macOS and think that my next computer may be a  Thinkpad running Linux. But it’s moves like this that help keep excited about supporting the company. Between the ARM Macs and climate change leadership, Apple’s future is looking brighter than ever.

5km after work🙌🏻 First 5km since Feb 24th.

• I don't think I've seen the sun in over a week and the forecast is for rain and clouds for the next week. This isn't a complaint because once the rainy season is over it'll be hot basically all the time. (Update: Saw some blue skies and it's hot 🥵)


• I watched a french documentary called Antifa: Chasseurs de Skins. It's about the anti-fascists in Paris who fought the neo-Nazi gangs in the 80's. You can watch it here.


• Sent in my FPCA (Federal Post Card Application) so I can get an absentee ballot this fall. Thankfully I can submit it all by email. With sending mail to the US being difficult / delayed right now, I worry a bit about sending in my actual ballot this fall.


• I ran for 30 minutes for the first time in a while. It's still cool enough to run with a mask on. Using some nice homemade masks that my MIL made me so they're not hot.


• In a discussion on writing engaging technical content on HN, someone linked to a lecture from the University of Chicago about writing outside of academe. The crux of the message is: those rules you were told about writing (use short sentences, don't start sentences with "and", or "but", only use active verbs) don't make sense and are anti-patterns. When you're writing in school, you don't think it, but you're literally paying the teachers to read your work. Outside of school, your writing must provide some value to the reader or they won't read it.


• Three-day work week this week thanks to a couple of public holidays giving everyone a four-day weekend. Looking forward to having a couple extra days off, but not quite sure what to do with it.

I’ve been trying to master the tools I use on a daily basis better. Some of that is learning how to do things with them that I don’t know how to do them presently.  For example “validate and prettify this JSON”.  Usually it’s a quick trip to some json linting service online, copy/paste/validate. I know it can be done locally and I’ve done it locally in the past, but muscle memory takes time to retrain. But if I can manage it one task at a time, I’ll be a pro in no-time.

Melted too fast!

I’ve been trying to debug an issue when my Apple Watch where  announcements from Siri cause Overcast to pause. The only way to resume it is to go back into Overcast and hit play.

Before my most recent run, I synced some music on to my watch and the experience with Runkeeper was much smoother. As expected, when pace/time announcements start the music fades to half-level then fades up to the regular level when siri finishes as expected. So it seems like the music pausing may be a bug in Overcast’s handling of siri announcements or Music having access to some APIs that regular devs don’t.

On second thought, most podcasts are spoken word and listening to Siri and your half-leveled podcast simultaneously would be a poor experience, so it’s makes sense that it pauses playback when Siri starts. However, it would be nice if it resumed when Siri finished.

30 minutes. 🙌🏻

Coffee and reading books with Leo.