Rainy and stormy for the next week. Saw a bunch of downed trees in a forest nearby.

I worry a bit about iOS apps on macOS making "Mac" apps the norm, rather than crafted experiences we're accustomed. Who am I kidding, besides 1Password, it's all Electron. Maybe this could result in better Mac apps!? I’m cautiously optimistic about the new ARM Macs.

The rumored switch of Apple from Intel x86 CPUs to their own custom ARM chips is exciting. But as a web developer, I wonder how this will impact me and how long it will be until an ARM Mac is usable for…work. Most of the tools I use aren’t native to macOS (PyCharm/Firefox), or ported and super-slow (Docker).

Will an ARM work be fast enough and compatible enough that I can continue using a Mac for work?

Growing up, I'd stay up until 3 or 4am on IRC, chatting with people from Europe, South America, Australia/NZ. We built websites, setup servers, shared knowledge, hosted radio shows together. No rails with technology. Fun times. That time is entirely why I'm able to support myself now. Sadly lost touch with most of them.  I wonder how they're all doing now. This post brought to you by some MP3s of "The Streets" that I got from a Swede in those days.

Love that new shiny email address smell. Especially one that isn't owned by Google (import almost finished) and it's shorter to boot!

If data is the “new oil”, that means you have to deal with oil spills (data leaks) ruining the environment (Internet). No thanks.

Went for a drive today (at Leo’s insistence) down to Chigasaki-Shi. Felt a little bad with Yokohama plates in Shonan plate territory.

Didn’t get out of the car, but man it’s so green and nice out there. Saw some huge koinobori too.

Did a presentation at work today about editing PDFs with Python. Mixing and matching libraries is fast, but you’ll run into a bunch of inefficiencies that result in slow processing and huge files. I should write a book. For serious.