Hey, @simonwoods, how are you feeling? Seemed like you were stressed last night. Light & love. 💡💛

Ye gods, Pages on iOS crashes constantly when using annotations. 😠

//@manton @danielpunkass I just started last week’s CoreInt; you may have gotten around to this point, but my immediate reaction to the “incompatibility” of payments and the open web is: how else is one going to own one’s content? Hosting costs money; if I’m not the paying customer, the provider is going to care more about whomever is actually paying their bills. Even if I set up a home server, I’d still be paying for electricity, the hardware, and internet service. 🤔

I’m super happy to have paid both of you for your excellent products (MarsEdit & M.b hosting). 🙂

//@hollyhoneychurch Have you ever met a bodega catto? 😸

I rarely plug apps, but I wanted to say that iMazing is excellent*. Makes full backups of any iOS device and gives quite extensive access to everything. Plus, they’ve figured out how to make those backups incremental, saving quite a bit of space (I have a 256GB iPhone and 128GB iPad). After Apple disabled direct ipa backups, they even added a method to download them directly from the App Store**. Which makes restoring so much faster as all my apps don’t have to be re-downloaded a la Apple’s iCloud backups.

The one downside is that a license only covers a single computer (though they do sell 2 and 5 license version for a significant discount).

Highly recommended! 👍

Added at 6:45pm: I almost forget, it can also prevent iTunes and Photos from launching anytime an iOS device is plugged in. Such an annoyance saver!


* Disclosure, I recently added seats to my license and DigiDNA gave me a discount. (In fact, they gave me a larger discount than I was expecting since I had purchased the first two seats at a discount). Also, while they have a Windows version, I have not used it.

** You can only download the most recent version, but iMazing also keeps the previous downloaded versions. It’s a limitation on Apple’s side.

Shipped a collaborator’s hard drive off to a data rescue service. It’s got a ton of video footage from rural Turkey. Backblaze had half of it, but still 🤞.

Just started Max Gladstone’s Empress Of Forever. He’s just as amazingly inventive with space opera as he is with faithpunk. 👍📚

My niece just texted me that she and her boyfriend are having a great time at the restaurant I recommended. Does that me I leveled up my uncle stats? 🤓

I’m too lazy to cook or to drive somewhere for food. Missing NYC & Seamless. 🙃

For folks running the iOS beta: is the otter emoji coming this fall? 🤞

I really need to practice score reading, but I really want to take a nap. Should I embrace my industrious inner beaver? Or my…less than industrious…inner feline? 🐈

Started reading Synthetic: How Life Got Made by Sophia Roosth. Even a few pages in, it’s super thought provoking.

What do folks think of the analogy of playwright/director to pure/applied scientists? 📚

The heavens have opened up. Made it inside with bare minutes to spare! ⛈

Mute again this morning. 😕

My mom is taking my niece to What the Constitution Means to Me next week. So excited to hear what they both think!

I’ve only been bugging my mom since the original run at NYTW. Turns out RGB has more influence than I. 🙃

I can speak again! Woot, Woot!

Weeeee, went mute in therapy again! Brains are so weird! 🤯

👍 to @gruber’s call here. The Valley’s “Move Fast & Break Things” ethos is likely as responsible for the continuing lock down of the Mac as Apple’s instinct for control is.

My family sometimes uses Zoom for therapy—their flippant attitude towards security is not reassuring.

Wow, this is actually happening. A play that dives into American sex/kink/racism is not what I usually expect from Broadway.

Slave Play is brilliant and I highly recommend it. I may get a ticket just to watch the rest of the audience though. Is America ready to literally* look at themselves in the mirror while slave plantation sex is going on?

* The back of the set is a gigantic mirror wall.

Hmmmm, I love how light my MacBook is. Now that Apple has gotten rid of it, I wonder if I should buy a refurb of a maxed out 2017 model. I have the first and I’ve read the performance got a lot better. 🤔

Calgary => Newark: ~5 hours.
Newark => Manhattan: ~2 hours.
Home, Sweet Home! 🗽

USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸⚽️

Kimchi Cuddles’ Kitty Alignment Matrix! //@hollyhoneychurch 🐈

Oh Canada. Land of elk trimming your front yard.

Now any time I see a cat in a Marvel film, my immediate thought is: “I wonder if the kitty is actually an extremely dangerous, yet cute, tentacle alien?” //@hollyhoneychurch