The hotel I’m staying at in San Jose this week has cardboard sleeves for their coffee cups with the Wawa logo on them, and I am really curious about that given there are no Wawas within at least a thousand miles.

While it’s great the Apple Watch prompts “it looks like you’re on a walk, start a workout retroactively?”, it’d be nice if it knew how to end it retroactively, too. I just got 10 minutes of walking credit for ordering a beer flight at my destination. Oops. 🍻

I’m renting a Nissan Altima and the adaptive cruise control is comically terrible. When it doesn’t just tell me “front radar blocked” and refuse to come on, it doesn’t actually see cars in front of it anyway and would be happy to ram them.

Finally reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. So far it is as good as everyone says, and still depressingly relevant. 📚

A great joy of my work life since 2017 or so has been the ability to pack up and work from coffee shops or microbreweries. Even after going 100% remote since 2020, I’ve kept up the tradition, even when outdoor patios have been required/prudent.

Dusting off my Elixir/Phoenix knowledge for a potential project down the road, and Panic Nova is just…not cutting it. BBEdit has a decent Elixir package (spoiler: it’s mine), but it suffers from limitations in template highlighting that VSCode and Sublime Text don’t share. Hmm.

Next week’s challenge: see if I can fit a week’s worth of clothes and electronics (both work and personal laptop) into a single carryon bag. I may make the personal “laptop” my iPad Air for space reasons; we’ll see!

I’m considering switching from Carrot Weather back to Apple Weather. I haven’t looked at in quite a while, and you know what? It’s gotten pretty good.

Feeling like a web app will work for this novel plotting-helper. As much as I like native apps, it should make development easier and not tie it to one platform. Of course, now comes figuring out the actual scope and mechanics…

While I think I’d prefer a desktop application for fiction brainstorming/plotting as a user, I only know how to develop web apps. The silver lining is it would be cross-platform… (I could learn Electron, although I’d also have to learn how to make Electron apps not suck.)

Wondering if I could build a story development app somewhere between Dramatica’s over-the-top “Theory of Everything” and Contour’s uber-formulaic “Save the Cat!” approach, with a UI that feels like it was designed this decade. Hmm.

Poking at Ulysses' new “Projects” feature. This is a pretty direct shot across the bow at Scrivener.

Perhaps a touch apprehensive that my first flight back to California after making the move to Florida is going to be on Southwest. (And, y’know, during an ongoing pandemic, but I’m kind of resigned to that for the foreseeable future.)

Central Florida is not well-equipped for three nights of hard freeze in a row.

For years, I’ve had a set of “Corporate Promos” filters in Gmail. I’ve deleted a bunch now so things end up right in the inbox and make me decide “label or just unsubscribe,” because “just unsubscribe” is probably the right choice in most cases.

Despite being all in on Ulysses for writing, I brought iA Writer’s custom fonts with me. Writing prose in anything but iA Writer Duo or Triplicate Poly, depending on mood, seems weird and fundamentally incorrect now.

Okay, so an hour after getting the smart lights, they’re fun! But I don’t know how useful they will be, especially with the only control being the phone. (I am not willing to commit to a system with wall switches yet; I have spent all of $20 as a cheap experiment.)

(watches several Mastodon servers grind to a halt and fall over) You know, I really do like Ruby on Rails, but perhaps we could all agree to stop writing real-time communication servers with it?

I’m thinking about getting a few HomeKit-enabled smart lights, but not sure which. Hue is good but expensive and will probably require a proprietary hub; Nanoleaf is much cheaper, uses Thread/Matter, and still good, but I’ll need to get a HomePod mini or upgrade my AppleTV.

Remembering that time on Twitter someone mansplained the Bechdel Test to me. Good times.

My new glasses came in. This prescription is very different and, apparently, right—less spherical correction and more astigmatism correction. So odd to see clearly again…

So apparently it’s good that I got to post “where to follow me” links on Twitter before they were banned in the name of free speech, huh.

So when I made the analogy of Twitter to a favorite bar that’d been taken over by a new, bad owner, I didn’t expect to end with “…and then he set the bar on fire while screaming that The Woke Left made him do it”

Okay, so. Do I finally upgrade my Macs to Ventura now that 13.1 is out?

My Mastodon address is now @chipotle@mstdn.social, and I’m re-following Mastodon accounts from there. If you follow my Micro.blog account via ActivityPub (@chipotle@micro.coyotetracks.org) you might want to follow me on Mastodon directly instead! Sorry for the inconvenience.