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    week 25; 2022

    we near the halfway point of the year

    • hey, sometimes you just gotta prepare yourself to be a sacred space within which the bestial howl of the triumphant proletariat can resound with new energy and new hope
    • read from an old diary today. unrecognizable.
    • mostly at the moment i just
      1. work
      2. learn spanish
      3. plan for mexico
    • i went out on monday and sat on a bench and ate some snacks and looked at a fox and did my spanish lesson
    • on tuesday i made a packed lunch at lunch time and went and sat on a bench in the middle of some grass and did my spanish lesson
    • spent wednesday reading the apple developer documentation to make an app but it turns out you can't actually use the iCloud APIs even in development without paying them Β£79 which i absolutely cannot afford, was excited for a bit.
    • thursday was another day
    • friday. well, look. america is over now.
    • saturday and sunday i just spent chatting with jime and getting ready to prepare to pack for mexico. oh i also watched some of the RMT demo on-line and it was really good
    • i didn’t post this on sunday because i fell asleep on computer
    • i fly in 10 days. 6 weeks with the one i love.
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    How to make the perfect Margarita

    photo by We Are Social is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

    1. Pour fuel into a glass bottle until it's about three quarters full
    2. Insert cloth far enough to dip into the fuel, that's your wick
    3. Let about finger's worth of wick protrude from the bottle
    4. Make sure the seal is tight by stuffing in more cloth
    5. Tape neck to hold cloth in place
    6. Briefly upturn the bottle so that the cloth is wet with fuel, and then turn it back upright
    7. Light and throw
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    just had a wild moment where in my head i declared the erosion of the concept of "prototyping languages" as hedonistic and reflective of the hubris of the early millennium

    after shouting "react sure seems fun TO WRITE" at a codebase

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    Items

    The default application created when you start a New Multiplatform App project with Xcode is one the all time greatest pieces of art.

    When you first run it, you see this:

    An application with a sidebar, a plus icon and a preview pane with the text "Select an item"

    Select an item

    It invites me to Select an item, but there are no items. What now?

    Ay, I'll press that βž•.

    Same view as before, with a new date time entry in the sidebar

    An item!

    Fantastic! An item! I look forward to selecting it.

    The same view with the item selected in the sidebar. The preview pane now shows "Item at 23/06/22 10:44:59"

    There it is

    Ay, there it is

    My item

    The same view with many more entries in the sidebar.

    I can have as many items as I like.

    During setup I selected Core Data and CloudKit, so my items are synced across all my devices and are available wherever I need them.

    This is the perfect application. Any time I have an idea, or see an article I'd like to read later, I will create an item representing it in my Application.

    Thanks