Tonight I attended my son’s new meetup for anyone who enjoys the Rubik’s Cube. He brought a ton of cubes!
Talk of the “conference era” ending has me also thinking about CocoaHeads. There is social value but are presentations still valuable? Or is iOS just not cool anymore? Our local CocoaHeads has seen fewer attendees lately, is it time to significantly change it or end it?
I just published a new blog post where I talk about how I automate the process of posting a new blog post, Static Blog Automation.
As I’ve written about in the past this blog is powered by Hugo—a static site generator. That’s great and all but it really limits when I can write posts. Something running Hugo needs to build the site and that output needs to be published somewhere. I’ve done a few things to make this process a more automatic. Writing Posts on my MacBook Pro First of all I needed to make it much easier to create a new post.
Continue Reading »Yesterday I did this LLDB thing to avoid an unnecessary breakpoint that occured on ‘SIGPIPE’. It works great but I keep seeing it updated by Xcode. I don’t need to track updates so I learned a new git trick: git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>.
I’ve had this problem in Xcode where it breaks on SIGPIPE when I disconnect from our WebSocket implementation. Today I learned about this lldb command: pro hand -p true -s false SIGPIPE. Xcode doesn’t load the .lldbinit file so I had to improvise. A shared symbolic break point on our socket connection method did the trick.
Tonight I finished my “@meetup crossover” by completing the second part of my two parter about cross platform development. Part 1 at CocoaHeads October discussed it with Xcode, part 2 was tonight at TriDroid discussed with Android Studio.
I voted today in Durham. It might have been one of the strangest ballots I’ve seen. There was only one decision to make, Raleigh mayor.
My son is learning to code. I challenged him to make a change to my blog. He submitted a pull request to delete a photo of himself. 😀
This summer we went to the US Open. We’ve been watching tennis for the last several years but I’ve never really thought about why I enjoyed watching it so much. It’s easy to just accept that they are amazing athletes—they are—but that never seemed to explain why I would watch it like I would my favorite movie. This summer it hit me; it’s the waves of confidence they have to manage during a match. Outside of doubles, the players are basically on their own; one bad shot can set the tone for the next game, one great shot could lead to a win. I think we see this in the tech industry all the time.
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