2019s
- Valencia sloooowly ripening & 2) mandarins rapidly coloring but still a month out from peak sweetness
Just cracked open the homemade boozy eggnog that’s been aging since September 8 2019. It’s delightful, smooth, and not gloppy.
Birds gorging on sweet basil seeds.
The birds are gorging on seeds in our front and backyard gardens. So happy to provide them sustenance rather than a lawn desert!
I didn’t end up with even one permission prompt after installing MacOS Catalina & launching various apps. Maybe I accidentally turned off SIP? No… that’s not it. Or it’s not so bad in the current installation version. 👍👍📱
So MacOS Catalina’s SideCar feature requires the Mac user and target iPad to be signed in to the same AppleID even if the iPad is connected to USB. 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎📱
HomeBrew and SuperDuper! just released MacOS Catalina support so I suppose I will try to upgrade today…
These Extra-crispy Parmesan-crusted roasted potatoes by J. Kenji López-Alt are pretty great.
So my iPhone has started detecting The Annie Cat as a focus area!
One more month until these mandarins are perfectly sweet. Patience!
Armillaria mellea. Honey mushroom 🥾
Very pleased that HomeKit Secure Video streams live video on the LAN. No more stream to cloud and download, adding many seconds of video delay & failure points. 📱
I finally got a HomePod and I’m impressed that it can accurately hear me mumble across the room while it plays music📱
Full Random Albums Playlist Shortcut (Apple Music)
I love listening to full albums. But often I’m not in the right mood to choose them. So a long time ago I created a Shortcut that creates an Apple Music playlist of a variable number of full, track list ordered albums. It allows you to unselect albums that you have a strong opinion to not listen to. The shortcut unfortunately needs at least a 1 second wait between adding albums or it’ll silently fail and the playlist won’t be complete. Note that I mostly did not modify it to iOS 13’s new Shortcut features but hey, I think it is more readable setting specific variables. It did need tweeking from iOS 12. Get Random Full Albums Playlist Shortcut.
Looking toward Saint John Mountain from near Fouts Springs, CA. Chaparral plants.
Pleased that my HomeKit devices still worked from the Home app during a big Comcast (Xfinity) & Verizon internet outage. Pretty sure Alexa and Google alternatives would have been dead.
Visited some tree frogs in the forest today. Pseudacris sierra.
Old iPad Pro 9.7” just got replaced by an iPad Pro 11”. I did not expect to be impressed by the differences but dang that’s nice!
I have some anxiety over the iOS 13 Reminders upgrade button. If I upgrade, then my partner has to upgrade, and she lives on reminders. So if the upgrade goes wrong… 😱📱
The Prisoner, episode 10, “Hammer into Anvil” — soo good.