Our Japanese Maple in the garden is looking its best just before all its leaves start to fall. I wish autumn was a bit longer.

Notification Nation.

I mostly have notifications turned off, with only a few apps enabled. Even then, the scope is narrowed down so that I receive a notification from that app once or twice a day.

I had a great time with Drew out in the course today. With winter golf around the corner, it’s time to encourage Drew to try different shots and learn more about what’s possible with his clubs.

I’m heading out for 13 holes of golf with my youngest shortly. I love that our golf club’s course allows you to play 5 holes, 13 holes, or a full round. We’ll mostly play 13 holes over the winter until the weather improves.

Curtis McHale’s Makoism find also got me thinking about how I phrase my RSS feeds and changes.

RSS rotations. I love the sound of that.

I’ve seen many posts about people cancelling their Washington Post subscriptions, but I wonder if cancelling your Amazon Prime is the way to go?

The best thing those readers can do is cancel their $139 annual Prime subscriptions, if they have them, and invest that money in the journalism they say they want and need.

— Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.

I like The Atlantic’s point about hitting Bezos where it matters: Amazon Prime subscriptions. Newspaper subscriptions allow for more independent journalism; we shouldn’t deprive ourselves of that.

I can’t decide whether Astropad’s Bookcase is a beneficial device or not. Yes, I’d like to read more, but not necessarily from my phone. That’s why I read from my Kindle. If you limit your device count to just the essentials, e.g., no Kindle, the Bookcase would be a good buy.

It’s an excellent start to the day when you’ve added a few new RSS feeds to your feed reader over a morning brew. It’s been a while since I’ve subscribed to anything new.

Excuse me while I bookmark another seller of Notebook & EDC products. This time it’s Lochby.

Watching the final seconds of the Packers game via the Apple Sports app is not good for my stress levels. The field goal was good though. A much needed win for the Packers!

The winds are picking up now for Storm Ashley. Had I known the winds were only going to pick up now, I would have probably taken Drew out for a few holes of golf this afternoon, but the storm warning has been in place since this morning. Oh well.

I’m using an old iPad I inherited as a secondary screen for my MacBook. I’m very impressed with the setup. I can see myself using this setup a lot.

Today, finished getting the back garden in order for the winter. Just the remainder of the leaves to fall and the golf net will come down in a couple of weeks.

Really happy with the avatars Andy Carolan did for me. Sprung for the additional backgrounds as well. Might have to see if I can get a golf one for next year!

I’m looking forward to a few days off work starting tomorrow. I had big plans to play golf tomorrow, but the weather gods have scuppered any plans for that.

Good views for the next couple of weeks as the leaves change colours.

Hunkering down for the night. Beer in my hand, lights are dimmed, watching the NFL. Love this time of year.

Last round at the Fairmont in St Andrew’s for the big yin. Hard to get creative with pictures round a golf course, but I try.

Big yin ready for round 2 at the SGF Fairmont. Another chance for me to walk a great course, just not play it! 🤣

I am starting to get in the habit of copying and pasting the responses that ChatGPT gives me into my Bear Notes and then adding any changes I want to make there. Trawling through the ChatGPT history is a bit of a pain, but then it’s not really supposed for long-term storage, I suppose.

I’ll be honest; I had goosebumps watching this. There is so much pain ahead, but I can’t wait.

GitHub Copilot is now available on github.com.

My first impressions are good. Summarising pull requests is a significant benefit. Unfortunately, Copilot could not diagnose the problem with a GitHub Actions workflow I was working on. It had issues accessing the correct action being run.

It’s been one of those days when everything moves in the right direction. I’ve had days like this before, but today, it felt more significant.

It’s not even October, and I have already had two mince pies. The supermarkets should just sell them all year round.

I was sad to read this morning that Pivotal Tracker, the project management tool for software teams, will be discontinued at the end of April next year.

It was the first project management tool I used as a web developer during my first permanent role using Ruby on Rails.