Family guy and web developer
Frightening figures for golf in the UK as the number of registered players fall. I’m still optimistic for the future of golf in the UK though.
It’s a great sport that teaches etiquette, focus and sportsmanship. It’s also great for improving your health and socialising.
Ever since I upgraded my macOS to Catalina, I’ve noticed that MacBook Pro’s battery isn’t lasting as long as it used to. In fact in the couple of days that followed the Catalina upgrade, I found that the laptop had simply ran out of battery while it was in the sleep state. What I can’t work out though is whether this issue has been made worse by the macOS upgrade or not.
I’m not using my MacBook Pro as often as I used to do, but one of the problems I have is that when I am using it, it’s plugged into the adapter and sits like that for a few hours at a time. The laptop has already had a battery change and I know that it’s bad for the battery to have it plugged into the adapter all the time, but having it unplugged just leaves me with a couple of hours of battery.
It’s time like this I wonder if I should go back to a desktop.
I want to stick with Ruby on Rails as my goto web development tool for the foreseeable future. It’s open source, frequently updated, and has a great community. Job opportunities have definitely tailed off though.
Our street is in a very quiet part of town, but like most places this time of year, there’s the frequent noise of fireworks being set off for Guy Fawkes night.
Last week I finished my first book in a long time. It felt good to get to the last page and actually enjoy the book for a change.
For a long time, I have struggled with books to read. As books have piled up, the want to read them hasn’t been there. And in some cases, when I do read them, I don’t end up enjoying the book and give up on it.
Here are a few more books that I am hoping to read over the next few months:
What does “Ikagi” mean to you?
Adam Keys has some words on the challenges of blogging.
The hardest part is showing up, every day, writing. The hardest part is writing! The second hardest thing is hitting the publish button on a regular basis, not necessarily every day.
I find the act of writing pretty straight-forward to do. Crack open a notebook or a text editor and after a few stumbling blocks I’ll get going.
The big challenge for me is hitting that publish button.
You might not have noticed, but my blogging activity has picked up since the start of the month. I’m using November to build up a wee habit of blogging daily. Every day, I’ll post a short post and a longer post. It’s working well so far.
Another short-term study on moving to a shorter work week.
Is there evidence though, to still support this when the organisation has been on a shorter work week for longer than a month? How about a year?
I find it amazing that we’re able to do things more efficiently than ever before and yet we’re still working the same number of hours we did decades ago.
Using this afternoon’s quiet house to do a few things.
One of them is working out why I have now two of every app after upgrading macOS to Catalina. All my apps are accessible from Alfred in two directories now. I can find the same app in /Applications and /System/Volumes/Data/Applications.
In building a product for a specific market, I’ve discovered that the admin interface doesn’t need to be anything fancy. Feedback from beta users is that they like the basic screens.