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Once I‘m over some complaining about SwiftUI and how complex Swift got over time, I think I might really start loving it. While the complexity of the language is annoying at times, it allows UI development to become so much faster and streamlined.👌🏻

→ 2:02 AM, Jul 5

… wenn sich nicht etwas Dramatisches ändert, werden viele Amerikaner am 3. November einen neuen Independence Day feiern: die Befreiung von Trump.

USA unter Donald Trump: Weltmacht in Trümmern - SZ.de

→ 1:58 AM, Jul 5

Now that I (kind of) understood my Swift issue from before, I’m even more annoyed by it. It’s incredible how you have to jump through hoops and make everything look uglier to make certain things work. Flexible would be different.

→ 2:20 AM, Jul 3

That’s a first… did some development & debugging on device with Xcode and my Macbook’s battery got drained while it was connected to power. Good job Xcode!

→ 9:03 PM, Jul 2

Wanted to noodle around with SwiftUI, now I’m stuck with obscure Swift errors. Oh well…

→ 1:34 AM, Jul 1

I got an idea for an app icon. I‘ll have to do it in code because I’m just too stupid to understand how Photoshop et.al. are supposed to be used.

→ 12:17 AM, Jun 28

Mythic Quest on Apple TV+ is actually quite funny 🙃

→ 3:35 AM, Jun 26

Scribbled some features and new mockups for a project I almost finished several years ago already. All new, a little different… not sure where this will go, but this is what WWDC does to me 😉

→ 10:34 PM, Jun 25

Day two of trying to download Big Sur on my test machine. Download takes many many many hours and then it just stalls. Not sure what’s going on with Apple‘s servers, but it seems I‘m not the only one with this problem.

→ 8:29 AM, Jun 25

I like the style of this year’s WWDC session videos. Like the keynote, being online only made the content better. Also, it adds a much more personal note to everything and the whimsical notes in there are perfect👌🏻

→ 8:59 PM, Jun 24

Besides the usual and most discussed stuff from the keynote, one thing that stood out to me was the Apple TV+ Teaser for Foundation. I really don’t have an opinion about the books (I stopped early in the first part because I thought it was exceptionally boring), but this trailer looked really, really promising to me! You could see that they are going for their Game of Thrones here. Looking forward to that 🍿

→ 2:02 AM, Jun 23

Well… this will be a different kind of WWDC experience on so many levels. I’ll have to digest all the information differently if at all this year, e.g. I can’t even watch the State of the Union until late afternoon tomorrow. Oh well… everything’s not that important when actually thinking about it.

For now, I just finished watching the keynote and took lots of notes. A lot to think about, but all in all I’m pleased with what I saw. Everything seems solid. I’m curious how it will work in real life. I know better, but I’m tempted to install everything right away.

→ 1:40 AM, Jun 23

Social Media Black Out for today… I can’t watch the keynote live. And while I thought I could not care less this year, I‘m somehow still a little excited.

→ 7:47 PM, Jun 22

How many visitors of the Trump propaganda event in Tulsa will get sick, how many of them will die? All because of a childish bully ignoring reality. And they follow like Lemmings. It physically hurts to follow what’s going on over there.

→ 10:14 AM, Jun 21

I can’t use the Apple TV app on my phone because Apple Music isn‘t connected to my account. Makes sense.

→ 6:09 AM, Jun 21

Attorney investigates president‘s friends. President fires attorney. Not suspicious… at all.

Banana republic.

→ 2:30 AM, Jun 21

Success! I bent the templating and site config available at Micro.blog and ported my old Hugo template. I had to leave out some things, but way less than I thought, so that’s totally fine. Now that I‘m done I think I probably won’t use it though 😉 It’s too specific and complicated to set up, with lots of assumptions all over the place. Definitely no recommendation to use it, but a showcase. I‘ll write up more some other day and also put the template on GitHub. Just for reference…

→ 2:12 AM, Jun 21

It’s not like there are other companies out there that manage to create service platform revenue without bullying their customers. The App Store model is fundamentally broken, inconsistent and unfair. Yes, they deserve to be paid. But the way they handle it now is nothing but a failure. Maybe just think of different tiers… Put a „call our sales team“ sticker on your business site. Try to think of other ways to get paid, fairly. That’s what this is about. Negotiate a fair price instead of ripping everyone off in the name of the users that don’t understand what you are actually doing: harassing developers that helped your platform and your company become one of the richest companies in the world.

The way Apple handles this whole App Store kerfuffle since forever is an embarrassment to the good things and values this company stands for.

→ 11:04 PM, Jun 20

Reading through old blog posts might make you realize how much things and your opinions changed over the years. You might also realize that there are certain patterns that are still visible today. This might be a good thing… or not. But it’s certainly something to think about.

→ 11:51 PM, Jun 19

Micro.blog being down reminded me of ye olden days when Facebook was down… Nowhere to complain that it’s down! 😉

→ 5:36 PM, Jun 18

I just used 5 year old Go template code for Hugo and it still works. If I open my Swift project in Xcode after three weeks tomorrow, I‘m pretty sure it will not compile anymore.

→ 1:47 AM, Jun 17

Creating a Tag-Cloud for Micro.blog

I may or may not be fiddling around with creating my own Micro.blog Hugo theme. I just can’t help it, can I? Creating custom themes is really powerful, and while some features are not accessible at the moment, you can really achieve a lot! I do like the simplicity more than the overly custom Hugo features I used in the past.

I tinkered around with the tag-cloud I created in my own theme for one of my previous sites. It only needed a little bit of tweaking, which was a delightful surprise! Not sure I will end up using it, but it does encourage me to play around a whole lot more now.

It needs a little CSS to wrap things correctly, but this is what a tag-cloud for the categories on your Micro.blog site could look like in the Archie theme:

The code is quite old and probably out of style. I also don’t know whether or from where I “got the inspiration” for most of it, but it took me some time back then to get this pieced together. If you’re interested, I put the quick and dirty template code and the CSS styles I used on Github. Keep in mind that this was built for my heavily customized theme and I just made it work for Micro.blog as a proof of concept.

I’m being dragged down the rabbit whole now I guess. I hope to get most of my old template over to Micro.blog sooner or later.

→ 12:45 AM, Jun 17

I should try to get the old Hugo template I manually created for my old old blog to work on Micro.blog. You can see I’m not a designer, but nevertheless I still love it 😊 It would require some stripping down of features though because I heavily used custom taxonomies and stuff…

→ 11:41 AM, Jun 16

I found an archive of my old blog I totally forgot about, with posts dating back to 2013. I wondered if I should bother importing them… some posts would be great to have back, but some others make me cringe 😬 Maybe I can put them in their own category…

I‘m sure I could also find everything I ever wrote back until 2006 probably. Hmm 🤔

→ 10:41 PM, Jun 15

I need to work on my blog. I’m just rambling since quite some time. I didn’t want this to become a pure Twitter-like thing… it’s a little pointless as it is now. Need to think 🤔

→ 2:57 AM, Jun 15