Manuel Riess

I guess it’s official… there’s no Corona in Berlin anymore! 🎉

At least if you go by the behavior of all those crazy people out there. I thought it would be bad at home, but this…? Wow. I’m pretty sure now: There will be a second wave and besides returning travelers those people will be highly responsible for it and will also be the ones complaining the loudest during the next lockdown.

Ick faschteh keen Wort! Nimm ma dit doowe Ding runta.

– Ice cream vendor, complaining about us wearing face masks while ordering.

There was not a single person wearing a mask, nowhere. We could stay away from them, but boy… this is ridiculous.

I always was a germophobe. I like to think it’s what kept me healthy more than others over the years. It might also help during the Corona pandemic, but it sure does make me look a little insane at times. It’s a blessing and a curse.

Completely cutting off Epic from the platform is ridiculous. I don’t understand what Apple tries to prove here. The only thing that’s sure is that Apple looses, and already lost, a lot of credibility and sympathy. Their behavior is unacceptable and needs to be regulated. It’s their own fault, to 100% and they’re running blindly in the wrong direction. It’s sad to watch.

So much to do, so much to prepare, so much to pack… two days left and travel preparations will be on full steam tomorrow. A little nervous, but once the car is rolling, it’s just a matter of time when I can finally feel some sand under my toes 😁

Not gonna lie… I‘m a little terrified by the long drive ahead of us in a couple of days (turns out, our little one is not exactly a fan of cars). But I’m really really looking forward to spending lots of time at the beach for a couple of weeks! And we’re having a couple of stops in between. It’s been way too long without any real vacation for our family.

Still trying to stay away from people though. How things are evolving at the moment is a little scary, so we’re increasing our awareness again, while it often seems like nobody else even cares anymore.

I preordered a reMarkable 2 today. Really looking forward to it. I thought about version 1 already, but this looks like a really promising successor. Taking notes directly on my eBooks will be a game changer for me. Hope it holds up to the expectations!

I’m all in for some change in Apple’s App Store and their behavior. But the way Epic handles this Fortnite drame is also not the best. Controlled and prepared escalation is also a dick move. A first-day iOS developer knows that what they did get’s you in trouble on several levels. They knew it and escalated it… that’s also not ok.

Wrapping up several tasks before I’m on parental leave for more than a month. I’m not saying ALL of this could have been done weeks ago already, but maybe it would have helped and I wouldn’t have so much stress now while it’s freaking hot and my brain is melting 😉

Currently reading: The astronomer & the witch by Ulinka Rublack 📚

I think I would strongly consider buying a new iPad mini if it should ever get another update. It’s ridiculous that it’s still more expensive than the bigger iPad. With the pencil it would be a perfect note taking companion. I still use my very very old mini from time to time.

Last days were slow days in terms of pet project progress. I had to read up on a couple of things. Trying to get back into the grove with some Vivaldi in the background. Sometimes I need electro, sometimes I need classic ¯\(ツ)/¯

Not very active lately because busy. But I do read most posts and really enjoy everyone’s challenge photos this month! I’m lurking 😉

There are options I didn’t take because they felt wrong. They were mere options but no chances. I also have chances but are they the right ones for me, or someone I think I could or would want to be? I need to make decisions, but I’m not really good with these kinds of decisions.

Maybe background services are possible with Mac App Store apps after all? I need to study the documentation. Seems like XPC Services are allowed. That would be perfect!

We have some really nice mail carriers in our area! Other parcel services are just ridiculously rude and careless. A smile and a nice greeting get you a long way, they should ride along for one day with our standard mail guy and girl.

I‘m not in the Mac App Store game so far… one question I have at the moment is whether it’s possible to have an app that runs a background process all the time, like a Launch Daemon. I have the feeling would be only possible outside the App Store.

I started barking at people in the grocery store. If they are unable to put their stupid masks over their noses, they should at least be intelligent enough to keep the #$@&%*! away from me. Those people are the worst and I let them know from now on.

Why, yes I went into another side project. No, YOU bought yet another domain before anything else. (I might need an intervention)

I really don’t like it when services just charge your credit card for subscription renewal without giving you a heads up. They just count on you forgetting to cancel their service. Looking at you, 1Password! I thought they were better.

One of the things to do I was looking forward to the most this year, was going to a Nada Surf concert again after a few years of absence. Now it’s been shifted from back in April to when I’m on vacation in September. I wouldn’t go there in this situation, I don’t know whether such events are allowed again by then and I don’t even think they are allowed to travel to Europe at all, since people from the US are not allowed to enter any country here due to their terrifying infection rates. I’m sure it will be moved again to next year, I hope 🤞 I hope there will be nice clubs and event locations around by then and I hope I will be able to buy these tickets again, because Nada Surf is still one of my favorite bands!

Currently reading: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens 📚

140.000 people die because of his pathologic idiocracy, but he has nothing else to do then whining about Twitter trends always being negative about him. No really… this country has no other issues to solve right now.

Ok… I’m an Alfred convert now. A little overwhelmed by all the possibilities, but pretty pleased so far. I had the hope I could cancel my TextExpander subscription, but the snippet support is not as good and creating workflows for similar results is too complicated.

Went down a rabbit hole in a SwiftUI underground project at work. Still amazes me how fast basic UI is fully up and running. Not so amazing is how it plays together with even mildly complex model layers. I guess it’s finally time to get into Combine to unleash the full potential