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I’d mentioned earlier in the spring that Kim picks up two new hanging ferns every year so the birds can nest in them. This one has had two separate momma birdies choose it to birth and care for their young this year. And yes, that’s a lot of poop! 🤣
Yesterday took us from Elk City, Oklahoma, to Jackson, Tennessee. We traveled approximately 660 miles in about 10 hours. 🚙 Today we get back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Home. 🏡
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We’re on the road back home to Virginia this morning. I’m writing on my trusty iPhone using Tot — which is a great little writing app — and Bug is driving. We’re in the middle of New Mexico at the moment. Yes, I’ve had coffee! From Gallup Coffee Company, of course. ☕️ I hope you enjoy the links. Shirt Pocket The new version of SuperDuper is a ground-up rewrite, a tip-to-tail reinvention of what SuperDuper looks like, how it works, what it can do,…
We pull into Gallup, New Mexico, at 10PM local time last night. Totally pooped out. 🥱 Today we’re off to Elk City, Oklahoma. Much shorter day. We’re only covering 563 miles. 🚙 It’s hard to believe it’s August 1. Even one day on the road makes me forget what day it is. 🤣 Will I be able to write Saturday Morning Coffee on the road? Guess we’ll find out. 😃
Yesterday Bug and I visited San Luis Obispo, California, one of the many places our family has lived over the years. It’s a beautiful little town on the Central Coast. It’s not what most people think of when they think of the California coastline. That’s usually reserved for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. We stopped to walk around Higuera street and have lunch at Firestone Grill. If you’re ever in San Luis Obispo, stop by for a meal, you’ll enjoy it. Bug got the tri-tip sandwich and…
We start our journey back home today. Today’s leg takes us from Avila Beach, California to Gallup, New Mexico. Looks like 811 miles with an estimated time of around 12 hours. 🚙 It will, of course, take longer. 😃
Some Hayseed, LLC, behind the scenes. 🤣 I operate my app empire under the name Hayseed and I have two products; RxCalc and Stream. RxCalc RxCalc is a Pharmacokinetics Calculator. It’s used to calculate how long drugs interact with the body. Go read about it. It is interesting. My brother, Jerry, has a PharmD — Doctor of Pharmacy — and loves the more technical side of his profession, he’s a total geek and Chemistry undergrad so of course he loves stuff like that. We collaborated on it in 2009…
WHOA! This is an incredible deal. The Iconfactory is offering to do Indie App icon design for $750. That is dirt cheap, especially for the incredible work the Iconfactory delivers. Yes, it was an instabuy for me. Yeah, yeah, my credit card couldn’t resist the price. Can I really afford it? No, not really. Especially when I don’t make a lot from my apps but when I see a deal like this from a premier design shop I have to jump at the opportunity. If you’re in a spot where you can afford it you…
Day Four. We left Gallup, New Mexico at 6:30AM local time outbound to Fresno, California. We arrived in Fresno at 6:30PM local time. It works out to 13 hours becuase we had a shift in time from the Central time zone (CST) to Pacific (PST). We covered 783 miles or 1260 kilometers. I’m happy to be out of the car. I’ve had trouble sleeping on this trip for some reason. Last night I slept like a baby. I woke up at 5:30AM on my own, no alarm needed, which was nice. While we’re here I’m trying to…
Today is a long one. Gallop, New Mexico to Fresno, California. Estimated 11 hours, 775 miles or 1,247 kilometers.
Day three, check. ✅ We blew out of Elk City, Oklahoma at 6AM and arrived in Gallup, New Mexico, at 3:15PM local time. We covered 563 miles or 862 kilometers. Tomorrow is another long drive. More in the morning.
Today we head to Gallup, New Mexico. I love the desert. Still tired. 😂
Day two in the books. We arrived in Elk City, Oklahoma at 5PM local time, Saturday. It was a much shorter drive, we only covered 532 miles or 856 kilometers. Being tired is kind of the norm on roadtrips for us but it feels really great to have a shorter day.
Dropped by a Scooter’s Coffee here in Maumelle, Arkansas. It’s good! ☕️ WillowTree did the Scooter’s app. 😃 Unfortunately I didn’t get to work on it but boy-o-boy did the team do an amazing job!
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ On the road with our youngest daughter, Bug. I’m passenger for the first couple hours because I have a difficult time waking up. 🤣 Hey, I’ve only had a single cup of coffee this morning! We’re on the road to California to visit family, Bug will visit friends while I work. Of course we’ll make the rounds to all of our old haunts just to see how things have changed in the area. Our old favorite coffee shop, Exeter Coffee Co, shuttered at the end of…
Today’s leg of the trip takes us from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Elk City, Oklahoma. Short jaunt.
Day one in the books. We pulled into Forrest City, Arkansas, at 8:30PM CST, so it was 9:30 in Charlottesville. That comes to 14.5 hours of driving, including breaks for gas, food, and other things. Approximately 718 miles, or 1,155 kilometers. We’re both pooped out. This is the longest day of the trip. Tomorrow will be quite a bit shorter but still productive. Good night.
Our youngest daughter and I are headed out on our drive cross country to California. Today we go from Charlottesville, Virginia to Forest City, Arkansas. Total estimated time: 12h 2m
This is our little chipmunk friend, Chippy. He’s been around for at least three years now and he’s super cute. I love watching him run around the yard. Recently I thought the little fella moved away. He didn’t, he just moved to the back yard!
We have a little bunny visiting our back yard. Cute little dude.
Got a little helper.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Nothing much to talk about this week. I got a haircut and had a bunch of random thoughts about blogging and feed readers. 🤣 Of course I’d still like to make a living working on Feed Readers and Blogging tools. Someday, oh yes, someday. 😃 Jason Snell • Macworld That’s my long way of saying that this is my last More Color column at Macworld. Thank you so much to everyone at Macworld for the chance to keep my name attached to this brand for an…
Good thing my fingers don’t need to read the keys to do their job.
It’ll be 1.7 in the store so I can sync the iOS and Mac versions. 😃 How close am I? It’s hard to say to be perfectly honest. One day I’ll just declare it good enough and I’ll boot it out the door. I want to do a bit of work to the leftmost view in the app to make it into a sidebar and shrink up each item displayed there a bit. That’ll mean some font size changes and probably change the size of the icon and tweak the middle column a bit. 🤣 Then again, maybe not? I’m just not sure I want to do it…
Kim made this for me in 2002.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been super hot and humid in Virginia this week so I’ve been staying inside as much as I possibly can. I did manage to get to Grit yesterday and work on Stream. I need to write up the changes I’ve made in the last two BETA releases. That’s all for now. I hope you enjoy the links. Daring Fireball Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building…
Random shot of my desk. It’s always a complete mess. In the shot we have a 3D printed Apple in six colors, an AirTag printed with R💀B, a Diet Pepsi, my Visio 1.0 tombstone, a mouse cable, a little red fridge, an empty protein shake box, and some candles in the background. 🤣
Standing guard.
Random, but I haven’t posted a picture of my surgically replaced left knee in a long time. It works so well now and the scar is barely visible. For me it was an excellent decision. Now I’m waiting for the right one to completely fall apart. 🤣
Lookie what I just got!
