Early at the airport.
Getting the kids to sleep, the night before leaving for Turkey, seems to be impossible. 🤷♂️
As a long time user of load-css, a new article from Filament Group about css loading got my attention.
12 years ago today I was getting ready to say “I do” in Edinburgh, Scotland. 👰🤵
12 years later I’m making breakfast for three kids and my wife.
I woke up to find that Sky: Children of the Light from thatgamecompany has been released.
This game was initially shown during Apple’s September 2017 event. Time to give it a go. 🎮
Today is #WorldEmojiDay and Apple has previewed the new 2019 emojis.
They will be coming in an update “this fall”.
We were not alone while looking at the passing ships today.
New life
I found an old unused iPad Mini the other day. I believe it’s the only non-retina device in the house.
Still, I immediately had the idea of making it into a “read-only device”, despite the screen.
So it’s now got Instapaper, Comixology and Marvel Unlimited installed. And along with iBooks that’s all the apps I plan to use on this device.
So far I’m really pleased with this setup. My own little device dedicated to reading.
Currently reading: Cibola Burns by James S.A. Corey 📚
Currently reading: The Vital Abyss by James S. A. Corey 📚
Me and my wife will finally get to see Avengers: Endgame at the cinema tonight. 🍿
So I went to replace the battery on an old iPhone today. 1 hour! Last I did this I was told 3-5 days.
The day is definitely improving!
As a big fan of the first two books by Dan Moren, the news of his next book, The Aleph Extraction has me excited. 📚
Today Nintendo revealed the Nintendo Switch Lite.
Even though the d-pad makes it tempting, I don’t think it’s for me.
But the yellow one looks good.
And the latest beta releases are out!
I was working on my Swift UI app yesterday when I decided to take a brake and see Arrival.
What an amazing movie!
It’s exploration of languages, loss, love, humanity and time was simply remarkable.
Next up is reading Story of Your Life, the short story it was based on. 🍿
Two Headed Girl
Thanks to @hjertnes I was reminded that the new podcast Two Headed Girl recently released its first episode.
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a new podcast from @alexcox and her spouse @mattiercox discussing “gender, mental illness, and all sorts of transitions”.
The first episode was really interesting and I can’t wait to hear more.
Benign
So for the second time this year I was back at the hospital this week. For months now I’ve been having brief periods of vertigo. Last week it became so bad it I was unable to be upright for a whole day.
After a visit to my doctor he had a suspicion that is was Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
I was sent to the hospital to rule out all the scary stuff and see if they could figure it out.
Many nauseating tests later, the doctors concluded that it was indeed BPPV.
Luckily it wasn’t anything dangerous, and it should be resolved in a couple of weeks.
But this whole incident reminded me again how happy I am to pay my taxes and have a well functioning health system.
Inside
I finished the game Inside yesterday on my Switch. I’ve had Inside for both PS4 and iOS for some time, but never ended up playing it. I now wish I’d played it before.
It’s a great platform-puzzle game, with striking visuals and a sense of danger I hardly get from games anymore. I was unable to put it down once I started playing.
So if you like platform games with a dark sci-fi tone, this is the game for you.
Dave Nanian has an update about SuperDuper and Catalina, Up and down the coast.
Most days friends of the kids ends up eating dinner here. So we usually plan for some extra.
Today I forgot, so I better go make an extra pizza. 🍕
During E3 IGN got an interview with Eiji Aonuma on Breath of the Wild Sequel and Link’s Awakening Remake.
Watch the great trailer for the Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
And the trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.