Craig McClellan

Do reminders on HomePod still work if you put your phone on the iOS 13 beta?

…asking for a friend.

Sam and I are currently watching The Force Awakens together. Ideally we would have gotten in his first Star Wars movie before 4-days-old, but this will have to do.

Also, I would have started with A New Hope, but I only have that on DVD and didn’t want to get off the couch.

Also, my mother-in-law told me my five-year-old taught her how to use the HomePod to control lights in our house while we were at the hospital. I’ve never been a prouder father.

What did I do on my first night at home with Sam? Created an Airtable base to keep track of all of his feedings and a Shortcut to quickly get info on the most recent one. Nerd Dad for the win.

Thanks everyone for the kind words on his arrival. We’re so excited.

🍿 Spider-Man: Far From Home

Loved it. I won’t say more, but I loved it.

Professionals of the World,

If you have a form you need someone to sign, always send it as a PDF, not a Word document.

Sincerely,

Someone who has been sent literally dozens of Word documents in the last few weeks

Back in January I shared a post linking to a Drafts Action to post to your Micro.blog hosted blog and assign categories to the post.

About once a month, someone reaches out to me with an issue with the script not recognizing their saved Micro.blog token, and not working. I had never run into the issue myself as I run two different, custom versions that allow me to save the credentials both for this blog, and @theclassnerd.

I have however figured out what the problem is, and have updated the script. You can download it from the same place on the Drafts Action Directory. Thanks to how the Action Directory works, the links in my original post all still work and go to the updated script.

For any nerds curious what the problem was, it was in how Drafts handles credentials.

Long before I shared my post with categories script, Matt Birchler had created a script for posting to your blog that also used Drafts’s Credential storage system. He saved this particular credential to Drafts with the title App Token.

var credential = Credential.create("Micro.blog", "Manton Reece's Micro.blog blogging platform");
credential.addPasswordField("apptoken", "App Token");

credential.authorize();
var appToken = credential.getValue("apptoken");

When I created my script, I called the same value a “Micro.blog token” instead. If someone had already installed and saved their credential using Matt’s script, it would sometimes cause an error because the naming wasn’t the same.

So I have changed my script to now use the App Token naming instead of Micro.blog.

I would love to have some people test this out and see if it solves the issues. I can’t do so personally because of the aforementioned custom credential system. If you have my old script installed, delete it, install the new one, and run it. Let me know if it works.

As always, I hope this helps people post to their own blog more easily.

🍿 Toy Story 4 was great.

Unfortunately, my kids' favorite part was the trailer for Frozen II at the beginning. 😂😰

🍿 Time for Toy Story 4!

Wife to kids: “You’re gonna have a brother forever!”

3-year-old: “We’re gonna have a brother forever!”

5-year-old: “But he’s gonna be dead when he gets old.”

😂 Insert Debbie Downer music.

As a teacher and foster parent, I have to do CPR training at least twice a year. And every time, all I can think of is this scene from The Office.

Sent from a CPR class

When we started fostering, I never imagined a future where I would receive “Happy Father’s Day” text messages from my kids' biological parents. Yet here we are. This is the weirdest, hardest, but most devastatingly beautiful thing I’ve ever done. I wouldn’t change a thing.