No, you spent over an hour today unsuccessfully trying to get Shortcuts and the Airtable API to play nice with each other. 🤬
Christmas lights at Cheekwood last night, and the girls got to meet Santa.
Side note: Hopefully only a few more months of not being able to share their pretty faces. 🤞
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With a stressful job, and small kids at home, I’ve been looking for activities to help me relax. I thought drawing (which I’ve always been terrible at) sounded fun. So I decided to use this fancy iPad, and start learning. Since imitation is the best way to learn, I found a picture of an airplane, and started trying to draw it in Linea Sketch.
Here’s what I did. It’s not good, but it’s the best thing I’ve ever drawn. So, cheers to relaxation and to getting better.
Apple Music to open office in Wedgewood-Houston - Nashville Post
This (rightfully) isn’t getting nearly as much attention as Apple’s new Austin location, but it’s cool they will have a bigger presence here in Nashville.
More years than not since we got married, Laura and I have kicked off the holiday season with Andrew Peterson’s “Behold the Lamb Of God” at the Ryman. It was another amazing year, and now Christmas can begin.
I just finished editing and bouncing my first podcast episode with Ferrite on the new iPad Pro. Apple Pencil 2 double tap actions, plus a bounce time that was cut in at least half if not more than on my 2017 iPad Pro, made this amazing.
A momentous day for my beloved 2003 4Runner, Lydia. Here’s hoping for many more miles together still.
I’ve updated my Tools of Choice page to include my new iPad Pro and a few app changes I’ve made since July.
📺 D’Arcy Carden is the 🐐.
If you don’t watch The Good Place, what’s wrong with you?
New Broken Bells music? Yes please!
I know there are critics of Hour of Code, but it does serve the purpose of showing kids there’s more to computers than YouTube, and works on critical thinking skills. Plus, it’s fun for me.
Version 3.4: Drawing, Fonts, and Photo Layout - Day One
I’ve been on a grandfathered “Plus” account with Day One as a purchaser before Day One switched to a subscription model. With yesterday’s addition of drawing and Apple Pencil support to the Premium subscription tier, I added a membership gift certificate to my Christmas list. Can’t wait to try it out.
DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2018 (Turnin' It Up) - YouTube
The first edition I saw of DJ Earworm’s annual United State of Pop mashup was in 2008. The central song it was built around was Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida,” and I recognized every line pulled from other songs. Since then, one of my favorite parts of December is this video’s release.
It’s funny though that every year I seem to recognize fewer and fewer songs used in the mashup. I wonder if this is something most people experience as they transition from their early 20s to early 30s, or if it’s just my musical tastes changing. I have a feeling it’s the first one, and that’s actually fine by me.
At 21 I didn’t know enough of myself to know what I actually liked. I allowed what was popular to decide that for me. I’ve learned enough in the intervening years to make choices for myself.
It’s either that or I’ve become a curmudgeon who decided what he liked 10 years ago, and hasn’t allowed that to change. 😂
Can’t believe it’s been 4 years since I somehow convinced my wife we needed a dog, and that this girl was the one. Macy’s the best, most loyal, sweetest dog I’ve ever had. This picture of us from a few weeks after we got her sums her up perfectly.
14/10 Would adopt again and again.
Due to user error, I had an app add 32 events to my calendar on consecutive days. Rather than deleting each of them manually, I created a 2 step Shortcut to do it for me. Automation doesn’t have to be crazy. Even in simplicity, it can save a ton of time.
🏈 Well, Gus Malzahn remains the only current SEC coach to have beaten Saban. War Eagle.
🎵 Sean McConnell - Shaky Bridges (feat. The McCrary Sisters)
My goodness does this make me happy. One of my favorite artists for a dozen years now, Sean McConnell just keeps getting better.
Tried out one of these today and only crashed once. I’d consider that a win.
My post image to micro.blog Shortcut broke sometime in the Workflow to Shortcuts transition. Not sure why I had to change the logic, but I’ve updated it and it’s working great again.
📺 Did I think last week’s episode of Doctor Who, “Kerblam!”, was a great episode? No. Did I still hesitate before popping some bubble wrap just now? Yep. 🤦🏻♂️