Finished reading: The Way of the Heart by Henri J. M. Nouwen 📚

We were making homemade pizza yesterday evening and I asked my wife what she wanted on hers.

She said olives & sundried tomatoes which I was holding.

She smiled and then said “and maybe some an…”

I held up the anchovies.

Seven years and I couldn’t be happier

For Inktober this year I’m practicing some larger drawing skills (for graphic recording). Early lessons

  1. Keep your letters consistent (whoops)
  2. Make sure your ink isn’t running out!
  3. I wish I had considered how much space I would have for everything ✍️

Updating to the macOS Ventura beta for some screencasts… Wish me luck!

Made it to Essen. Found curry. Everything is okay.

The complaints about stage manager make me think that “let the iPad be an iPad” is the right mentality. And that doesn’t mean no external display support or three/four apps on screen at once, but something designed for the iPad — like cursor support. Imagine macOS on the iPad :S

At the end of the next month, I’ll be out of work. Yeah, Pompom is ceasing operations. The app will continue on in the app store, but there won’t be a company with full time employees working on it. So if you know anyone looking for

  • a junior macOS/iOS developer
  • a marketing person who can write copy/make videos etc

for a remote or in Krakow job, please let me know.

Current status: moment of popping head above water between shivering and leg pains.

I need to take one of our remaining covid tests but I feel terrible.

Have fun for me!

How I currently feel after trying to make a “simple” solution that “shouldn’t take too long.”

Just arrived in goleneia (the airport closest to Szczecin) for this year’s international Sketchnote Camp.

Real rollercoaster of a landing!

My first post iPhone event working for a company making an Apple app and I get it now. We now know how much time we have left to finalise our iOS 16 release. Sure we can, and will, continue to role out features later but if we want to get featured on release day, we have to make a splash.

On a different note, I’d love to study how Apple handles the logistics of an iPhone release. Getting devices in stock around the world with up to date software.

Made myself a little reminder of this classic quote from @patrickrhone

“Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes To Other Things”

The compatibility of USB C needs a giant “terms and conditions apply” sticker. It’s so tricky to find cables and know they will work with another device.

This week I learned how to make fake latte art because I came up with a terrible Pun about my company’s name. So for your pleasure, here’s the Pompom spiced latte (I actually have some pumpkin spiced syrup and we were going to make this for real as the founder can do latte art. But he’s looking after his kids at home for the next few weeks).

A coffe with the pompom logo in it.

Welcome to autumn and the return of one of my favourite words “Autumnal.”

It just feels like a warm blanket and cup of hot chocolate.

Looking at the rumoured iPhone 14 colour line up. I always have this feeling that I want to get something more unusual…but I know I’ll play it safe with black in the end.

But I think I could persuade myself to choose green.

P.s. I’d love an orange option.

This morning my daughter announced that her room is now the Teddy Bear’s Restaurant (I resisted checking if it was a restaurant run for Teddy’s or where one can eat Teddy’s).

My teacher instinct kicked in and now I’ve started planning a project based learning syllabus where we going to make a menu, design a logo, cook and test the recipes, plan how we can market the restaurant etc.

One early decision, it serves Italian food and Unicorn cake.

Also I need to buy more sugar this weekend.

I was today years old when I learned that Parmesan has no lactose in it. A member of the family is very happy with this news.

I opened my wife’s Mac to update some software and no apps opened.

It was so refreshing compared to mine where five apps need to open and stop you from doing anything.

Maybe I could turn some off?