Month: January 2025

Off-day

No coding for two days

Joanne sent me this picture today. Turns out I’m not the only one who Baymax helps.

I didn’t sit in front of a computer yesterday evening and I don’t expect to tonight either. Last night, we went to the townhouse to check the paint job and pay for it and then we decided to go out for dinner.

I read something about the various kinds of meals that can be eaten out of a single bowl, and that made we want a bowl of ramen. I suggested it and Joanne agreed. But then the good Ramen place around here seemed too far to go, so we decided to go to our favorite Thai place – Mai Thai, to be exact – and see if they serve ramen.

They don’t. I have sesame chicken and Joanne had something along those lines. I also got some of their shrimp shumai, which is delicious. But we didn’t get ramen and I still want ramen.

I don’t expect to code tonight because I’m going to a colleague dinner with a couple of folks who are in town for the week, along with about five other people. So I won’t be home until a bit later. So I won’t be anti-social and spend my evening in the lab. So I won’t code.

But I’ll think of code. That’ll have to do for today.

Off-day, Swift, Tutorial

Added Favorites

Behold the cat in repose. Complete relaxation. Not a care in the world.

I’m not sure what I’m going to use for pictures after Baymax goes home in a couple weeks.

Yesterday was an off day. I spent it resting comfortably at home, at least partially. Mid-day, Joanne and I went to Home Depot and made arrangements to have our townhouse recarpeted as part of the sale preparation. The painting is done. After the carpet goes in (or probably simultaneously, now that I think of it), we’ll get somebody out to either repair or replacing the sliding back door. It’s in pretty bad shape and I don’t think it would be possible to sell the place without fixing that.

Shortly after we got back from Home Depot, we had just a little while to get ready to go out to dinner with friends. We went to Che, an Argentinian restaurant in downtown Cincinnati. Good food, good drinks, good company.

It looked kind of like this:

One of the advantages of living in Northern Kentucky is that Downtown Cincy is close. Lots of fun stuff to do.

This morning, I got through Handling User Input, which finished the SwiftUI Essentials section. Next section is Drawing and Animation.

The latest part I added was the ability to select and filter by Favorites. Here’s the latest picture:

Note the yellow stars. It’s a small addition, but the education was useful.

The tool still isn’t taking me anywhere, so work on following the tutorial continues. Something good will come of it.

Swift, Tutorial

More tutorial progress

Hanging with Baymax again tonight. I’m really going to miss him when he goes back home. Even considering the damage he does to our house.

I got through the end of lesson two. My app now displays a list of parks of interest all over the country and allows the user to click on one at a time to view their map, a photo, and some descriptive text. I’ll add a screenshot below.

It was a useful session.

I’ve moved my laptop out of my office. It was struggling to keep up with a work session and it didn’t really run Xcode all that quickly either.. I think the old Intel machine is just getting a bit tired of the current MacOS version. Larry the laptop moved to the Rumpus Room where he’ll be happy and free to frolic and play with all the other computers. My M1 Mac Mini is now in the lab and hosting Xcode and work. Doing just fine in that role. I probably should have moved him back into there a while ago. Stop resisting the M1 Macciness.

Off-day

Two days, no progress

This is Baymax on the floor. Does there have to be a reason?

I’ve been working – just not on coding. But I’m committed to code. Tomorrow.

Should I just code on the weekends? Should I just suck it up and code? Should I be reading instead?

This is an interesting problem. All I know right now is that I’ve missed two days. No guilt – just daily recommitment. Tomorrow!

So what did I do instead today? I moved my old 2019 Intel MacBook Pro (the machine I’m using right now) from the lab (my home office) into the rumpus room and moved my M1 Mac Mini from the rumpus room into the lab. It’s much better suited to being a work machine. Sadly, the MBP has been struggling to keep up with work, which comes as a complete surprise. I didn’t think work applications were all that complicated. But the Mini will do just fine and I think it will be useful as a second machine in the lab anyway.

Anything else? Not much. Joanne and I watched a couple episodes of Death in Paradise – an excellent detective show from Britain, the land where they know their murders! And I worked at my job. So … more coding tomorrow and maybe a bit of reading of my new book in bed tonight. More about the book soon.

Tutorial

Progress

Well. Not only did I get this website (sort of) set up, but I also got xcode set up on larry, my trusty old 2019 MacBook Pro 16″ laptop. It’s my newest laptop, sadly. I have an M1 Mac Mini and a M1 Max Mac Studio around the house, but the laptop is convenient for sitting with Mrs. Morrow and coding in front of the TV of an evening.

Anyway, I’m using this Apple tutorial.

I’ve gotten through the first tutorial session. Here’s what my screen currently looks like:

Pretty decent start. I’m not sure I can include any of the code here because I suspect Apple has it copyrighted. But trust me. It’s Swift code and it’s not too hard to figure out. This first version is compiled for iOS. I think there will be an Apple Watch version and then it goes to the Mac. I’m hoping it will be a good overview.

After that, the computer will guide me. I have no idea what I want to write – just something. Time will tell.