A seed of a song from my friend Erin. Vocals only.
I hear drums and guitar in my head but need to figure them out for real. 🤷🏻♂️
Month: July 2021
In case you notice a change in case
It struck me recently that I didn’t have a strategy for capitalizing my blog posts. So I’m making a change.
As the sole proprietor of this blog, I hereby decree that henceforth and regressively back to 1 June, year 2021, all blog posts shall follow the Sentence case standard.
Title Case was starting to bug me. It was overly formal and hard to read, as in Who Do You Want to Be On The Other Side Of This Crisis? And it was confusing. Which words do you capitalize, again? I took my best guess on 5 Things You Don’t Need to be Happy, Fulfilled, and Successful.
Plus Capital Case was constantly being dissed up by quotation-titles such as “The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
Capital Case also made it hard distinguish Proper Nouns from normal words, as in Favorite Austin Hotel Pools. Was that post about hotel pools in Austin? Or was it about pools at the Austin Hotel?
I’m pretty happy with this change, so much so that I am tempted to go back and fix all the old posts, such as “Favorite Austin Hotel Pools” to “Favorite Austin hotel pools”. But there are 742 of them, and sometimes it’s better to live with your imperfect past anyways.
With that, enjoy all the easier-to-read blog titles, future reader. I’m going to figure out punctuation for quotations next. 🤷🏻♂️
The weird, scrappy 2021 Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics are kicking off today. 🇯🇵
I remember the Olympics being unambiguously awesome. 🤟
Things are more complicated today. Some Tokyoites are not too happy about hosting the games. Olympics officials are being fired for saying dumb things. There are lingering questions about whether rotating the Olympics is wasteful or whether we should have the Olympics at all.
Still, great athletes will be in Tokyo.
My favorite story is about athletes finding a way to stay in fighting form for an extra year despite the pandemic and wildfires.
From sword fighting in a New York City alley, to wresting with your brother, to swimming in a kiddie pool, this scrappy spirit is what the Olympics are all about.
👉Olympians Had to Train During a Pandemic. These Are Their Weirdest Stories.
All of this is via Apple News and their not-too-newsy daily news podcast.
Plaza Mayor, Madrid
Here’s some more inspiration to get to Spain, as if I already needed that. 😉
The square looks unreal from above, but it is very real indeed as “a major public space in the heart of Madrid.” And the square is much bigger than it looks here, with 237 residential balconies facing inwards.
Resolver: ultralight dependency injection for Swift
If you’re struggling with the best way to do dependency injection for an iOS app, then along with this tutorial, some of the built-in tools, or Swinject, you might consider Resolver.
👉 Resolver for iOS Dependency Injection: Getting Started
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Mental Break Town 