Quotes

“I’m cute, and I can rhyme my ass off. No wonder they want to destroy me.”

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Trying to challenge myself and write some original songs instead of just doing covers, I’ve found that the lyrics come a lot easier than the music. Putting together some new and interesting musical chords or, heaven forbid, a melody? That’s hard. But I can rhyme all day.

So I thought it was funny when Keeley Jones, the soccer (aka “football”) team’s vivacious marketing honcho on Ted Lasso, said this on S1E3.

I’m cute, and I can rhyme my ass off. No wonder they want to destroy me.

Kudos to Keeley for that laugh and for giving me something a little lighter to post here today.

Back to your regularly scheduled philosophy quotes, tech sketches, artsy photos, and amateur ramblings later.

Software Dev

At a glance: flow layout ⎓

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Continuing with the iOS at a glance series, we’re still digging our way though the old fundamentals of layout.

Introduced way back in iOS 6 with the initial collection view offering, the flow layout gave developers a more natural and fluid way to lay out views than the OG table view.

A flow layout lets your subviews flow just like words on a page (at least in English), from left to right and top to bottom, as the blue pencil line shows below.

The blue pencil lines here illustrate the flow layout working, but of course what the user actually sees is just the subviews.

Flow layouts support landscape or portrait scrolling and have a variety of options such as making all the items different sizes or the same size, adding sections (below), adding section headers and footers, and controlling spacing and alignment.

Quotes

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

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I love this quote, which I came across in a list of ancient stoic quotes (with some pretty good visuals).

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Epicteus

This quote reminds me of a series on Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad.

This series noted the one thing these leaders had in common: sure, they all had interesting ideas, but more importantly, they lived by their ideas. If they had just talked a lot, they would not have had the real-world impact that they had. Their actions were inspiring.

So if you want to be a pretty cool and impactful person, in whatever form that takes, then figure out what you stand for and live it.

I know, I know… that’s easier said than done.

But what else are you going to do that could be any better?

Besides, it’s fun to do stuff, and talking gets old.