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We celebrated (I use the term loosely) Easter Sunday by giving the kids far too much chocolate. As per tradition, there was one Lindt chocolate rabbit each but it was really Mum’s chocolate eggs that were the star.
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I had what I thought was supposed to be my last visit to the doctor on Tuesday. I say ‘supposed to be’ because although on my previous visit, the doctor had said that this Tuesday would be my last visit, at the end of the examination he asked me to come back again in two weeks. He said the fracture was healing well so I’m not sure why I really need to come again—he is quite old and might simply not remember what he said in the previous examination—but it actually suits me to do one more X-ray so I didn’t argue. The reason for this is that I’ve been waiting to start using the treadmill I purchased a week or so back and I’m a little concerned the impact that the, er, impacts of repeated footfalls will have on the fracture. Now I can exercise for a bit over week and then see how the bone is handling it.
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Going back to Easter for a second, Amanda Lehr’s classic 2022 piece for McSweeney’s, ‘Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ’, came across my radar and should prompt at least a chuckle if you have almost any familiarity with Christianity.
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Possibly also related to Easter, the Mac version of Listless sat in App Review purgatory for the week as I waited for it to get to the front of the queue. (Not coincidentally, I finally got back on top of my e-mail and once again attained Inbox Zero!) App Review did eventually clear it on Friday but I’ve been in two minds about whether I push out this initial release right away or submit a fix that addresses the rather embarrassing fact that the ‘Listless Help’ option in the Help menu on macOS merely causes an alert to appear that says ‘Help isn’t available for Listless.’
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While I am not in the same league as Brandon is when it comes to apps created by coding agents, I did start a new one while waiting for App Review. This one is meant to be a collaborative crossword app that I’ve been wishing existed for years. Hopefully I’ll have more details next week.
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I mentioned to my pseudonymous all-purpose sounding board sogaiu that I was working on a crossword app and he asked what format I was using to store the puzzles. Specifically, he wondered if I was going to use XD, a file format for crosswords created by Saul Pwanson. When I said that I hadn’t heard of XD, he pointed me to this brilliant talk from 2019’s csv,conf (side note: one of the greatest conference names of all time). It’s 20 minutes and I think is a fun watch even if you aren’t in the midst of making a crossword app for iOS.
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I’d forgotten what a killer album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is (Apple Music). There’s only one hit song (well, maybe two if you want to include ‘Get Off’ together with ‘Bohemian Like You’) but I was listening to it this week and found every track still tickled my fancy. How much of that is 25-year nostalgia talking? Give it a spin and see for yourself!
