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John can ride a bicycle! (Sort of.) I mentioned last week that John was gliding and we continued to do that until on Sunday I said to see how far he could go with his feet on the pedals. I ran along beside him for a bit as he pedalled and then let gave him a gentle push. Much to our mutual surprise, he was able to maintain his balance for a few beats before things steadied enough for him to make it a metre or so. Success! Unfortunately, I was in the office for the first half of the week and then the weather was sour over the second half but it does feel as if it’s all downhill from here (pun, of course, very much intended).
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I meant to mention this last week but I underwent my annual medical examination on (what is now, last) Friday. In 2025 I was flattered when the examiner commented positively on my weight going down to 65. This year… not so much positivity. Nothing terrible but the examiner did ask if anything had changed in my diet. I’m hoping that ends up being motivation to get out of my current rut.
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My iPhone complained that I was out of space. At first, I wondered if it had something to do with Crossmate. I don’t think it does—or at least not directly. Indirectly, though, all the time I’ve been spending on Crossmate has caused things like podcasts and RSS feeds to back up to an extraordinary level (I had over 100 episodes in my queue). Podcasts aren’t the only problem but the iPhone Storage section of Settings suggests it’s a significant contributor. What can I do in response? It’s tempting to throw money at the problem and just buy a iPhone 17 Pro Max now but I’d rather wait til the refurbished version comes out next February. I went through and made the difficult decision to unsubscribe from a bunch of shows and I’ll see if there are any more alerts.
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I also declared RSS bankruptcy and marked all of my outstanding items as read. It had got up to over 200 and while I kept meaning to go and read them, it was pretty clear that wasn’t going to happen any time soon.
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I did make more progress with Crossmate. I don’t remember how many times I’ve reworked the sync architecture but it’s one more than it was last week. I’m still not completely happy with it, though, and I’m worried that it might be the case that trying to do this with CloudKit is a fundamentally bad decision. This blog post was both reassuring (CloudKit is good because you don’t need to run your own server) and worrying (CloudKit is bad because you don’t get to run your own server). I remain resolutely opposed to running a server and so don’t have much choice but to keep trying to make it work.
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Trash Theory has a great video (for Millennials) about Veruca Salt and the alternative classic ‘Seether’. I didn’t read music magazines when I was a teenager but I think I nevertheless had some sense that maybe Veruca Salt weren’t ‘real’.This video does a great job dispelling that false notion. They were absolutely real and the song absolutely kicks arse.
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I mean what else could it be (Apple Music)?
