Happy I Love Reese’s Day

“Things I Learned - 05/17/2021" visualnewt.com/learned/

Good morning all. Nothing is permanent, not even you. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

It’s not about time management. It’s about managing what you do in the time you have which is always the same. #success #life

“I am being haunted by the ghost of Winston Churchill.” #writing #throwawayline

The only people who should be writing a memoir are dead people and people losing their memory. Seriously. #writing #failure

Plan for tomorrow: Lua iOS edit write get outside

Observed: So who here wears a hole punch in a holster? #life #weird #writing

Don’t confuse respect with civility. #life

Poaching an elephant requires a very big pot.

I’m sitting outside at a Starbucks and there is a person a few tables over that has a piece of paper with the single word “CAT” printed so as to fill the page. It’s either a warning or a training acronym… @Starbucks

Discount: Your number 4 is lopsided. [Never mind…] #pun #words

Too many programming languages are being designed by academicians and committees (formal or informal) who focus on making the compiler’s job easier instead of the programmer’s. Flame on! #programming

When someone says, “Life was simpler back then”, they don’t always mean it was better. Similarly, just because life is more complex now, doesn’t mean it is better. #life

Little burro has arrived. #food

“Vampires and werewolves suffer from a biological form of tenebrescence. Big pharma is working on a cure.” #writing #vampire #warewolf

Why is it called a “sleep over”? Is there a “sleep under”?

“Kids nowadays. When you shout ‘You kids get off my lawn!’, at them they just laugh and have no clue what I mean.” #writing

I’m getting a lot accomplished today, so far. I’m not getting a lot done, however.

Doing more space opera planning while I wait for food. #writing

It’s time for a lunch break. Maybe a burrito? A little burro?

OK. I have a work around for a problem I’ve been wrestling with in SwiftUI and FileDocument handling for a couple of days. It’s not what I would have liked, but it works. #SwfitUI #iPadOS

Back in my day the Van Allen belt caught on fire.

“Variadic Functions” visualnewt.com/GO/files/… #programming #golang

Happy National Pinot Grigio Day