nicole @nicole@myna.social

I'm endlessly impressed by whoever does merchandising for #A24. The Hereditary Gingerbread Tree House might top the Green Knight #TTRPG.

I was in #berkeley today, getting some art framed and I stopped in at Muracci’s for some Japanese curry. Notes follow.

1. Yum

2. Wow, I eat so much less after having dropped 10 pounds of muscle mass in the last year (#hrt). 😳

3. Some of my strongest memories of Japan are of eating curry out of gas station restaurants (pictured).

4. I know everyone’s done to death with people snapping photos of their food, but I think there should be a special allowance for those of us who choose to use an 8x10 camera to do it. #photography

One of my absolute favorites from a recent trip to Oahu. It was a tourist hellscape—hotels clustered around the ocean like eyes of Sauron around a bath—but I still had an amazing time.

People are everything to me.

My partner spiked my coffee with Xanax this morning. This is why she’s a superhero, and I’m just some Jane slinging ink for the Daily Planet.

I stand corrected. This is actually just a random shot from a 2017 trip to Okinawa. Wow. 👵🏻

Okay, so the two sheets that were stuck together were unrecoverable, as feared. Of the other four: two were blank, and two were photos of an antique store that came up in conversation just yesterday. (😳)

Or maybe it’s just because, on my character sheet, there is one tag that stands above them all: #opsimath. 😌

Yeah, that’s probably it. #latetoeveryparty

Maybe it’s because of the lack of ABI stability; or because early versions had poor support for multiple protocol conformance; or the (still) immature state of the debug tools; or the fact that, for a very long time, while it let you do old things in a new way, it didn’t actually let you do anything new; or maybe because after a decade+ of C supersets, #Swift feels like safety scissors.

If you know me, you might wonder, “Nicole, you’ve been an iOS developer for 13 years; you’ve led multiple iOS teams; you manage a team of Swift developers—how is that you’re only reading about #Swift now!?”

Wiping away the tears and snuggling up with Eidhof’s Advanced #Swift.

Every once and awhile, usually towards the end of a chapter, there’s a sentence or two that are just too square for me to easily squeeze through my round eye holes.

“Under the hood, instance methods are modeled as functions that, given an instance, return another function that then operates on the instance.”

📖🧱➡️🫣💦

Read. Thunk. Thunk. Thunk. Ahhhhhhh.

Standing on scale to find yourself three pounds heaver. 🤔

Realizing it must be water weight. 😳

Investigating yesterday’s food log. 🧐

Realizing that the meal planner you used didn’t take into account the _salt_ on your salt and pepper bagel. 🫣

Realizing that you consumed 6x your allotted sodium the day before. And 3x this morning. 😵‍💫

Crying. Because, of course you are. 😭

T-4 Days.