nicole @nicole@myna.social

I’ve been homeless before, but never homeless like these people. I can’t even imagine.

Went to a queer bar for the first time on Saturday. Ended up getting pushed off the dance floor by a couple who took offense to something about my presentation. 🤷‍♀️ After half an hour in the corner with the trash cans, a dude spit on me; I got the hell out.

It’s ❤️ to have friends for nights like these: I ended up calling one and having a good, solid two-hour talk that kept me from tipping into a depressive fugue.

Some snaps of SF street life from my walk; it sure put things in perspective. 😕

Pulling out my favorite threadbare doggy photo for my threadbare self.

Pocket 8 for iOS just passed through App Store review. I was bracing for a fight (no particular reason, just a lot of years of hard-won experience), but now this May 16 release is 100% in the hands of my team to win or lose.

Tomorrow, we’re releasing the Pocket 8 GM to TestFlight beta.

It’s been two years and some days since we did the incredibly dangerous thing of setting our 13 year-old ObjC codebase on fire and starting over from scratch with Swift, SwiftUI, and a brand new squad of iOS engineers.

To say that it’s been a wild ride would be an understatement: I could write a book on lessons learned as a manager.

But mostly I am just insanely proud of the engineers. They worked so hard to make this happen. 🥰

@pauline and I, along with our friend Matt, were able to join the memorial services at Manzanar this year.

Manzanar is one of ten American concentration camps, where Japanese-Americans were held during WWII. The camp grounds are in California, near the Nevada border. At 4,000 feet, the atmosphere is thin, and the sun is blinding. Standing around, being cooked for hours on end, it was difficult not to imagine oneself on the surface of the moon: the terrain was as desolate as it was beautiful.