Jared Sorge

I’m starting to play Mario Kart with my 4.5 year old and he hates it when I win. I gotta say – it’s really hard to lose at 50cc Mario Kart. I find myself doing donuts for large chunks of races 🤣

I’ve spent the past few days getting my blog engine & website up and running with Vapor 4 & Swift 5.3.3. Funnily enough this is in support of my new app that I’m working on (more on that later this month 😀).

It’s super cool to see things come together!

Today at work I took the tooling I’ve been building up to automate our app release process and automated that so that it will run on a regular schedule. I got to learn how to write a Jenkinsfile, and got it all working in just a couple of hours.

Learning new stuff is super fun!

Got any questions you’d like to hear answered on the @xcoders podcast? Send ‘em my way! I’ll be recording a Q&A episode for January next week.

Found a fantastically helpful post from Howard Oakley about building and delivering a CLI tool in Catalina. I think that’s got me where I need to go (for now at least).

Currently at the entrance to the “code singning a Mac CLI tool” rabbit hole. We shall see how deep this one goes, but code signing is always fraught with peril so what’s the worst that could happen?

I really enjoyed talking with @twenty3 for the final Xcoders podcast of 2020. Have a happy new year everyone! xcoders.org/2020/12/3…

I’m selling my 16” MacBook Pro on Swappa. Check it out if you’re in the market! swappa.com/listing/v…

I love it when I’m watching the Seahawks game on YouTube TV with my Apple TV and I get a notification that the game is close with the offer to turn to it. I wish YT integrated better with the system.

TIL that Xcode’s run script build phases have a working directory of the source root. All this time I’d been doing a cd $(SRCROOT) unnecessarily!

I really enjoyed chatting with @jsavin for the November Xcoders Podcast. We got some good ol’ nostalgia in, and he had some good advice for people wanting to excel at consulting (or really engineering for any kind of customer!). Check it out!

If you’re in Washington State please please turn on Exposure Notifications on your mobile device. Visit wanotify.org for directions on how to turn them on. They’re privacy-focused and can help track the spread of COVID-19. Be part of the solution!

Adulting achievement unlocked: finally installed a UPS in my “server closet”. Connected my Synology, Mac mini, and wifi router. Some things just aren’t fun to spend money on but it’s the absolute right thing to do. See also: backup hard disks.

BB8 approves of his new desk mate.

I’ve turned the corner on my static library project and am getting near the finish line. This feels so good to see it come together. #mbnov

The political news of the day is obviously more important in the big picture, but today the Mariners had 2 players under 25 years old win Gold Gloves. I really hope 2021 is the year they astonish the league and make a run with their young guns. #mbnov

I’ve been working on a mind-bendingly difficult project for the last couple of weeks at work and I think I’ve been able to concentrate enough to at least state the current hurdle in a reasonable form. I’m ready to knock out these static libraries and move on though. #mbfeb

I’m hoping all these inactives for the Seahawks don’t make for a dreary game. At least we’ve still got Russ in there! #mbnov

I’m excited to have had a conversation with Rick Wolter about for the October edition of the @xcoders podcast. He’s got a great story and has started a fantastic group called Underdog Devs to help folks get into the software business after being incarcerated.

There was a kind Ziply tech in the area earlier today who saw we had an outage. He came by and replaced the cable from the pole to our ONT and we have our house internet back.

Thank you, kind sir.

We got home this afternoon to a dead FIOS ONT box, so no internet for us. The soonest a tech can come out with a new one is Tuesday morning so that will make for a scramble drill to get school up and running tomorrow and Tuesday AM.

Every time I successfully back up our van and hitch up our trailer to it I hear Jack Swigert from Apollo 13 saying “capture”. That’s not weird, right?

I updated the primary branch in my iOS Project Template Repository to use main instead of master. Still more repos to go through but I’m happy to be making improvements even a little bit at a time.

Semi-bold WWDC keynote prediction: While the Mac will make a CPU transition, it will be to Apple processors and the word ARM will not be uttered or shown on screen during the keynote. The focus is on Apple-made CPUs.

Our May episode of the Xcoders podcast is out. We are starting a signal boosting theme where people looking for work come on the show. I’m really happy with how this first one with Brian Covey (@hidvorak) turned out!