• So sick of fedora freezing and causing problems on my thinkpad. Bought new laptop. Went with the macbook air in comparison below. Store pickup, Apple store in Grand Central Station. Took home, setup, configured before flight tomorrow.

	XPS13	MacBook Air
CPU	12th gen i5 10core	m2 8core
GPU	Iris XE	m2 8core
Mem	8GB	8GB
Storage	512GB ss	256GB ss
Display	13.4″ 1920×1200	13.6″ 2560×1664
Weight	2.6lbs	2.7lbs
Battery	51Wh	53Wh
Camera	720p	1080p
OS	Ubuntu 20.04	macOS 13.2
Price	$689	$1199

• Setup.
  • Reminder that I have most things stored in the google suite: drive, mail, sheets, docs, maps, photos, calendar, etc.
  • And then others specific to their cloud: oura, 8sleep, etc.
  • But there are few things in icloud: shared albums, messages, passwords/keychain, contacts, wallet, whatsapp/telegram, health, backups, shortcuts, voice memos.
  • All settings. Configured displays, battery, lockscreen, dock, night mode, menu bar, etc.
  • Swap safari for chrome default. Add profiles.
  • Uninstall all default apps (except the MANY system ones that don’t let you). Just open launchpad and hold option, then X everything.
  • Instead of windows-<num> to launch an app pinned to the dock, you have to push fn-ctrl-f3 then arrows to pick then enter. That’s the native solution, but clearly bad. Downloaded a simple app “Snap” from the app store. Just command-<num>. Much better.
  • Added cmd-space for launchpad, left default of f4 for spotlight (both allow search of computer for apps and others).
  • Most of my contacts are google (not apple/icloud, or other). So you have to give permission to sync those.
  • Downloaded Rectangle (free) for tiling/snapping/dragging/maximizing. Perfect. Same as all the arrows of windows but instead of the window key, use cmd.
  • Remember some apps are built for intel chips. The binding app Rosetta allows you to runs those on an m2 computer.
• The record for consecutive days without snow in NYC is 332. We’re at 325 right now, and the 10-day forecast predicts no snow.
  • The official threshold for measurable snow is 1/10″ sticking.
• Lots of private work.
• Transferred to BoA business checking for min – no fees. I use this liquidity as part of the emergency fund as well.
• Stackshare 2022 devtools awards: https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2022
• Earnings this week:
  • Tues: Spotify, Snap
  • Wed: Meta
  • Thurs: Apple, Google, Amazon
• Mantine has a bunch of cool react components: https://mantine.dev/. Customizable. Dark themes too.
• There are a few vscode extensions to use chatgpt in the editor.
• Astro: another website builder: https://astro.build/
• Another call with MS to finalize the 401k-IRA rollover.
• Installed a wp plugin to increase max upload filesize (rather than playing with php). Increased from 2MB to 10.
• Here is the segment on the today show (my rise garden and my plants with Carson Daly):

• Asked Ryan/Zeeshan to add those missing pieces on the V2 (during disassembly at the show?) to the replacement parts order. They’re on it.
• SBSC.
  • https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt/supercontest/-/issues/177
  • Switched from pip-compile to full poetry for dep resolution and env management.
  • Ran black on all application code.
  • Removed a lot of inline pylint disables and consolidated to 28 globals in pylintrc. Will go through and remove soon, handling properly.
  • Also snuck in an improvement: the logic to move the home route between matchups and leaderboard is now automatic, based on pre/regseason and post/offseason.