I’ve been trying to debug an issue when my Apple Watch where  announcements from Siri cause Overcast to pause. The only way to resume it is to go back into Overcast and hit play.

Before my most recent run, I synced some music on to my watch and the experience with Runkeeper was much smoother. As expected, when pace/time announcements start the music fades to half-level then fades up to the regular level when siri finishes as expected. So it seems like the music pausing may be a bug in Overcast’s handling of siri announcements or Music having access to some APIs that regular devs don’t.

On second thought, most podcasts are spoken word and listening to Siri and your half-leveled podcast simultaneously would be a poor experience, so it’s makes sense that it pauses playback when Siri starts. However, it would be nice if it resumed when Siri finished.

30 minutes. 🙌🏻

Coffee and reading books with Leo.

Being able to drag and drop files to/from other Macs when screen sharing and having it "just work" like a local drag/drop is such an unsung feature.

部活です。 4km is a bit harder when it’s warmer out. But still had a bit of juice left at the end.

Didn’t feel like it at 4:30 when I woke up. Some coffee later and managed to make it out. 🙌🏻

New issue of @OffscreenMag came in the post today. Super excited to read it.

Achievement unlocked: Leo now requests “papa’s bread”. 😋 🍞

• I saw a good format for a weekly "week in review" blog post on Michael's microblog that I’m going to copy. It's just a bullet list of things that happened, but I hope it will allow me to capture the ideas that are between a status update a full post.


• I figured out why some of my posts weren’t receiving with webmentions with help from the indieweb irc chat. Webmentions are only enabled if trackback/comments are allowed. The posts that weren't working I drafted initially using MarsEdit, which turns off trackbacks by default. Unfortunately there isn't a per-post checkbox in my post admin interface, so it was non-obvious why some were working and some weren't.


• The potential of Micropub finally clicked thanks to a talk by I watched by Chris.


• I finished reading chapter one of the dragon book, though it no longer has a dragon on the cover. There’s no real immediate work or project ideas for me to learn compiler design, but I know the principles will come in handy.


• My Apple Watch has quickly made itself an indispensable part of my routine. The haptic wake up alarms and the reminders to stand while I’m working are the killer features for me so far. Running with it is also a game changer. I’m using the 4 hour weather look ahead on my wrist far more than I had thought I would. But that’s probably because it’s the rainy season.


• I went to St. Marc Cafe for a coffee and chocolate croissant. There wasn't an empty seat inside, which made me a bit nervous. Everyone was wearing a mask when they weren't drinking / eating and that location is large enough where there's plenty of space between tables.