Mitch Cohen

Found today in a box of childhood stuff: A 1983 computer magazine insert of a record. When played into a TRS-80 Color Computer the bleeps and bloops become three little programs.

I wanted to do more indoor bike workouts this month. Apple Fitness wants me to use the elliptical. I may have found a loophole, by doing multiple short workouts in succession…often with a bike ride before or after. (Today is January 5th.)

Introduce yourself with five TV shows 📺 1. Twin Peaks 2. Star Trek (original series) 3. Rectify 4. My Name is Earl 5. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show

Introduce yourself with five TV shows 📺 * Twin Peaks * Star Trek (original series) * Rectify * My Name is Earl * It’s Garry Shandling’s Show

Introduce yourself with five TV shows 1. Twin Peaks 2. Star Trek (original series) 3. Rectify 4. My Name is Earl 5. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show

Introduce yourself with five TV shows 📺 1. Twin Peaks 2. Star Trek (original series) 3. Rectify 4. My Name is Earl 5. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show

I’m fascinated by whoever puts in superb effort on audio descriptions in captions. “Wednesday” is phenomenal in this regard. 📺

I finished reading 📚 Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace over the weekend. Very enjoyable. I went into it blind, and was initially turned off by the first part of the story taking place within a video game (I’m not a gamer). Glad I kept going.

Does anyone need an Apple Installer Scripting Guide from 1991? (The stuff I find in my basement…)

It’s time for Alice’s Restaurant.

That’s a lot of twos.

Brought my Series 6 Apple Watch in for some AppleCare TLC (battery). Turns out they don’t do exchanges on the Watch, so I temporarily bought an Ultra until mine is back. Temporarily. It’s awfully nice though. Temporarily…hmmm…

I’m thinking I might need new weatherstripping.

This weekend was a blur. I need another to recuperate.

I can’t decide if history will determine the final democratic American election was held in 2020, or 2024.

Watched Rear Window tonight. I’ve seen it, 30+ years ago, and didn’t remember a thing. So good. Only minor quibble was the camera moving out of the apartment at the very end. I’ve seen way too little Hitchcock. 🎥

I rarely drop reading a book midway. I might do that today, unexpectedly, with the graphic novelization of 1984. Much of the text is dark on dark. The act of reading is pulling me out of the story. Also very narration-heavy where images could have fit better, at least to me. 📚

No.

I’ve never made a New Year’s Resolution, partially because it feels so all-or-nothing. I truly have so many things I’d like to do. I just had an idea to consider: A list of ten goals, with the resolution being to accomplish any five. Any combination of numbers works (3 of 9, 4 of 5…). I’ll ponder this a bit.

Happy 2022! My limited-social-network-attention brain seems to have semi-forgotten about micro.blog in 2021. I’ll try to fix that for the new year. What did I miss?

This remote WWDC thing is too exhausting. Really hoping it’ll be in person next year. (Seriously, easier to focus on just the conference when 3000 miles from home.)

The Analyze HTTP traffic in Instuments WWDC session digs into a (fake) location-stealing analytics framework. This is gonna be fun… developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10…

Strong opposition to iCloud Photos for this driver.

Why is Apple allowing SMS-auth-only apps? “Apps that use a third-party or social login service to set up or authenticate the user’s primary account with the app must also offer Sign in with Apple as an equivalent option.” Isn’t a phone number a third-party service?

Ten years ago today I hit File->New Project on the iOS app I still spend most of my time on. A few lines of code still survive from that first day - crazy. So I made this silly badge for a company presentation.