Marcel Dierkes 💡 @newmarcel@mastodon.cloud

I'm excited for some iPad news tomorrow. The USB-C rumor makes sense and would reduce the number of cables I still need to carry around on a regular basis.

My quest for a Gmail replacement continues (it got really ugly and slow). I'm now testing mailbox.org which looks really promising and affordable.

It's not a bad phone at all but the XS is just not as portable for me as an #iphone SE in regard to grip and weight.

Why can't we have small and light phones again? I got my #iphone XS yesterday and this thing is a brick with a slippery glass back 😓

That is a painfully expensive phone… #iphonexs I really hope it's worth the upgrade from my iPhone 7 Plus.

I feel much more balanced after my vacation week. This was overdue.

I'm so glad my extended vacation is starting tomorrow evening. I need to switch off a bit to recharge 🔋

I wish I had discovered https://www.plex.tv earlier. It's the perfect companion for my external media hard drive. I just browse around from my iPad and rediscover stuff I had on there. 📺

Critics hated #TheOrville, but I loved it. Critics destroyed #Disenchantment, but I cannot get enough of it. I should probably watch everything modern critics hate 😆

A year ago I would have never believed that I'll enjoy #running one day. It makes me feel much better. Sometimes it just takes a good friend to kick you out of your comfort zone.

I'm resuming my #running schedule today after a one week break because of a cold. I really miss it.

I mainly stopped being active on #twitter in recent years because of US politics, news and mainstream media content (ads?). It wasn't about people anymore.
I'm trying not to recreate this experience here.

I give in… I’m updating my main phone to the iOS 12 beta. It works flawlessly on my iPad already.

But then I'm glad that GitLab exists. It's my personal graveyard for half executed app ideas 😅 … far away from work.

I hate that GitHub doesn't provide a way to separate work and private repos. It sometimes stresses me out at weekends. 🙄

Enough code for today for me. I’m just happy that my timeline here is more alive thanks to twitter’s stupid decisions.

I went back and forth between raw SQLite and Core Data over the years and I want to give CD a chance again. Codegen and NSPersistentContainer are easy to like.

Even after a year Core Data classes like NSPersistentHistoryChangeRequest are almost undocumented. I can't just watch the WWDC session over and over again all the time 😅

I pushed out a new release of KeepingYouAwake with dark mode support today. I guess I’m now macOS Mojave-ready.

I really would like to see support for XPCServices on #iOS. Separate sandboxed processes would help for long-running tasks that can potentially crash. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2013/702/