Apple has announced an event for Tuesday next week, expected to introduce their first "Apple Silicon"-based Macs. As a Mac developer, you can bet I’ll be watching that.
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20 Macs for 2020 podcast 📡 #MediaMonday
· MediaMonday · podcast
A limited-run podcast from long-time Mac pundit Jason Snell, counting down his picks for the most notable Macs of all time. Some of the best, some of the worst. There are also related articles and videos.
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On the homestead blog: adding an upper back door to the cat house. 🔨🐈
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 2 is "concentrate". As many will observe, it will be hard to concentrate on work for the next couple of days… but I’ve got lots to do, so will leverage my ability to not worry about things I can’t control. 📷 #mbnov
· macs · mbnov · technology
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In November we’re doing a Microblogvember challenge on Micro.blog, where @macgenie posts a random word each day. The word for day 1 is "dreary". Daylight Saving Time just ended, so I have the dreary task of resetting several clocks. 📷🕰 #mbnov
· house · mbnov · technology
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What better treat for the chickens on Halloween than a pumpkin?! Plus I noticed a great-looking spiderweb between some of the pumpkins from our garden in the breezeway. 🕸🎃🐓
· chickens · food · holiday
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Uh oh… my AirPods Pro must have heard of Apple’s new service program, as the right earbud has just started crackling while in use. I thought I was one of the lucky few that didn’t have that issue. (Resetting didn’t help.)
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On the homestead blog: Spooooky Halloween Caturday to one and all! This week, we were visited by scary raccoon monsters, and the scariest of all creatures, a skunk. But fear not, much cuteness was also observed. #Caturday 🐈
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Video: Listen to lots of hungry hummingbirds. Sound up! After refilling the hummingbird feeders, I stood nearby outside and recorded several of them arriving, with the lightsaber-like wing noises and twittering arguments. 📹🐦
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. This week, I am highlighting 20 chicken-related pictures plus 12 duck pictures, along with a summary GIF of 59 candidates. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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One more for #NationalCatDay: I can’t neglect to mention our family of feral cats. Here are some pictures of inside their heated shelter and three cabins from last night. Learn more about them on my homestead feral cats page. 🐈
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Also for #NationalCatDay, our current pet cats Paladin and Pippin sharing the cat tower yesterday and today. Normally they don’t like to be that close to each other, except when there’s food involved. 🐈
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It’s #NationalCatDay and #ThrowbackThursday, so here are some pictures of our former cat Pixel from 2005, enjoying some leashed outside time (he grew up indoor/outdoor in NZ, then became indoor-only except when leashed when we moved to the US). 🐈
· cats · david · NationalCatDay · ThrowbackThursday
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The same pictures of ducks flapping wings in GIF form. 🦆
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A couple of pictures of ducks flapping wings on the edge of the lawn this morning. 🦆
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The sub-freezing snap we’re having has confused the trees; here is a gingko tree that dropped most of its leaves before they had a chance to change from green. 🌱🌳❄️🍃🍂
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I have two quotes about voting in my collection, both from Robert A. Heinlein, unsurprisingly. The first is my favorite; here is the second, from To Sail Beyond the Sunset: 💬
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A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens ... which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. If you’re in the US, vote. Make good choices, people.
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Pippin, my evening lap warmer. 🐈
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A GIF edition of dripping icicles. ❄️
· gif · ice
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It’s still below freezing overnight, so unsurprisingly the waterers in the chicken runs are frozen, with some nice icicles. (Don’t worry, they have heated waterers inside the coops.) 🐓❄️
· chickens · ice
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