Francisco Cantu

Tropical storm Zeta is expected to become a hurricane shortly before hitting us here in the peninsula. After my last frenzy with Delta, I’ve decided to post no more about it after this. 🙃

I am so relieved that after weeks of issues I was finally able to pay the Apple dev membership. I’ll try to have a beta of a new app that I’ve been working on as soon as possible… almost complete. Motivation is returning… Apple had drained my motivation with these issues.

It looks like it’s over. Light rain remains. Biggest event was a small tree falling in the backyard, but no damage. Power was unstable as expected, but held well. So glad this is over. I heard other areas like Cancun did not do as well, sadly.

Delta hit land and went down to a cat 2. It is now starting to hit us. Sky looks scary and it’s raining, but that’s it so far. Let’s wait and see what the next couple of hours hold.

Delta is now a category 4 hurricane. And to think when I posted this morning it was a 2.

We still have the remnants of Gamma above us; now here comes Delta!

I was able to play today Star Wars Squadrons on PC, complete with a pair of flight sticks and a VR headset. The experience completely blew me away. This is one of the best VR experiences to date. And no motion sickness so far despite how I tend to perform aggressive maneuvers.

Despite the continuous rain, looks like Gamma missed us. State alert levels are back down to low and very low risk.

We’re in for a fun weekend with Gamma coming in.

I am genuinely curious if Setapp’s iOS app subscription flew under Apple’s radar because of Epic or something else happened. They seemed to be playing with fire.

Full disclosure: I am a very happy Setapp subscriber on Mac; not getting iOS out of fear of Apple nuking it.

I wanted to ship an iOS 14 app on release day, but Apple just surprised us all. Oh, well.

Congrats to everyone who managed to get theirs out on time.

So today we got the GeForce RTX 3800 reviews. We got a bunch of new Apple OS releases. And PS5 announcements with preorders. Eventful tech day.

PS5 preorder secured, apparently. Crossing fingers it doesn’t get canceled.

Over two months ago I started having issues with my thumbs. It’s trigger finger. (Or… trigger thumb, to be exact?)

Probably related to my dev lifestyle. I am currently attending physical therapy hoping to avoid surgery.

Fellow devs, take care of your health, hands included.

I’ve done it. I’ve installed iOS 14 on my main phone and will be rolling back the development device to 13.

One of my first impressions from a full day of use is that alternate app icons for light/dark mode may become more important; widgets are creating significant contrast.

I really, really liked Greyhound. Not much going on story-wise, to be honest. But the movie hooked me. Tense action scenes were done perfectly. I hope more films like this make it to Apple TV+.

It’s nuts that my beta phone, an iPhone 6s Plus, is still able to run iOS 14. And that it still feels sufficiently responsive.

Credit where credit is due: Apple read my reply to their rejection and they seem to have understood they made a mistake. (Or it’s a birthday present, like @macgreg may have predicted.) Anyway, update is approved and now I can properly worry about the next OS features tomorrow!

Less than 24 hours until WWDC, so here’s my wishlist in no particular order:

Do Not Disturb Mode API for iOS.

Network Extension for tvOS.

Xcode for iPad.

Custom watch faces in watchOS.

Better iPad multitasking and window management.

A better macOS post-Catalina 🙃

The games begin anew with Apple rejecting the update submitted on Friday. I admit one cited reason is an error of mine, but the second reason… they seem to be confused and even gave me wrong instructions on how to rectify it. I’ve replied; let’s see how long this goes.

Made it! I’ve submitted an update to a personal app the weekend before WWDC. Now, will it pass review before the keynote?

PS5 looks like a baby Alienware.

Cristobal went easy on us compared to many others who were affected. We only lost power and had a room that we use for storage flood. Doing well now.