Starting my last year in my twenties!

Is anyone able to control audio via Siri on watchOS 5? It stopped working in beta 4 for me (and is still not working on beta 5).

The number of devices that I have to update when a new beta comes out is getting ridiculous.

We released RadarScope 3.8 for iOS and macOS today.

The headline features are improvements to the Pro packages: Tier One subscribers gets 30 frames of radar animation (up from 20) and Tier Two subscribers get SPC outlooks, local storm reports, and server sent events for radar images¹.

However, my favorite feature is the revamped Apple Watch app. You can now display (and animate) radar images from your watch without needing to kick the work back to your phone². I am not without my phone too often, but it is great to know I can check on the radar if I leave my phone at home.

Last night I was out for a run with just my Apple Watch and my AirPods when I got an alert that the National Weather Service just issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. I was able to pull up the radar to see if there were any storms in the area instead of just ending my run early. The skies were still clear, so I was able to finish.

You can find the full release notes at the company site and you can find the app on your favorite App Store. Be sure to try out a Pro plans to see the new feeds!

Joff Redfern, VP of Product Management at Atlassian:

When we announced Stride in September 2017, we said, “It’s time we rethink the way we’re working. We believe that teams can stay connected and keep moving forward.” We still believe that. We knew we were taking a risk by entering an already competitive real-time team communications market, but we were willing to do the hard work necessary to build a great product. And we believe we were on that path. Stride was a bold project, and we’re very proud of the product we created and the team that created it.

Over the past year, however, the market in real-time communications has changed pretty dramatically. And throughout that change, one product has continued to stand out from the others: Slack. While we’ve made great early progress with Stride, we believe the best way forward for our customers and for Atlassian is to enter into a strategic partnership with Slack and no longer offer our own real-time communications products.

We use Atlassian products at work and I am generally pretty happy with them, but HipChat was clearly a weak point for them. I am pretty excited that we will be moving over to Slack soon.

Now I just have to hope that they actually switch over to using UIKit for there Mac app so I don’t have to use half of my iMac’s RAM running Electron (zing!).

Now that Microsoft owns GitHub and Slack is partnered with Atlassian (and therefor BitBucket), it looks like it is going to be Microsoft/GitHub vs Slack/Atlassian fighting for the future of developer tools. I prefer GitHub to BitBucket, but I can’t help but thing that Atlassian is the favorite in that fight.

Today feels like a good day for Apple to ship beta 2 of Shortcuts. It has been three weeks since the initial beta.

The latest episode of Lore is all about Mackinaw Island, one of my favorite places in Michigan to visit.

New desk decorations.

Controlling audio from third party workout apps in watchOS 5 is 👌

I had the perfect dad-stereotype moment earlier this evening; I was replacing a light fixture while I was grilling while I was drinking a beer.

It is so nice having Star Trek back on TV where it belongs. I enjoyed Season 1 of Discovery quite a bit (especially the second half), but the Season 2 trailer looks way more like classic Star Trek than Season 1 was. I can’t wait.

Also, Anson Mount looks great as Pike.

Is this an unreasonable amount of screen space for two people?

To celebrate #NationalMoonDay, here is Apple’s macOS Moon Wallpaper with a Death Star in place of the Moon.

Don’t mind me, I’m just over here re-implementing ‘UITableView’ inside a ‘UICollectionViewFlowLayout’.

Multi-line editing in Xcode 10 is my favorite Xcode feature since Swift.