Kayla McArthur

100% this.

I’m a fan of plan timelord if for no other reason than it establishes a Who-Bond Cinematic Universe, but also it isn’t like they haven’t rebooted the franchise before…

Me: Why has synchronization suddenly started failing on my iOS/macOS app? Did I break it with latest code change

[20 minutes later]

Me: ...why is BA blocking CloudKit syncing in their airport lounge?

Anyways, if you're in a BA lounge and CloudKit doesn't work, try a VPN 🙃

TIL about the words executrix and testatrix.

Using a loaner badge at work this week and constantly fearing staircases as I remember The Incident where my loaner badge stopped working in one half a decade ago.

“Hey it’s me ur ai company can u guarantee my house loan?”

I’m on a work trip to LON this week. Any mutuals that wanna hang out just shoot me a DM :).

I think a lot of the time our general motivations are hidden from us, they exist, we just can't or don't know them.

I think I've finally figured out what really intrinsically motivates me after some deep reflection and some life stuff. It's really great to feel actually self-aligned in my choices.

A selection of vegetables including squash, mint, a type of lettuce, and beans on a wooden counter.

Something wonderful about harvesting veggies and then immediately cooking them up for breakfast.

That makes sense. For me it's felt like most tooling that's available is too heavy or too focused on 'habits' which isn't exactly what I want. I want something where I can have my daily checklists and also my "I'm about to go camping, what do I need to do?" checklist.

I should have a get together of compliance engineering people titled "Findings on Fun".

Or "Observations on Fun" if I don't want to give everyone a panic attack when they see a meeting invite for "Findings..."

Working on a new iOS and macOS app in my spare time to keep track of my routines and checklists because I haven’t found anything that really suits my needs yet and the only reason I seem so put together is checklists.

Will release it free when I’m done in case anyone else needs or wants it.

Getting diagnosed with ADHD has been funny. Lots of conversations that are some variation of:

Me: I have ADHD apparently
Friend: Oh. Um. I - I thought you already knew that

Retrospectively, fair point.

Going through my old files from when I was younger and finding all my advanced graph theory presentations I did for the research group I was part of as an undergrad. I still love graph theory and see it everywhere.

Should find somewhere to post these, the book I based them on is out of print now.

I'm curious to see how Swift for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform compare on various performance measures, particularly for complicated code and optimizations - I'd love to see a blog with comparisons.

Overhead the other day...

If someone asks you "are you in line?" what they actually mean is "would you please do better at standing in line?"

(Having endured an errand afternoon yesterday, let me tell you, it hit.) 😂

I feel this in my soul lol

One of my least favorite things about managing iOS build systems is the weird interaction between things that are versioned in macOS (e.g. codesign) and things versioned in Xcode. The target triple + Xcode combination is not enough to actually know how things build.

A warning sign along a hiking trail that has been photoshopped - it says "DO NOT APPROACH TURBINES, they are easily frightened and may abandon their young"

Turbines get anxious this time of year.

A number of large wind turbines in western Ireland as viewed from a nearby hiking trail

The wind farms out west are also multi-use with lovely hiking trails all through them.

Migrating to a self-hosted PDS was relatively easy, except for some reason the relay didn't start picking up events my PDS published for almost a full day. If others run into this, giving it a day seemed to work for me?

Very odd, but overall can't complain about migration process and setup :)

The My Neighbor Totoro thanksgiving episode is a yearly rewatch for me.

(And obviously, this doesn't apply to every situation - sometimes you _need_ help digging in from leads, are being stonewalled, or are facing issues you absolutely need urgent support. Knowing when it's going to be more effective to escalate now vs spend time boiling it down is a critical skill tho)

The transition to being someone others escalate to is also weird, because you suddenly find yourself on the other side of this and giving 8 answers to 3 questions over a period of a few weeks as you get up to speed, and suddenly wish they'd given you a summary and set of options instead.

You work with people at your level, figure out details, boil it down, then present a short decision paper that succinctly lays out situation and a few choices with your suggestion. Escalating at this point means just getting a clear decision made, without randomizing you or your leads.

It's not always a clear cut answer either. Sometimes, escalating means you get more definitive guidance, but it could cause confusion in the interim period as you get mixed or multiple answers as people gain enough context on problem. There's a middle ground though: dig in first then escalate.

At some level, almost all issues you deal with become complicated, and the answers become multifaceted and hard. As you get more exposure to these problems, you face another issue: when is it more time effective to escalate to those above you vs when is it more time effective to dig in at your level

This is a ridiculously good idea I'm totally stealing.

one of the best paths in healing from cptsd, depression, and anxiety, is getting into your body and being grounded

this can be ableist as a piece of advice given callously, bc not everyone has access to the resources or physical strength for physical activities (think MFS & long covid, for example)

Currently embracing that mental state where you become so interrupt driven that somehow you enter flow over the act of just managing the interrupts themselves.

who called it "silicon valley office decor" and not faang shui