What the fresh hell is this abomination of a UI Twitter has foisted upon me?!?
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Thanks to Kicks for linking to this.
I was trying to enrol my iPad into the iPadOS public beta, but the portal seems to be having all sorts of issues, so I can’t get logged in yet. I’ll wait until the rush dies down. FWIW, these are what I’m most excited for:
- Better mutli-tasking
- Mouse support
- Better file-management
After [my experiment with “butter coffee”](https://micro.kpw.fyi/2019/06/23/i-just-tried.html) at the weekend, I just had my first cup of Bulletproof Coffee. It was fine; better than my homemade attempt. I need to better time when I make it though, as the ingredients had started to separate by the time I got to drink it ☕️
Come to think of it, my entire day has been taken up with really annoying database issues. I still don’t understand fully why either happened, but fingers crossed, I think I’ve fixed them. If not, tomorrow is going to be more of the same…
3 hours on some weird PHP/MySQL auto-increment bug is not how I wanted to spend my evening.
I had hoped to get back to painting my GSC tonight, but it’s been one of _those_ days, so it looks like I’m going to be stuck in front of a computer instead 😒
I switched my Manjaro installation to Gnome instead of KDE last night, as a lot of the tools I use seem to assume a Gnome/GTK environment and some of the integrations didn’t work right on KDE.
Anyway, I can now use my home PC as a space heater 🔥
I can safely say this has been the wettest spring/early summer in Aberdeen I can remember for a _long_ time. April/May/June have been nothing but rain with the occasional nice day or two every once in a while.
Normally a weekend with the kids is (for me) an exercise in snacking and junk food, but this weekend I managed to keep things in check and stick to my meal planning. It’s early days still, in my current plan, but this is the most in control of my eating I’ve felt in a few years.
I just tried butter coffee for the first time, and it didn’t make as much difference to the taste as I thought (hoped?) it would. Not sure I made it correctly though, so it probably needs more experimentation. ☕️
Score 2 wins for [the Bacon Method](http://baconmethod.com/) today already 🥓🤤
I mentioned over on Micro.blog that I’d managed to get a workable edit/commit/push workflow on my iPad. Naturally, I’m now considering a keyboard to complete the setup.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good keyboard to use with a 9.7” iPad Pro?
The last time I had a similar setup, I used an Apple Wireless Keyboard (in an Origami case/stand) as the Bluetooth keyboard + case combos available at the time all felt horrible to type on. I do have a spare ultra-compact mechanical keyboard I could try with a USB adapter, but thinking more about it, that’s probably not going to work well when I don’t have a table to work on.
So, if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!
Thinking about it… it might be time to get a new keyboard for this iPad. I’ve not had one since my old Apple Wireless Keyboard + iPad 2 combo, so it’s been a while. I have a spare 60% sized mechanical keyboard, so if I can get hold of a Lightning -> USB adapter, I could possibly use that…
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good iPad keyboard?