It was my first day back at work today, after my short trip to Scotland. I was totally not ready for it. However, I did finally get to do some Swift development later in the day, and tomorrow I will be doing the same! It sounds weird, an iOS developer not writing Swift, but our whole team has been moved to another short-term project, so it’s not an ideal situation.

I did manage to fit in a lot of WWDC content, which I’m very much relieved with. As I was falling behind with all of it, since being away without a reliable internet connection, and spare time to watch videos. I finished off the Keynote, watched “The Talk Show Live”, a bit of State of the Union, and also listened to Federico Viticci’s great interview with Craig Federighi.

Today was our last day in Scotland. So we spent the morning packing, getting out of the rooms, and eating out last full English/Scottish breakfast.

After we left the hotel, all 7 of us split up into three different activities: A trip across to a smaller island, shopping, and visiting another member of family that lives in Scotland. I was doing the latter. Some of us then went to a little garden/park which had some nice plants, but also some animals. Including goats, donkeys, parrots, chickens, rabbits, etc. It wasn’t much, but you don’t often see a public “zoo”.

Eventually we all met up afterwards for lunch. Which turned out to be an early dinner, as we had to leave for the airport at 6 pm.

Once we were at the airport, I started to watch as much of the WWDC Keynote as possible. Unfortunately I only managed 20 minutes, as I was relying on the terrible airport WiFi. And for some reason, the Keynote was not available to download offline, so I couldn’t even prepare myself at the hotel. So tomorrow is going to be packed with WWDC videos!

Anyway, I’ll end with a few of my favourite photos from the trip:

 

Again, we started the day with a breakfast at the hotel.

Later on the day we headed to Glasgow central. We walked around the city for a bit, before heading to the science centre. That was pretty fun for a few hours.

Afterwards we headed back to Cartsdyke, where we met loads of my family for dinner. Some from Greenock (local) and others that were over from Australia. It was a very busy night.

When the restaurant was empty, we headed back to Greenock for a drink with one of my cousins. After one drink, my mum, sister, girlfriend, and my brothers girlfriend went back to hotel, and we stayed for a few more. It was an enjoyable night, but it’s certainly now time for bed.

We started the day with a full Scottish/English breakfast at the hotel. Followed by a day of travelling around the area.

It included a lot of different areas, shops, and activities, but we essentially travelled through Gourock to Wemyss Bay, got the ferry to Rothesay, spent a while there, and then came back across to Gourock. Once we got back there, we walked along the esplanade until we got back to a restaurant to eat dinner.

After dinner, we completed the tiny journey to the hotel. And played some card games with some alcohol.

I was planning to watch at least some part of WWDC. Usually I watch the Keynote in Starbucks, followed by the State of the Union at home. However, as I’m on holiday, I expected to at least have the keynote downloaded so I can watch before going to bed. But the download is still not available, so that’s going to have to wait until at least tomorrow.

Another bad thing is the betas. Right now, you need a Mac to get the iOS and iPadOS betas. Of course, I only brought my iPad to Scotland.

We landed in Glasgow at around 9 am this morning. And we quickly all got together and had a Scottish breakfast at a pub. As far as I can tell, it’s an English breakfast with a potato scone.

In the afternoon we got to the hotel and everyone seemed to have a nap, before heading out to my cousins house. As we had a lot of ripple visiting from all over, we had a whole mix of accents, with English, Scottish, and Australian, and a lot of in between.

We had dinner, some drinks, and some NERF fights. Now we’re just getting ready for bed!

A few days a go, a friend on Twitter said to me that Text Case needed to support clap case. This being the replacement of spaces between words with a clapping hands emoji. 👏

I don’t know why I’ve never thought about adding it to Text Case before. I’ve seen it tons of times used on Twitter, and it’s not exactly a hard format to code.

So I did it.

It didn’t take long at all. And it’s a features designed just for fun. But in version 2.1, you 👏 can 👏 now 👏 clap 👏 away 👏 to 👏 your 👏 hearts 👏 content.

Find Text Case on the App Store.

Today was pretty much a day of preparing for a family trip to Scotland tomorrow. That included getting the house ready for the cat sitters, getting a few things and packing for the trip, and also the boring chores that come with owning a house.

Apart from the boring things, I did release an update to Text Case today. It’s nothing major, just a new format called Clap Case, that inserts clapping hands emoji between words. It was suggested by a friend on Twitter, so I just did it quickly!

Turns out it was much quicker than I thought, with the app update taking less than 12 hours to go from me submitting it, to it being available in the store. You can read the blog post about it, and also find it on the App Store.

It was a quiet day at work. A lot of people were working from home, which meant less chatting. And, of course, we were a tad more productive.

After work, I was presented with a new lawn mower from my dad. So I immediately cut the grass in our back garden as soon as I got home. This took longer than I thought. But it turns out the included cable is really long, as is a perfect fit for our garden. So no extension leads were needed at all.

When I’d finished all the gardening for the day. I cooked dinner, and caught up with the latest episode of The Instance podcast. Which I do on Twitch, as that’s where they stream and host the live video.

Since then I’ve just been finishing up a very small update to Text Case. It’s nothing serious, just a funny addition that a friend suggested. Hopefully it’s released soon!

Beth Mole, writing for Ars Technica:

Hawaii’s health department has released fresh warnings about a parasitic worm that can infest human brains after officials confirmed that three more visitors to the state picked up the infection.

Well, I certainly won’t be visiting Hawaii anytime soon.

Work was pretty fun today. Nothing spectacular, but we had a lot of funny conversations throughout the team, and we even got a lot of work done.

I’m still looking forward to tomorrow, as it’s my last work day until next Thursday. As I’m off to Scotland on Sunday!

Over here on the blog I was a bit more active than usual.I published three things!

Firstly I linked to a piece about an Open Letter to GCHQ regarding their Ghost Protocol idea. I then linked to a review of the recent update to Linky on MacStories. And finally I wrote a full article about how I automate publishing blog posts.

In the evening I popped out for a coffee, played some World of Warcraft Classic, and watched a ton more Big Bang Theory with my girlfriend.