Michael Lysons

Fun day at the tennis!

We’re all Belgian for the moment, right?

I’ve had a great birthday. Breakfast with family, being looked after all day by my wife, Gill, birthday cake, even the cat gave me a cuddle 😁

I am very lucky!

This is the coolest iOS-related video I’ve ever seen 😁 @mikaelacaron@swiftdevs.space @mikaelacaron@swiftdevs.space

It’s birthday cake o’clock for me now! 😁

I wonder how long the “New football manager” debate will last with Cook vs Ternus.

If you’re unfamiliar; when a footy team gets a new manager, success/failure is apportioned by bores based on their like/dislike of the new and previous managers. For example, Arne Slot didn’t win the league as it was Klopp’s team vs Arne Slot won the league with the same team that Klopp didn’t win the league with.

I very much look forward to my podcasts being full of this stuff 😂

We are being allowed some sunshine in England at the moment, so I took advantage at lunchtime and went for a little run. It was lovely and warm, not too hot, and I managed 4K so that’s not too bad 😀

Managed a 6k run today. First time in a long time. It’s been a rough 12 months due to rehab and my autism journey. A mixture of not being able to run along with extreme bouts of anxiety have meant my running has been sporadic.

Sometimes I managed three runs a week and sometimes I didn’t really leave the house except to go to work.

But a good day today! 6k and another activity logged in my exercise planner PocketPB 😀

RE: @goodbinary@mastodonapp.uk

Cool app if you like walking and want to generate or plot some routes. Good time to take advantage of the lifetime offer too 😁

Ah, two days off work. No laptop, no SQL Server databases, no typing weird instructions into a machine etc

Me: Opens MacBook, starts reviewing PocketPB’s data model and typing weird instructions into a machine… 😂

RE: @mlysons@iosdev.space

If there are any iPhone users in #running that want to try out an exercise planner app, there are a few spots left on my TestFlight.

Apologies to non-iPhone users. I don’t have the time or skill for Android at the moment.

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Beautiful.

#jft97 #ynwa 💔

My exercise planner, PocketPB, won’t report your location to people with bombs and other munitions.

Sometimes I’d like to support folks by buying their stuff, but then I remember two things: 1) mostly they despise me and put everything on Cotton Bureau to make it a LOLworthy cost to post stuff, 2) having bought dreadful quality clothing merch in the past I am skeptical.

Not all folks etc.

7k run today! Best run for a long time. I feel like I am slowly getting some fitness back. I am still really struggling to get out and run and that is affecting me, but today I made it 😀

Slowly getting back to running after a four week break. I didn’t want the break but unfortunately physical and mental health said otherwise.

Anyway, two runs in a week, so progress 😀

Alright, Lionel, calm down, mate!

My colleagues will insist on using:

Where table.integerValue = ‘number’

and

Where table.stringValue = string*

forcing the DB to convert every time.

I keep telling them 😂

* in these cases the string is always a numeric digit so it works fine, but that’s not the point! 🤪

Picking up my wife from Manchester airport. Because the airport folks hate humans, they have made this process difficult and stupid. If you can pick up someone in 15 minutes, you can do that free! But if not, then you can park. You can book and pay 20 billion GBP or chance it that there’s a space and pay about 10 billion GBP. And you must park on the right level or else.

I have no idea if I have done any of this correctly. The car is in-between the white lines though, so that’s something.

I write some of my best code in Excel. Today’s little win was writing a Smartsheet cell function in Excel, copying it down the 15 rows that needed it with it automatically-updating to reference the correct values on each row, and then dropping that straight into Smartsheet. And it worked. First time.

😁

I pre-ordered Paul Hudson’s Kickstart as I need all the help I can get with launching apps.

I also did a run in under 2 hours today!

Wow. @marcoarment@mastodon.social’s blog post had power, folks!

Arrest him for crimes against penalty taking!