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Figured before the weather got too funky, I took D out to Corona Park / Meadow Lake. Reddit has an online photography class (reddit.com/r/photoclass2021/) and I’ve been slacking. I printed out the first camera class + assignment (focal length) and …
Took D out to Corona Park to work on a photography assignment and take some photos (I’ll post mine up shortly, his may be tomorrow if he’s willing to share). We were going to head home then stopped at a …
There are many articles written on this subject. Many of them suggest using Xcode’s memory graph debugger. Is there an easier way? I say yes! Unit tests to the rescue! The idea of the unit test is: Instantiate the object under test (“target”) and assign it to a nullable variable. Create a weak variable (“weakTarget”) and assign the target to it On the target, call a function to test for retain…
D had his leveling up ceremony for kindergarten! Everyone is still remote so the ceremony was all remote. It was great to see the pictures of all the kids from all the school’s kindergarten classes. Great job D with all …
NY ends COVID rules, after 472 days. Hopefully it will continue to get better and not make any turns for the worst!
D got a new bike today! He outgrew his red bike. We went to Babylon Bike Shop. They had a good selection of kids bikes. Sadly, they were all out of mountain bikes for adults (due to COVID). No mountain …
I decided to take a day off from work and spend the afternoon with D when he finished his afternoon class. The weather was nice so we chose to visit the NY Aquarium. We got there just in time to …
We went to the park to get some biking in and flying some airplanes. D got a bit wet from the puddles so he took a break to dry out and flew some airplanes. One was a rubber band driven …
We visited the Cradle of Aviation museum today. We spent a majority of the time playing games in their arcade museum (would HIGHLY recommend – 50+ arcade games spanning the 80s to recent).
It was a tad bit warmer today. We ventured out to our local playground. I think today was D’s first snowball fight. Two girls (friends of his) picked the fight. He also enjoyed driving his radio controlled monster truck.