• “Camping” @ Memaloose State Park

    We’ve heard of people doing it. We’re tough. We’re good parents. Why shouldn’t we take our 13-month old camping? Let me tell you the reasons: Unless you book a campsite six months out in the PNW, you’re stuck with some pretty bad campgrounds. Memaloose State Park, sandwiched between railroad tracks and an interstate (LOUD, and

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  • Mia, 1 Year

    We all made it and Mia’s grandparents were able to visit and meet her for the first time. What a blast! New this month is standing all the time, getting super chatty and interactive, eating corn on the cob (Mom’s favorite), a little bit more napping on us (Dad’s favorite), and my Dad says he

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  • Getting an xcresult out of CircleCI

    An XCResult is a bundle of test results created by Xcode. It contains detailed debugging and screenshots. As with all “bundles” on macOS, it’s actually a folder. As such, standard means of storing CI results do not apply. To add to the difficulty of figuring out how to store this on a particular CI, Apple

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  • Mia, Month 11

    The last of the monthly posts! You’ll get one next month, but really that’s a yearly post. We’ll be moving to quarterly from there. This month Mia found her vocal cords; she chats up a storm, can now scream, and that’s the end of our hearing. Her biggest feat has to be climbing up any

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  • Safari and XCUITest

    THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT TESTING WEBSITES WITH XCUITEST. I think that can be done, but I don’t do it, it sounds terribly painful, and there are probably better tools available. This article is to help you with a very common question I see asked on the StackOverflow XCUITest tag. “How do I ensure my

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  • Mia, Month 10

    This month was a hard one for everyone. Lots of teething (now 5-7 teeth), separation anxiety only remedied by a heavy dose of Mom, and leaving our nanny share due to the cutthroat nature of Portland daycare (if we passed at our opportunity, we’d not have a daycare opening until Fall 2022 at the earliest,

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