Frustrating low-energy workday today. The kind where I could just not seem to really focus and move forward in a way which felt effective no matter how much I tried. Tired and somewhat annoyed summed up the day quite well, and I was left with the feeling of having got very little done despite having the best of circumstances. (Except that tiredness, but I do not know if that was cause or effect.)
Tomorrow: Time to do better! There will be plenty of potential disctractions tomorrow - in the classic style of Tuesdays - so I can rest assured that the situation will not be similar to today in any way.
As I sat down to finish the last pieces of Kodsnack the Super Mario pattern hit me right in the face with full force. You know what can stop you deader in your tracks than slow networks and file transfers?
How about discovering you need to use a terminal program, which will not run because at some point in the past you apparently deleted Xcode to save some space?
For those happily unaware, Xcode is Apple's developer tools package and environment. It is both a large download and possibly the slowest software install known to mankind. Any amount of file transfer hassle is faster than waiting for Xcode, so I ended up doing a series of awkward transfers back and forth, enduring a incredibly slow upload due to (I think) wifi flakiness, and then the confusion of editing the podcast information in two generations of Libsyn user interface.
The new interface is much nicer, cleaner, and even does a few things automatically which used to be manual, but I could not find places to enter post information for Facebook and Linkedin and so went over to the old interface to add that. Looks like they maintain compatibility between versions just fine.
Now I am sweeping up the various podcast pieces as the Xcode install is trundling along. Cleaning up the mess and getting the mini set to do the whole process will be worth it, because it is already much nicer to do all the steps there - with all the screen space, wired connection, and so on - than it is to do it while wrapping myself around my laptop.
With all the boxes of the day checked, I think I will now watch the rest of Lars' Elixirconf EU video. It started really nicely before I had to pause as I got derailed by Mario.
(Spoiler: that review device is arriving sometime tomorrow evening, yay!)