OK, I guess Apple meant it this time.

After years hearing how they were going to make the iPad a multitasking device they’ve achieved it for my usage. I had no intention of “testing” this claim this morning but I needed to do a multi-hour project that involved constantly looking at/switching 3 different apps. Before I would have quickly jumped to my mini with the 27” screen out of annoyance. But today it all felt very natural on the iPad Air 11”.

Not a Mac replacement but still 👍🏼👍🏼

Content warning:Grumpy post about Things3

I must have woken up itching for a fight.

I updated to iPadOS 26, which is great, but Things3 updated and now keyboard navigation in text fields is broken. They’ve hijacked shortcuts that are on Apple’s “do not hijack” list and I’m ready to dump the app. Overreaction? Maybe. But’s like
Apple: Let’s make the iPad more capable like a computer
Things3: Nope, let’s break system-wide keyboard shortcuts

I did contact them and I’m hoping for a workaround/fix.

Content warning:Parenting milestone

Our 21 year old daughter has worked since she was 16 (her own choice) entirely in hourly retail positions. Today, after a long search, she started her first full time job, with full benefits, as an administrative assistant at a law firm. She is also on the cusp of finishing her associates degree. She has fought hard for this and done it her own way so we’re very happy for her.

This is cool. Borderlands 4 and Cyberpunk both have shared cosplay related models on Printables. Free to download.
printables.com/@Borderlands

printables.com/@CDPROJEKTRED

Targets crypto transactions apparently

20 Popular npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Compromised in Supply Chain Attack thehackernews.com/2025/09/20-p

Our son is a junior so I took him to the obligatory “college night”. Pretty much a waste of time in this internet age but the kids do earn a brownie point for attending.

I’m glad I’ll never have to go again. Now for the real game of getting him in his desired university.

Looks like I’m ready for 2026 already!

My Hobonichi Original arrived today. I’m glad I decided to switch from the A5 to the smaller A6.

Also new to me this year is using an official Hobonichi cover. Last year I used a clear one. The Tamagotchi cover looks and feels really nice.

Right before bed last night I got a JetPens notice the Hobonichi Techos were available to order. Delayed bed to log in and place an order. By morning they were sold out so 👍🏼 I went with the A6 Tamagotchi for 2026.

More stock will arrive soon of course but it feels nice to have locked in the exact one I wanted.

Hats off to Prusa for the improvements to the slicer and even going so far as to include improvements for BL’s printers. bots.defencegeeks.net/@prusa3d

I was this years old when I learned there is a song called “Only my railgun”. It is a J-Pop song because of course it is. 😀 The audience in the video is kinda fun.

youtu.be/cWPOOF0mXUk?si=taCo7R

I have never used masking tape on a print before but my TPU has been sticking far too well to my textured sheets. I had a smooth PEI sheet that was past its best so gave it a try. Worked like magic. The model printed perfectly and came right off.

I needed a spreadsheet formula for a duration calculation and since I tend to suck at those I thought “hey, let’s have AI do it”. So I asked ChatGPT
- First answer was invalid so I told it why and it said “you’re right that won’t work, try this”
- Second answer was also invalid so the “you’re right…” scenario again
- Third answer also invalid, I gave up

Back to using my brain. AI fails so easily and even worse pretends it know the answer.

My daughter told me this morning our Cyberpower UPS started beeping last night and she muted it. The error code in the manual just said to contact support. Cynical me was like “trying getting support from a UPS company is a waste of time.” But I tried.

Well shame on me. They responded in less than an hour and we exchanged a couple of completely on-point email in quick succession. I’m impressed.

Enjoying some aroma therapy - printing Gentleman’s Gray PLA 😉

Based on the specs ICOM’s IC-7300 MK2 has most of the enhancements I’ve been wanting on my stock 7300. But I haven’t found any pricing yet.

dx-world.net/the-new-icom-ic-7

Our recent nearby lightning strike has claimed another victim. The upstairs AppleTV, which initially only had its ethernet port killed, started overheating today. It did this repeatedly before I was informed. When I checked it’s case temperature it was over 300ºF! Immediately unplugged it - permanently.⚡️

Printable has added the ability to publish articles/blogs on its site to “share detailed build logs, tutorials, and project stories on Printables, even without a 3D model”. I don’t know if I’ll make much use of it but since I was in the middle of a multi-day project I decided to create an article on the shelves and drawers I'm creating:
printables.com/article/small-c

Annnnnd - just got a notification another 8 port gigabit switch died. 😖 To get by I had to steal a 5 port switch from a less important part of the house.

The one other time we had lightning damage I remember devices slowly died over the next 48 hours. But I can hope no more do, or at least nothing expensive.

None of the surge protectors tripped. Ingress is a bit a mystery.

Whilst in the middle of an intense Gloomhaven scenario a strong but brief storm blew through and dumped .75” of rain in 15 minutes. We had two lightning strikes out the windows less than 100 yards away. No sirens so no houses hit but it took down cellular for a while. Also discovered later it fried an 8 port gigabit switch and the ethernet port on an Apple TV. Proverbial “could have been worse”. ⛈️

Feeling strongly tempted to install the iPad OS public beta to give the new windowing a try. Not something I typically do.

Meanwhile watching the live stream of NISAR launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

It finally dawned on me today I could stream a PC Steam game to my Steam Deck. In the past I tried Steam Link with my iPad and it was too laggy. Works great with the SD just have to put up with a smaller screen.

Why not just install the game on the Steam Deck? In my case it is mods. I don’t want to be saddled with managing mods on both the PC and SD.

More wildlife, this time an armadillo hunting food alongside the exercise trail. I hadn’t seen one in over a year and was missing them.

I have never been so close to a wild deer in my life. Quite the start of our morning hike.🥾

Seriously excited by Ghost of Yotei and this video doesn’t change my mind.

youtu.be/cgM6poO2JmY?si=MeXMjA

Got my invitation to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 today, if anyone is keeping score. I’m going to pass on it. None of the games are compelling enough to me to warrant the cost and we just built a PC for about the same cost.