Organizing Triangle Cocoa—CocoaHeads and NSCoder Nights—changed my life.
My career was mostly focused on .NET programming for AutoCAD and I dabbled with
Mac programming on the side. When the iPhone SDK was released I fell in love
with it. I started learning as soon as it was possible—I went from dabbling to
“taking it seriously”. There was a lot struggle in learning alone, none of my
coworkers knew anything about Apple platforms and there wasn’t as much content
out there as there is today.
Eleven years later–my career has changed, I’m a better engineer, and I’ve found
a network of friends and mentors. Not to mention I’ve been a speaker at several
conferences and even other meetups. After all this time, I’ve decided to move on
as the organizer and find someone else to guide the group’s future.
I borrowed a Mavic Pro 2 to potentially use for future One Charge Trips episodes. First I needed to practice so I made a small video of my first flight. Of course… I also crashed.
Another episode of One Charge Trips was a visit to Hillsborough, NC to see the historic Occoneechee Speedway. It was a really hot day and we walked a lot! Really fascinating to see a place reclaimed by nature.
It‘s been at least two years since I last wrote about TODO lists and I‘ve tried several different options from going back to the Bullet Journal, trying OmniFocus again, to using Agenda for notes and todos. Through all this I still wasn’t feeling like I found a great system and easily could convince myself to ignore a todo or have to do weird things like moving tasks when I couldn’t get to them in a day.
We continued our weekend One Charge Trips this weekend and went to the Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh. The performances by Phantogram and Chvrches were great. We found some good seats without people in front of us or behind us, so we could sit or stand when we wanted. It also gave me the opportunity to be cooler than my daughter who just went to a Jonas Bros concert this week.
