I've started posting periodic personal updates to my blog. TL;DR so far so good either with treatment.

https://maclabs.jazzace.ca/2025/11/23/personal-update-1.html

My journey home from #psumac begins in a few hours.
Hershey 🚗 PHL ✈️ YUL ✈️ YYC 🏠

Blog post to follow in the coming weeks.

It is not often that you can see the Northern Lights from within an urban area. But tonight was one of those nights.

It was also amazing how modern smart phone cameras can pick up even more detail than you could see live. Note: The reddish colour at left in the first image is light pollution from a parking lot light.

#yyc #yycwx

I know dunking is frowned upon here, but this is #yyccc comedy gold.

Headline:
Calgary Coun. Sean Chu testifies for defence at former colleague Joe Magliocca’s fraud trial

Is that what they call a Lack of Character witness? 🤣

Yesterday, my dear, dear friend Darrell Croft died. We met through music, but our friendship went well beyond that, being Best Man at our respective weddings. I will deeply miss him but I will always remember all the times we had together — joyous and challenging — and try to carry his spirit in the way I live.

The memorial service is Sat. at 11 a.m. MT in Taber and can be streamed:

https://www.southlandfuneral.com/component/obits/?view=obits&id=3801

How do I spend a rainy day during a vacation day at home? Write a blog post about the URLTextSearcher processor in AutoPkg and some less-obvious recipe writing techniques that were discussed in the #MacAdmins Slack recently:

https://maclabs.jazzace.ca/2024/08/22/advanced-urltextsearcher.html

I've updated my Mac Obsolescence chart to reflect the MacBook Air models whose terminal OS is Sonoma. I've also explicitly called out the first model of each series that ran on Apple Silicon, as this also determines support for Apple Intelligence.

https://maclabs.jazzace.ca/resources/hwswchart