Scott Gruby

@sgruby
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iOS/Mac Developer
Bloghttps://blog.gruby.com
Working From Home

There has been a lot of discussion in the last few years about people working from home where it went from almost no one to most office workers working from their homes. My experience working from …

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I received a package from Amazon today that was completely empty. It was an envelope and when the driver handed it to me, I could clearly see there was nothing in it. The driver took the package back and entered something on his device.

Not sure how Amazon packed and shipped an empty envelope.

For anyone using TurboTax for Mac this year, there is a serious bug in calculating 529 plan qualified distributions. It appears to be marking them as unqualified and taxing them.

If I enter the qualified expense, tax goes up, set it to zero, goes down, set it back to the original value, it goes up. Delete the value it goes away, tax goes down. The original value comes back, but the tax does not go up.

The category for this must be some person's idea of a joke!
Do any devices still use C or D batteries? I don't think I have any flashlights that use them anymore.
Lost My Wallet

I’ve been carrying a wallet for something like 35 years in my back pocket. Initially, I carried my ATM card and a few dollars. When I got my driver’s license, I added that to the mix. Slowly over t…

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My son was washing his car and a coyote just walked up the street in broad daylight. Sure we live near canyons, but that’s pretty bold. The coyote stared at my son and moved along; maybe he looked menacing.
The Road to Retirement

At the height of the pandemic, I started to think a lot about retirement. When I was 12, my father started me on the path to retirement by setting up an IRA for me. While this may seem young, exper…

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New blog post: USB-C cables under deliver

https://blog.gruby.com/2024/01/08/usb-c-cables-under-deliver/

USB-C cables under deliver

When I started learning about USB-C, I was excited to standardize on cables instead of having all kinds of cables and having to travel with a ton of cables. However, years ago, I read about a Googl…

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New blog post: A year without Paperless (ReceiptWallet)

https://blog.gruby.com/2024/01/06/a-year-without-paperless-receiptwallet/

A year without Paperless (ReceiptWallet)

Last year, I wrote about ditching Paperless and storing all my documents in the Finder. This was driven by 2 main things. The first was I didn’t know how long Paperless would be around as it was ge…

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