status updates

🇺🇸 on today’s schedule

☕️ alright, Tuesday, let’s see what we can do today.

The request last week: can you send me those files? And so sharing files in Cloudbase got some major improvement. “One link, all the files”.

Redesigned the look and feel of my Coffee with Aaron blog posts as they appear on my personal blog. Pretty happy with how it turned out! https://aaronaiken.me/blog/cwa/

👻 ☕️ don’t mind if I do.

☕️ can’t shake this tired. blaming the “time change” - whether we “move” forward or back it always messes with me. more coffee.

😴 definitely could have kept sleeping.

💻 up to write a little bit before the day has its way.

Mac app I made for myself a while ago to run various scripts as needed. The loading screen is themed to seasons, holidays, and has a few random ones thrown in for good measure. Autumn is Harry Potter.

Another solid Cloudbase release - lots of improvements to video calls, big thanks to those helping test and find the things that need fixing or could otherwise be made better! “A chat beside your calls” - nothing earth-shattering here, but good to have.

Perfect for linking out to external resources/artifacts that relate to a ticket.

Fun putting this together.

Some writing this morning, lots of looking back.

lots of tinkering today.

Working on a thing

🥱 Rough sleep last night. Need coffee.

Non-passkey MFA is getting old.

☀️ Grateful Log for Monday, October 26, 2026

1. Sleeping in
2. Slow starts
3. First sip

Good morning and Happy Monday ☕️

☀️ Grateful Log for Saturday, October 24, 2026

1. Saturday football and beer
2. Mozzie scored a touchdown in his flag football game today (last game of the season)!
3. A fantastic time at Longwood gardens yesterday

And so, I am now looking for 5–10 couples to test Kitchen Table, a little iPhone app Lindsay and I use to write down what we decided, and why. It’s in public TestFlight, and the thing I most need tested is sharing it with your person. Interested?

Another one. And I do want to say this: all of what I have made and am now starting to get out there has been made for a while and I’ve been running it through my own testing before asking anyone else to test, finding what my use finds, but, that only finds so much.

☀️ Grateful Log for Friday, October 23, 2026

1. My 4:30 alarm didn’t go off…I am thankful for the extra 2 hours of sleep (even though I did have plans for that early start).
2. Family day ahead!
3. Helping score Mozzie’s Air Pistol team’s qualifiers

Finally got my intro to Cloudbase video published on the tube. Out of practice but fun to get back into recording and publishing video. Please give it a watch!

☀️ Grateful Log for Thursday, October 22, 2026

1. Up early this morning for some quiet before the day got going
2. Recognizing the need for cognitive rest
3. Doing something about said cognitive rest.

Shipped a pretty substantial update to Cloudbase earlier this morning - getting the team structure just right has been a nice puzzle to work through: “who can do what”

☀️ Grateful Log for Wednesday, October 21, 2026

1. shining sun
2. nice walk with Lindsay
3. time today to do some edging around the yard, not many times left

🎙️ Video recorded, intro of sorts to Cloudbase. Good to be recording and talking again. And writing too! The various forms and mediums of creativity and expression are quite fun to get into. I’ll share it once published.

One more cup of coffee to focus this morning.

Had a pretty massive release for Cloudbase over the weekend. Generic search became “Direct-to” where you can not just search but you can see previews, do things, change how it looks, navigate around the app, all from “the box”. Release notes here.