Merry Christmas everyone. Hope that you are having a good holiday. 🎄🎅🏼

Slowly but surely I am learning to bend UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource to my will. Still have a lot to learn, but figuring out the best way to structure the data for the snapshots has been my biggest challenge. Not making the section identifier as simple as possible initially was my biggest mistake.

Staring at a newly created project in Xcode is, to me, like a writer staring at a blank piece of paper.

It’s definitely going to be some kind of day when the car driving down the street is blasting “Ice Ice Baby” at 8:30 in the morning. 😁

How has it taken me this long to discover the magic of fleece lined jeans for winter? These things are amazing and so comfortable.

Emma’s sleep schedule has been adjusting lately. No matter what time she goes to bed, she is now waking up between 6 and 6:30 instead of 7 and 7:30. I’m missing that extra hour of sleep. 🥱

Number of days that I forgot to set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to false? Zero. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Falling down the rabbit hole of refactoring some code thinking that it can, or should, be cleaned up a bit only to end up back where I started and realizing that this approach is perfectly fine.

I spent an embarrassing amount of time, this morning, trying to figure out why my collection view cells weren’t refreshing when I updated the snapshot. Only to realize that I had added a custom equatable function to the struct that was only checking the id value, which doesn’t change. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I really enjoyed giving a talk at our Tech Get Together at trivago. Something that has been terrifying to me, as I hate speaking in front of a lot of people. But I really enjoyed the experience and it was a lot of fun. I was mentally exhausted last night, after having been stressed over this for a few weeks. On the bright side, I slept really well.