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I have been not present on this space for a long time. That’s really not good for visibility. When you’re not visible you can’t be…..visible?

What have you been doing?

I’m glad you asked.
I’ve been surviving! That’s the short answer. The long answer is highly personal and not something I find myself wanting to dump on the internet thank you very much. I’ll give you a short-ish version of it.

I’m in a new-ish field. For 15 years or more, I was in the performing arts/theater world. I worked in ticketing systems to build events and to sell tickets. March of last year was a HUGE shock and disruption to that version of my self. All of that work was done either in a municipal setting (think a City government running a theater), or as a non-profit employee. The jobs were always backed up by a sense of mission that seemed to make everything worth it. It’s hard not to be left with a dark sense of resentment when things are upended. That’s why I won’t go into detail. I just want to let these things be what they are now, and move on.

What are you doing?

I’m still kicking it! I’ve not worked on iOS projects much. But after the last few weeks, I really want to make something. Apps that I think lift my own personal mission, and not an organizations. Things that help people get a sense of peace or accomplishment when they use them. And things that can bring in a little extra income for me.

Now what?

I’m going to keep on keeping on. I’ll try to post more again in this space. I have a few silly web projects I’m thinking about. Things that are still a part of my mission. The hard part here is making sure I stay motivated and actually do these damn things. The place where the dreaming meets the doing is the place that I get lost. It’s a bit of a dark and murky place, and I just have to take more light with me. That light is going to be this silly blog. If you read this, you’re amazing. Send me a note or find me on the social media! I’m trying to be a bit more active on @iosdev.space again.

As Ze Frank has said:"My pencils are sharp enough! Even the dull ones will make a mark! Warts and all, let’s start this shit up!"

It may not be the best idea, but I know that everyone makes stupid errors. It also feels really awesome to figure out what the stupid error was and fix it!

Mine goes like this. I’ve followed along in a HackingwithSwift course on a simple SwiftUI ToDo list app. Finished, done, lovely. I started another solo project, and thought “Oh, the Navigation on this will be very similar to the ToDo app I just did, I’ll use that as a nice template.” And I thought I made all the correct changes to my data model, my main ContentView, and everything! The dreaded “White Screen of NOTHING” greeted me when I launched the app.

Nothing. Natta. Zilch. Not even the NavigationTitle string. Just a blank white thing.

So I have to kick in the bug squash mode. Data Model? Nope, it’s fine. ContentView? I don’t think so? Oh. Oh Justin. You didn’t inject the NavigationView into the WindowGroup of the app’s ‘@main’ struct. Wow. Fixed.

IT WORKS.

I mean. It’s an odd feeling when you feel both silly and accomplished at the same time. I think that is a very interesting aspect of learning to Code and being in the Software Development field. I never really had this same feeling in college studying music.

So something happened to my WordPress installation. So here I am starting over. Again. It’s okay. Things happen, and I should learn to back-up my site frequently.