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I did lots of experiments in AR and networking – some of which worked, and some of which very much did not.

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So, I might not have been making much progress on the code that actually paid the bills, but at least I could keep myself mostly sane and distracted.

After the PCalc About screen, Dice had become my new happy place, where I could explore new technology, and do something fun to take my mind off the fact that I was going to live with this increased pain going forward, and realistically, it would probably continue to get worse for the rest of my life. I did a lot of updates to Dice by PCalc after that. “We don’t know” was a common refrain when I asked questions. You might think there’s lots of medical research around this stuff, but there really isn’t. It’s just my nervous system misfiring in variety of new ways. I got poked and prodded and scanned, and everybody could agree that there was no actual identifiable cause to the pain – just as there wasn’t 20 years ago when it started.

“Have you tried mindfulness?”, the pain doctors asked, as I started to exhaust the limited number of medical options available.

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I was determined to show the pain who was boss, and released a big Mac update to PCalc in January. The side effects were mostly around my vision – losing my vision being one of my biggest fears, he foreshadowed. I kept working as I could, while I tested a variety of new drugs with increasingly awful side effects and no actual benefits. Of course, my back didn’t like me standing for more than a couple of hours either, so I had to cycle between a variety of positions. As a result, I couldn’t actually sit at my desk for more than an hour without discomfort, which would quickly turn to stabbing pain if I kept going. Instead of that needed break, my chronic neuropathic pain – a condition I’ve dealt with ok using medication for twenty years – decided it would turn things up to eleven. That year, I wasn’t even happy to leave my house. In a normal year, by around the end of November, I’d go on vacation somewhere sunny to recharge my batteries. But I kept pushing myself, and worked really long days and evenings to get everything ready for day one, as I usually do. I had a long list of features I wanted to get done, but most of it hadn’t come together at all.

Last year, around this point, I’d had a very frustrating summer – lots of Apple’s beta stuff didn’t work well, my motivation was at rock bottom, and I was even fed up with playing Animal Crossing, a game that got me through more of the early stages of lockdown than I’d care to admit. But the other thing is, we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic, and I’m just really tired of everything.

SharePlay was going to be that for many, and even that’s been delayed now. For me, one is there aren’t a lot of obvious hooks in this year’s OS releases that developers can build big new features around. I know a lot of people who are in the same boat, and there are a variety of reasons. Not nothing, but not anything I would consider actually substantial. I tell this story, not to gain your sympathy, but more to be a cautionary tale.Īs we head into Apple’s OS release cycle, I don’t have a lot to show for it this year.