I’m really appreciating the section linking in Notes for OS 27. For the record, I’m running Dev Beta 4 on everything that I can (MacBook, iPad, iPhone).

From the early press releases, I knew that you would be able to link to sections inside of a single note. I have learned that, in practice, it’s an update to the current linking method in Notes. When you specify a note that you want to link to, a list of subsections appears from the destination. You can link directly to a specific section of any note. If you don’t specify another note, you’ll see a list of sections of the current note. When you select a section in the current note, the dialog updates to reflect the current note is the note that contains the section. You can therefore copy this link and use it in other notes and the destination remains the same. It is fundamentally similar to HTML anchor tags. Not the same, but similar enough to be super helpful.

I have already used this functionality successfully for in-note navigation. For example, I have an annual almanac note, with sections for each month. I have a table at the top of the note with each month listed, and these link to the sections for each month. In the section header for each month, I have a glyph that links back to the title of the note, which takes you to the top.

This new functionality helps me with my commitment to my decision to stay in the ecosystem for my current practice, though I remain very watchful of other tools. I do have candidate destinations should anything about the Apple ecosystem become untenable.

QA on fast food is terrible. It feels like a lottery win when an order arrives complete.

It is every chain, it is almost every order.

It’s almost like paying your employees as little as possible is ineffective.

Is a new browser tab, any any blank document for that matter, a liminal space?

Are there any downsides to installing custom fonts on an iPad?

I went to edit a small file on my iPad, I have the correct app, but naturally the font selection on it was not the same as on my MacBook and the file I wanted to modify would not have the same appearance as a result

That thing where you open a new browser tab and the reason why escapes you completely

Short of saying “You’ve come to the right place.” Over and over again, in a reassuring tone. I’m not certain how to deal with a support situation I find triggering, which is having a person coming you for support, a person who you have worked with in that support capacity, tell me they weren’t sure who to ask for help.

It’s triggering because I feel like I must be doing something wrong in a role I’ve held for more years than I care to enumerate.

Have I made any difference at all? Had any effect?

I’m selfishly venting here. It’s not your problem to solve for me. For all that I can do really effectively, I see clearly that I can’t stop learning.

Two things for the Animal Crossing folks:

1. The official Ninten island is very normcore. I triple checked the DA address to be sure I went to the correct island. Also? There are many not official Ninten islands. The real deal was approachable but not impressive. Also was looking forward to custom designs and there were only two, today. None matching the official news article in the Nintendo Switch Online app.

2. Why are the villagers so rude with their catch-phrase? I met Ricky today who apparently enjoys saying “nutcase.” Cool. Cool. Also, bye. You will not be staying on either of my islands.

Have a coffee grinder on the fritz. In my opinion it died an early death. It was the same manufacturer of a unit that lasted more than 15 years, but this one lasted maybe one. Not going to buy the same device a third time.

For those who grind, what is your best recommendation?

Deep diving on Hugin and Munin. I’m trying to process recent events. I spent 8 or 10 hours in Minecraft last night. I spent 3 or 4 hours writing my long-form piece.

CENTREX: I had a job working for The Safety and Security department at Mankato State University, in the late 1980s. I worked overnight, primarily. I was a radio operator trained on the job to log events standard and emergent, as well as occasionally reach out to municipal emergency services. I learned in those days what must happen in key contexts, and the mandate to roll out police, fire and EMT services in response to each 911 call, unless or until specifically indicated not necessarily by responders already on-scene. I was not in a medical or law-enforcement program as most of my colleagues were—a friend of my girlfriend was an EMT, which is how we learned about the job openings.

The word CENTREX just came back to me. I couldn’t remember the name of the role earlier this week. The call letters were KOL339. I learned some ten codes and started to memorize the phonetic alphabet. I still use it. It gets chuckles from people at times. I will say “niner” in out loud in public if I think it serves the context.