Due to a change at work, I now have to use MS Outlook (in some form) to access a generic email address for our lab operations. I cannot state this more plainly:

Outlook for macOS is an ugly, cumbersome, and infuriating email client. It is so functionally limited for a modern email client.

How does anyone get any work done with this pile of 💩? Apple Mail has its issues, but it is infinitely more configurable and doesn’t look like an alien presence on my Mac. (End rant.)

#macadmins

My latest #MacAdmins blog post talks about AutoPkg (surprise, surprise) and Trust in a more fulsome way than I have seen elsewhere. H/t to @SubjectMac, Nathaniel Strauss, and everyone talking about #autopkg Trust in the Mac Admins Slack last month.

https://maclabs.jazzace.ca/2024/07/02/autopkg-and-trust.html

Hey, #yyc peeps. It’s the first Concert in the Park of the summer! Foothills Concert Band will be playing at Riley Park (SW corner) today from 2–4 p.m. It’s a free concert and you can come and go as you please. Come say hi (I’ll be the one waiving the stick). #yycMusic #windband

This aligns with what I’ve seen anecdotally in #yyc. We’re having a #COVID19AB wave that is unusual for the warmer months, already eclipsing last summer’s wave and still expected to double. Plus a nasty non-COVID flu that’s going around.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/covid-rising-alberta-summer-1.7237192

I fly so little, it never crossed my mind that I might qualify for one of those enhanced status plans. For this year, it's within reach. It's amazing what one round trip to Australia will do.

Watching tonight’s #CFL game, I am reminded about how technology often chases increasing profits over user experience, particularly re: advertising. You would think using tech to deal with providing better exposure in the shadows (in contrast to bright daylight) would be prioritized over placing advertisements on the field. Nope. Even bright ads in the shadows that look entirely fake are A-OK.