February 2023 – Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)

Jungfrau at sunset

The last light of day on the Jungfrau above Wengen

The Jungfrau, a rocky and snow peak in the Swiss Alps, with a few small peaks reflecting the rosy light of sunset.

Rivendell

Lauterbrunnen valley, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rivendell, is quite literally a “riven dell” — it looks as if the gods clove the earth here with a giant axe.

Landscape view of a steep-sided valley surrounded by snowy mountains on a sunny day.

Wengen office

Office for the next three days. Nicht schlecht.

Laptop on a small table in front of a window with a view of snow-covered mountains in the Swiss Alps.

Apple Watch Fall detection

I managed to trigger the fall alert on my Apple Watch during my hike today when I tangled the snow chains on one boot with the shoelace hooks on the other boot and promptly fell over (I’m fine).

Kleine Scheidegg – Grindelwald hike

Winter hike: Kleine Scheidegg – Alpiglen – Brandegg – Grindelwald Grund, 10.4km, 18m ascent / 1,132m descent, 2°C ☀️ with a stop for lunch at Alpiglen. Fantastic weather again. Pity I have to work tomorrow.

A wide, groomed ski piste against a backdrop of snow-covered mountains under a clear blue sky.

Morning view from the Alpenruhe

Morning view

Fir trees, snow-covered buildings, snow-capped peaks under a blue sky.

Männlichen – Kleine Scheidegg hike

Winter hike: Männlichen to Kleine Scheidegg, 6.5km, 272m ascent/433m descent, 2h, 1°C ☀️. Beautiful hike on a glorious day. Most of the times we’ve come here in winter the weather has been miserable.

Snow-covered mountain peaks Snowy mountain slope catching the last golden rays of sunlight at the end of the day.

Wengen visit

Excited to spend 4 nights in Wengen, a small car-free village in the Swiss Alps.

Snow-covered village on a shelf above a steep valley with a backdrop of snow-capped peaks.

Picking colors like a Boss

Which was fine because now I have a secondary label color that meets AA standards under normal contrast mode and AAA standards under high contrast mode (in both light and dark modes, naturally).

UIColor.secondaryLabel x WCAG 2.0

TIL that UIColor.secondaryLabel against UIColor.systemBackground does not meet WCAG 2.0 AA contrast requirements. I had thought they did, but I had been ignoring the alpha component (the color is not opaque). Had to roll my own accessible secondary label color 💪.