Excited to spend 4 nights in Wengen, a small car-free village in the Swiss Alps.
Category: Micro
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 💪.
Disassemble: Mission Commander
Next up for disassembly and storage: Mission Commander (6986), the Space Police flagship from 1989. More here: https://mpospese.com/2019/04/02/space-1989/#6986
A rare sunny winter day in Ägeri
Yesterday was a relatively rare sunny day in winter and it was beautiful.
% != modulo
TIL that the % operator in Swift is a remainder operator and not a true modulo operator. I expected -1 % 7 to return 6, but it returns -1.
Ciao Tweetbot
End of an era: I just deleted Tweetbot (my only installed Twitter client) from my phone. I’ve had that app on my phone since v1 (and it’s been my primary client since v2). I haven’t been checking it often lately, and now it’s broken. I look forward to the release of Ivory.
Dreikönigstagkuchen
Frohe Dreikönigstag! (i.e. Epiphany) In Switzerland for this week only they bake Dreikönigstagkuchen (literally “3 kings’ day cake”) which comes with 6, 8, or 10 parts. One part contains a plastic wise man, and whoever gets it is king for the day. You even get a crown.
Lion Knight’s Castle: completed
Here’s what the whole castle looks like opened and closed. I still haven’t placed all the minifigs. In its closed position the castle looks attractive from all angles; there is no “back” side. I spread the build experience out over nine days.
Castle Bag 26
Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 26/26: We add a stone ramp leading up to the drawbridge and we assemble a contingent of three Black Falcons. The squire gets to carry a huge backpack. And that’s it. Build complete. That was by far the largest LEGO set I’ve ever built.
