Status – Page 10 – Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)

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

LEGO spaceship in a blue, black, and transparent red color scheme.

A rare sunny winter day in Ägeri

Yesterday was a relatively rare sunny day in winter and it was beautiful.

Landscape photo of a snow-covered valley with a town at the bottom.

% != 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.

Sweet roll covered in almond slivers and coarse sugar with 6 rolls around a larger center. A gold paper crown is at the top.

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.

LEGO castle expanded to show a long curtain wall. LEGO castle dollhouse closed up.

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.

LEGO castle with a lowered drawbridge and a stone ramp. Three knights approach the ramp while the queen sits atop her horse at the top to greet them.

Castle Bag 25

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 25/26: We finally finish topping off the gatehouse. I like the guard blowing the trumpet. Almost done!

LEGO castle with two guards on top. The left guard is blowing a trumpet.

Castle Bag 24

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 24/26: We add a portcullis behind the drawbridge plus a mechanism to raise it and we put foliage on the tree. I love the beehive (and that the hive piece fits over a minifig head for shenanigans). I didn’t manage to get this built over my holiday break!

Exterior view of LEGO castle with drawbridge lowered revealing a closed portcullis behind it. A tree on the right side had lush green foliage and a yellow beehive.