Zach Tarvin

Big week, fun week! First week as a mobile engineer at Expedia Group!

Hidden perk of an App Clip? Got to try some of my PolitiCall release for iPhone Duo on a demo unit. 😎

Found some draft materials for a presentation I gave at work a few years ago around privacy and social media. I don't remember if I used this title slide or not, but uh…damn.

Messed myself up this morning realizing that avocado toast is maybe an open-faced sandwich?

Ah, yes. Salad, fresh off the grill.

Weather hit the mid-sixties today. Overcast. Delightfully autumnal. Really fighting the urge not to throw on a flannel, eat a warm chocolate chip cookie and swirl a mug of hot apple cider.

The existence of cannonball watermelons insists on a watermelon cannon. Summer isn't over for a bit. Run the cannons. We're grilling. Avast!

Choosing to believe Dolly Parton is the glittering butterfly in the sky that heralds the Reading Rainbow. What a talent, a human, and a force for good.

Hitting up the Wisconsin State Fair this weekend. Made a little app with the Sporkies and Drinkies entries so I can mark and review stuff I want to try.

The first episode of @hemcreekprod.bsky.social's "Audio Fiction FM" is premiering now. Hemlock Creek rules. youtu.be/O30Onrjl8CY?...

My work inbox is the designated support inbox on a recent campaign gone awry. A reminder: the folks who made the decision/did the thing are never the ones on support emails. Don't be an asshole to the folks just trying to help. 💙

I…ate more than one cookie after this.

Forgot to take myself off the support alias for a brand drop at work before it launched. My inbox is awash with abuse from folks who didn't win.

Today was categorically silly in an un-fun way, but I managed to make some good design progress. September approaches!

Ten months after new corporate overlords acquired the holding company, the agency is about to migrate to new email addresses. Earlier today, we hit a daily "external send limit" across our tenant. What's the over-under on "the migration was delayed and we dropped a tier on our subscription?" 😅👀

Just occurred to me that the 99 red balloons could suggest 99 Pennywises in a multiversal gathering and uh… Yeah.

In light of the cyclospora outbreak, all Eat Pray Love summer activities have been revised to "Eat! Pray! Poop?" activities. We regret this change to the itinerary.

When it's your niece's first time in the big city, you do the Hello Kitty Cafe.

Critics rave! RECENT_PASTE_ITEM_SINGULAR is the summer's hottest new release. RECENT_PASTE_ITEM_SINGULAR is the new brat summer.

Just a PSA that @hemcreekprod.bsky.social makes some really cool stuff. Do your ears and brain a favor.

Second day in a row I've gone this far. Not gonna lie, it hurt a little today.

So like, in theory, I only need between 8,000 and 9,000 balloons to get airborne. That means the Balloonfest '86 disaster could lift about 167 of me. This is the Monday Math.

Monday mental state: 🎶 Beta-beta! Don't you wanna want a beta! 🎶 (…do kinda want a Fanta)

Spending a stormy Fourth working on some new features for PolitiCall. It's *always* a good time to call your reps, but there will be more cool stuff to help this fall.

There's something depressing in Domino's having a whole patent on a pizza tracker, but there are no widgets or Live Activities for it in the app.

Heard there was ube oreo cheesecake being served in the neighborhood today. Made the trek between meetings, at a slice like pizza on the walk back. Some Fridays are hard, but they're still Friday, dammit.

Just read "Caplets" as "Capulet" on a generic Tylenol bottle and went "Oh, shoot does Romeo hate to see this comin'." It…bites its thumb at pain? (This is a dumb joke)

I know Marge was talking about regular potatoes, but between dinner last night and today's lunch, starting to think sweet potatoes are also pretty neat.

👁️ Out today: Eye to Eye, Playdate platformer where you are a cyclops's eye. Normal stuff. Great art, design, music! And all of it made in Pulp. play.date/games/eye-to-eye

We've been in the "This is the new Big Tobacco" era for a while, but this is pushing into the "Hey, smoke 10,000 packs and we'll give you this jacket" territory. Ick.

Shipped my first App Clip for PolitiCall today! Posting to mark it. More to come. 😉

I made a new app (first time in 3 years) and it would REALLY help me if you pre-ordered it (for free). What's My Set is a simple, accessibility set counter for workouts with accessibility as a priority. The handy rest/interval timers bump the set counter for you. apps.apple.com/us/app/whats...

Listen, abbreviating "kick-off call" as "KOC" is dubious, but doing it during Pride is…excellent trolling.

We had so many soup dumplings for dinner. Like three dozen. I REGRET NOTHING!

Probably holding it wrong, but does Device Hub not support dragging files into a simulator?

Folks at work didn't realize how much I had dropping this week. For our new agency brand launch party, we also put together a trivia challenge. Made a little web app that dropped questions throughout the day, showed a leaderboard, helped us raffle off some prizes. I'm…sleepy.

Gonna be smiling about getting an Ocarina of Time announcement in the same week as WWDC for a while.

Thinking about all the AI going into photography and how much it makes "the fact" a dramatization. And then caught myself going "Biologically, isn't most memory just a dramatization of a moment?" And oh…I touched a nerve for myself.

One sleep til DUB-DUB!