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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 16/07/2026

Probably a long shot here since I'm not very active - but I'm starting to get in to Swif UI more. The Apple Docs make me sad. Who are some good bloggers writing about Swift UI out there on the internet that I should follow and go spelunking in their blog archives? Uh... #swiftUI #iOSDevelopment

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 02/07/2026

Took a pottery class this month. These are my funky lil clay children. Oddly shaped but the glazes are nice :) would gladly go back and learn more.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 27/10/2025

I think e-ink is quickly becoming one of my favorite little bits of technology

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 26/10/2025

Broke my sobriety streak 220 days in. Had a nice beer. I feel both good and weird about it. I learned: most non-alcoholic beers are pretty good if you have like two of them. Sadly, most non-alcoholic cocktails are not very good. Also: no ones going to be mean if you ask for a NA drink in a bar 🥰

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 27/09/2025

Looking up Product Owner books in Libby and the top (and only results) are Capital by Karl Marx. The pipeline of software product ownership to communist is a direct one, comrade

Screenshot of the Libby reading app showing Karl Marx’s Capital as the only hit when searching for Product Owner books

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 11/09/2025

Started reading Annihilation last night. I have never read a more anxiety inducing book. Something about the pace and writing style wormed its way into my brain and just went off all night. Good book Though

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 01/09/2025

I bought a couple of books from the King Arthur pop up here in Denver CO about bread baking and cookie baking and I'm stoked. I've been reading over their "Baking School" book and loving the way it's structured: more about learning what/why/how rather than just "here's a recipe".

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 01/09/2025

Random plug, but: check out www.magicpages.co for simple hosting for a Ghost website. I migrated my sites from Digital Ocean to it a few months ago and it’s been great. Hosting is $6.00/month, and you can add custom theme support for $2.50/month!

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 24/08/2025

I AM READY FOR CHILLY WEATHER AND SILKSONG.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 04/08/2025

First time on BART - why does it sound like an A24 movie soundtrack?

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 02/08/2025

Forever thinking "Fuck Substack"

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 30/07/2025

With federation features popping up on my Ghost site, I decided to delete my Threads account. No more @threads address, just my own lil domain name. (@dan@danhannigan.me) I didn't need to spend more time scrolling through that site anyway. Or this site, really. Social media is weird anymore.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 26/07/2025

Getting rid of Claude & ChatGPT from my personal devices today. I'll use our company’s version for work, sure, but there's no need for those dang things in my personal life, really. Not gonna be a slopper :D

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 22/07/2025

That aggressive ass drop shadow on MacOS 26 can chill.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 04/07/2025

Finally taking a vacation for the first time since 2022 – heading to San Francisco in early August. If you're familiar with the area I'd love to know any suggestions! We'll be staying in Japantown.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 20/06/2025

A first for me in 10+ years in Denver: our rent went down about 2.9% (for us that's about $93/mo) -- hell yeah, I'll take it.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 12/06/2025

Pretty happy with how my little habit tracking calendar is turning out. I may not be crushing my habits but at least it’s a honest view. Calendar from Case Study, using Steadtler triplus fineliners. Yellow: no alcohol Red: cardio Blue: strength

A wall calendar with colored squares repressing habit tracking

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 10/06/2025

Okay installed iPadOS 26 dev beta on my iPad Pro and yeah I’m loving the refresh. Nice bits of pop and the glass refraction and overall gwoopy nature of it is neat

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 10/06/2025

Catching up on the Apple news - I think I dig the new Liquid Glass look? I won't install a beta on my devices... I might install a beta on my devices. What if I install it on just one of my devices.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 05/06/2025

Hell yeah to the delivery drivers doing the early rounds today for the Switch 2. Also uh… thanks Walmart for the treats? (I asked the driver - they weren’t his and he didn’t want them lol). Gonna be hard to work today.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 05/06/2025

I used Figma’s new MCP Server to generate some UI code. It worked. Then it didn’t. AI isn’t magic. It’s a dishwasher. It’s not here to change your life. It’s here to rinse off the boring stuff. danhannigan.me/practical-ai...

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Practical AI Is Boring. I Think That’s the Point.

I used Figma’s new MCP Server to generate some UI code. It worked. Then it didn’t. That’s when I realized: AI isn’t magic. It’s a dishwasher. It’s not here to change your life. It’s here to rinse off ...

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 01/06/2025

Finally got around to watching Civil War... not sure if that would have been better before November, or now. But damn.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 25/05/2025

Had to pop bsky and threads off my phone, again. Here on my desktop though (he screams into the void)

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 11/05/2025

Now that Surf has been kicking around in beta for a bit, does anyone have any thoughts on it? I haven't been able to pop in but I'm curious!

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 02/05/2025

Why do I want to be Baby Billy as Teenjus for Halloween?

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 30/04/2025

reMarkable is advertising hard as hell to me right now. They really wanna push stock before May I’m guessing.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 27/04/2025

61 days without alcohol today 😊 my liver is probably getting happier, also my nighttime anxiety is practically nonexistent. Loving this feeling

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 26/04/2025

Somehow managed to snag a Switch 2 for both Jana and myself last night on Walmart (thanks for the tip, Phil H) - but now I'm like... is it real? Can it be? Ah the joy of modern capitalism and this hellscape of scalpers, scams, false-scarcity, and more.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 24/04/2025

Nothing activates my magical thinking like not getting a Switch 2 and instantly blaming it on that one time I said, “Not worth it without a new Animal Crossing.” The universe heard me and punished me

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 22/04/2025

Eeeee Oblivion remaster lets goooo

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 21/04/2025

@usetrmnl.com hi! If I wanted to create my own views for the Apple Calendar plugin - what would make the most sense? Forking the repo and PRing? Building my own private recipe? Trying to drum up something without being redundant/duplicative

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 17/04/2025

New Atlassian / Jira / Confluence design is kinda funky but I dig it (and I spend too much time in those apps)

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 15/04/2025

It’s here! Stoked for this little TRMNL screen (@usetrmnl.com). Can’t wait to start tinkering!

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 11/04/2025

After a few rounds with eye doctors I'm moving forward with getting a Scleral contact for my right eye, and a soft contact for my left. I'm so stoked! The doc might be able to get my right eye dialed in to 20/20 and even help reduce the nasty glare/blurring I have in my right eye! Yay!

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 10/04/2025

Okay watched the Murderbot trailer finally and yeah, I think the casting could be pretty good, actually. Neat :) looking forward to it more

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 09/04/2025

In my head I always pictured Murderbot as androgynous but slightly more femme presenting - my bad? That said I do love some Skarsgård and will probably enjoy the ride anyway

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 08/04/2025

Allergies and possibly a cold really hit my goals this week-ish. (On the wall calendar one green dot = 10 mins of exercise, brown dot = no drinking)

Screenshot of Apple fitness rings - with a drop off in activity in April

A wall calendar with green and brown dots designating activity tracking and gray frowns indicating days sick

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 08/04/2025

Finally beat Avowed. All in all not too bad. A bit repetitive near the end, lots of lore and story if you looked for it, though.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 30/03/2025

Doing the silly "maybe if I reset who I'm following and then be selective about who I'm following I'll enjoy social media more" exercise – so if I follow/unfollow you just know that I'm in that *phase* that we all seem to go through.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 27/03/2025

First leg day in a while, very wobbly today.

A workout showing:

Block 1
Dumbbell Deadlift
6 reps • 35 Ibs/side
6 reps • 35 Ibs/side
6 reps • 35 Ibs/side
Goblet Squat
6 reps • 35 lbs
6 reps • 35 lbs
6 reps • 35 lbs
Dumbbell Rear Foot Elevated
Split Squat
6 reps/side • 25 Ibs/side
6 reps/side • 25 Ibs/side
6 reps/side • 25 Ibs/side
Block 2
Leg Press
8 reps • 215 lbs
8 reps • 215 lbs
8 reps • 215 lbs

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 25/03/2025

Assassins Creed Shadows good 👍

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 25/03/2025

Swapped my Peloton shoes for these lovely Specialized Torch 2.0s. So much lighter, better fit, better tech. So worth it - time to clock more miles on the bike 🚲

a pair of white bike shoes, Specialized torch 2.0, on carpet

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 21/03/2025

Severance season finale good 👍

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 17/03/2025

I enjoy self-hosting my @ghost.org site most of the time. But not today. Today I am jealous. Also big congrats to the ghost folk for getting ActivityPub integration into beta. What a big step! activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-b...

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The social web beta is here

You can now try out ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro)

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 16/03/2025

I mean, hell, we're even going to postpone our honeymoon that would take us *out* of the country because of this shit.

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 16/03/2025

Went a lil overboard with some new cookbooks from the bookstore 🤭

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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 11/03/2025

A friend went to Thailand and brought back some coffee for me! Pretty excited to try this, also love the packaging ☕️

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