OrchardNest

2019 review. All annual reviews. Highlights of 2020 Marco Polo with friends and family overseas. Watching a new baby grow up through video calls. My friend's regular updates of the geese that roam her neighbourhood. Austin Kleon's blog....

It's a bit late, but I'm settled into my planner setup for 2020, so I thought I'd share what I've picked this year. This is my first Jibun Techo-free year since 2017 and I miss it! I picked a Hobonichi Cousin Avec, which has very similar...

I'm obsessed with Mike Lowery's drawings. Poring over Mike's drawings recently encouraged me to draw on paper again, after exclusively drawing on my iPad Pro for the last few months. I'm listening to Milow, and The Strumbellas. I'm...

I'm obsessed with Austin Kleon's blog again. Once or twice every year I go through a phase of reading through his archives and immersing myself in his ideas. I may even re-read his books this time around, too. I'm listening to This fun...

I'm obsessed with Planners! I've got a Hobonichi Cousin Avec this year, which is split into two books, one for each half of the year. I only have a month to go before it's time to swap them out, so I'm spending lots of time thinking about...

I'm obsessed with My health. I've been doing telehealth calls with my doctor recently to figure out some bothersome-but-not-serious issues I noticed around the start of lockdown. It's a nice bonus that telehealth calls are all bulk billed,...

I'm obsessed with Workouts! I've finally started to get back into going to the gym consistently after a lot of disruption to the start of the year. I've started using the GZCL method for my lifting program, and I'm really enjoying having a...

I was struggling with something recently in SwiftUI and thought I'd share the solution I came up with. Here's a simple example to demonstrate what I was stuck on: struct ContentView: View { var tasks: [Task] var body: some View { ...

Over time I've developed a list of open-source iOS libraries that I use in almost all my projects. These are my favourite, go-to libraries: TableKit Declarative table views! I hate the boilerplate involved in UIKit table views and having...

I'm obsessed with Social events! Early in the month I decided to double down on my goal of getting more social in 2020 and threw myself into a bunch of new social events and activities. The upsides were that I got a lot more exercise from...

My review's a bit late this month—oops! I'm also experimenting with a different format since there's very little to my reviews normally. So let's start with a few things I've been into lately: I'm obsessed with Cooking! I'm watching Bon...