I am curious as to why the rust on my L-ruler followed these strange but beautiful patterns.

A single 100ms lapse in concentration and you get awesome sashimi, just not the kind you expected:

The one application that needs to be stable is a development environment. There are very few things harder than trying to write code in an IDE that is unreliable.

Thank you Xcode:

I spent 5 minutes trying to bash my head figuring out why the following code did not push out the token:

if token != nil && token!.isEmpty {
  pushOutToken(token)
}

only to realize that the funky Swift unwrapping operator ! applied to token looks - at a quick glance - like a not operator transposed in position, hence the reason for me missing it. I am used to Java, C, C++, C# and tens of other languages that uses the ! as a not operator. Correct code should be:

I knew last year my mason bees laid many eggs, however I frequently saw wasps and other predators near their nest during the summer and autumn. I feared for their survival as many of the chambers were punctured by weather and other insects.

It seems like my fears were unfounded.