Here’s hoping that an updated version of iAWriter will hit the shelves of the App store in the very near future. It’s been a while since I last used this app – as it has been a while since I wrote to my Chirurgean blog. Stuff happens …
If the needs of keeping up to date with other websites and other pressing needs is paramountm, then other stuff that is arguably more enjoyable will be squashed and trampled underfoot.
The app is nice, but it does not behave well on iPadOS26 and will not be constrained by being put into a smaller window. I have hopes that the authors are busy even now, and tweaking a line of code, here and there as I type. Perhaps, there is a master plan to rewrite this with Swift (maybe it is written in Swift?). Correction – both iAWriter and 1Writer do resize their windows. I must have been holding it wrong. For info, Bear resizes nicely

To conclude this thought, I do notice that 1Writer has a similar problem – but it has not been updated in the past 2 years. There is a 1Writer pro app and many, many others.
On the other hand, Editorial (which is almost certainly defunct) will window very happily in the latest OS – obviously well written!

Winter is coming

It’s time to get ready for winter. Tidy the garden, cut the grass (if the rain permits) and get the wood pile ready for the cold weather.
We had 7 Leylandii trees cut down next to our kitchen garden and the neighbour kindly let us have the logs. Many hours of Mark cutting the trunks into bite sized chunks and we had an enormous log pile. The summer rolled on and sap and resin oozed out of the cut ends – eventually to sublimate into water vapour and off-gassing of the resin.

We took a few days to split these into logs suitable for the fire and I do believe that the logs are now ready for burning, having lain fallow in the summer heat and drought for the past 6 months.

Some large branches still remain unsplit – another day. The next job is to cart them up for storage for a final drying and then we will be toasty warm all winter

Well, we said goodbye to Oasis Too and are now moving on. Still not cut all the ties, though the website has been moved off my hosting and on to another, paid for by the syndicate. The web master role went with that too.
Still waiting on the transfer from my banking app of the Oasis Too business account – a matter of a new signature, not being clear – oh well – what are another few weeks here and there?

So, I am determined to not neglect this my own personal site any more, and if I ever move the Gayles site away, then there will be even more spare time.

Yesterday, I upgraded to everything OS26 and therebye hangs a tale. I had attempted to put the beta on my ipad pro on return from Canada, but that was a bad move. The ipad just kept having springboard/kernel panics and kept falling over. A very hard reset and I had to reload everything from a backup, which took me all day.

Now, everything has moved to OS26 without any problems. Some apps are a little flaky and some modernish apps need to be updated. Windowing does not seem to work with 1Writer or iAWriter, but as I am using Editorial to write this – the windowing on this ‘lost’ app is working apparently ok.

Lets try to post this to my website