While sitting at home and watching a live streams for 8 hours a day all week, is not the same as being at WWDC in person, I am really looking forward to see what Apple introduces this year. To prepare this year, I am doing the same as I did last year. I have setup a new boot partition on my development MacBook Pro.

After the horrible experience of installing the latest beta on my main machine at WWDC 2019, and having it go bad. I had to ultimately get a lab session to install Developer Beta 1 from one of the installation engineers. They had a SSD that wiped the machine clean, and installed a pristine macOS, as if Developer Beta 1 came on my machine from the factory. I have created a second Boot partition with the latest Big Sur installed, iCloud turned off, and Xcode installed. My goal is to install the beta and the latest Xcode beta on this partition next Monday after the keynote.

I used this same technique last year, and it really made a difference in the stability of working with the developer betas over the summer.

I have also taken all my day job content off of my iPad Pro, and will be removing it from my iPhone later this week. Minimizing the number of variables on the machines make it much easier to experience the ups and downs of the “summer of fun.” I love the fact that the team over at the Upgrade podcast call this time the “summer or fun”, as it really is that. Getting to play with the various new features that come out over the summer, is a great way to learn.