Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
I’m still having a great time at work integrating React Native into an existing iOS App. I still have a lot to learn about JavaScript and TypeScript but my interest is piqued. Don’t get me wrong, I still need to learn SwiftUI and I still love doing native work, but this is worth learning because we’re seeing more clients ask for it.
Just poured my first cup. I hope you enjoy the links.
The United States Forest Service responded to a video filmed by a couple that went viral for allegedly showing Bigfoot walking in broad daylight.
I really do wish Bigfoot was a real thing. The skeptic in me says “Of course this is faked.” But how do we really know?
The truth is out there.🛸
Steven Lee Myers, Stuart A. Thompson and Tiffany Hsu • The New York Times
Now rebranded as X, the site has experienced a surge in racist, antisemitic and other hateful speech. Under Mr. Musk’s watch, millions of people have been exposed to misinformation about climate change. Foreign governments and operatives — from Russia to China to Hamas — have spread divisive propaganda with little or no interference.
Face it, Space Karen isn’t the genius everyone made him out to be. He’s a self serving narcissist with too much money and strange ideas.
I’ve been saying I won’t call X, X, because it’s still Twitter. I’m wrong. Twitter is gone. Now folks are left with X.
Please, please, please, sell the Twitter name and branding. Someone could make something amazing with it. 🐦
When using this feature, the developer hand-writes Objective-C headers just as they normally would for an Objective-C class, but implements their declarations in Swift by using an extension marked with the new @implementation attribute.
This is an interesting idea but I’m not sure it’s any better than what we have today when using @objc notation.
I suppose it would mean the continued existence of the vaunted header file. 😄
I have basically had it with JavaScript. It is a write-only language. More so than any other language I’ve used, including some pretty old and arcane systems. I asked ChatGPT to give DALL-E instructions based on this prompt.
Even if you don’t read Dave’s piece go check out the images generated by DALL-E. They’re beautiful works of art suitable for framing. Seriously.
Twice now President Joe Biden made the decision to visit active war zones not under U.S. military command. These trips, to Kyiv in February and to Tel Aviv this week, are without precedent in modern American history. It’s easy to take these visits in stride: It’s the President of the United States! Surely, he has quite a circle of protection. But I think it’s worth reflecting on the vigor and guts—and principle—it took to meet American allies in person to demonstrate American support, despite genuine danger.
Joe Biden has been a great President. I don’t care if he’s “too old” to hold the office. He seems to be doing a pretty damned good job of it. 🇺🇸
Crapware. PC makers have long installed crapware and other superfluous utilities in Windows, providing users with a compromised user experience that didn’t reflect what Microsoft intended. But with Windows 11, now Microsoft installs its own collection of crapware too, in the form of sponsored apps and shortcuts in the Start menu.
Seriously Microsoft? Some of your own software includes ads? That’s pathetic.
At least Apple’s annoying notifications for services are a little better, not by much, but slightly better. 🤬
A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death Saturday morning outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood, east of downtown.
If you think the war in Gaza and Israel don’t affect us at home, think again.
Hate crimes in the States will most likely continue to climb because of it. 😢
Chance Miller, Ben Lovejoy, Zac Hall, and Michael Potuck • 9 to 5 Mac
Is M. Night Shyamalan running Apple? The company just announced a Monday night keynote event on the eve of Halloween. The tagline? Scary Fast. Macs are rumored, but what Apple silicon will be inside?
How long have M2 Macs been a thing? I haven’t got a clue. Is the M3 a Halloween surprise just in time for the holiday season? 🤔
Over the summer, I started working with the Automerge team to bring its Rust-language core to Swift.
Joseph is a really nice guy and I’m excited to see him working on something he’s so passionate about. I’ll be keeping an eye on his progress. 🦀
Halloween’s Original Movie Poster Has A Creepy Hidden Detail - And It Happened By Accident
It took me a while to make out what they’re talking about. Go see for yourself.
Buffer will never be removed, and probably never even deprecated, but at least the community can slowly move away from it. My hope is that the Node.js team will at least start discouraging the use of Buffer.
I know nothing about JavaScript but it’s always nice to see someone advocate for making code safer.
Do you use Buffer in your code? Maybe it’s time to change that? 🦬
How ethical hacker Jamie Woodruff used a pizza delivery to break into a server room
This made me think of the 1992 film, Sneakers. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it. It’s a great film. 👟
I’d be horrible security for a data center. Pizza? You have pizza? Sure, come on in! 🍕
AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard consume an astronomical amount of electricity and water — or, more precisely, the massive data centers that power them do.
The crypto and AI data centers really need to get their act together and start building sources of clean energy to power these monstrosities.
They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
This is a cool story! Again, I think of Sneakers.
I hope this means folks who forgot their passwords are able to crack their keys open and sell off their bitcoin.
Especially the poor dude who has millions in bitcoin. He’s not using this tech, currently, but I hope he’s able to finally be able to cash out. 💸
Republican lawyers are back in the news and are bringing disgrace to the party and profession. Even before the indictments in Georgia, it had been widely reported that at least five, and perhaps all six, of former President Donald Trump’s co-conspirators were Republican lawyers. Now in Georgia, we add several lawyers, some familiar and some new, to the list of Trump’s co-defendants.
At least some of these knuckleheads are pleading guilty and cooperating.
I still say his Orangness will get off scot-free. He’ll delay, delay, delay. Win the Presidency. Pardon everyone he can, destroy democracy, and not leave the White House until he’s dead.
If things get super bad I hope Canada and Mexico will accept American refugees.
Sea level rise is a game of inches. It doesn’t take many inches to create miles and miles and miles of problems. And it’s going to take decades to address those problems, so we might as well get started now.
Yay, climate change! 😡
If the Orangeman doesn’t destroy the nation, climate change might.
Dave, we won’t cleanup things on the shoreline. We’ll just let Mother Nature take it and leave a giant mess. Like we do. 😔
Christopher Nichols • Atlas Obscura
One of the reasons people can never be entirely sure about what is going on at Area 51 is that it is a highly classified secret military facility. It was not until 2013 that the United States government even acknowledged the existence and name “Area 51.”
I like this take on Area 51. We don’t need aliens to create crazy technology.
I do like the thought of aliens though. 👽
This “now is not the time” argument gets trotted out by Republicans after each and every gun massacre. Right after their tweets offering “thoughts and prayers”. Bullshit. The aftermath of a massacre is the time to demand sane gun control measures.
Yep. More pressure to pass great gun legislation. It’s time for a nationwide ban on assault weapons and other protections.
