Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Pretty typical week. Slow around the house and busy at work. I have yard work today and we’re gonna install a new ceiling fan later, most likely tomorrow. Kim let me sleep in, it was really nice. Stayed in bed until 10AM, so off to a really late start with morning coffee and writing. 😃
John Brayton • Golden Hill Software
Unread for Mac is now available from the Mac App Store. Unread for Mac incorporates every Unread capability that makes sense on Mac including:
I’m so happy for my friend! John really shows his chops as a Mac developer in this release of Unread for Mac. I’ve had the honor of being on the Beta for months and I’ve watched new features land with high quality and witnessed John polish the user interface to a beautiful sheen.
Unread is a prime example of a Mac-assed Mac App.
Congratulations, John! ❤️
Simone Biles reclaimed her Olympic title in the women’s all-around at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
This is so nice to see Ms. Biles rise to the top of her game once again.
Congratulations, Simone! You make us proud! 🇺🇸
Mark Kalman, X’s engineering lead of media, and his second-in-command, Melissa Merencillo, resigned today. They announced their departures in a company Slack channel on the day stocks vest at X, which a source suggests might explain the timing.
X is such a cesspool. I’m surprised anyone has hung around to work with Space Karen.
He’s pushed so hard to make X into a Nazi, white supremacist, waste land, and by and large succeeded.
I really wish we could convince the likes of Stephen King and many, many others, with strong voices to leave that shit show.
We are fast approaching a quantum leap in Epic’s efforts to bring our games to players on mobile devices. Fortnite will be returning to iOS in the European Union soon, and the Epic Games Store will be coming to Android worldwide and iOS in the European Union bringing all developers great terms: a store fee of 12% for payments we process, and 0% on third party payments.
It’s interesting Epic chose to undercut Apple by only 3% on payment processing. That will, however, hit the bottom like of companies that pay 30% to the App Store once they cross the magic threshold (I can’t remember what it is, so it’s a magic threshold for this post.)
The 0% fee is absolutely amazing and it would be lovely to see Apple do this, but, it could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter if all the big players were allowed to do their own thing.
AG Garland knocks Cannon’s classified docs ruling: ‘Do I look like someone who’d make that mistake?’
A little shade thrown by the AG! I love it!
Judge Aileen Cannon based her ruling on a passing comment made by Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas when writing about the Trump Immunity Case.
Yeah, it was done as a favor to Trump to delay the case yet again.
Once the Presidential Election is over, and TFG has lost, hopefully the good work of prosecuting him can get back on track.
Spire Motorsports confirmed on Thursday that Corey LaJoie, driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, will not return to the team following the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.
This news really bummed me out. Corey LaJoie is an extremely hard working journeyman of NASCAR. He’s never won at the Cup Series Level but throws his whole heart into everything he does.
I’m an avid listener of his podcast, Stacking Pennies, and I hope the man is considered for a Cup ride on another team. It seems unlikely but I’m pulling for him. ❤️
A seat in the Xfinity Series or the Truck Series would at least let him continue to race. 🤞🏼
A Starbucks app outage on Tuesday left customers unable to place a mobile order, delaying caffeine fixes for millions of coffee lovers until the app returned to service later in the day.
This is completely unacceptable! 🤣
Coffee addicts all over the country were left with the shakes, sweating, and irritable because they couldn’t pickup their drinks easily. THEY HAD TO GET IN LINE OR WALK IN THE NERVE OF STARBUCKS!
I’ve always claimed Starbucks has one of the best mobile ordering experiences in all of food services. Outages, unfortunately, happen.
It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that after careful consideration I have made the difficult decision to step down from my responsibilities with AppleVis. As a direct result of my departure and following extensive deliberation, the editorial team has come to the painful conclusion that AppleVis will be closing.
It’s been a rough time for magazines for a very long time. 🪦
After 33 thrilling years of bringing you the latest news, reviews, and insights from the ever-evolving world of gaming, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Game Informer.
I’m not a gamer but this has to hit hard! It’s such a bummer to see long running sites fold like this. 🪦
Josh Marshall • Talking Points Memo
But yesterday FBI Director Christopher Wray said, ironically in response to a question from Rep. Jim Jordan, that it’s not clear whether Trump was hit by a bullet or debris kicked up by the gunfire. I think in context that’s likely a bureaucratic and gentle way of saying Trump probably wasn’t hit by a bullet. But let’s stick to the precise words. “There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”
Congressional Republicans love to focus on the wrong thing and make a big deal out of it.
Let’s talk facts. Someone attempted to assassinate the Orange Man.
It doesn’t matter if it was the bullet or something else that touched his ear enough to make it bleed.
He’s just really lucky whatever hit his ear didn’t actually hit the meat of the ear. It most likely would’ve taken most of it off and done additional damage to him.
Luckily the man’s brain is already so damaged a little more wouldn’t hurt. 😆
Elon Musk’s trans daughter Vivian Wilson slams his anti-LGBTQ+ comments as ‘ketamine-fueled haze’
Ms. Vivian is super funny! Elon is really missing out on a great kid and proves once again he’s a terrible father. His poor kids are basically fatherless in this world and get to watch their “father” implode into a conspiracy theorist lunatic right before their eyes.
Pathetic man.
Fortnite players declare the Cybertruck public enemy number one: ‘You are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they’re taken down’
I’ve never played Fortnite and I’m not much of a gamer but I feel like I should become a Fortnite player just to hunt these things down and blow them up. 🤣
Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
Boise has already lead a successful prosecution of Microsoft of while with the U.S. federal government.
I actually feel really bad for Microsoft, not so much for CrowdStrike. After a deal with European Regulators they felt compelled to allow companies to run at the kernel level of NT.
I hope thy go back to the older model and lock things down.
California Wildfire: Man Saves 100-Year-Old Ranch With Homemade Sprinkler Defense System
A little old fashioned ingenuity at work! I love this story and feel so bad for California at the same time.
The poor folks in Canada as well. 🇨🇦
It’s just tragic we have wildfires every summer in California and it’s just going to get worse.
