Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Our grandkids are with us this weekend and for some reason that always throws off Ms. Gracie’s sleep cycle. Her usual 6:30 wake-up came at 5:30 this morning. I suppose that gives me more time to write before the kids wake up. 😁
It’s been a pretty average week this week. I did switch to a different team mid-week. Still on the same application just a different feature set and this time I’m embedded with a team from our client. It’s gonna be fun and I’m excited for it.
Weve had a giant wasp of some kind buzzing around the back door. We think it may be a Cicada Killer. Whatever it was, it was big. I say was because Kolby decided to swat it out of the air and was stung my it. The wasp didn’t last long after that. Kolby is now limping around the house. Poor guy. 😔
The kids are awake. This will be an abbreviated post. 😁
Stephanie K. Baer • The San Francisco Standard
Steve Silberman, writer on the Grateful Dead and autism, dies at 66
R.I.P.
It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.
It’s sad to see tech magazines/blogs disappear. How many more will fall over the next year?
Since Automattic acquired Tumblr we’ve made it more efficient, grown its revenue, and worked to improve the platform. But there’s one part of the plan that we haven’t yet started, which is to run Tumblr on WordPress. I’m pleased to say we’re kicking off that project now!
[They’re hiring to help with this effort!(https://automattic.com/work-with-us/tumblr-migration/) If I were a backend type I think I’d throw my hat in the ring. What an amazing effort to be a part of!
People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust’s syntax, they actually object to Rust’s semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I’ll try to disentangle the two.
This is a pretty neat look at Rust syntax and why certain choices were made for the standard library.
Apple Lays Off Around 100 Services Staff Across Apple Books and News
I wonder how big the Books and News organization is? Is this a big layoff? It seems like it know how lean Apple tends to run.
A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don’t see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away.
You’d think the C kernel developers would embrace this effort in hopes of improving kernel memory safety. I’m down with the idea.
Toby Christie • Sports Illustrated
Kyle Busch Chose to Race the Right Way on Final Lap at Daytona
With all the attention Richard Childress Racing is getting from the number 3 wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin to secure a win at Richmond, Bush did the right thing.
