Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
I know this is very late today. We have our grandson today and we’ve been go, go, go, go, go since he arrived. I’m already pooped but he is such a great kid and a joy to be around. 😁
Carmel Dagan, Alex Ritman • Variety
Maggie Smith, Star of ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ Dies at 89
Goodbye Professor McGonagall.😔🪦
Vitaly Bragilevsky • JETBRAINS Blog
So, you’re thinking about choosing Rust as your next programming language to learn. You already know what it means to write code and have some experience with at least one programming language, probably Python or JavaScript. You’ve heard about Rust here and there. People say it’s a modern systems programming language that brings safety and performance and solves problems that are hard to avoid in other programming languages (such as C or C++).
Yes, I’m interested, but I have too much on my plate to venture into Rusty waters at this time. 🦀
Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, has responded to backlash over the launch of his new wallpaper app, called Panels. In a post on Tuesday, Brownlee says he’s going to address users’ concerns about pricing and “excessive data disclosures.”
It’s wild to see Marques, who makes super high quality video, to make something less than amazing.
Look, if you want a very high quality application full of high quality, consistently updated, you should consider Wallaroo from The Iconfactory.
Who is Brownie the Elf? Inside the rise, fall, and revival of the Browns' mascot
I am a fan of Brownie the Elf and glad to see they’ve kept it.
Meta has dominated online social connections for the past 20 years, but it missed out on making the smartphones that primarily delivered those connections. Now, in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar effort to position itself at the forefront of connected hardware, Meta is going all in on computers for your face.
These look more like something you could wear everyday. Much closer than Apple is today.
After days of speculation, Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from RB was confirmed on Thursday, with the team announcing that the Australian will be replaced by reserve driver Liam Lawson for the final six races of the season. With this seemingly bringing the 35-year-old’s extensive F1 career to an end, the news was met with plenty of reaction on social media, including some emotional tributes from his fellow drivers…
I suppose we could all see the writing on the wall. For as much as Christian Horner loves Daniel, he couldn’t save him.
In order to allow our users to access their Google Drive on their phones we had to rewrite privacy statements, update documents, and pass a series of security checks, all while facing a barrage of new, ever-shifting requirements.
This is a wild story from the iA Writer folks and I thought being an iOS developer was fraught with peril. Come on Google, work with these folks.
Dig out your old iPod and fire up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing sad news. After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart I announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore.
Another publisher, gone. It’s been a rough year for tech blogs and magazines.
It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to customers is that they’re giving you WordPress, but they’re not. And they’re profiting off of the confusion.
This is some kind of weird fight that I’m sure has way more to it than we’re privy to.
WP Engine wants to control your WordPress experience, they need to run their own user login system, update servers, plugin directory, theme directory, pattern directory, block directory, translations, photo directory, job board, meetups, conferences, bug tracker, forums, Slack, Ping-o-matic, and showcase. Their servers can no longer access our servers for free.
So, Mullenweg has gone completely nuclear on WP Engine. Thing is, WP Engine can take a cut of the code and do whatever they want with it, right?
It’s probably not that easy but I thought that was one of the benefits of open source software?
Google took a cut of Safari who took a cut of KHTML. It’s the way open source works.
It’s all a confusing mess to me so I don’t have a real opinion on the matter except to say I hope this doesn’t end badly for Matt and WordPress.
The Crossing Over Express garnered over 500,000 views on the service that shall remain nameless in its first seventy-two hours — not too shabby for an eleven-minute short. Even more so, it must be cathartic for its creators, as it was inspired by a moment in Barnett’s young adulthood, where he had a chance to reflect on his own grief after losing his mother at seventeen, as he tells it
I still haven’t seen this but I plan on finding it later. I just won’t watch it on Space Karen’s platform.
The emphasis in the quoted bit from the article is by me. I replaced the name of the service with “the service that shall remain nameless.”
Late yesterday, I put up a post about how to get into colocation in about the crappiest way possible. I skipped a bunch of details just to get it out there. The inspiration was based on finding out just how many people have no idea that this business model even exists.
Just a little history less for those too young to know about these things. I once had a Windows 2000’server running in a co-located rack at a friends ISP. It ran my blog for at least a year.
Ever since Platformer left Substack in January, readers have been asking us how it’s been going. Today, in keeping with our annual tradition of anniversary posts (here are one, two, and three), I’ll answer that question — and share some other observations on the state of independent media over the past year.
Just a Platformer update. Go check it out and see what it’s like out there for indie publishers like Platformer.
Instead of using LLVM to generate native code, my project turns the internal Rust representation called MIR, into .NET Common Intermediate Language. CIL is then stored inside .NET assemblies, which allows the .NET runtime to load, and execute the compiled Rust code easily.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this project.
John Sculley • apple.fandom.com
The Copland Project was an effort by Apple Computer to create an updated version of their Mac OS operating system. Begun in earnest in March 1994 and named after American composer Aaron Copland, it was abandoned in August 1996.
The best thing that ever happened to Apple was purchasing NeXT and Steve Jobs returning to the helm.
