Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
This weeks post is going to contain a lot about politics and the upcoming Presidential Election here in the good old USofA.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you skipped reading but I just feel the need to talk about it, not that it’s going to change anyone’s mind.
I’m still blown away by the response of half of voters. People actually want a nation run by a psychopath who wants to run the country into the ground. Who wants to punish his political enemies. Who is a fascist.
I voted yesterday and I was so happy to cast my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I hope you do the same.
Thirteen former Trump White House officials signed an open letter backing up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of a fascist.
Not surprising, at all. There are not enough people screaming at the top of their lungs “TRUMP IS A FASCIST” on a daily basis.
We all should be.
In response to the owner of the Los Angeles Times decreeing that the paper would not be endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential race, Mariel Garza, the editor of editorials for the Times, has resigned from her position.
The LA Times owner is fearing for his papers and his existence in a potential fascist Trump government. This is, ultimately, a cowardly act and plays right into the fascist playbook.
The Los Angeles Times has lost two more longtime editorial writers, the latest in a growing exodus to protest owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s interference with the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, TheWrap can exclusively report.
More fallout from cowardly publishers.
William Lewis • Washington Post
The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.
With moves like this Fascism takes root. Encourage folks to vote for Democracy you cowards! 🇺🇸
The network request has gone from 49% of our time to 19%. But I’m pretty shocked to find out that with the improved networking speed, now 20% of worker time is spent in the active record connection pool. That can’t be right, what is happening? Taking more traces reveals this was actually an outlier on the lower side, most traces are spending 25-30% of all time waiting on an active record connection.
Great piece on some small changes that lead to big wins for a little Indie Developer.
I’m a longtime Castro user and the recent changes to the client app and the backend have been a welcome sight. It’s moving forward again! 👏🏼
Why hasn’t the NY Times run a story that takes Trump at face value and explains to voters what it would be like to live in that United States? It should have been updated and run every time Trump ups the ante.
Fear. This is why the papers are being chickens.
Why does every podcast have a six-minute lead of proverbial throat-clearing, self-promotion, and advertising?
Of my favorites a few just start with the hosts going right into it. I don’t need to be introduced to the hosts, I know who they are, I subscribed to the podcast to begin with. 😃
Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple’s App Store, cutting out any subscription fees that Disney would have needed to pay to Apple for using in-app purchase.
This is big news. Not giving Apple their cut is what every little developer would love to do, but it’s the Big Cos who can afford to try it.
This move fits into Apple’s current rules around streaming apps, like Netflix. You can’t mention how to sign up from the app — which is a dumb rule — and you can’t link out to a help page that describes how to do it. How’s that for a good user experience?
I’m really interested to see how this works out. 🍿
It’s odd how many developers in the fediverse don’t know how Bluesky works.
I don’t really know how it works. I understand the TL;DR version and I think it definitely has legs, but will any other instances spin up to prove it out or will it just be a single silo, like old Twitter was?
Private Cloud Compute (PCC) fulfills computationally intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while providing groundbreaking privacy and security protections — by bringing our industry-leading device security model into the cloud.
More on Apple’s cloud infrastructure for their new AI platform. I still haven’t read the entire piece but thought I’d share it for the geeky readers since this is a politics heavy post.
Hopefully, NASCAR, Netflix, and viewers are better prepared this year because Bell is on his way once again. Bell has smoothly advanced through the first two rounds of the postseason without much attention. Sunday, he started the Round of 8 from the pole and led 155 of 267 laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before finishing a disappointed second.
Christopher Bell is in my top four. I’m not sure if he’s the one, but he darned sure stands a chance to win it all. Unless tragedy strikes I’d expect him to lead laps in Phoenix for the Championship at the very least.
For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a YouTuber and creator, the face of TheUnlockr, reviewing phones and testing ebikes and explaining how food smokers really work. By night and morning and every single other available moment in between: a coffee shop entrepreneur, working to get a Brooklyn spot called Coffee Check up and running.
Kim and I have often talked about opening a coffee shop but it’s really difficult to run your own business, I’ve tried and I’ve succeeded and failed at it. 🤣
But, there’s something about a coffee shop that feels right. It’s about the community as much as it’s about the coffee.
The coffee shop in Exeter we were regulars at was a place where everybody knows your name and the baristas were friends.
Today in Tedium: Deciding on a content management system is a bit of a dance. You often have to deal with dozens, maybe hundreds, of pieces of existing content. You want it to be easy to manage, able to talk to other technology tools. Plus, you want to ensure you understand what you built, so you can actually fix it—or reach out to a friendly community. That has been a big reason why the mess with WordPress has been so frustrating.
If you’re thinking about driving your blog or website using a CMS you should give this piece a read. Ernie has gone through the paces so maybe you don’t have to. In the end he lists five options to consider, each with pros and cons.
Most bloggers don’t need much and a CMS can be overkill for us. Others moreso, so a CMS may be just what the doctor ordered.
