Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
It’s been nice and chilly this week and I’m here for it. It was a balmy 18F (-7C) when I woke up this morning.
I have to run out and help our daughter move some furniture then finish decorating the house with Christmas lights so I have to scramble to put this together this morning.
I hope you enjoy the links!
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is reshaping social media, but advertising isn’t off the table
Bluesky is really catching fire all of a sudden. I’ve been finding more and more folks to follow and their Starter Pack feature is amazing! It allows you to share a list of folks to follow with anyone. Great feature. I hope Mastodon clones it. 😀
UPDATE 10:45AM: Mastodonian Jolly Jcrabapple (no relation) pointed out Mastodon DOES HAVE Starter Packs! Woo-hoo! 🥳
But I have written my last op-ed for the Times. Yesterday, I resigned my position. I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons.
The Los Angeles Times has gone off the MAGA deep end. Their billionaire owner is bending the knee to the Orange Man and Space Karen.
Steven Monacelli and Tristan Lee • Texas Observer
REVEALED: THE OPERATORS BEHIND FOUR MAJOR NEO-NAZI X ACCOUNTS
Out Nazis. We don’t want or need them in this country. We created our own, smaller, version of Nazis with the Confederacy. I see enough of that crap here in The South, I don’t need Nazis to join in.
Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a string of characters used to identify and link to specific publications, such as scholarly articles and official reports. Of these, he found that more than two million were ‘missing’ from archives — that is, they were not preserved in major archives that ensure literature can be found in the future (M. P. Eve J. Libr. Sch. Commun. 12, eP16288; 2024).
This report is eye opening and very sad. We’re losing so much information. Shared knowledge is a gift to the world. All of that hard work, lost. 😞
Festivitas hangs holiday lights on your Mac
I’ve seen fun stuff like this in the past —- I had one once that would cause it to snow on your desktop. Go give Festivitas a look and support an Indie Dev if you like it. 🎅🏼
A driver moving on from a race team is a lot like graduating from school. At the year’s end, loaned items need returning and lockers cleaned out. At some point, the open-door policy ends and the keycard access denied.
Michael McDowell is moving from Front Row Motorsports to Spire Motorsports. Spire has been making big moves. Picking up Carson Hocevar and firing Corey Lajoie in favor of McDowell. The team of McDowell and Hocevar should be pretty darned good next season.
There is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python.
This is really cool. I love reads like this. While these improvements may not make a real difference in day-to-day use I’d personally still pursue these optimizations. If you have a great suite of unit tests you should feel very confident in the rewrite of small areas of code like this. Bravo! 👏🏼
For the last 10 years, I’ve worked at a desk at home, with a desktop Mac as my primary computer. But over the last year or so, I’ve been using my MacBook Air a lot more, whether I’m traveling or spending the winter in a heated room rather than my unheated garage.
For me it’s been about a MacBook Pro — I’ve had 15, 16, and 17in versions —with full-size monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected to it at my desktop since 2007’ish. Modern M based Mac’s are blazing fast. Perfect computers, really.
