Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Forty years ago today the doors opened for the very first MacWorld Expoin the Brooks Hall basement in San Francisco. For most of you this event probably seems like ancient history, somewhere back in the mists of time. But for me this was a very real and exciting event that I participated in as an exhibitor, the start of my amazing journey with the Mac community, a journey that continues on today.
Holy cow! Congratulations, Jim!
What a huge milestone in your career. I’m sure you have plenty of amazing stories to share from your journey.
Check out Jim’s software at ProVUE!
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.
If I were living in the UK I’d be contacting my representatives and ask them to reconsider their request for a backdoor into iCloud. Apple indirectly did what they were asked for. They made it easy for the UK government to extract data from Apple’s infrastructure with a simple court order and they didn’t compromise the rest of iCloud users around the world.
Like Houdini making an unlikely escape from a straitjacket, William Byron trusted his instincts and emerged from a smoky, last-lap wreck on the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway to win the Daytona 500 for the second straight time.
Here’s the Daytona 500 script. Start the race, jockey for position, get in line, at 190+ MPH, and drive around not doing too much for 199 laps. Oh, and watching a little racing between a crapload of commercials.
Then, on the last couple laps, start racing, and have a big crash taking out half the field. It’s call The Big One.
But, I still love super speedway racing. There is definitely a lot of skill to running close to 200MPH a foot or two away from each other. I’m surprised they don’t wreck more often.
There were some good story lines out of Daytona this year, like Corey LaJoie running an open car because he couldn’t land a seat or Jr. Motorsports running a Cup car! I’m very excited for both and hope to see them in a few more races this year.
Smokey Goretooth • Metal Sucks
Tool stay up to mysterious shit. Sometimes they let us know what’s going on, but they do love to be elusive about some shit. They spend years in between albums just diddling around or doing whatever they do, but their bassist Justin Chancellor gave us a lil update on what they’ve been up to musically. It’s definitely good news for the Tool aficionado.
Tool waited 13-years to release Fear Inoculum, in August 2019. It’s been five-and-a-half years since the release and I’m excited by the thought of getting something earlier. But don’t hurry, fellas. Take the time to make another amazing album.
When we set out to found Parakeet, we were certain that we wanted nothing more than to hone our craft together in perpetuity. The early days were full of experimentation and inquiry as we sought to balance our strengths and develop a unified perspective. A decade later, our creative partnership has solidified into something inextricable from either of us, totally complementary, and greater than the sum.
Congratulations to Luka and Louie! Here’s to many more years of success! 🥳
I want to state up front: I’m not leaving under a “deferred resignation”. I also wasn’t laid off. (Though it’s possible I almost was; more on that later.) Instead, I resigned from my position as a product designer, submitting two weeks’ notice…well, two weeks ago.
A sad day for Ethan, 18F , and the country. He’s a well known champion of the web and by all accounts a really great person.
As a country we need more people like Ethan working in Government, not fewer.
It’s a real loss for all of us and especially Ethan.
I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has changed since then, but PerfectTablePlan is now at version 7 and still going strong.
Congratulations, Andy! This is a huge milestone and I’m extremely happy for you.
I’d love to do this! And I’d better get started because I think I only have a good 20 years remaining in my life, if I don’t do something stupid. To spend those 20 working on something I love would be amazing! ❤️
The Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth
This is fascinating! My father-in-law died of complications due to Alzheimer’s. He had dental problems the entire time I knew him. Maybe they’re on to something here!
The Linux kernel mailing list drama around the Rust programming language use within the kernel continues… Linus Torvalds has largely refrained from the ongoing LKML discussions around a Rust policy for the Linux kernel and in-fighting between kernel developers and maintainers with differing views over Rust. This evening though Linus Torvalds did decide to chime in on the conversation.
I’m pleasantly surprised Torvalds is this open to the inclusion of Rust in the Linux Kernel. It’s a big deal and could lead to a much more stable operating system — not that it’s unstable today. But having a memory safe language is great for the future of operating systems as a whole.
I keep hoping we’ll find out Apple has included some Swift in Darwin.
Large corporations are shopping for underground bunkers that can survive a nuclear blast to protect their data centers and C-suite employees as geopolitical tensions rise. The first adopters are primarily cryptocurrency firms, companies that build the facilities told Semafor.
This made me lol. 🤣
I can see a room full of executives in a large underground datacenter. The nuke hits. Power fails. Brownout. UPS’es kick in. Backup generators start. Everything is beeping and blooping like mad. Some machines have gone down and slowly start coming back online. Network connections have been broken. The place is basically on fire. 🔥
The camera pans to the executives who have stepped out of their beautifully furnished offices in their cave. They all look around. The CEO steps out into the middle of the group and says “Now what?” 🤣
Fade to black.
Charles Pulliam-Moore • The Verge
Today, Amazon MGM, Broccoli, and fellow Bond producer Michael G. Wilson announced the formation of a new joint venture that will give the studio full creative control over the Bond movie franchise.
A lot of Bond fans are up in arms over this move. I’m not a huge Bond fan but I really enjoyed the Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig eras, Craig’s has been particularly great in my opinion.
Here’s hoping they do the franchise justice and keep making extremely great, entertaining, films! 🎥
The world champion, Max Verstappen was booed, as was his Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, while Lewis Hamilton was cheered, as was the tyre manufacturer Pirelli, so pumped up was this audience. It was the first time, surely, that mechanical grip enjoyed its fist-in-the-air moment.
F1 season is quickly approaching and I’m hoping the grid really shakes up due to all the driver movement over the off season. I’m hoping to see the legend Lewis Hamilton on the podium more often, hopefully in first place, and I expect Williams picking up Carlos Sainz will result in them becoming a fairly solid mid-pack team. I’d really love to see him podium this year but I don’t expect it.
