Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
We’re pleased to announce the arrival of Iconfactory Tapestryon iOS 26 with stunning support for Liquid Glass, visual improvements up and down the timeline, and a new native app for macOS.
Y’all know what a huge fan I am of The Iconfactory. They’re an excellent example of great design meeting excellent engineering and I’m always happy for them when they release a new version of something.
I can see Tapestry turning into the ultimate social and blogging viewer plus editor of both! I know, I know, this directly competes with Stream but it’s so much more and I love how it brings so many services together. It may be read-only now, but I can imagine read-write in its future. Keep an eye on it.
Congratulations, y’all!❤️
Ever wanted to peek into the mind of one of horror’s greatest authors? Well, now you can, courtesy of Penguin Random House. The publisher has just announced their latest horror nonfiction title, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King, a new book by University of Maine professor Caroline Bicks that explores never before seen access into King’s private archives.
This is a book I’ll be picking up. Who knows if I’ll get around to reading it but I’ll definitely have one. Kim can read it. I know she will.
Stephen King has always been a fascinating character to me. He’s such a prolific writer and the few novels I’ve read have been extremely good in my eyes.
I achieved a major development milestone for my biggest app, MarsEdit, today. I can now build against Swift 6 with strict concurrency, and no warnings
Wow! That is pretty major! Congratulations, Daniel. I hope you share more of your adventures in Swift Concurrency as you progress!
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has been on Polygon’s list as one of the most anticipated movies of 2025. A collaboration with Netflix, Del Toro’stake on the Gothic tale is a direct adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 19th-century novel, Frankenstein. With the creature (not monster) teased on Sept. 30, we’ve just had one question: when can we expect to see the Frankenstein trailer?
I’m so excited to see this in theaters! I’ll see y’all there! I’ll be the dude with the huge bucket of popcorn with my eyes glued to the big screen! 🍿
After flip-flopping about what I’m going to do with this site, I decided to flip to Jekyll and build my own little CMS while I’m at it. Because why not?
I love watching folks bounce around building new tooling for their weblogs. It’s not something I’m willing to take on at the moment but it is something I think about it a lot given Stream is weblog adjacent.
Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announced today. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, who was just promoted to president of Windows and devices earlier this month, shared the changes to Microsoft’s Windows teams in an internal memo.
As a fan of Windows I think this is a good idea. Get everyone moving the same direction. Bring codebases back together and make sure Windows continues to run great on the desktop as well as the backend.
I know it gets a lot of crap but it’s still a great OS and runs so much of the worlds computers we need it to continue to be great.
One of these days I’ll get another Windows box. I hope to bring Stream to Windows someday. Gotta finish the Mac version first! But when/if it comes to Windows it’ll be all, or mostly, Swift. It’s doable.
The Eaton fire burned down more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people this past January, mainly in the Altadena community just north of Pasadena, California. The massive clean-up is still underway, and some residents have moved into RVs parked on their property until their permanent residences can be rebuilt.
There are so many sad and disgusting things happening in our once wonderful nation. To see folks lose their homes to a huge natural disaster and not be in a position to rebuild is just another tragedy in a nation, not to mention a world, of tragedies.
While using Instruments is always a good idea (and current Xcode 26 has amazing tooling for observing concurrency related issues), there are several opportunities to improve this even more in the editor itself. let’s break down some features Xcode could introduce in order to make it easier to anticipate issues, befor they become a bug for the instruments.
I’ve been collecting articles to read about Swift Concurrency for quite a while. One of these days I need to sit down and read them. I’m afraid my knowledge of Actors and Concurrency is near zero. I think I understand the concepts but putting them to use is another matter that will require some quiet contemplation and lots of experimentation along with notes, copious notes. 😃
If you really want a full-stack Ruby framework that doesn’t have a bigot with poor reasoning skills in charge, you need to make one. And to succeed, it needs to be better than Rails in every way.
That Ruby on Rails guy has really shown what a white nationalist Nazi type he is. I know many folks use Ruby on Rails and it’s difficult to pull away from that infrastructure if you’ve built on top of it. But, when you start something new you can move on from it. Leave that legacy code alone and build on Swift, Rust, or Node. There are many great options available to you. Heck, you could use Sinatra or keep an eye on Yippee. You have choices.
Linux wasn’t the first Unix. WordPress was built out of a fork of another blogging system. RSS was the result of work Netscape did building on work I did, and then needed protection from an incompatible fork. None of these things are simple, but the result is — interop, no lockin, no billionaires owning the result.
It’s very obvious I love me some RSS and what it means to the open web. Dave continues to do interesting experiments with blogging, RSS, and social media sites. Then we have Manton Reece at Micro.blog who I believe has nailed the Social blogging, or Micro blogging, nail directly on the head. They’re working hard every day to keep us and our content out of the big billionaire corporate silos.
I was messing around with WordPress the other day and it’s so close to being kind of perfect. I have more thoughts on the matter that need to be a standalone blog post and I hope to pull it together soon and describe my perfect system. 👀
Kauy Ostlien • The Daily Downforce
On Tuesday, the NASCAR industry learned via the Dale Jr. Download that Legacy Motor Club’s purchase of a Rick Ware Racing charter was record-breaking. While this was surely newsworthy, Dale Earnhardt Jr., co-host of the show, seemed to have mixed emotions about the implications of these rising charter costs.
NASCAR Cup charters are a strange beast. They’re stupid expensive and have to be renewed every year, which I think is really dumb. It should be a one time purchase, a franchise like the NFL, but I digress.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is, without a doubt, the biggest fan and supporter of NASCAR. He’s very involved from owning an Xfinity team to podcasting to being in the broadcast booth. He’s an incredible dude in my book and even he has been priced out of Cup team ownership. For now charters are in the 10s of millions, how long before they’re hundreds of millions of dollars?
If her wants to buy a charter now is the time. There are only so many available.
Last year Jr. Motorsports ran an open car at the Daytona 500 and finished in the top 10. It would be incredible to see a Jr. Motorsports Cup car week in and week out.
I hope he can manage it without driving his company to bankruptcy.
Help us, Dear Souls: We’re Trapped in “War Ravaged” Portland
I saw so many Mastodon, Bluesky, and blog posts dripping with sarcasm and Portland’ism last week after the Orange Man announced he was sending troops to ”War ravaged Portland”.
Yeah, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. It’s Portland. They’re too busy gathering at Powell’s Bookstore, sipping a latte, or downtown in the evening at a food truck having an IPA with friends.
