Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Its been a couple weeks since I’ve written anything and I missed it. But, on the plus side I spent time with our grandkids and protested our horrible government. Both were time well spent away from the keyboard.
Work has been cruising along. We’re approaching the end of our two-plus year effort to move native iOS and Android apps to React Native. It’s about to pay off and I’m so excited to see it hit the streets.
Little plug for work. If your company would like to develop a cross platform app or integrate React Native into an existing app TELUS Digital — formerly WillowTree — have the chops to pull that off.
Time to work on Stream for Mac. Our granddaughter is celebrating her birthday tomorrow so we’ll be off having fun with her.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the links!
Diane Keaton, who remained one of Hollywood’s quirkiest and most beloved actors decades after her Academy Award-winning performance in the movie Annie Hall, has died at age 79.
My favorite Diane Keaton movie is Baby Boom. I love the story of the successful type-a personality finding a much better life in becoming a mother in a small town. Great film and she was great.
Another great film is The Family Stone. Unlike Baby Boom it’s very serious and Ms. Keaton is amazing.
RIP 🪦
Bhaskar Sunkara • Talking Points Memo
While some aspects of Substack may harken back to an older form of political publishing, it doesn’t seem to be reviving the sturdy communities that made the best political blogs feel special. If Crooked Timber today is a living remnant of that order, it looks like Byzantium in its last century: storied and cultured, but a city-state that was once an empire.
I will continue to harp on Substack’s embrace of Nazism. It’s not a good choice for writers. Leave now.
Apple is interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s extensive back catalog of content for Apple TV, Bloomberg reports.
This could be a really interesting pickup for Apple, don’t you think? It’s not like they don’t have a hojillion dollars to spend on some “tiny” acquisitions, right?
One of the things that I think about from time to time is Apple’s collection of apps. Some are the crown jewels, like Apple’s pro apps, and others help an everyday consumer to tackle their iLife. All are pretty starved for attention and resources, outside of infrequent updates aligned with showing off the native power of Apple Silicon, Apple Intelligence, or demos of platform integration that never quite get all the way there.
I keep waiting for Apple to really eat their own dog food and creat a real productivity app in 100% SwiftUI.
Pages, Numbers, or Keynote would suffice but rewriting software just because is expensive. Perhaps they could do a direct port to SwiftUI using AI as a starting point and fix it up? Perhaps that’s also a really dumb idea. 😀
[John DiLlilo • Tadum by Netflix] (https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/a-house-of-dynamite-kathryn-bigelow-release-date-cast-news)
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is the latest dramatic thriller from the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and more — and it’s streaming on Netflix right now.
I watched this last night. It was good but don’t expect it to be Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty.
It’s the same story shot from multiple perspectives, that I liked. The ending left me wanting but it was a great choice. That’s all I’ll say. 😬
The Android workgroup is an open group, free for anyone to join, that aims to expand Swift to Android. Today, we are pleased to announce nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android.
I wonder how many iOS App ports we’ll see on Android now? Or perhaps some shared code between the platforms like we see with Kotlin Native?
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file.
Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work.
I keep looking for a reason to like Visual Studio Code. It just feels wrong to me. Especially keyboard shortcuts. I’m spoiled by Xcode just as I was by Visual Studio when I was using that for 20+ years while writing Windows apps.
Personally, I’d rather use Nova but I’m choosing to use VS Code because it’s what my team uses and the project is suited to it. It’s just not for me.
So, in an attempt to feel more at home, I’ve switched to his theme. It’s not bad and it’s light, which is my preference.
There are certain truths in the automotive world. A Porsche 911 has its engine in the rear, old Land Cruisers have worse aero than bread, and Mazda’s Soul Red Crystal paint will make you look twice.
I’ve never really paid attention to Mazda’s custom red paint but it is quite beautiful. Maybe I should paint my truck that color? 🤔
Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hoping its robots can replace more than 600,000 jobs it would otherwise have to hire in the United States by 2033, despite estimating it’ll sell about twice as many products over the period.
This notion is all fine and good if means people don’t have to work to survive. Provide for our basic health care, food, clothing, and shelter and doing this doesn’t seem so bad, right?
The reality is much, much, darker. This is meant to make the rich, richer at the expense of everyone else.
Spire Motorsports will dismiss Justin Haley, driver of its No. 7 Chevrolet, at the end of the NASCAR Cup Series season.
Just one season after dismissing Cory LaJoie for Justin Haley, Spire is doing it again. It’s puzzling to me. Why not give him another year? His team hasn’t exactly been stable. Spire dismissed his highly regarded Crew Chief early in the season. But nope. He’s out.
The only good thing to come out of it is the signing of Daniel Suarez to pilot the 7.
WARNING: Talk of sexual abuse follows
Virginia Roberts Giuffre • The Guardian
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men – and how everyone knew what was going on
Everyone involved in Epstein and Maxwell’s trafficking scheme is a monster and should be treated as such. That includes Trump.
They’re all pedophiles and sexual predators. Throw them all in a hole and let them fend for themselves.
