Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Allergies. Ugh. That’s been my week. It wasn’t a horrible week. I’m just tired. Now, who wants to blow the leaves out of our yard today! 🍂
I hope you enjoy the linkage.
Chris Espinosa, who wrote the first Macintosh calculator app and still works at Apple as its longest-serving employee, found a creative way around Steve’s never-ending critiques in what must be one of the best ever examples of managing upwards
So smart! I’ll bet Jobs was extremely happy to be able to sit there and tweak to his hearts content.
Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework designed to solve the fundamental problem of cross-platform development: velocity vs. runtime performance. For 8 years, it has powered a large portion of Snap’s production apps.
I think this is super interesting and I need to spend a bit of time understanding it better.
I really like that it has hot loading, like React Native, and you can use the debugger! 😍 That is my biggest gripe with React Native development, lack of proper debugging support in the IDE.
Yesterday, Apple unveiled what seems unlikely to be their newest hit product, the iPhone Pocket. Produced in collaboration with the Issey Miyake design studio, this goofy accessory features “a singular 3D-knitted construction designed to fit any iPhone”. It will also hold “all pocketable items”, I suppose in the same way that a bag will hold all baggable items.
You have to visit Paul’s site! 🤣 The picture accompanying this post is worth a thousand words.
John Hughes is responsible for the greatest Thanksgiving movie of all time, 1987’s poignant Planes, Trains & Automobiles. This Steve Martin and John Candy-led classic has become a perennial and a movie tons of folks have probably been revisiting this week. However, about four years later, in 1991, John Hughes made another Thanksgiving movie in the same vein, Dutch. Despite being a pretty solid movie with a very recognizable cast, it’s a hard movie to track down nowadays. And, with Thanksgiving not too far away that’s a damn shame!
I’ve never seen Dutch but it’s on my list. I’ve also never seen Uncle Buck so it’s on the list too!
There are two movies I think of as Thanksgiving movies. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a classic and the other is Four Brothers but only because the events in the movie happen at Thanksgiving time.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving movie?
Mayank Parmar • Windows Latest
WhatsApp on Windows 11 has just got a ‘major’ upgrade, and you’re probably going to hate it because it simply loads web.whatsapp.com in a WebView2 container. This means WhatsApp on Windows 11 is cooked, and it’s back to being absolute garbage in terms of performance.
Let’s just use websites. What benefit does a dedicated wrapper around a website actually give the user? An icon on the desktop? You can make a PWA using Edge, why not do that?
I like native desktop apps.
Shopify, which on Oct. 20 penned the first installment of its brand-new Substack newsletter, dubbed “In Stock.”
No, no, no. Y’all need to stop using Substack. Why centralize your business in the Nazi Bar? I don’t get it.
The greatest thing about using an RSS reader is the ability to “mark all as read,” walk away, and not get another update until you hit the refresh button. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it, then you haven’t lived.
There are many wonderful benefits to using RSS. Find a reader and try it for yourself.
Did I mention I make one called Stream? 😃
Politics
My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.
I kind of wish more justices would do something like this but we need them on the bench to defend democracy.
It was brave of Judge Wolf to walk away so he could share his feelings.
