Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Pretty typical week. We have our granddaughter this weekend so I’ll be exhausted by Monday morning, just in time to go back to work. 😆
Yes, of course having her with us is total joy!
After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit.
I’m thankful for all the work Eugen has done for social networking and Mastodon in particular.
Having him around, I believe, will be good for the direction of Mastodon.
All the best, Eugen! ❤️
Over the past six months, we have been working on a Visual Studio Code extension to assist in the development of Vapor applications. Let’s explore its features and how it can enhance your development experience.
I wonder if I should install this plugin? I’ve never done any backend development with Swift but if I did I imagine I’d use Vapor?
Also, I’m still surprised by how many people rely on Visual Studio Code daily. It seems the default and go to editor for web and React Native developers, along with so many others. It’s cross platform and super extensible, no wonder it’s so popular. I have a Linux dev nerd friend who was a huge emacs fan. He switched to Visual Studio Code for all of his C++ dev needs and loves it. When he went from Linux to Mac he kept the same setup. That’s attractive for folks who like it.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai • TechCrunch
DoorDash disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of an unspecified number of users, which included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
The article also reports that DoorDash said “No sensitive information” was leaked. 😳 How can DoorDash say that with a straight face?
William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele • Apple Insider
For almost two decades, the Mac Probounced between coveted and beloved, to derided and forgotten. This isn’t the first time this has been said, but now it seems like the reign of the Mac Pro is finally over.
We all know our favorite Mac writer, podcaster, and developer, John Siracusa, is not excited for this move but on the latest ATP episode he shared that he expected it. Sorry, John.
I still think someone should take an old Trashcan Mac Pro and soup it up with upgraded innards. Like turning an old car into a hot rod.
Dave Winer has been updating the web page about Markdown in RSS. This is an RSS extension that adds source:markdownelements to your feed. Micro.blog supports this by default for all blogs.
At some point I’d like to support this in Stream, I think. That’s still a ways down the road as Stream for Mac still needs a lot of love before I can think about supporting it.
Verizon’s new CEO is planning to cut about 15,000 jobs in the U.S. telecommunications company’s largest ever layoffs, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, outlining some of the executive’s first efforts to restructure in the face of rising competition.
And, here we go. More big layoffs in the tech sector. It’s so rough out there for tech jobs at the moment and I’m so happy I still have WillowTree.
The Financial Times reports that Apple has stepped up its preparations for the handover of the CEO role from Tim Cook. Here are the details.
A lot of the Apple community is looking forward to this transition. Tim Cook’s foray into Trump Worship was definitely the final straw for a lot of people.
MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration of cardiac tissue.
This is extremely cool and the type of thing my brother is into. As a Chemistry undergrad he was working on drug delivery systems using plastics. That was, geeze, almost forty years ago. We’ve come a long way and need research like that performed at our universities.
Henri Gendreau • Roanoke Rambler
Nationwide, data center operators including Google have tried to keep secret the amount of water projects could use. In Virginia, Ciaffone’s ruling appears to be the first time that a court has weighed in on whether such information can rightfully be withheld under the state’s Freedom of Information Act, according to a review of case law. But hers may not be the final word.
Being a native Californian I understand, deeply, the importance of water. Here in Virginia it falls from the sky like some kind of magic but in California it’s very rare and much needed.
It’s a precious resource for the survival of the human race. Corporations using it willy-nilly to cool data centers sounds dumb when it’s difficult to come by.
