Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Gracie decided 5:30 was wake-up time. I felt miserable. I’m definitely sick. Anywho, I started working on Saturday Morning Coffee and as soon as Kim woke up, I went back to bed. That’s why this is so late. I woke up around 11:30 and had to take care of some stuff.
Sorry for the lateness but I hope you enjoy the links.
Five days ‘til Christmas! 🎅🏼
The world knows Rob as a generational talent, a storyteller and humanitarian activist who made a difference with his art, his voice, and his influence. I knew that man, but I also knew a man who treated me with more kindness, care, and love than my own father ever did. And it is the loss of that man that is piercing my heart right now.
The death or Rob and Michele Reiner was a complete shock. I can’t imagine how hard it hit their close friends and family. Wil gives us some clue of what that loss feels like.
I also like that he was able to share his thoughts and feelings on his own terms. No reporters involved. Just a man telling how he wanted to. ❤️
Kate Mothes • This is Colossal
When an oval-shaped portrait fell into his hands, with its structural framework crumbling and its canvas stained, that wasn’t even the worst of it. This particular painting had also been unskillfully painted over to freshen it up, despite—as Baumgartner discovers—the fact that the “fix” actually completely changed the entire feel of the work. As he works, he illuminates how the amateur attempt to restore the work actually eliminated the subtle nuances of the artist’s original intention, and by extension, the sitter’s personality.
This video was a really great watch. Watching someone at the top of their game is a real treat and when he was finished the painting looked incredible.
Take a few minutes out of your day to watch it. It’s really good. 🖼️
WordPress Studio simplifies all of that.
The free, open-source tool lets you spin up local sites quickly, share previews instantly, and move changes between environments without the usual hassle — helping you focus on creating rather than configuring and troubleshooting.
Tooling makes a huge difference when it comes to managing a large group of systems.
I’d love to see this driven by a real pro.
I’m old enough to remember when the head of Netflix wasn’t just downplaying the importance of movie theaters to the industry, he was eviscerating the entire concept as “outdated”. That is to say, I’m at least eight months old.
I hope Netflix puts an effort behind making top notch movies and lets HBO focus on creation of great series.
In the 16 years that I’ve been writing for MacStories, I’ve seen my fair share of new apps that have come and gone. Apps that promised to revolutionize a particular segment of the App Store were eventually acquired, discontinued, or simply abandoned. It’s been very unusual to witness an indie app survive in a highly competitive marketplace, let alone to find one that thrived after having been sold twice to different owners over the years. But such is the case of Unread, the RSS client now developed by John Brayton of Golden Hill Software and the recipient of this year’s MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement Award.
Congratulations, John! You earned it. Unread it a top notch feed reader. 🥳
The account itself was flagged as “closed in accordance with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.” Naturally, there were repercussions that did a lot more to Dr Buttfield-Addison’s digital life than simply the closure of one account.
Some good news to report. Dr. Butterfield-Addison has regained full access to his account.
It took a Herculean effort to get this account unlocked. Normal folks, like most of us, don’t stand a chance of getting our account back. 😔
Philip Rivers was competent on Sunday but not much more in his first NFL game since the 2020 season.
Let’s hear it for the old guys of the world. I always liked Phillip Rivers. He has a real drive to win and is tough as nail.
