Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Last week was my final week on a two plus year project to integrate React Native into native iOS and Android code bases and ultimately migrate to a 100% React Native application. That goal was accomplished at the end of 2025, now we hand it over to our client so they can develop everything in pure React Native. It was a very enjoyable ride but our involvement with the project is scaled way back now. Some folks are still working on it but most of us will be moving on. To what? I have no idea at the moment. We’ll see!
Enjoy the links!
James Hibberd • The Hollywood Reporter
Martin wanted to build an empire — and did. Yet “productive” is the last word any Thrones fan would use to describe him. The author’s worry that he wouldn’t be able to finish Winter has borne out to a staggering degree. His tortured inability to “finish the book, George!” — as online hordes regularly chide — is almost as impressive, in its way, as his success at doing everything else.
It’s hard to believe he’s still working on the final book. I’m not a big follower of Mr. Martin but he’s obviously a prolific writer, just a bit slow, that’s all.
I hope he’s able to complete his book and feel really great about it.
Jack McKessy and Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz • USA Today
The New York Giants have offered Harbaugh a five-year deal to become their next head coach, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported Thursday morning. Harbaugh has already accepted the offer, which will make him one of the NFL’s highest-paid coaches, Rapoport reports.
I’m really happy for John Harbaugh. I think everyone knew he’d have his choice of teams given how consistent his teams have been over the years.
I hope he’s able to develop Jaxson Dart into an A-tier quarterback.
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
I’ve seen more people moving to Linux than ever before. Microsoft seems to be doing its best to make Windows an Enterprise only operating system. It’s really very sad.
I started my Windows development journey with Windows 2.1 and it really took off with Windows 3.0.
I worked at Microsoft on Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 in the International Group as a Test Engineer.
I left there for Visio and was a Tester for Visio 1.0.
I owe a lot to Windows professionally. Microsoft always had a great developer story with great SDK support. Now it’s a pretty strange company that doesn’t have a unified developer story and doesn’t even use its own tools for development of its own products. 😔
I think I can get the core bits of Stream ported to Linux, then I’d need to build a UI. 🤣
I’ve been watching Jake Savin for the last couple of months using Claude.ai and ChatGPT to create a headless version of Frontier that will run on Linux and current versions of MacOS.
This is extremely interesting. There are projects that come along once in a while that I’d like to contribute to, this is one, but I already have enough on my plate with Stream and [Secret Project].
Mike Tomlin was an unknown when the Pittsburgh Steelers plucked him from obscurity in 2007 and handed the young and charismatic Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator one of the most stable jobs in sports.
Mike Tomlin has been such a constant at Pittsburgh it’s hard to see him leave but I’m happy for him.
I hope he has an amazing retirement.
Pixelmator Pro is perhaps the biggest part of this announcement, as many have wondered what was in store for the graphics app after its parent company’s acquisition by Apple in late 2024. The Mac app comes to the iPad for the first time with Apple Pencil support, and there’s a new Warp tool across all versions.
This bundle seems a bit strange to me.😃 I can see having the high end creative tools in one bundle but the iWorks apps seem strange in the same group. They seem like should be two separate offerings to me.
Oh, it’s also kind of strange they’re keeping the old versions around and you can still do a one time purchase of them.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started a couple of years ago, would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune. It’s really harshing his vibe.
I figure he’ll get over it somehow. 🤣
At the end of his gruelling, podium-less first season with Ferrari in 2025, Hamilton needed that break and reset more than ever. Because 2026 will be the year that defines the late stages of his storied career, and the unification between the most successful driver in F1 history and the sport’s most successful, iconic team.
Mr. Hamilton is toward the end of his career. This may be the natural drop off in talent that comes with age.
I like F1 but I pay more attention to NASCAR and I’m witnessing that with Kyle Busch as well. The man is seven wins from 70 and I’d love to see him make it, but I feel like he won’t, which is a real bummer.
I’d be really happy to see Lewis Hamilton win another championship and walk away on top. Of course these folks are the best in the world and can’t walk away. 😁
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday called for curtailing her state’s lucrative tax incentives for data centers and imposing new water use fees on the growing industry.
This is good. Water is a very precious resource and needs to be treated accordingly. In fact, water poor areas like California, Arizona, Nevada, etc shouldn’t have big AI data centers. Put them in Alaska or northern states that have cold winters. As if I’m some expert on cooling data centers. 🤣
Emphasizing that leaving X and Grok available in the App Store and Play Store is directly contradictory to Apple and Google’s stated reasons for maintaining control over software distribution is a good pressure point. Do they selectively enforce content moderation based on whims and/or shifting political winds, or rigorously enforce the plain language of their own content guidelines? Which is it? It can’t be both.
Apple and Google are disappointing their fans. I know I’m disappointed as are many geeky developer and pundit types.
Space Karen needs to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
Johnathan M. Gitlin • Ars Technica
The outcry from Bolt fans was loud and vociferous, and in July 2025 GM CEO Mary Barra announced that it would be coming back, with a new Ultium-based battery pack. But only in the Bolt EUV body style—if you prefer the original hatchback, you’re out of luck.
I really like this little car and think it’s absolutely perfect as a commuter car but it’s waaaaay too expensive. How can Chevrolet bring the price down to under $20k for the base model?
That would be incredible. Cars are way too costly. Especially EV’s. I’d imagine that’s part of the reason people still drive gas powered vehicles.
If I were making a Bluesky client, I would get together with the other independent developers who are creating those clients and agree on adding features that Bluesky itself doesn’t support and be compatible with each other.
I like the idea of this it’s just too bad all of these platforms don’t have a way for third parties to add their own RSS elements. E.G. Dave has introduced a new RSS element named ‘source:markdown’ that is the same as ‘description’ except it’s formatted as Markdown. Pretty cool, aye?
