Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Nothing much to say this week! Hope you enjoy the links.
I’m fed up with every other website telling me “we value your privacy”, and then showing me an opt-out list of hundreds of vendors they’d like to share my information with. If it’s free, you’re the product. Even when it’s not free, that seems to be the case.
I think a lot of us are in the same boat as Whakkee, but they’re doing something about it.
This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me.
Read the post and make sure you go watch Cabel’s XOXO presentation. It is a beautiful story and Cabel is an excellent story teller. He’s also so full of joy and laughter. It’s such a good watch!
“Mimic” hit theaters late in the summer of 1997. It was Guillermo del Toro’s second feature-length directorial effort after his debut on the acclaimed 1992 vampire flick “Cronos,” as well as his first movie fully in English. Based on “Mimic,” the world wouldn’t have been able to predict that its director would go on to become a beloved cult icon and legit Hollywood darling in subsequent decades.
I like this movie and so does my wife. We saw it in theaters together and I think I need to go purchase it for our collection. 😁
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️
Happy Birthday NetNewsWire! You’re buying the beer! 🍻
Congratulations Brent Simmons and the NNW team. It really is a beautiful piece of work and the granddaddy of Mac feed readers.
Ferrari has officially named its first all-electric vehicle: the Ferrari Luce. The Italian automaker unveiled parts of the interior design today in San Francisco, showcasing a cabin co-designed with Jony Ive’s creative collective LoveFrom that prioritizes physical controls over touchscreens.
The work by LoveFrom is incredible. It’s a very nice mix of digital and analog cockpit. 😘
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Anthony Alfredo said he’d only cried tears of joy like this twice in his life: when his daughter, Everleigh, was born in November and when he made the Daytona 500 on Thursday night. Except less than an hour after one of his most triumphant moments, Alfredo received crushing news. His finish in Thursday’s qualifying race was disallowed because of a technical violation on his No. 62 car, and Alfredo was sent home for Sunday’s Great American Race instead.
The Daytona 500 is the biggest race of the NASCAR season and it just happens to be the first race of the season. Weird right?
Anywho, after qualifying there are two mini races on Thursday called Duels that allow racers to improve their position and let what are called Open Cars race their way into the show on Sunday. There were six open cars trying to get in and two spots to fill. Anthony Alfredo filled one of those spots. It’s a shame a small technicality eliminated them. 😔
You could abstain out of moral principle. And that’s fine, especially if you’re at the tail end of your career. And if you’re at the beginning of your career, you don’t need me to explain any of this to you, because you already use Warp and Cursor and Claude, with ChatGPT as your therapist and pair programmer and maybe even your lover. This post is for the 40-somethings in my audience who don’t realize this fact yet.
Lean into LLMs in your day job if you’re employed by a company like mine. It’s a place where we do client work for big name brands and our company encourages its use.
I’ve been on a very lean team, four developers, a Product Manager, and a part time Lead, and the team is cranking out high quality code faster than I’ve seen it done in a career of almost 40 years.
It’s not perfect out of the gate and can take coaxing to make changes you’d like but the first pass is usually extremely good. Yes, I’ve tweaked stuff by hand but it’s mostly what I want right away.
I may even use it on my personal projects a bit. Maybe.🙂
Framestore’s very good visual effects breakdown of their work on “F1” (2025).
Framestore did incredible work for F1 the movie. The video Todd links to is short and well worth a few minutes of your life.🏎️
Here’s a crazy idea, can I expose and host a website on a 2001 Sun MicroSystems Netra X1 SPARC Server? Yes, yes I can. Let’s get into how I set this up.
I love the idea of using old hardware like this. I’ve often wished operating systems could freeze in a way and only be modified to fix bugs, enhance security, and improve performance. I really only want this for servers. Don’t keep piling on features that bloat it.
Could you imagine something like an Intel 286, 386, or 486 running a static site like a blog or simple small business site? I can and it sounds amazing to me.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
America. Land of the free, home of the Oligarchs.
