Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Sorry for missing last week. We had our granddaughter over and I wasn’t able to get my writing completed before she woke up.
Today we have our grandson. He’s still asleep so I’ll try to get this out before he wakes up. 😀
Work continues on Stream for Mac. I’ve struggled to get my table view cells to look and act the way I want. From AppKit to SwiftUI and back it’s been quite a frustrating experience. What I need is to pair with a real AppKit expert for a few hours to get it working. I feel like after I get over this hump and move more quickly.
Onward! 🚀
Welp, my grandson is awake and running circles around the house. Time to publish what I have. Hope you enjoy the links!
SwiftUI is great for new programmers who don’t want to embrace AI-assisted coding, but old school developers should not feel any guilt sticking with AppKit. It’s still the gold standard.
Old school AppKit Devs move fast. Manton is no exception. He managed to release a new native Mac RSS reader in no time.
I wish I could move this quickly. If I were on Windows using the Windows API — the original one — I’d move extremely fast. I have 20+ years experience working in that environment and built a small class library that works perfectly for me.
John Brayton • Golden Hills Software
This is a quick update on my current priorities for the next versions of Unread. I anticipate changes to these priorities over time, but this is my current thinking.
I’m a huge fan of John’s work. Unread is one of the premier iOS and Mac Feed Readers on the market and John continues to make it better. Thanks for the list, John!
Of course you should download Stream as well. 😁
Ken Sandler, Ph.D • Blue Virginia
This Tuesday, March 17th, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider the sale of 41.7 acres of county property to a data center developer. The following is testimony on this matter that I’m providing to the Board, as a county resident. I encourage others to make their voices heard on this issue as well.
We have a crazy number of data centers in Virginia, especially in Northern Virginia, or NOVA as the locals call it.
There’s a lot of pushback against new data centers and I can’t blame folks given how AI bros treat locals.
These days, though, native is as bad as the web, if not worse. Consistency is basically out the window. Anything can look like anything, buttons have no borders, contrast doesn’t exist, and neither do conventions. Apple, for example, seems to place traffic lights and corner radius by vibes rather than by any measurable guidelines.
There’s a particular kind of silence that exists in the WordPress ecosystem. It’s not the silence of having nothing to say. It’s the silence of having something to say and deciding that saying it isn’t worth the risk. I know this silence well, because I’ve been living in it off and on myself.
🎉 Visual Studio turns 29 today! From VB in ’97 to AI‑powered coding in 2026, it’s been nearly three decades of shipping apps
Oddity is a movie that does a lot with relatively little. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel as some piece of “elevated” horror and it really only plays with a few locations. But McCarthy is the sort of filmmaker who makes the most out of the tools in his bag.
I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.
The purpose of the Open UI, a W3C Community Group, is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI components and controls, such as select dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date color pickers.
Last week we shipped Inkwell, our new feed reader for Micro.blog. Today I’m releasing a native Mac app for Inkwell.
YouTube channel DirectorFeng has posted a video demonstrating a 1TB storage upgrade to the newly release MacBook Neo.
Gobbler brings all your RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds into one beautiful interface. No algorithm. No noise. Just the articles you want to read.
