Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Welp, I’m on PTO! 🥳 The sad thing is I don’t feel like I’m on vacation, yet. Today I need to vacuum Kim’s car and my truck so they’re nice and clean because Monday morning we’re off to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for a week of camping at the beach with our daughter, grandkids, and the dogs. We enjoy it down there. The folks are nice, the campgrounds are well maintained, and the beach is, well… it’s the beach. Everything is better at the beach!⛱️
My only fear is Ms. Gracie will misbehave. She barks at everything and I’m afraid she’ll have a lot of trouble at night because campgrounds can be a little noisy at times.
I will, of course, need a vacation when we get back from our vacation, so I took Monday and Tuesday of the following week off to recover a bit before going back to work. 😁
CBS News has fired veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley a day after he confronted the show’s new executive producer at a heated staff meeting.
Bravo Scott Pelley! Let ‘em have it! Watching CBS slide into fascism hasn’t been fun to watch but seeing someone on the inside push back, in such a public manner, has been refreshing.
Sure, CBS is now a fascist hellscape of a broadcast and news company but the fine news people they have don’t have to be a part of it.
The web is the place for great news to happen. I hope Mr. Pelley creates his own news blog — NOT ON SUBSTACK — and publishes his own brand of investigative reports.
Yesterday on Pivot Scott Galloway suggested Netflix should pick up the 60-minutes crew and let it operate on its own as “Hour News” or some such. I like the idea. 😃
Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone later this year. Rumors suggest the “iPhone Ultra” will come in two color options, and a leaker shared an image today that allegedly shows one of them.
If the picture in that article is the new phone I can confidently say I don’t like the form factor. I haven’t held it in my hand of course but it looks huge.
Hopefully we’ll see this new phone in September or October of this year. Even though I doubt it’s something I’d like to use I will, of course, do what I can to support it in Stream. 😄
A digital detox was on my list to accomplish. I’ve read blog posts about this regarding deleting apps on your phone and deleting accounts from services. I reviewed how I was using my time through the day and reading rss feeds of blogs and tech articles. Many tech posts I didn’t even read past the headlines since I’m not interested any longer in tech. These were the first to go from my rss reader.
I have a feeling this happens more than we realize and I’d also imagine it’s accelerating with the advent of LLMs.
I know he’s abandoned RSS but I’d like to point out that part of why I made Stream was so I wouldn’t feel that need to be a completionists with my feeds. Of course I eventually caved and added read/unread markers on every feed item, it was heavily requested.
For the Mac version I’ve made displaying those read/unread dots optional, by request of course.
Sorry, I don’t know Jon’s last name or I’d have use it! 😂
I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder.
I’m not so sure Elon Musk is at all interested in saving humanity, as he was once fond of saying. He’s interested in power and stuffing his already fat pockets with even more money at the expense of everything and everyone around him.
SpaceX may be a good company, doing interesting things, but Musk is a real garbage human and he leaves a stench on whatever he touches, SpaceX included.
He’s bound and determined to destroy Tesla and his social media platform has become a right wing troll farm.
We can’t get a ultra wealth tax in place fast enough. Everything over 10-billion should be taxed somewhere between 80-100% with zero loopholes afforded for borrowing against it. These wealthy suckers use every trick in the book to get around paying taxes and even benefit on their taxes by taking out loans against their wealth. Yes, yet another way to absolutely screw the average and the poor.
Screw you, Space Karen.
Get on a rocket and get your ass to Mars already. 🚀
It’s time for me to learn what standard.site is and how it compares to the things I know and work with. This is the result of the conversation I had this morning with ChatGPT.
This is a neat summary comparing standard.site and RSS provided by ChatGPT. It’s definitely worth a read.
And, I still don’t understand AT Protocol. 😂
I’ve updated Micro.blog with initial support for Standard.site, a set of lexicons for long-form blogging on the atmosphere. I’m a little late to the party. Thanks to Leaflet, Pckt, and others for leading the way here.
I love how Manton keeps Micro.blog at the forefront of blogging and the social web. This site will benefit from his work adding standard.site support and I won’t have to lift a finger.
Thank you, Manton! ❤️
PHP is foundational to the modern web, and ensuring its security is essential for a significant portion of the web’s functionality and integrity.
I know a lot of language purists love to pick on PHP but to me it’s the C of the web. It’s been around for so long and is beloved by so many for it’s ease of use. Heck, until fairly recently you could write PHP code on your Mac without installing a single package. Just write some PHP and browse to it. Simple. We need more of that because modern software development is a mess of packages upon packages upon packages. Half the time you spend on your project is keeping packages and your fragile environment working. Unless you’re me, then you decide to use C++ to write a backend service so you can stay away from as much external stuff as possible. Don’t worry, I’m gonna let an LLM help me with it. 🤣
The anthology movie is a distinct art form, one whose strengths and drawbacks are well known and almost entirely foundational to the general understanding of how the genre works.
Creep Show and Trick-r-Treat are easily my favorite horror anthologies.
tl;dr AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!
I like the way Chad exited tech. He typed his reasons, on real paper, then hand edited mistakes and left notes in the margin with a pen.
Good luck, Chad! I hope you’re able to stay away from the draw of tech! 😄
Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.
This is a heckuva thing. Please, for all that pure in this world, don’t connect these things to dangerous systems of any kind. Please, keep us fallable — thinking, empathetic — humans in charge of those. Pachinko machines have no place near dangerous systems.
In April, Apple rejected an update to my Mac dictation app, WhisperPad, under Guideline 2.4.5. Their position was that I was using the accessibility API in a way that wasn’t an accessibility use. The app exists because I have a hand injury. Apple had approved earlier versions doing the same thing. This time they did not.
This was really quite sad to read. Rene creates something to help with their pain issue and decides to share it with the world, because hey, someone else may need it, but Apple rejects it.
I’ve actually experienced something similar. In 2013-2014 my left hand pinky and ring finger became very painful when I’d type for too long. Turns out my ulnar nerve was pinched and required surgery to repair. This app would’ve been very handy at the time.
Winners and finalists in this category provide memorable, engaging, and satisfying experiences enhanced by Apple technologies.
WWDC 2026 is next week so I thought I’d share the finalists and give them a big “Congratulations!” on their nominations!
I see, yet again, Stream isn’t in the list. 🤣
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more.
This app looks pretty nice to me. I haven’t seen it front and center but it looks pretty nice at first glance.
The first thing I thought was “Did they do this in Electron or React Native like they’ve been doing in other areas?”
It would be nice to discover it’s native C++ or C#, but I’m not holding my breath. For some reason they love writing stuff in TypeScript now.
As I’ve said before, the web is now the desktop. I can’t really wrap my brain around the attraction to React Native and TypeScript and I’ve been working with it for over a year now. It’s super popular with developers of all ages and, of course, I’m going with the flow, but I still prefer using the native tools, frameworks, and languages of the platform.
Maybe it’s just time for all platforms to give in and embrace TypeScript and React Native as their preferred platform. At least then they could create really great tooling around it. The arcane, backwards, tooling is part of what I really dislike about using TypeScript and React Native.
Enough complaining.🤣 The app looks pretty nice. I hope it’s extremely useful.
Andrew Cunningham ⦁ Ars Technica
On the hardware front, we didn’t get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday’s Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is “a compact developer PC” built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in memory.
The RTX Spark is getting a lot of ink these days and I’d love to see one in action. Makes me wonder if Apple has any of these running in a lab somewhere in Cupertino?
I’ll bet these things are going to be crazy expensive.🤑
Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny
I hope this is a real thing because it would certainly go a long way toward fixing one of the real problems created by Data Centers. Now, provide your own clean, silent running, power and you’ve really got something.
Regard for the natural world and the comfort of people around these places should be the highest priority of any Data Center build. All these folks see is money at any cost.
There won’t be money to make if we’re all dead.😵
This isn’t a Rust-is-faster story. It’s a story about how std::unordered_map, std::map, and std::list — the containers every C++ textbook teaches, the ones the committee has shipped since 1998 — are so catastrophically bad for modern hardware that a Rust beginner using default containers demolishes a C++ solution without trying. And how we proved it by systematically replacing each C++ container until parity was reached.
To me this is a Rust is faster than C++ story. This is shameful in my eyes as someone who has written a ton of C++ code. At the time I was writing C and C++ code it was as popular as JavaScript and TypeScript are today. It was ubiquitous. The compilers were top notch and constantly improving. Today we have so many great choices, like Rust and Swift. I’d love to see Swift in a head-to-head with Rust using these same tests.
If you want to use an alternative to the standard library (std::) checkout Google’s Abseil. It’s way faster and battle tested.💨
Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.”
What’s the deal with these companies going to SpaceX — xAI really — to get compute? I guess all that money spent on getting data centers setup before the pushback was a good idea, but at huge cost to nature and people.
People see Musk as a genius. He’s not. He’s a sociopath who does whatever he wants. You can take that to the bank.
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