Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
On the road with our youngest daughter, Bug. I’m passenger for the first couple hours because I have a difficult time waking up. 🤣 Hey, I’ve only had a single cup of coffee this morning!
We’re on the road to California to visit family, Bug will visit friends while I work. Of course we’ll make the rounds to all of our old haunts just to see how things have changed in the area.
Our old favorite coffee shop, Exeter Coffee Co, shuttered at the end of last year. It was a sad affair. Nothing replaced it. But, we’ll be in Fresno with my brother and there are lots and lots of great coffee joints to choose from.
It’ll be really nice to just sit around and chat with my brother and my sister-in-law. It’s been too long.
I hope you enjoy the links.
Kiwi actor Sir Sam Neill has died, his family has announced.
R.I.P Mr. Neill. I’ll bet everyone knows him from his role as Dr. Allen Grant in Jurassic Park but I remember hime for his roles in In the mouth of Madness and Event Horizon.
God’s speed. 🪦
The AI bubble isn’t a result of any actual return on investment — whether that be in purely monetary terms, like revenue or profitability , productivity gains, or anything tangible or measurable. Rather, it’s an episode of cult-like psychosis that infected the brains of some of the most powerful and wealthy individuals and institutions, where the powerful mythology of a company inspired — and been used to inspire — the greatest capital misallocation in history.
Worth a read if you have a few minutes.
Because app icons from the Mac OS X era are so beloved, it’s very understandable—relatable even—how mandating rounded square app icons is downright heartbreaking to long-time Mac OS X users.
Louie talking about icons and their construction is an educational experience. He really is an expert on the subject and one of the best icon designers in the world.
Another great read from him. This time through the Parakeet company blog instead of his own.
Like most fascist or fashy-adjacent tech bros (Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg), Substack execs previously tried to hide behind pseudo-noble claims they just really love free speech. In reality, they’re turning a blind eye to hateful, white supremacist, anti-trans ideology and bigotry to make an extra buck.
So if I see someone building a new media company on the back of Substack in 2026 – especially if you’re purporting to be an ethical, truthful author with a keen grasp of politics and modern media – I’m going to have questions.
It’s nice to see someone else on the anti-Substack train. There are so many great writes using this crummy, fascist, platform and the only logical conclusion I can come to is they’re being paid lots of money up front to host there.
If they’re not then why the hell are they selling their soul to this soulless company? I don’t get it.
GET OFF SUBSTACK!
Lora Kolodny, Jeniece Pettitt • CNBC
Today, the noise from Colossus II and its gas-burning turbines is “like a form of torture,” said Jason Haley of Southaven, Miss., whose house is within a mile of the site. Southaven is part of the Greater Memphis area.
I really dislike Elon Musk. He’s a piece of garbage human who cares about who knows what. At one point he talked about “Saving the human race.” But all he really seems to care about is making lots of money.
Mars is a fantasy. Get over it, Space Karen. Work on saving this planet because it’s the ONLY one we can survive on.
Polluting our environment in pursuit of your Mars fantasy is disgusting.
Apple TV has plenty of reasons to keep on living. But it sure would be nice if Apple would show the product some attention beyond the massive price increases. Attention like new hardware, OS improvements, and (eventually) a price that makes it less of a hard sell to people who are desperate to escape the garbage of all the other streamer-box platforms.
When FOX bought Roku I was ready to purchase an Apple TV but I held off because the hardware was so old. Now I’m really kicking myself.
The whole memory shortage thing is just killin’ everyone. We’ll never find out directly from Apple but I would love to know how the price increases are hitting sales?
This past Saturday, @pushcx and I deployed the SQLite pull request to production. We were waiting till this morning to see how it would react to the Monday traffic spike before making this post. Needless to say, SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors: cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, site seems to be snappier at least for me, 1/2 the vps cost once mariadb vps is taken down, and finally “We’re having a quiet Monday.”. Finally #539 Migrate to SQLite was closed this morning.
I had no idea you could have multi-process access to SQLite? When I was working on Pelco’s API for camera, decoder, encoder, and NVR access I chose to use SQLite as the backing database for things we needed to cache. I did it because it was a zero configuration option. Just build an app and our API would take care of device caching and other things. Magic! Ok, ok, not magic, but it was super simple to use.
The downside we hit at the time was we couldn’t have multiple processes accessing it simultaneously. It seems like we could’ve and I just couldn’t figure out how to make that happen! Bummer. But, all that code has been retired by now, so it’s moot. 😃
Isn’t that sweet? Pete Hegseth is imposing mandatory testosterone testing, but is not requiring testosterone supplements, yet. As we all know, good soldiers are in a constant roid-rage, and can be recognized by their chronic bacne.
Gender affirming care for soldiers!🤣 Hegseth is such a bro and shouldn’t be in a leadership role anywhere, much less the DOD.
He’s failed on Iran and now he needs to up the testosterone of soldiers? Like everything else MAGA it makes no sense.
A decrease in testosterone is a part of life. I loved lifting weights and as I got into my 40’s I found I was having a difficult time recovering from my workouts. Turns out my testosterone was decreasing. It just happens as we age.
Elon Musk’s Colossus 1 and 2 data centers are in hot water for allegedly using unpermitted mobile natural gas turbines to generate the power they need. But even though he also owns a solar power generation and large-scale battery storage business through Tesla Energy, Electrek reports that he instead doubled down on mobile generators after purchasing APR Energy. It’s not exactly known how much Musk paid for the company, but disclosures revealed that he spent more than $50 million on the 5% stake held by a minority shareholder. This meant that he likely poured at least a billion dollars into the entire firm if every shareholder received the same amount.
Space Karen, again. Polluting the only planet we’er aware of that can support human life.
All data centers must be required to bring their own clean power and a closed loop system that doesn’t pollute water. They also have to be required to limit noise pollution along with air and water pollution. All of it.
I don’t know if y’all remember the whole eco-terrorism movement but I’m shocked they haven’t hit these sites.
The public betas of both MacOS 27 and iOS 27 were released this week to the general public, and they coincide with the third release of developer betas. The first few developer betas I’ve used were pretty buggy. But now that I’m on the third version I can definitely say this year is weird and slightly unstable and you probably want to skip them until September when the final versions come out (hopefully they fix all the bugs I’m seeing now).
I have iOS 27 installed on my old trusty iPhone 11 and haven’t seen anything egregious but I don’t use it all that much. I trust Matthew’s experience so buyer beware!
Look, it’s never been safe to use BETA software. Never. Not even Apple’s software.
