RIP ApollošŖ¦š

RIP ApollošŖ¦š
Kimās gardenias are starting to pop open and they smell amazing. I donāt remember them smelling this sweet.
The next set of daylillies have come in and theyāre amazing. Theyāre so beautiful and itās nice to see them even if itās only for a day or so.
Last year after the first flower burst open a deer came by and wiped out everything else. š¤£
This year weāve hit three without a deer incident. The thunderstorms are probably helping.
Having a beer with my girls.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! āļø
Weāve been home for a week now and itās been really nice to sleep in our own bed!
Now, if we could get Cocoa to sleep past 5:30AM Iād be thrilled. š
I hope you have a nice cup of coffee or tea ready and I hope you enjoy the links.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has refused to surrender, and called Vladimir Putin “deeply mistaken” following the Russian president’s address describing his actions as betrayal.
I heard about this as I was crawling in bed. I hope the Wagner Group is able to destabilize Putin and end the war in Ukraine.
Probably too much to hope for. š
I wanted to address Reddit’s continued, provably false statements, as well as answer some questions from the community, and also just say thanks.
I love this openness from Christian Selig. If folks donāt know, Christian tapes his conversations with Reddit folks. Itās been very interesting to read bit the transcript heās shared. Itās clear they have lied.
I just wish Christian had posted this all to a weblog so it would have a more permanent home. Who knows whatās going to happen with his subreddit.
After a bruising week of protests and locked-down forums, things started to get back to normal Tuesday on Reddit, as ā oh wait, whatās this?
Subreddit moderators are doing all they can to screw things up on Reddit. I applaud their effort.
If you want to watch pop culture eat itself, go see The Flash, a movie that starts out as a sprightly superhero adventure, then dissolves into a self-referential requiem for the DC Universe.
Iām torn about seeing this movie given all the hubbub surrounding Ezra Miller but I really want to see Michael Keatons older Batman!
These days, distributed version control systems like Git have “won the war” of version control. One of the arguments I used to hear when DVCSs were gaining traction was around how easy it is to branch and merge with a VCS like Git. However, I’m a big fan of Trunk-Based Development (TBD), and I want to tell you why.
Iād imagine most folks I work with today have no clue how we used to work. I didnāt use git for version control full time until around 2014 Iād imagine? I found it terribly frustrating to work with at first but know Iām fine with it.
Anywho, up until 2014 Iād worked with so many different version control systems. Iād imagine I worked with CVS the longest and we had one main branch ā trunk ā and everyone committed directly to it. Yes, breaking the build was definitely frowned upon so you had to be very careful about your commits!
When North Carolina Gov. Patrick McCrory signed House Bill 2 into law, I wonder if he was thinking long-range about what the result might be. I canāt see him and his staff wondering out loud if their thick-skulled, cracker logic might result in Bruce Springsteen not only canceling his upcoming show in Greensboro, depriving the state of revenue and its residents of a Springsteen concert, but inspiring Mr. Boss to issue a press release that more people have read than will ever peruse House Bill 2.
Henry Rollins seems to be a really great dude. Part punk, part philosopher, always interesting to listen to or read.
Seven years after the Brexit referendum, the proportion of Britons who want to rejoin the EU has climbed to its highest levels since 2016, according to a new survey.
I mean, duh! The British version of MAGA didnāt work out so well. Itās been terrible for so many. I hope they rejoin the EU.
The NASCAR Next Gen Garage 56 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was a hit from day one in Le Mans, among fans, media and even other competitors. And it was fast on track, consistently putting down lap times that bettered cars in the GT class. The car ran near the top of the GT field for more than 20 hours until a drive line issue sidelined the team for more than an hour. Overall, the car was running at the finish, completed 285 laps on the 8.4-mile circuit and finished 39th in the 62-car field.
This car is an absolute beast and looked out of place at Le Mans. It would also look out of place on a NASCAR track. It is a beautiful car with some really excellent engineering. Oh, yeah, and it is super fast! Good old American V8 horsepower under the hood.
I kind of wish Iād been more of a car guy when I was younger. My Dad certainly is and has built some beautiful cars in his time. His ā37 Chevy Coup Street Rod is stunning and he used to drag race a 454 powered ā51 Anglia.
I had the opportunity to learn a lot but didnāt. If I could do it today Iād love to be a mechanic or engineer for a NASCAR, IndyCar, or F1 team. Iād love to specialize in engines. I do find them fascinating and would love to rebuild one again. I rebuilt a Chevy small block in High School my senior year. Yeah, I took auto shop because I wanted to do something āeasy.ā š
After 21 years, Cadillac Racing marked our return to the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 10ā11 with our highest finish ever in front of a record audience of 325,000 spectators. Our No. 2 V-Series.R led laps for the first time in Cadillac history and finished on the podium in 3rd, with the No. 3 just behind in 4th, and the No. 311 fighting back for 10th in class.
Thereās an article on Jalopnik that includes a video of one of these cars doing a bump start and it sounds mean. It instantly made me think of the Batmobile for some reason.
Now, letās get more American manufacturers back in NASCAR. Cadillac would be a super interesting entry! I think Dodge is an obvious entry for NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Truck series given their history of legendary cars like the Challenger and their RAM trucks.
Cadillac would be super cool to see in NASCAR Cup racing but it may be too lowbrow for them? š¤£
Renting an RV and embarking on a road trip across America can seem like more of a fantasy trip than a real thing you actually do. But you can truly make it a reality. And if you do, it can turn into a thrilling and liberating experience that will leave you with unforgettable memories. Hereās why you should take the plunge.
This is something I dream about all the time but I canāt quite get Kim convinced we need to sell everything and go all in on the RV lifestyle.
As a compromise weād like to acquire a smaller RV and do some two week to one month excursions to see if we like it. It would also be great for week long camping trips with the entire family.
Maybe someday itāll be a reality? š¤š¼
When former NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino was named Twitter’s next CEO last month, advertisers breathed a sigh of relief.
I donāt expect Ms. Yaccarino to last very long at Twitter. I think my original quesstimate was six months but I could see it lasting as long as a year.
Musk is too much of a control freak. The kind of boss Iād hate working for.
The best piece of advice I ever got from my VP of Engineering and CTO at Pelco was āYou have to convince people your vision is the right way to go so they follow. You wonāt get their best work if youāre a tyrant.ā It was something like that. Basically be a leader, not a bully.
This blog post is meant to be read in order. Later answers are shorter because they rely on the information presented in the earlier answers.
This is a really nice piece if youāre following along with the TFG Top Secret documents prosecution. Dude is such a knucklehead and honestly believes he has magical powers to declassify things with his mind. Dumbass.
The engineers reminded him of their commutes. The working parents reminded him of school pickup times. Mr. Medina replied with arguments he has delineated so often that they have come to feel like personal mantras: Being near each other makes the work better. Mr. Medina approached three years of mushy remote-plus-office work as an experiment. His takeaway was that ideas bubble up more organically in the clamor of the office.
I believe with all my heart CEOās like this are real control freaks and must have the adoration of their people surrounding them at all times. I can have these ah-ha moments, Slack someone, and fire up a zoom call to have the same conversations. Itās just not face to face in a building I have to commute to.
If our company demanded everyone come to the office, of course Iād comply, but I really donāt believe itās necessary.
Just my horrible opinion.
A federal court heard both sides during a trial where trans youth, their parents, and their doctors challenged a law banning gender affirming care in Arkansas. The court found that the law violated the right to due process and to equal treatment under the constitution, and ordered the law struck down because Arkansas failed to demonstrate a compelling state interest justifying the unequal treatment.
We really need the courts to continue overturning these idiotic and dangerous laws.
You cannot force people to be someone they are not and denying them healthcare because theyāre different than you is barbaric.
Apparently Metaās Project 92 is going to federate with a limited set of Mastodon instances, pay them, and allow them to display Meta ads in exchange for a cut.
Embrace and extend. Amirite?
Letās see how this plays out.
Most of the Fahrni clan.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
A shot from Ripleyās Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Me, Kim, and Addi! šļø
Iām not really into trucker hats but I really love this one. Itās from the 15 year celebration swag with Agrian team got while I was there. I love the colors ā gray and black ā and the logo is really sweet.
All those sweat rings give it that lived in look.
The food will be simple but itās the view weāre here for. That and the walk on the beach afterward.
Good morning from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! āļø
Kim and I rented a place for a week to share with our kids, grandkids, and our dogs! We arrived around 7PM Friday evening, got setup, had some pizza, and pretty much passed out.
We havenāt had time to do any real recon of the are but I did manage to find a decent pizza joint and a Food Lion so we could pick up odds and ends to stock the fridge for the week.
From Friday to Tuesday itās all about our kids and grandkids. Tuesday forward itāll just be Kim and I and our oldest grandchild until next Saturday.
I was hoping to get some extra bunk time but that aināt gonna happen with a puppy who thinks 5:30AM is play time. š¤£
Weāre going to have a great time at the beach and whatever else we can drum up.
Enjoy the links.
But even just a small taste of VisionOS made me feel confident that it is going to be the next major platform for Apple and Apple developers, alongside MacOS and iOS/iPadOS.
I wasnāt too excited about any new AR/VR headset Apple was set to release, then I saw it in the keynote.
At first I was disappointed because they were showing someone in an office using it to replace their monitor(s) and thatās kind of boring.
The we see someone celebrating a childās birthday wearing the headset. Really? What a complete douchebag. No, seriously, thatās a really bad move.
But, when I saw them demonstrate watching movies with it, I was excited! That is what Iād use it for!
Am I spending $3,500 anytime soon on one? Hell no! Itās still to early for me, especially at that price. Itās hard to justify it.
Donald Trump himself broke the news this evening that heās been indictedāmaking him the first former president to ever be charged with a federal crime.
King ding dong himself is finally being indicted for his retention of government documents. Itās not about him accidentally having a few mixed in with his other papers, itās about boxes of them, not returning them on request, and lying that he did return them.
The right like to say āWhat about Biden and Pence?ā Indeed, what about them. They self reported having documents and turned them over right away.
TFG is a real garbage human wrapped in a suit. My hope is, at a minimum, heās banned from running for any federal office ever again.
Easy question ā hard answer, how to I convert a hex string to hex byte string in C?
Go along for the ride. I havenāt taken the time to think through how to solve this and I only have nits to pick with Colinās solution.
Richmondās post-graduation mass shooting reflects Americaās gun violence epidemic
This is so sickening. The shooting is absolutely horrific but to do it at a graduation? Itās heartbreaking how callous our nation has become.š
This document is the reference guide describing how to mix Swift and C++
Since this was done as an official way to use C++ from Swift there was all kinds of thought out into safety. Thatās fine, but if you have a great hunk of C++ that has been thoroughly tested and you feel good about it you probably donāt need the training wheels provided by this support.
Just wrap your C++ in a thin layer of Objective-C++ and call it from your Swift code without penalty. š¤·š»āāļø
Goodbye, CNN’s Chris Licht. But what’s the lesson?
I know he screwed the pooch with that TFG interview thing but man, that was pretty quick.
The number of 2019 Mac Pros sold cannot be huge, but the new oneās numbers are going to be even smaller. As a Mac Pro fan that worries me. Yes, there are users who are reliant on PCI solutions and Iām sure those folks will upgrade to this new machine at some point.
Who is this computer for? Thatās the question on most folks minds. When I heard it wasnāt nearly as expandable as the 2019 version it made me wonder why they bothered? Beyond the awesome SOC it doesnāt have more to offer than its 2019 counterpart.
Then again, Iāve never been the target of this computer. Iām still using a 2019 MacBook Pro and Iām fine with it. Heck, I have a brand new M2 based MacBook Pro sitting in a box waiting for me to set it up. š¤£
But as Adams scanned the bustling crowd of King Penguins, elephant seals, and Antarctic fur seals, he spotted something bizarre in the distance.
Go check out the post. This bird is gorgeous and I want it.
Could The NASCAR Garage 56 Camaro Beat Every GTE Car At Le Mans?
Iād love to watch this all the way through but thatās not gonna happen. I hope NASCAR has partnered with someone to do a full documentary on it. The process from concept to reality to running the race. I hope it makes it the full 24 hours. That alone would be a huge victory.
Nah, sheās not cute. š„ŗ
Sacked out.
Weāre in Nashville, no not that one, the one in Illinois. Weāve picked up our new pup, Cocoa, and head back home tomorrow. Kolby is gonna hate us for a while but heās a sweet boy and will teach her the ropes. š¶š
Say hi Cocoa.
I put together some tips for folks at work back in early 2020 as COVID was starting to spread like wild fire here in the States.
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I thought Iād throw some work from home tips in a doc. Iāve been working from home off and on for the past 20+ years, give or take.
Everyone has to find a rhythm that works for them. These are the things that work for me.
When I initially started working from home I would get up, get dressed, eat breakfast (not always), and drive my kids to school. When I got home I was at work. Iād walk into my office, close the door, and go to work. It may sound silly but I needed it to get me in the proper frame of mind. If it would help you, take a quick drive to emulate driving to work.
I plan on getting out a bit. Going to the store for the usual stuff; milk, coffee, etc. The daily necessities. Iāll batch them up but I need a bit of time away from the house to preserve my sanity.
My friends know how much I love contrails ā as in condensation trail.
More stuff blooming!
Yesterday and today. What a difference a day makes.
Kimās roses are happy and just starting to put off blooms.
There have been some critters gnawing on the leaves.
I hear folks say āStop calling the GOP Nazis.ā Fine. Iāll stop when they stop behaving like Nazis.
Love that little tongue sticking out. š
I fell for Ms. Prissā trap. She rolled onto her back, exposing her belly, and sprung the trap when I started rubbing it. š
Just watching a little TV.
This fella knows how to live. He parties all night and sleeps all day.
More flowers coming in.