Saturday Morning Coffee

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Were four days away from what is the most consequential Presidential vote in my lifetime, perhaps the country’s lifetime. Voting is the most important thing you can do to save our democracy. I’ll leave it at that. I hope you enjoy the links. Pema Levy …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I don’t know if allergies are trying to kill me or if I’ve picked up a cold somewhere. No matter, I’m so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open. 😃 Ok, so, here we are, three hours later. 🤣 I passed out. Couldn’t keep my eyes open. Hope you enjoy the …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ My coffee is nice and hot and I’ve collected a lot of material to share this week. There’s no way I can share it all. A lot of it centers around American Politics and the rift between WordPress and WP Engine. I hope you enjoy the links I’ve selected …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I know this is very late today. We have our grandson today and we’ve been go, go, go, go, go since he arrived. I’m already pooped but he is such a great kid and a joy to be around. 😁 Carmel Dagan, Alex Ritman • Variety Maggie Smith, Star of ‘Downton …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I love me a four day work week, don’t you? And that’s all I have to say about that. We’re going to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this morning at 10. I haven’t heard too much about it but I suspect it’ll be pretty fun. We’ll see. I hope you enjoy the …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Our grandkids are with us this weekend and for some reason that always throws off Ms. Gracie’s sleep cycle. Her usual 6:30 wake-up came at 5:30 this morning. I suppose that gives me more time to write before the kids wake up. 😁 It’s been a pretty …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Another week, gone. Life seems to be flying by at an accelerated pace and I’m not fond of it. I continue my React Native and TypeScript work, at work. I’m refactoring a bit of UI code to be shared in the project. It’s been a good experience. I’m …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Pretty typical week. Slow around the house and busy at work. I have yard work today and we’re gonna install a new ceiling fan later, most likely tomorrow. Kim let me sleep in, it was really nice. Stayed in bed until 10AM, so off to a really late start …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I got my first React Native PR submitted and I’ve received some good feedback. On the whole it’s fine. I still find the syntax extremely strange but I’ll figure it out. I still very much prefer Swift and Xcode to TypeScript and VSCode. 😃 Barack Obama …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Another very quiet week at home and work. I hope you enjoy the links. Dan Heching and Zoe Sottile • CNN Estey said Simmons died early on Saturday morning. He had celebrated his 76th birthday the day before. “We lost an Angel today - a true Angel,” …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ This week was Apple Developer Christmas also known as WWDC. It’s a time of year we learn what Apple has in store for developers for the next year. At WillowTree we had a watch party at our Durham, North Carolina office. It was really great to meet …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We had a lot of fun this week tracking down a bug in the project I’m working on. It was exposed by slow server response, which was because the service had grown. So the bug was icky. Once we tracked it down on the client side we were able to fix it up …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I had to set aside my upgrade of some of the networking code changes I wanted to make on the project I’m on at work. That’s fine. I knew it would be a bit of a process to update this code and to be honest it may be a fools errand. But I still believe …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Well, we’re in another of Virginia’s 12 seasons. Fake Spring is over, now it’s time for Winter Two or Three, I can’t remember the funny names given to them. 🤣 It’s been gray and rainy with thunderstorms all week. ⛈️ After a month of beautiful, mostly …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Feeling under the weather today. I started getting sick in the middle of the week. I slept a lot yesterday and hope to have a quiet weekend. I hope you enjoy the links. Paul Lefebvre Just a few days ago, BASIC turned 60! On May 1, 1964 BASIC was …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Welcome to this Special Sunday Edition of Saturday Morning Coffee. What makes it special you ask? Nothing! 😆 Kim, my lovely bride, let me sleep in yesterday. It was glorious! And since we had plans to be out of the house by around 10AM, well, that …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Life is just flying by. Another week in the books. I’ll be helping Kim paint the kitchen today. Should be an adventure. 👨‍🎨 Jeffrey Zeldman Sure, watches that tell you when you’re walking unsteadily and pocket computer phones that show you the closest …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Kim let me sleep in this morning. I must say it was pretty glorious. Not too much to report on my work week. Busy, but in a good way. I really love this project. The people and the technical aspects have been amazing. Fingers crossed we get to continue …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Feeling a little groggy this morning. I basically passed out sitting on the couch watching TV at around 7PM last night. I woke up a few minutes later and don’t remember closing my eyes. 🤣 Please, send all the coffee. It looks like I’ll get an …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Well, I’ve managed to put some time into Stream for Mac this week. I’d really messed it up trying to force the codebase into something I wanted, so I started over. Yeah, that sucks, but I think in the end it will have been the right choice. Taylor — my …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been a fun week at work. I’ve been fixing bugs here and there. For some reason I enjoy this type of work. I spent a decent amount of time looking at memory graphs for object retentions problems and fixed a couple of good ones this week. That …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ This week has had its ups and downs. We managed to package up a build of the app I’m working on when we promised it. It’s also Daytona 500 time! I watched the Duels on Thursday night and the Truck race last night. Today we have the Xfinity Series race …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Its been a busy week at the day job. We’ve been working on some new stuff due to go out the door soon. I’ll be working over the weekend doing some testing to help wrap up our sprint. I also managed to drop a new Beta of Stream this week. I haven’t …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Another week and month in the books. We’ve crossed into February and Punxsutawney Phil says six more weeks of winter. I’m ok with that. Coffees ready, let’s get going. MARK KENNEDY • Yahoo Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Last week was cold, this week has been like a perfect spring. We had plenty of sunshine with highs approaching 70. Of course next week we drop back into the 40’s. It is winter after all. 😃 Juli Clover • MacRumors Apple’s EU Core Technology Fee …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been a pretty normal week, thankfully. Work has been great. I’ve had the opportunity to have a lot of heads down time on the project which always makes me happy, and my family is good. Now, go get that nice hot cup of coffee or tea and I hope you …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ So ends my week of relaxation. In the past I’d start becoming angry about how quickly my time off flew by. Not this week. I made the most of each day with some lazing about thrown in. I managed to get some time to work on Stream for Mac and do a bunch …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Another week, gone. We’re picking up the grandkids this morning so I’ll have to get this put together quickly this morning. Sorry, grandpa duty calls! 👴🏼 I’m finishing this off in the car as we go to get them. 🤣 Hope you enjoy the links. Max Boot • The …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ All the Thanksgiving leftovers are long gone and I celebrated my 56th birthday this week. I got my free birthday coffee at Starbucks, had BBQ for dinner, and chocolate cake for dessert. Luckily the cake didn’t have 56 candles on it. That would’ve been …

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I haven’t reported on Ms. Gracie’s sleep schedule for a while. She’s finally — FINALLY — letting me sleep longer. It seems I can get to bed around 11:30 and she doesn’t need to do her business until 5:30 or so so. Sometimes 6:30! It’s been wonderful. …