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 with morning coffee and writing. 😃
John Brayton • Golden Hill Software
Unread for Mac is now available from the Mac App Store.
Since we can use Swift to write code for Windows I’m excited to give it a try.
I’m hoping I can bring over all of Stream’s model, network, utility, and view model code over without changes, or perhaps few changes?
The other thing I’m thinking is, I should be able to port my C++ framework for building Windows apps to Swift. That would be something really special and would allow me to do a full version of Stream for Windows.
Michael Gold • The New York Times
In the closing minutes of his speech to a gathering of religious conservatives on Friday night, former President Donald J. Trump told Christians that if they voted him into office in November, they would never need to vote again.
“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time,” he said at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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
Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents, as well as a dear friend and partner to me.
The Official Windows Blog
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident, given it impacts our ecosystem, we want to provide an update on the steps we’ve taken with CrowdStrike and others to remediate and support our customers.
What Microsoft is actually saying:
WHAT THE F*CK DID YOU DO!?
I still love Microsoft Windows as an operating system and development platform so this event is a real bummer for everyone involved.
Jamie Frevele • Mediaite
Elon Musk Blasted for Meme Suggesting Too Many Comic Book Characters Are Now Black: ‘This Is Nazi Sh*t’
Imagine that. A man raised in the Apartheid nation of South Africa has an issue with black and brown people being super heroes.
Racist asshole.
Natalie Sherman • BBC
Musk to move SpaceX and X from CA over gender-identity law
Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir • Metro
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,” Estey added.
I remember Richard Simmons from the 80’s. Always the showman, always enthusiastic, always fighting to teach folks how to lose weight and talking about his own struggles.
Gil Duran and George Lakoff • Frame Lab
Violence has no place in a democratic political system, and we condemn this despicable act. Yet we must also acknowledge that no one has done more to inject violence into our political discourse than Trump.
Josh Marshall • Talking Points Memo
Trump has already tried once to overthrow the republic in response to losing an election. He explicitly promises to wrench our democratic institutions into a perverted system of populist authoritarianism and wreck the structure of global alliances which have kept generations of Americans safe.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
It’s been a pretty quiet week in the Fahrni household and at work. I’d say we’re in a steady state at both. Of course it won’t stay that way for long so I’m gonna enjoy it while I can.
Our granddaughter is with us this weekend so let’s see how much writing I’ll get done. 😁
I’ve saved so many interesting links this week. I hope you enjoy them.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
We celebrated our nations 248th birthday this week. For some reason it made me think back to being a kid in 1976. We lived in the little California town of Lindsay. It’s where I was born. That year, for the entire year, all the fire hydrants were painted in red, white, and blue to celebrate our nations 200th birthday. It was a big deal and I’ll never forget it.
“Democrats fearful that President Joe Biden will cost them control of Congress are mulling calling on him to withdraw from the race against convicted felon former President…”
All y’all are cowards!
Biden is our only choice. Get out there and rally the troops. There’s more to lose than your seat in the House or Senate.
I would really love to see NASCAR add a couple international dates to their schedule. Maybe these dates are in place of some track dates that get two races and they’re only done every-other-year?
Regardless, I think it would be good for the sport. Granted I’m a total NASCAR noob but I’ve really come to appreciate the skill, strategy, and excitement of NASCAR.
Exciting? Really? Yep. I think it’s the most exciting of the three racing leagues I keep an eye on; NASCAR, IndyCar, and F1.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
It’s been a very quiet week but I’m excited for tomorrow because Kim and Taylor will be back home! 🥳
Guess I’d better cleanup the house. 🤣
My first cup of coffee is in hand. I hope you enjoy the links.
boing boing
All schools in every Oklahoma district must now include the Bible in their teachings, as mandated today by State Superintendent Ryan Walters.
I didn’t watch the debate last night and I’m glad I skipped it. Apparently President Biden didn’t do so well. That’s ok, I’m still voting for him and I’m sure most Democrats will.
Question is how do we get Independents to vote for him or true Republicans who don’t agree with the draconian MAGA movement? The movement that’ll set us back decades.
I’m still voting for Joe Biden, I don’t care if he’s not as sharp as he once was.