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Neha Dwivedi • Daily Downforce Corey Heim will join Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing team as a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver beginning in the 2027 season. While the development marks the fulfillment of a big opportunity for Heim, it also signals the end of Riley Herbst’s tenure in the seat, with Heim ready to replace him when the transition happens. It’s about damned time! Corey Heim is an amazing talent but he didn’t have a big name sponsor like Riley Herbst does. NASCAR…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been a pretty quite week. Work is moving along fine and we’re getting ready for our camping trip to the beach with the grandkids, our youngest daughter, and our dogs. Today I need to remove the wheels from the trailer and get new tires. I’ve never had to do that and I hope it goes smoothly. I’ll have to remove two at a time, run them down for new tires, put them back on the trailer and repeat the process for the remaining two. It’ll make for…
Avery Lotz • Axios Republican lawmakers want a $250 bill featuring President Trump for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration, but the proposal faces legal and legislative hurdles. Why would anyone want a giant orange asshole on our money. Doesn’t he realize his mug and all his gaudy gold shit is going to be ripped off of everything once he’s gone? Biology will ultimately take care of him. I just hope he hasn’t well and truly fucked the country up beyond repair.
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5176/2026/platnium-ui-elements.png" width=“600” height=“454” alt=“MacOS Platinum UI Example”> This morning I ran across the image above and I think it’s the MacOS Platinum design? I like it. I really, really like it. Since macOS 26 saw the light of day and folks have been bagging on Liquid Glass I’ve been looking at older Mac UIs for something pleasing to my eye. Not that I hate Liquid Glass, I don’t. It’s fine. When I see screenshots of Platinum I keep…
Maybe you knuckleheads shouldn’t have started a war with them? 🤬 The stupidity of this administration is shocking.
Today is one of those days. I don’t feel like writing code today, but I’m at the coffee shop, head in hands, trying to motivate myself. I will work on Stream for Mac today because there’s so much to do. Maybe I’ll tackle OPML and Refresh updating in the UI? I’ve had some really great feedback from the few Beta Testers I have. I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for helping me make this app presentable. ❤️
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I'm moving really fast this morning to get this "out the door" because I have to go pickup our trailer this morning. We bought a larger one, but it needed a bit of work and a good once over. The work is done, time to get ready for our maiden voyage in June. I’ve only had one cup of coffee so I decided to play the Doom Soundtrack to increase my typing speed 1000%. 🤣 I hope you enjoy the links and the bad opinions. ❤️ Jacob Lev ⦁ CNN Kyle Busch, a…
What did I get done today? 🤔 I did a bunch of little things to make the app have fewer rough edges. Removed the border around the blog list (Thanks, Lucien) Updated the selected Blog in the blog list to use white text Rounded the corners of the selected blog item in the blog list Adjusted the position of Blog list items to have some space around them Set the divider between panes to be thin If one blog is select and you refresh it, we only refresh that one item (Thanks, John) Updated the All…
No, you orange asshole, you are not entitled to it. Twenty-Second Amendment No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress,…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We managed to sell our camping trailer, which was really nice, because we bought a slightly bigger one and needed to get rid of it. 🤣 Work has been fine. Nothing hair raising happening. I went into the office on Thursday to meet with my new Manager and enjoyed being there. The only downside to being there is not having co-workers on my project being in the office. We’re geographically dispersed so I sat alone. Which, in the end, was completely…
Elizabeth Lopatto • The Verge “Unlike a lot of other meetings with Mr. Musk, this was a good vibes meeting.”It was when Altman met with Musk and Zilis to discuss plans for for-profit meetings. Zilis texted after the meeting to say she was glad they had the meeting to let Musk think about “the investment thing so it won’t irk him later.” A good vibes meeting means a long conversation of Musk ”showing us memes on his phone.” Elon Musk is not a serious person. He’s a fraud and a swindler. His big…
In California we lived at the base of the Sierra Nevada. Right behind Exeter sits a hill called Rocky Hill. In Virginia they would refer to that as a mountain. We refer to it as a foothill. Those foothills get ever taller as you drive deeper into them until you’re into the Sierra Nevada. Folks have never been west if hills are mountains to them. The Sierra Nevada is extremely impressive. Don’t take that as a slight. It’s what people know growing up here. The Appalachian’s are also very…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Another week in the books. As I’ve aged days fly by which means weeks and months and years zip past me. I’ve fallen into routine I should probably change. I get up, drink coffee, read Slack and email. Poke around code, do code reviews, maybe work on a feature or bug, then shower, and go to standup. Work for a spell then have lunch and head into the afternoon. Coffee around 2PM then finish out the day. It’s the same thing day-in and day-out. Wash,…
The Iconfactory Blog Linea’s interface has been updated to feel right at home on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass. Today’s update emphasizes your canvas while keeping tools just as accessible and intuitive as ever. Redesigned transformation handles make it more obvious how to scale, rotate, and adjust your selections, reducing friction when refining your work. Congratulations to my friends at The Iconfactory! 🥳 There are four apps I absolutely love from The Iconfactory; Wallaroo, Tot, Tapestry, and…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We have the kiddos for the weekend so let’s see how much of this I can get through before they wake up. My first cup of coffee is nice and hot and my fingers are ready to type. I hope you enjoy the links. Cory Doctrow • The Guardian The promise of AI – the promise AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AI that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself and…
Looks like the cicadas are venturing out. I’ve seen a few now. Mostly a bunch of exuviae laying around outside. But Kim found this dude outside.
I fixed the issue with my Context Menu’s not working. Totally stupid move by me — I knew it would be. After my last coding session I changed a property to be “weak” because I thought it was retained somewhere else. Then I committed that change because I needed to pack up and get home. Mistake! That property needed to be retained because it was passed in and the caller created it to be handed off, it was NOT retained. What a rookie move on my part. 🤦🏻 Removed the “weak” last night and now it…
This morning I decided to get TestFlight setup so I could start dropping alpha and beta versions of the app. It didn’t take long, which was really nice, and I’ve submitted a build for Apple to approve for testing. I’d imagine it will take some time to get through the gauntlet since it’s the first version of Stream for Mac. Fingers crossed it doesn’t take long to get through. 🤞🏼 Besides that I added a couple new menu items to the View menu and implemented them. The first was View > Timeline…
Let’s go!
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Jay Peters ⦁ The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will be succeeded by John Ternus, currently Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Ternus will take over as CEO on September 1st, 2026. Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board. Mark Jardine So I decided to see if I could build a simple bug tracking app that maybe our company can use internally. If it’s bad, then I entertained and educated myself for a few…
Tom Warren ⦁ The Verge US employees whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70 or more will be eligible for voluntary retirement, and Coleman says this will include “generous company support.” It’s not clear if this is a precursor to more layoffs at Microsoft, but it certainly looks like a method to avoid a bigger round of layoffs ahead of Microsoft’s new financial year in July. Emphasis is mine. If I’d stayed around Microsoft until now I’d be able to retire. Take my 58 years…
To summarize: Marmalade Messiah: Narcissistic Sociopath President of the United States Whiskey Pete: Drunk White Nationalist Secretary of the Department of Defense J. Edgar Boozer: Drunk Dumbass Director of the FBI Please send help. The United States is a real mess at the moment. If you have plans to visit the US, please reconsider, it’s not safe to be here.
First time seeing one of these in the wild. 😃
Today’s progress on Stream for Mac felt great. I was able to replace the Collection View item in the Blog List — leftmost column — with a native NSCollectionViewItem, which was extremely straightforward. I also added right mouse click menu support so you can do a few actions in your blog list; Mark All Read, Copy Feed Link, View Website, and Unsubscribe. All of the actions work as expected. Cmd+A now selects the top most item in the list — All — and displays all items from all blogs in the…
Things are starting to get really happy around here.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ The grandkids are coming down the stairs! I’ve been rushing to finish this post since 6AM, it’s now 7AM and I’m mostly done! Hope you enjoy the links! Hitting that publish button in 3… 2… 1… ABC 7 News Philz Coffee is reversing course and adding Pride flags back to all of its locations, a little over a week after it decided it would pull them from stores to create “an inclusive experience.” I was puzzled the CEO thought pulling Pride flags dow...
NCR “I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology,” Vance said. “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful. You’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth and that’s one of the things that I try to do and it’s certainly something I would expect from the clergy.” Man, JD Vance is an idiot. Are you saying Pope Leo doesn’t know anything about theology? 😵💫 Oh, and there’s this nugget from the article ab...
Time to work on Stream. Code by me, coffee by Grit
Beautiful day out. ☀️ Perfect for doing yard work.
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Boone Ashworth • Wired In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. Something that’s always kind of bugged me about technology is how it often marches forward at the expense of older technologies. I’m talking about the backward compatibility problem. We have old storage mechanisms, like floppy drives, that folks ca...
