John Brayton


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A blog post: Murder

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Unread’s MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award arrived, and looks great on my desk.

Huge thanks to the MacStories team!

A glass trophy reading MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement 2025.
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Protesting in Boston

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Merry Christmas, you old building and loan.

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I am so excited. Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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I have a 100-day streak of walking at least 10,000 steps per day.

A screenshot of Pedometer++ showing that I have a streak of 100 days walking at least 10,000 steps.
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I recently moved most of my servers from Linode to Hetzner. I wrote a blog post describing the pros and cons of each hosting service: virtualsanity.com/202512/mo…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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I voted (early).

A sticker that says “I voted today”.
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Tomorrow is the No Kings protest. I am going. If you are here in the United States, please consider attending.

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This is incredibly disappointing.

Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

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A 30-day streak. The streak will not end today.

A Pedometer++ screen showing that I have walked 10,000 steps during each of the past 30 days.
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Jimmy Kimmel Cancelled

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I just released Unread 4.6 with improvements to support Apple’s operating system updates.

Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes.

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Next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting will be a dinner gathering at MEX Taqueria. Since it falls just a couple days after the iPhone event, we will have a lot to discuss. New participants are always welcome.

www.meetup.com/cocoahead…

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Watching the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

Looking down onto the field from the first base line, near home plate.
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This is a great time to make an appointment to get a COVID shot, especially if you are here in the United States.

I just made an appointment through the CVS app. Be aware that doing so requires answering yes when asked if you are at high risk for COVID.

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FB19910081: Sometimes when opening a Safari View Controller on iPadOS 26, its toolbar covers the status bar.

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On iPadOS 26, using the traffic lights control on a window often results in the scroll view scrolling to the top. A UIScrollView can be made to scroll to the top by tapping the status bar, but using the traffic lights should not have this effect. I filed FB19887491.

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Stephen Colbert sums it up, as always. Introducing The Apple iKiss

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Something to be aware of with Icon Composer: Tinted variants of icons generated from Icon Composer look as expected on iOS 26, but look terrible on iOS 18. I filed FB19089822.

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Less importantly, who thought it was a good idea to pave over Copley Square?

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Good trouble in Boston

A crowd of thousands in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston. The crowd is protesting Trump, ICE, and all the crazy.
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I just released Unread 4.5 with a Website Accounts feature. This lets you view webpage text for paywalled articles.

Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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I initially walked right by this creature without noticing it.

A deer standing along the side of the street.