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We have a great agenda for this evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting. Local iOS and Mac developers, please join us.
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The midterm election is less than a month away. This is a great time to check on your voter registration.
Massachusetts residents can do so using the Secretary of the Commonwealth website.
Residents of any state can use this page at Vote Save America.
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I generally like dark mode in Mojave, but when enabled I find it difficult to look at a breakpoint in Xcode and determine whether or not it is enabled.
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We have a solid agenda for this month’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting:
- Novall Khan will present Pros and Cons of React Native.
- @danielpunkass will present Xcode Tricks.
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Alerted.
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Reminder (for those of us in the US): FEMA will send a Presidential Alert test to our phones at around 2:20 PM Boston time. It might be very loud.
Washington Post: Government to send test alert messages Wednesday to cell phones
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Looking forward to NSHappyHour tonight.
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Periodic reminder that there will be a nationwide rapid response protest if Trump fires Robert Mueller, Jeff Sessions, or Rod Rosenstein.
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Seen while out for a walk.
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Subscribe to Feed
I missed this when it happened. Subscribe to Feed, a macOS Safari extension by @danielpunkass that makes it easy to subscribe to RSS feeds, is now part of @NetNewsWire 5. The Safari extension will work with NetNewsWire and with most other RSS readers on the Mac.
Subscribe to Feed was the inspiration behind Feed Hawk. I am not the original developer of Unread, but I think it is safe to assume that NetNewsWire was a huge inspiration behind Unread and most other RSS readers.
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Boston Globe: Fire, explosions due to gas main explosion reported in Lawrence area
“Firefighters have been called to 17 addresses in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover for reports of suspected gas fires and explosions…”
This is only a couple towns away from where I live.
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CocoaHeads Boston meets tonight. Hope to see you there.
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Observations about the new phones:
- Safe insets across all iPhone X variants are identical.
- The notch on the XR comes down 33 points from the top of the screen. 30 on other iPhone X devices.
- The XR and XS Max have the same dimensions in points.
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The comparison page for new iPhone X models is up. The iPhone XR has a larger screen than the XS.
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The new phones look fantastic, but I wish that the X R focussed on reduced physical size instead of reduced cost.
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I spent a month using an Apple Watch, and it didn’t stick for me. But these hardware improvements and the watchOS improvements tempt me to give it another chance.
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This is the first time in many years I’ve watched an Apple event live without being glued to Twitter. It feels weird, but good.
Also, I really like my iPhone X. OK, I really just want an event pin. 😁
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President Obama is not mincing words on the importance of voting in November.
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I am trying to understand what happened with regard to Cory Booker. Initially it seemed like he put himself on the line, but now it is being reported that the documents had been cleared for release.
Did Booker not know that, had they not been cleared, or am I missing something?
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Looking forward to NSHappyHour tonight.
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Big Massachusetts primary news: Capuano concedes to Pressley in congressional race
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We have a great agenda for next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting:
- Sean Olszewski presenting Patterns & Methodologies for Test Suite Design
- Fabian Canas presenting the Twitter Network Layer
- Erik Price presenting a talk on the benefits of sum types
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Tomorrow is primary day here in Massachusetts. Vote.
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Massachusetts folks, remember that the primary is Tuesday. The Secretary of the Commonwealth has a great page detailing where to vote and who will be on your ballot.
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Nice detail in Due 3: when you mark an item done, an “Undo Mark Done” button appears for a few seconds.
I like that much better than shake to undo.
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