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Thanks to Macworld for reviewing Unread 2.
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Congratulations to Stefan Reitshamer on the release of Arq 6. I have been using Arq to back up my Macs since before version 1.0.
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Is it weird that my way of unwinding at the end of the day recently has been to watch Andrew Cuomo’s press briefings?
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My smoke detectors did not get the memo that this is not the best time to demand new batteries.
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I ran out of coffee a few days ago.
Today I finally have a reason important enough to go into a store. I can get coffee now!
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Watching Back to the Future. In 1985, 1955 looked like a much more innocent time.
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Pete Buttigieg guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel last night. The monologue is hilarious.
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Tonight we had our Boston CocoaHeads meeting online. I missed the in-person interaction of our regular meetings, but it went well.
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In line at grocery store. There is one line snaked all the way to the back of the store. This is far beyond even a just-before-Thanksgiving crowd.
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“Because a lot of people depend on the White House getting stuff right.”
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I voted.
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Lets Encrypt is revoking some certificates on March 4. You can use an online tool to determine whether your certificate is affected.
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My Primary Vote
I vote in the primary tomorrow. I decided to vote for Elizabeth Warren.
Since I do not have a registered party affiliation I can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary. I seriously considered voting in the Republican primary for Bill Weld, a decent Republican (really!) challenging Trump for the nomination. My thinking was that this was the best way to use my vote to weaken Trump.
But I decided to vote in the Democratic primary for Elizabeth Warren. There are other good candidates for the Democratic nomination, but I think she will make the best President.
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Safari Rejecting Long-Lived HTTPS Certificates
The most recent episode of ATP has a good discussion regarding browsers rejecting certificates with lifetimes longer than 13 months.
In the late 90’s and for the first few years of this millennium I ran my own mail server, mostly as a hobby. When I started doing this it was easy and fun, but it became increasingly difficult. It became harder to defend against spammers and to prevent outgoing mail from being flagged as spam. I would not want to run my own mail servers today.
I think requiring all web traffic to be HTTPS is a good thing. Requiring certificates to have shorter lifetimes has security benefits. But I worry that the increase in requirements of running a simple web server will make doing so as unappealing as running a mail server is today.
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Joe Biden is projected to win South Carolina. My streak of incorrect predictions regarding US politics is still going strong.
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I shipped Unread 2! Improvements include:
- Automatic webpage text (Readability) for feeds that contain only article summaries
- Subscription management
- Hardware keyboard support
- Multiple windows
- New article list layout
Details in this blog post.
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This debate is by far the most fiery thus far.
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Interesting post: iOS Performance tips you probably didn’t know
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This episode of Stay Tuned is a fascinating interview of Dan Goldman, the lawyer who led the Democrats’ public questioning of impeachment witnesses.
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We have a strong agenda for this evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting, with presentations by Marc Prud’hommeaux and Chris Ladd.
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An episode of Stay Tuned where Preet Bharara (former US Attorney for SDNY) and Anne Milgram (former AG of NJ) describe the abnormality of Barr interfering with Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation.
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If I was a gambler I would be losing a lot of money on the Iowa and New Hampshire results.
A year ago I would have guessed the front runners to be Warren, O’Rourke, Harris, and Biden.
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Starting in iOS 13.4,
SSReadingList.default()?.addItem(...)prompts the user for consent before adding a webpage to Safari Reading List. I can appreciate the need for this, but I filed FB7573628 asking that Apple provide an “Always Allow” option.
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