Lets Encrypt is revoking some certificates on March 4. You can use an online tool to determine whether your certificate is affected.

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.

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.

Joe Biden is projected to win South Carolina. My streak of incorrect predictions regarding US politics is still going strong.

Congratulations to @mattie on the launch of Chime, a Go editor for macOS.

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.

This debate is by far the most fiery thus far.

Interesting post: iOS Performance tips you probably didn’t know

This episode of Stay Tuned is a fascinating interview of Dan Goldman, the lawyer who led the Democrats’ public questioning of impeachment witnesses.

We have a strong agenda for this evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting, with presentations by Marc Prud’hommeaux and Chris Ladd.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t see network/cable tv much these days. But I am sitting in a waiting room and have seen ads for five Democratic Presidential candidates in about five minutes. I am within walking distance of the New Hampshire border.

Next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting should be a good one:

• Marc Prud’hommeaux is going to talk about his experiences using SwiftUI on some projects.
• Chris Ladd will present his command-line tool to convert PaintCode’s static drawing code into parameterized views.

Thank you, Mitt Romney.

CNN: Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of ‘false information’

Reggy Bear is a clever app by @hyperjeff for testing regular expressions.

I vividly remember saying shortly after the 2016 election that I was not sure this country in its current form could survive a Trump presidency.

Three years later, I am still not sure the country can survive in its current form.

Rough start to the day. My car is in a repair shop five town away, getting a new alternator and battery. I am waiting to hear back from my plumber because the heat in my house is not working.

Current status: waiting for tow truck.

The Washington Post: McConnell tells senators he doesn’t yet have votes to block witnesses in Trump impeachment trial

If you have Republican senators, call and put pressure on them.

I wonder if a better approach to multitasking on iPad would be to let the user effectively divide the screen into two or three different iOS devices. Each would have its own app or SpringBoard window and its own software home indicator. Resizing could work as it does now.

I deleted a post from this morning. After hearing the recording referred to in this article, I think I was wrong about Trump’s intent.

Would I be crazy to move to California just so I can vote for Adam Schiff?