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?

Reuters: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources via MacRumors

The Washington Post: Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, dies at 81

Magnet is a great window manager for macOS. Magnet lets you move windows to predefined locations via global keyboard shortcut.

My favorite Catalina feature is the native Find My app. It is convenient for quickly locating my phone.

At the Providence Bruins game.

I had a performance issue that I alleviated by porting some Swift code to Objective-C. That code needed to repeatedly access large dictionaries that were generated by Objective-C code. I think accessing the Objective-C dictionaries from Swift code was a culprit.

Fabián Cañas documented some quirky behavior around Swift and Objective-C interoperability related to non-optionals and nil values.

Looking forward to this evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting.

I installed Front and Center. It is too early to tell whether I will find it difficult to go back to the Classic behavior, but I have missed it at times.

We are in a war that any other President would have avoided.