John Brayton

Impeachment Hearing Audio Files This might interest you if you are looking for an easy way to listen to the public impeachment hearings – perhaps by sideloading them into a podcast player.

I am temporarily driving a car with CarPlay. Having Apple Maps on the in-dash display is very nice.

UIViewPreviewProvider is a helper class for displaying UIViews inside the Xcode preview canvas meant to display SwiftUI. Via Zev Eisenberg at last evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting.

Wrapping up a presentation for tonight‘s CocoaHeads Boston meeting.

I ordered a 16” MacBook Pro. My current computer has served me well for seven years, but I think it is time for an upgrade.

Excited for the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro announcement.

CocoaHeads Boston will meet this Thursday.

Attention to detail FTW: Castro servers were briefly down for maintenance earlier today. While they were unavailable, Castro displayed the message below to customers who pulled to refresh. This is much better than either failing silently or failing with a generic message.

I do not often get interested in new TV shows, but I am hooked on The Morning Show.

DevCleaner is a Mac app that deletes Xcode files that are no longer needed, such as device support files for old versions of iOS. It regularly frees up tens of gigabytes of disk space for me.

My favorite non-tech podcast right now is CAFE Insider. Preet Bharara (former US Attorney) and Anne Milgram (former state Attorney General) analyze high profile legal and political issues, mostly those surrounding White House scandals. It is well worth the $6/month cost.

Looking forward to tonight‘s NSHappyHour.

Democrat Beshear is apparent winner in Kentucky governor race over Republican Bevin in blow to Trump, NBC News projects

I voted.

RSS.app is a service that generates RSS feeds for web pages that do not have feeds.

I was, and still am, excited for Sidecar. But it is not supported on either my Mac or my iPad.

I have stayed on Mojave until now, but I think it is time to upgrade. Installing Catalina.

About a month ago I removed a bunch of keys from my keyring. I don’t recall what most of those keys opened. I am now carrying only five keys.

A 30-day streak.

Rest in peace, Elijah Cummings.

Looking forward to tonight‘s CocoaHeads Boston meeting.

CNN: Turkey begins military offensive in Syria, days after Trump announced pullback of US troops There is blood on Trump‘s hands and on the hands of every one of his supporters.

CocoaHeads Boston will meet this Thursday evening. The agenda includes: • Chris Ladd describing his process of designing UI components with Sketch and PaintCode. • Justin Anderson describing how Twitter is unifying its iOS, Android, and web codebases.

FB7347486: Scrolling issue with WKWebViews, images when scrollView.clipsToBounds is false

I deleted my Facebook account. I should have done so years ago. This was the final straw.