John Brayton


Better to have a few rats than to be one

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The Baltimore Sun Editorial Board:

We would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.

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Finale: Supertop & Friends is a great final episode to the Supertop Podcast.

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I can’t make it tomorrow evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting, but it should be a good one. There will be a presentation by Chris Ladd on compositional collection view layout stuff in iOS 13 and Catalina. In addition there are several giveaways.

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If you have ever installed Zoom on your Mac – even if think you have since deleted it – read this and make sure to delete both the app and the web server it installs.

Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!

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Impressed by the folks at Wayfair who walked out today.

Hundreds of Wayfair employees stage walkout; company announces Red Cross donation

– The Boston Globe

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Wayfair workers plan walkout in protest of company‘s bed sales to migrant camps

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Here’s what to do if ICE shows up at your door

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Watching the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. 3E22E932-2537-4149-92EB-0C5BE6E8CDFE.jpg

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I just announced the Business Model and Pricing for Unread 2.

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I may take Marco Arment’s approach to releasing a big new version this summer and dropping support for iOS 12 in my iOS 13 update.

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The current shipping version of Unread supports iOS versions 10 through 12. It is quickly becoming apparent that supporting 12-13 will be more much involved than supporting 10-12.

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Good crowd at the Boston Rally to Impeach Trump.

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I will be at the Boston Rally to Impeach Trump today on the Boston Common at 1:00.

There are also events in other cities.

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Tonight’s CocoaHeads Boston agenda includes:

If taking the red line, allow extra time due to fallout from Tuesday’s derailment.

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I had a build In Review for over 48 hours, until I Developer Rejected it.

Its successor was In Review for 3 minutes before being approved.

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In Review for 24 hours. 😰

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This blog post added a few things to my list of WWDC announcements to check out:

WWDC 2019 - The Things You May Have Missed by Patrick Balestra

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I want to release a major upgrade this summer. Struggling with existing functionality that won’t make sense in iOS 13. Options:

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CocoaHeads Boston will meet next Thursday, June 13. The agenda includes a presentation on SwiftUI by Marc Prud’hommeaux and an open discussion of WWDC announcements. We will also give away a ticket to SwiftFest and a JetBrains product.

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I think there is a squirrel living in the walls of my house.

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There will be nationwide rallies for impeachment on Saturday, June 15.

The Boston event will be on the Boston Common.

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A “git bisect” kind of day.

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SwiftFest is coming back to Boston. July 29-30.

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Despite my annoyance at the Mac Pro pricing, I am very excited by today’s keynote. Even without the Mac Pro announcement and without the SwiftUI announcements, it would have been a very impressive set of announcements.

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Waiting at a bar inside North Station/Boston Garden for my commuter rail train. It’s getting difficult to feign interest in whether the Bruins win this Stanley Cup finals game.