Impressed by the folks at Wayfair who walked out today.
Hundreds of Wayfair employees stage walkout; company announces Red Cross donation
– The Boston Globe
Wayfair workers plan walkout in protest of company‘s bed sales to migrant camps
Watching the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
I just announced the Business Model and Pricing for Unread 2.
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.
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.
Good crowd at the Boston Rally to Impeach Trump.
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.
Tonight’s CocoaHeads Boston agenda includes:
- A SwiftUI presentation by Marc Prud’hommeaux
- A SwiftFest ticket giveaway
- A JetBrains product giveaway
- Open discussion of WWDC announcements
If taking the red line, allow extra time due to fallout from Tuesday’s derailment.
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.
In Review for 24 hours. 😰
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
I want to release a major upgrade this summer. Struggling with existing functionality that won’t make sense in iOS 13. Options:
- Include functionality knowing it will go away or change.
- Exclude functionality without the iOS 13-based replacement.
- Postpone until September.
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.
I think there is a squirrel living in the walls of my house.
There will be nationwide rallies for impeachment on Saturday, June 15.
The Boston event will be on the Boston Common.
A “git bisect” kind of day.
SwiftFest is coming back to Boston. July 29-30.
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.
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.
Honestly, I thought the Mac Pro would start at $5k (without a display) and would have iMac Pro-like specs at that starting price. I thought the display would start at $2k tops. Out of my price range, but fair enough.
The base model has 256GB of storage, half of what my $3k 2012 MacBook Pro has. The display stand costs an extra grand.
Thoughts from today’s announcements:
- Project Catalyst looks promising.
- The Mac Pro looks incredible, but what a price tag.
- iPadOS 13 looks very interesting.
- I like “Sign In with Apple”, low data mode, dark mode on iOS.
Waiting for the train to Boston for the CocoaHeads keynote viewing party. I feel particularly excited for this year’s announcements.
Waiting for Review.
(This is a pre-beta build I submitted in order to get in-app purchases approved, but still a big milestone.)