John Brayton


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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.

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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.

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Thoughts from today’s announcements:

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Waiting for the train to Boston for the CocoaHeads keynote viewing party. I feel particularly excited for this year’s announcements.

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Waiting for Review.

(This is a pre-beta build I submitted in order to get in-app purchases approved, but still a big milestone.)

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I envy folks spending this week in San Jose, but I am also excited to watch the Keynote and Platforms State of the Union at the CocoaHeads Boston viewing party.

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New iPod Touch purchased and configured. Provisioning profiles updated. Ready for iOS 13 beta.

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CocoaHeads Boston will be hosting a viewing party for the WWDC Keynote and Platforms State of the Union. Please join us.

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Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey Attorney General, tries to read Rod Rosenstein’s absurd resignation letter without cracking up.

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I am debating whether to upgrade my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro. I wish a service existed that allowed me to definitively determine the compile time of my own projects on specific hardware models.

If I buy anything it will be after the WWDC keynote.

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Mac Open Web is a new website by @brian. It lists indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web. Check it out.

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At McCoy Stadium watching the Pawtucket Red Sox. 5AC228CA-F5EB-4DEA-B620-28E3E68B67D7.jpg

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Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?

I am happy both for Micro.blog and for the IndieWeb community at large to see this article.

Also, congratulations @manton!