John Brayton

Democrats’ Impeachment Panic Is Endangering the Country

I am torn on this. We desperately need for Trump to be held accountable and removed from office. But it is possible that trying to remove him will not only fail but also make his reelection more likely.

I got to spend some time earlier this week in the White Mountains.

This is a first: an accountant told me I was organized.

Tomorrow evening at CocoaHeads Boston, Ayal Spitz will present “Parsing Sketch Files for Fun and Profit”. Please join us.

I find it very frustrating to work on a project with an indecisive product owner. Especially when I am that indecisive product owner.

Looking forward to tonight‘s NSHappyHour.

Stack Overflow on April 1

I don’t think “the Office of the Special Counsel did not indict me” is the campaign slogan I would use in 2020.

Still a long way to go, but making good progress.

“Apple likes to brag about how much money they’ve paid to developers, but they leave out how much they’ve kept for themselves: about $50 billion. To Apple, they are doing us a big favor by letting us ship iOS apps.”

– @manton at My response to Apple’s response to Spotify

Excited to read that Beto O’Rourke is running in 2020.

At tomorrow’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting, Marc Prud’hommeaux will present “Fun with Swift Keypaths”. We will also give away a JetBrains product.

Local Mac and iOS developers, please join us.

I am looking for examples of iOS apps that effectively but unobtrusively convey information about errors that happen in the background. Specifically errors from operations that the user initiated but that might not take place immediately because the device is offline.

A 30-day streak.

It feels good to declare “finished” with development of a feature that required 8 months of work.

Pictures from the protest

At a protest at Harvard Square against the national security declaration.

There are numerous rapid response protests happening tomorrow in response to the Trump’s national emergency declaration.

Proud to be from Massachusetts.

Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Trump for the Republican presidential nomination – The Washington Post

Interesting news: the hosted Mercury Parser API is being shut down, but the source code is now available under the Apache License 2.0.

I think we have a particularly interesting agenda for next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting. Local Mac and iOS developers, please join us.

Tonight’s NSHappyHour is at Bit Bar, a bar with retro video games. I am reminded of the scene in Back to the Future II in which Marty McFly walks into an 80s cafe in 2015.

Looking forward to NSHappyHour at Bit Bar tonight.

As of 2000, the Patriots had never won a Super Bowl. The Red Sox had most recently won a World Series in 1918.

Since then, six Super Bowl wins and four World Series wins.

Let’s do this, Patriots.