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.
If you missed but want to hear CNN‘s town hall with Kamala Harris, it is available as a podcast episode.
Well done, Apple.
The end of a 27-day streak.
“Checkmate.”
– Nancy Pelosi
I think this page might be a bit out of date.
“CNN Video is best viewed using Netscape 4.0 or above or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.”
Find My iPhone saves the day. I won’t make the mistake of wearing AirPods while taking out the recycling again.
Local iOS and Mac developers, please join us Thursday for CocoaHeads Boston. The agenda includes:
- @danielpunkass giving a short preview of an upcoming talk.
- Me giving a presentation on the DeviceCheck API.
Trump inclined to declare national emergency if talks continue to stall – CNN
If he does, he should be impeached and removed from office for that alone. It could be his most blatant abuse of power. It should not require a special prosecutor to arrive at that conclusion.
Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my Micro.blog friends and RSS followers.
The Sundar Pichai Hearing Was a Major Missed Opportunity
#Later, Rep. Ted Lieu, also of California, carried all the weight for Pichai with a stunt that compared search results for Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) to results for Rep. King. He found that the results for Scalise mostly turned up stories about his book, while results for King mostly called him a bigot. “If you want positive search results, do positive things,” Lieu warned his colleagues, reserving almost no scrutiny for the man actually seated in the witness chair.
CocoaHeads Boston will meet this Thursday. @mitch will present “Adding MDM Configuration Support to iOS Apps”.
I did not think I would like Mojave’s Dark Mode, but after trying it for a few months I find Light Mode absolutely garish.
- Saturday: Call plumber because heat stopped working.
- Monday: Call plumber because water heater stopped working.
- Later Monday: Call National Grid because water heater repair created a gas leak.
Current status: no hot water.
Does anyone want to buy my house?
That feeling when you have to call a plumber to fix your gas water heater two days after you had a plumber at your house to fix your gas furnace.
I enabled cross-posting from Micro.blog to Mastodon.
I could not make it to this evening’s protests, but I am grateful for everyone who did show up to protest for the protection of the special counsel’s investigation.