I called the office of my congresswoman, my senators, my state governor, and my state attorney general. I talked to staffers where I could, and left voice messages elsewhere.
This is roughly the script I used:
The reason I am calling is that I am deeply concerned about Trump’s moves over the past few weeks. What is most alarming to me is that Elon Musk is literally tearing apart the federal government. Reports are that government employees are getting locked out of their computer systems, and Elon Musk is getting access. He is taking entire government websites offline. He seems to have access to a boatload of information about government employees and about Americans who are getting social security or some kind of government assistance. I don’t know specifically what he’s doing with that, but it can’t be good.
This needs to stop right away, and I am pleading with you to do everything in your power to stop this.
Whenever I hear Tim Cook state that privacy is a fundamental human right, I am going to remember that he attended and donated a million dollars to the Presidential inauguration of someone who cares nothing about human rights.
CocoaHeads Boston will meet this Thursday evening at 7:00 PM at MIT. Join us in-person or via Zoom. Details (including important notes about parking and building access) at:
This weekend is Indie Charity Weekend, an opportunity for you to discover some great apps while supporting charity at the same time. Thank you to Will Bishop for organizing this.
CocoaHeads Boston will meet in person tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7:00 PM. We will be in room 325 of the E-51 Building at MIT. After the meeting we will walk to MEX for dinner and socializing. The classroom portion of the meeting will also be available via Zoom.
Our political leaders need to acknowledge that Trump won and facilitate a peaceful transfer of power. Perhaps business leaders need to say they will work with the incoming administration.
But I do not understand why anyone needs to say “congratulations”.
Some believe that the election results indicate a severe weakness in the Democratic party or of Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign. I wish I agreed, but the problem is bigger than that.
The danger of Trump seemed clear in 2016, but that danger has become much more apparent since that time. We had the Russia scandal, the Comey firing, the extortion of Ukraine, the COVID response, the insurrection, the stolen classified documents, and the Madison Square Garden hate rally. I could go on.
Despite all of that, this is the third Presidential election in which Trump got over 45% of the popular vote. Against three very different candidates. No primary challenger came close to defeating Trump either.
Voters know what they are getting with Trump. Roughly half the country wants an illiterate hate-mongering insurrectionist dictator as President.
On both iOS and macOS, if you share an item via the share sheet or share popover to Reminders, Unread will offer to create a reminder. Interestingly, if the window or view offering the item has a current NSUserActivity, the default reminder title will be the title of that current NSUserActivity.
Long press that link on iOS, or right click that link on macOS.
Choose “Share…” from the resulting context menu.
Choose “Reminders” from the share sheet or share popover.
Expected result: If the reminder has a default title, it would be “New Reminder”, “Feedly”, or “Feedly: Track the topics and trends that matter to you” (the title of the linked page).
Actual result: The default title is “Unread: An RSS Reader” – the title of the page with the link.
I filed this as FB15271013, along with a sample project demonstrating that the title is coming from the NSUserActivity. The sample project has a UIActivityItemSource that offers better titles in its subjectForActivityType function and its activityViewControllerLinkMetadata function.
On iOS 18, saving an article to Safari Reading List (via the SSReadingList API) sometimes just does nothing. The user does not even get the alert prompting for permission to add a URL to Safari Reading List. The API call returns without throwing an exception. I filed FB15190050 with more info.
Tuesday is election day here in Massachusetts. An added benefit to voting now is the assurance that your voter registration is in good order for the November election.
This is a good article by Jason Snell about macOS permissions checking being out of balance. The excessive permission checking is probably the most frustrating aspect of using a Mac.
I released Unread for Mac! Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, color themes, and more. Unread has a long history on iPhone and iPad, and is now also available for Mac.
