John Brayton


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It’s a snowy day for a walk, but I’m determined to get my five miles (8km) in.

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At tonight’s online CocoaHeads Boston meeting I am giving a presentation on using alternate app icons in an iOS app. The focus will be automation around using a large number of icons with the same shapes but different color combinations.

New participants are always welcome.

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I wrote a blog post about the past year and the year ahead for Unread.

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New year’s resolutions start in a few weeks, right?

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Happy New Year!

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Made cookies. Ate numerous mistakes.

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My power was restored after only about 6 hours. 🎉🎅

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Dear Santa, A 36-hour power outage was not on my wish list this year.

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Always a good feeling when a complex server deployment operation goes smoothly.

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I am excited to see MarsEdit 5 ship. I particularly like its Markdown syntax highlighting and its new microposting feature. Check it out. Congratulations @danielpunkass.

Posted with MarsEdit 5.

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🎶 Georgia On My Mind 🎶

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What happens if the Georgia Senate race ends in a tie?

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At this week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting @fcanas@mastodon.social will present both ScreenSearch and a huge performance improvement to SPM.

The meeting is this Thursday at 7pm Boston time via Zoom. New folks and folks outside the Boston area are always welcome.

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I wish I had brined my turkey, but it came out good. One guest who is a better cook than I (and who would not give me an idle compliment) said she was impressed.

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It’s done. Earlier than I wanted it to be. I am concerned about the dark skin, but think that’s just because it was on a barbecue. 10E00FDE-7903-4B33-87C5-7D588C2509C4.jpg

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It’s done. Earlier than I wanted it to be. I am concerned about the dark skin, but think that’s just because it was on a barbecue. 10E00FDE-7903-4B33-87C5-7D588C2509C4.jpg

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If you follow me here via Mastodon you may not know that I cannot see my list of followers. If you follow me, I probably want to follow you back. Say “hi” and I will.

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Well, it’s official. One of the issues folks can “debate in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence” on Twitter is whether to murder the Vice President and all of Congress after losing a Presidential election. Thank goodness it won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape”.

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I released Unread 3.2 with new custom app icons, a new “Blue on Black theme”, article action improvements, and more.

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It is difficult to see in the photo, but there are two deer — one behind the other. A0330C14-FA24-4FAB-B488-5EA328E7A27C.jpg

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I setup a Mastodon server for my business. You can now follow Unread on Mastodon or on Micro.blog.

Details in this blog post.

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Last evening’s CocoaHeads Boston included a great presentation by @hyperjeff about Physical. Physical provides a nice Swift syntax for manipulating physical measures - like 10.5.centimeters + 3.3.feet.

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CocoaHeads Boston will meet via Zoom tomorrow evening at 7pm Boston time. New participants and participants outside the Boston area are always welcome.

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Great turnout at my polling location today. Not November 2020 level, but at least 3x the turnout we saw in the September primary.