John Brayton

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

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

It’s election day in the US. I am the clerk for a precinct in my city. 🗳️

I am looking forward to tonight’s NSHappyHour meetup. Join us if you are a local Mac/iOS developer or have adjacent interests. Lobster Shanty in Salem MA at 6:30 PM.

I need to start thinking about a Thanksgiving feast.

Crazy day: Need to figure out the source of a crash, watch for an important OpenSSL security update, deal with a water meter repair appointment, and hopefully make some progress on other work.

Occasionally I need to follow a link in the footer of a webpage, but I can’t because the webpage loads new content above the footer before I can click the link. The only way to click the link is to temporarily disable JavaScript.

Today is the first day of early voting in Massachusetts for the midterms.

Apps Installed on iPhone 14 Pro via TestFlight

Geoff Hackworth: To add more confusion, it seems that iPhone 14 Pro devices running TestFlight builds made with Xcode 14 are behaving as if they were Xcode 13 builds. That is, the iPhone 12/13 Pro layout is being scaled to fill the larger screen of the 14 Pro devices. This explains why Simon …

Apps Installed on iPhone 14 Pro via TestFlight

It’s election day here in Massachusetts. I am the clerk at a polling location in my city.

At the New Hampshire Fisher Cats game.

Early voting FTW.

I released Unread 3.1 with a Subscribe in Unread share sheet extension.

My turn for COVID. I felt pretty sick this morning, but I feel ok right now.

From my back yard:

Not sure how, but I misplaced a single AirPod. 🤦‍♂️

Autocorrect changed “wi-fi” to “wi-if”.

I just released Unread 3.0 with support for Unread Cloud. Unread Cloud is a new syncing and article retrieval system for Unread.

I have the best walking route.

Of his many transgressions, Mr. President, let’s not worry about he was drunk during his attempt to overthrow the government. www.axios.com/2022/06/1…

A 30-day walking streak.

Safari Views, Mail Compose Views, and Default App Settings

iOS allows any app to present Safari Views and Mail Compose Views. These views are fantastic because they provide the functionality of Safari and Apple Mail without forcing the user to leave the app presenting them. Safari Views incorporate the user’s content blockers. Bookmarking a webpage from a …

Safari Views, Mail Compose Views, and Default App Settings

Coming Soon to Unread: Standalone Accounts

I walked to my local post office around 1:30, only to find that my post office is closed between 1:00 and 2:00 for lunch. I cannot decide whether to find that annoying or adorable. “You get that? The whole store got the flu.”

Just posted a first beta of something I have been working on for some time. 🤞