: Pretty stoked about the Seahawks hiring Mike Macdonald. SAVIOR OF BOOM!

: Note to Mastodon users — if you’re following this account (@brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com), you …

: Enjoying some photos from an old family photo album.

: It is shocking how many episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” are rated 13+ these days.

: Wondering how long before Twitter will stop letting RSS readers use the Twitter API.

: When Apple gives a customer a refund, does all the money come from the developer, or does Apple …

: Craig Hockenberry writes, in The Shit Show, that “It feels like the time is right for a truly …

: On the NetNewsWire blog — How to Subscribe to a Twitter List in NetNewsWire.

: Here’s the help page on subscribing to Twitter feeds in NetNewsWire for Mac. Instructions are …

: Reminder — if you still want to read Twitter, but don’t otherwise need to engage, you can switch to …

: 49ers fans should be nervous.

: I don’t know enough about these things to agree or disagree with any of the article — but I find it …

: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of working …

: Every day Touch ID seems to work less and less well for me. But, as annoying as that is, there’s a …

: I’m so glad to see that, at least so far, this year’s covid winter surge in the U.S. is so small …

: For some unknown reason, Swift protocol names ending in “ing” are like nails on chalkboard to me. I …

: One of my many favorite Bowie recordings is his cover of Scott Walker’s Nite Flights. Here’s the …

: DJ Jake Rudh is doing a Remembering David Bowie event on Twitch tonight — a “5+ hour program of …

: Kevin McCarthy thought that all the soul-destroying things he’s done over the years would all be …

: Make this the year you stop using comma splices.

: Back to the Double R on Angelo Badalamenti.

: Sheila and I tested positive again. Rebound. Family Christmas further postponed. Pissed off at this …

: After one week, I finally tested negative for covid. Whew! I feel fine now, and really wanted the …

: Though I can’t know for sure, I credit Paxlovid with pulling me out of the worst of it.

: Recovering from covid. I’ve never had a cold before that would attack in multiple places, move on, …

: I’ve stopped clicking on Twitter links. Starve the site of attention.

: Since pretty early days in OS X, I’ve always held down the option key when resizing my Dock so that …

: I miss the old days when people would get really mad if an app phoned home.

: Twitter is, like Gab, Parler, and Truth Social, a right wing social network.

: “As I mentioned earlier” is Chatbot’s version of Siri’s exasperated “proceed to the route.”

: Every layer of abstraction you add translates to lost productivity in the future.

: The genius of Swift structured concurrency isn’t async/await — it’s @MainActor.

: The easiest code to read, debug, maintain, and extend is synchronous code that runs on the main …

: Another sign that the web heals as Twitter gets sicker — ooh.directory is a new collection of “blogs …

: Correct me if I’m wrong — but I’ve long thought that variables names like postId and sanitizeHtml …

: John Scalzi, How to Weave the Artisan Web: Wouldn’t it be nice to have a site that’s not run by an …

: Blogs are social media. These days people seem to think social media is just social networking — …

: MarsEdit 5 Public Beta includes a “New ‘Micropost’ interface for streamlined publishing of …

: This being your periodic reminder that macopenweb.com is a good list of apps.

: I found this nice page of mostly-text-only websites.

: Added to my RSS reader — twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml (Via Daring Fireball.)

: One time I overheard this bit of conversation on a bus: “Who works at Facebook?” “Nobody. It’s just …

: I’m at the age where Touch ID works only about a third of the time.

: Saw this cat yesterday.

: Since micro.blog integrates with Mastodon, you can now follow me on Mastodon — I’m …

: I tried a few Git clients for Mac today, and I couldn’t find one that prioritizes the part that …

: You have an unhealthy relationship with multithreading.

: Life lesson it took me a long time to learn — that whenever you tell a busy and overwhelmed person …

: Go Phillies! The hopes and dreams of all of America are on your shoulders.

: Prediction: Phillies win by two runs today. Verlander completes fewer than six innings.

: Took my first ever at-home covid test yesterday (negative; just allergies) — and I was surprised how …

: Note to people who work for corporations: “lessons” is a perfectly good and useful word. We don’t …

: I realized the other day that I’m the age Hemingway was when he published “The Old Man and the Sea.” …

: Pioneer Press: She didn’t have a prom date and wound up on a talk show at 16. Her story will be …

: We’ve got sea lions in my neighborhood! www.myballard.com/2021/03/0…

: Stop consuming content.

: SwiftUI LazyVStack in a ScrollView. Animation set to default. Add some pinned views — they skate …

: How does one account for the sometimes large difference between crash log counts coming from …

: Another reason our pandemic may be forgotten is highlighted by Doc Searls’s post Will our digital …

: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.

: It’s all I can do to stop myself from going through all of Crafting Interpreters in one sitting.

: Today I ran across this blog post I wrote in 2015, and it might be the post that sums up my coding …

: Dear extroverts, we love you, but me and my fellow introverts are not going to be able to save you.

: I keep remembering that a vaccine is a year-and-a-half away, and so there’s every reason to think …

: I hate to say this, but — if your face itches due to facial hair, and you keep touching your face, …

: “Don’t multiply entities” is not just a great razor — it’s also words to live by when designing an …

: I watch TV now just for the scenes of people in restaurants, so I can remember what it was like.

: Please join me in calling it the “Trump virus” from now on.

: In honor of tonight’s WA state primary, we’re making sloppy joes for dinner.

: Me DuckDuckGo-ing: when’s lunch is anyone else hungry could we have lunch now please what about …

: Why do AppStoreConnect and Xcode Organizer show different crash logs for a given TestFlight build?

: This is your periodic reminder that macopenweb.com has some pretty good lists.

: You know that “this milk has gone sour, taste it” thing? In that spirit, have a taste of …

: Is there no way, on iOS, to specify the default RSS reader — that is, specify the app that handles …

: I just renewed therecord.co for three years (the max it would let me). It gives me great pleasure to …

: When we released NetNewsWire for iOS build 28, we were down to 16 bugs. Now, with build 29, we’re …

: Slack is the Emacs of today.

: A pet peeve is when politicians or pundits say “we have a president” or “we have an administration” …

: I wish those filthy cheaters the Houston Asterisks would go back to the National League where they …

: People on the NetNewsWire Slack are suddenly talking about a Mac app called Hammerspoon, which I’d …

: Sometimes I think that if web browsers were written entirely for the benefit of the people who use …

: Laptop Capri steals content from Six Colors and, I presume, other places. It’s weird because it …

: In a dream last night, I’m back in high school, and it’s a Kafkan nightmare. Utterly realistic. But …

: It occurs to me that not everybody around the world knows the alternate lyrics. Jingle bells Batman …

: The Seahawks have lost their top three running backs to season-ending injuries — and this team …

: The impeachment and upcoming trial in the Senate is not so much a test of Trump but of Republicans …

: Jeff Huang writes This Page is Designed to Last.

: Let’s call him #3 instead of #45.

: This is a serious and somber day, and I feel like dancing. I won‘t apologize for this — whenever …

: Baby Vodka

: Cyclops Christmas tree ornament made by Carmen. Ornament is sitting on a lemur who’s holding a sonic …

: Family member, notorious for using iPhone dictation, sends text re medical status of another family …

: My New Year’s resolution is probably gonna be to get a hearing aid. Fuck.

: It’s 12/12 — and I always remember that Q Branch was officially founded 12/12/12. We shipped Vesper …

: Anil Dash, “Link In Bio” is a slow knife: And the ultimate triumph of being anti-web is to make …

: I’m the guy who gets Thanos and Theranos mixed-up.

: The House of Representatives published articles of impeachment today I KNOW BUT GET A LOAD OF THIS …

: I like to make band names from Swift programming terms. Static Void would be a great punk rock band. …

: Please stop using the word “consume” when you mean read, watch, or listen to. It makes us sound like …

: I take a bus to work — but maybe in the future I’ll be able to take a water taxi. I would love that.

: My favorite line of my code in my app — which appears in multiple places — is …

: I would try using Smart Speed®, but I do all my podcast listening on a Mac. Waiting patiently for …

: I listen to all my podcasts — no exceptions — at 1x. AMA.

: What’s the best Geiger counter under $100?

: Missing Cyberian Outpost today.

: Jim Willis writes about the Free Internet vs. Internet of Free Stuff.

: Joe Heck has an update to Using Combine. I expect to rely heavily on his book as I’m learning …

: This article from 2014 — about why Webster’s 1913 dictionary is amazing, and how you can import it …

: Mail on Macs and on iOS should have a next-unread command.

: The impeachment hearings today with Marie Yovanovitch reminded me of my blog post from July 4, 2017, …

: I’ve said before, and I’ll repeat: I want to see Trump, his family, and his enablers all come to see …

: Sometimes I long for the simplicity of Objective-C.

: One great benefit to having a free app: I never have to go to App Store Connect to generate IAP …

: RSS.app is a web service that makes feeds from web pages. (Via John Brayton.)

: On my blog, Dec. 11, 2015: The Nightmare Scenario.

: Every cat everywhere dreams of the hot sands of Egypt.

: With NNW for iOS, we’re finding that, in 13.2, it goes like this: App goes to background. Has 20 …

: Just for the day: typealias WicKedWebView = WKWebView

: Baseball, it is often said, is a game of failure. This makes the Mariners the greatest baseball team …

: Now that the Nationals have won the World Series, it’s tempting for this Mariners fan to think that …

: There has been some discussion about Apple’s developer documentation being less-than-complete, and …

: I learned today that not everybody’s aware of my personal favorite new feature in iOS 13: context …

: On Catalina, setting NSSavePanel’s nameFieldStringValue works on the first call but not on …

: This is the post-to-Twitter sheet from NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPad in 2010. Crazy how we used to do …

: Here’s what my blog inessential.com looks like in the Finder. Its 20th birthday is coming up in a …

: Nobody talks about it, seems like, but I’ve noticed this for years — the Seahawks lose if it’s …

: In NetNewsWire, I use JavaScript evaluation with a WKWebView to get the current scroll position. It …

: We had a bug in NetNewsWire for iOS where it couldn’t clean up Siri Shortcuts — and then Maurice …

: Fact of life: it always looks like things come easier for other people. Sometimes it’s true, but …

: I’m not going to change my display name for the Halloween season — but, if I were going to change …

: Fact of life: no matter if you’re a software company, open source app, user group, or just a person, …

: If our various Xcoders and CocoaHeads and NSCoder Night groups leave Meetup, what should we do about …

: Just me? Whenever I see a wapo.st URL, I hear it in my head as “Wah Poe Street.”

: I love that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were nabbed at the airport.

: I just remembered what I was reading while at that math camp in 1981, when I was 13 — Stranger in a …

: I’ve posted this before, but I love this picture. Me in 1981 at a summer math camp at St. Mary‘s …

: It’s been the work of a lifetime for me to stop believing that Jim Morrison isn’t really dead and is …

: Last reminder — tonight is the Xcoders 15th anniversary! It’ll be fun! We’ll even have some …

: I’m inside one of those moments where everything turned quiet. No noise at work. Hardly any emails …

: Sometimes I miss focus rings on the Mac. Sure, they were visual clutter, but they solved a real …

: The section on pricing in the Fiery Feeds for Mac announcement is interesting. While you can write …

: I think I suffer from gesture overload. I can’t remember all of them, and there are new ones every …

: I’m 51 years old, and I use computers and iOS devices all day, and I admit that I find them more …

: Yesterday I made a Shared Album in Photos on Mac (Mojave). I dragged 179 photos to it, then switched …

: Last night I learned that you can turn off live photos. I thought they were all just live these …

: Random sunset-over-the-Olympics pic taken in my neighborhood. Probably from June.

: I assume Maelstrom is a 32-bit app and won’t run on Catalina. I may need to keep a 10.14 partition …

: TIL: you can find out if you System Integrity Protection (SIP) enabled by running, on the command …

: Reminder: it’s Seattle Xcoders unofficial night at Cyclops around 6:30 pm. I’ll be there. 🐣🎩

: Lots of people call it “Eggplant Wasteland” but its real name is “Baba Ghanouj.”

: Oldie-but-goodie, from 2013: Brian’s Stupid Feed Tricks

: We can’t keep using the death of Google Reader as an excuse to give up on the open web.

: Sometimes I hear it as “Gothic of interest” instead of “conflict of interest,” and I like it my way …

: That coked-up piano line in the theme music to Succession.

: The only people burned by the switch from CRT to LCD monitors were cats.

: Sure, it looks like a piece of junk — but on this Apple Extended Keyboard II I’ve written …

: If you live in the Seattle area, and you’re looking for a quilting guild to join, take a look at …

: Is there an iOS 13 bug with deleting NSUserActivity? Or are we doing something wrong? Help! See …

: I was quite convinced that “thunderbolt” isn’t even a real word. But my Webster’s has it: “A shaft …

: Well I just realized — it took me this long — that the name “Thunderbolt” makes no sense. Thunder …

: Don’t hate me for this.

: This being Seattle, Eddie Vedder jumped up on stage to help sing “Devil Doll.” So cool.

: In the past two days I’ve seen The English Beat, X, and Squeeze. AMA.

: In the latest Xcoders podcast, Liz Marley and Jared Sorge talk with fellow Xcoder Aleen Simms about …

: For people who listen to The Talk Show — I happened to be on the phone with Jim Dalrymple after …

: My favorite part of the (well-done) review of NetNewsWire on The Sweet Setup: “Everything about NNW …

: Theory: the people you pay attention to have blogs and/or podcasts. Rarely are they Twitter-only …

: The clouds have burned off, and it will be a beautiful night on the Rob Roy patio. Old Fashioned for …

: I’ll be at the unofficial Xcoders thing tonight — probably get there around 6:30. At the Cyclops in …

: Ballard, Meghan Walker: Woman attempts to steal fishing vessel from Ballard shipyard

: One thing I haven’t said enough… I’m doing my best to make NetNewsWire a great app and I want it to …

: I’m sick of Republican presidents making me lose money. (I’m way more sick of the racism and cruelty …

: Bring. Technorati. Back. (Or something like it but modern, of course.)

: WordPress, it should be noted, is not evil. Which is refreshing and awesome and still a surprise, …

: When I’m doing web work, I have two goals: Make the content interesting enough that people will …

: These junior raccoons are sleeping on the roof of my garage. There’s an apple tree behind them — I …

: I’ll never understand the lessons of Star Wars. If you’re emotional about your friends and family, …

: If 9/11 had happened in 1941, then the current year would be 1959.

: Windmill for iPhone, which helps provide continuous delivery for developers (which sounds like a …

: 90% of life is just throwing up.

: For the last few days I’ve been getting some kind of knock-knock-knock sound periodically on my Mac. …

: If I wrote, in some marketing copy, the phrase “ready for the hot new coolness in iOS 13” — would …

: If I had time, I would write The AppKit Book. But I don’t. I wish someone else would.

: Random memory — in the code base I worked on in the late ’90s, we referred to 255-character Pascal …

: One question I keep asking myself every day these last few years is “Where are the Christians?”

: Social media is a virus from outer space.

: Main Thread Model, Serial Queue Database Is there a name for this particular pattern? This is how I do things in NetNewsWire — it’s a pattern …

: I would like it if Mac laptops came with a no-camera option. I never use it. It’s just a privacy and …

: My calendar hack is that I add two alerts for each thing. One ten minutes before, so I have plenty …

: I just spent a few weeks writing code to make async database fetches for the timeline work in …

: I’m not going to watch this shit live on TV. But I’ll certainly watch, and enjoy, any funny and …

: The screenshot in this article exists because I actually do have a repeating (Monday-Friday) action …

: Volunteers needed for Ballard SeafoodFest

: I saw Howard Jones at the Moore last night. He was magnificent. I loved it! And I quite like his new …

: Remember that Jony Ive is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.

: Ivexit. Jonexit? Aluminiexit? Trying. I got nothing.

: Ive leaving. Commence Kremlinology.

: Many people today have reminded me that installing scripting runtimes via Homebrew is pretty darn …

: Having to install Python/Ruby/etc. manually is gate-keeping. It might be easy for pros, but it’s not …

: I need a maxed-out Mac Pro just so I can run all these Electron apps.

: What are the iPad productivity apps that you hope come to the Mac (via Catalyst or other means)?

: Because macOS 10.15 won’t run 32-bit apps, it won’t run Userland Frontier. It’s amazing that this …

: Seattle Times: Apple will announce Seattle expansion today. This is just seven blocks from Omni’s …

: Public betas of macOS and iOS mean a whole bunch of work for app developers — everybody will have …

: View from the floor at the Live Near WWDC rehearsal and soundcheck.

: Sometimes it seems like half our sentences, spoken and written, would have been utter gibberish 20 …

: View from the stage during rehearsal and sound check for Live Near WWDC.

: The video you didn’t know you needed today is Frankie Valli singing “Grease” with the Commodores in …

: It has never, ever bothered me that people often abbreviate NetNewsWire as NNW. I do it too. But let …

: At work listening to disco while lounging on my beanbag. Free-range ’70s kid forever.

: It’s been more than a week since the last crash log for NetNewsWire has come in. Feeling pretty good …

: John Brayton just announced a business model change for Unread 2. This stuff is still very difficult …

: Hypothesis: almost all the problems in tech are problems of economics.

: Me in 2016 comparing reactive and traditional code.

: Apple should make Interface Builder a separate app, just for the people who still need it. (Now that …

: I need SwiftUI for outline views. Need need need.

: Oh hell yes look at this SwiftUI code in NetNewsWire for iOS.

: Now and again, maybe once a year, I remember how we all got CueCats for free in the mail.

: My friends at Fair Isle Brewing are hiring a taproom manager and an assistant brewer. Maybe you?

: How can I symbolicate a crash log for a Mac app? I have the archive in Xcode’s Organizer. This is …

: The web is a conversation. Blog posts can be questions.

: The future of computing is not the iPad. It’s not iOS or touch interfaces. It’s those things and …

: With SwiftUI, the Kit is now an implementation detail, subject to change at any time — and it might …

: My friend Allen Pike had an idea while in San Jose: how about we offer money for things like food …

: Though I had a lovely time seeing friends and making new friends in San Jose, I was so happy when I …

: Just playing piano today — getting ready to play a few songs for the Live Near WWDC show. My main …

: I learned about git tagging today, in order to tag the 5.0a1 changeset and push the tag to the …

: My Bendii Syndrome worsens by the day.

: On seeing Playdate, I realized the question we should ask ourselves is: are we working on our own …

: I’m sure I took this screenshot because it reminded me of that mug by Steven Frank. But look how …

: When you’re throwing a milkshake, do you leave the lid on, hoping it comes off at impact? Or do you …

: Thing I miss from WWDC in SF.

: June 6, 2013.

: Screenshot from 2011.

: Adirondack chair protector cat.

: Old disks.

: I don’t know how I remember, but somehow I do, that the first graphical web browser I ever used was …

: After every single Mac system upgrade, on every single machine I own, my text replacements stop …

: Detail from an old T-shirt.

: Things photographed in 2007 before being disposed of.

: A random picture of my Dock in 2007.

: Fence cat.

: One thing I’ll be watching for at WWDC: how much will UIKit change due to the needs of Marzipan?

: A little rain won’t stop our parade.

: Due to extreme lactose intolerance, I have never had a Seattle Dog. Nonstop crying dot gif.

: Get your official Ballard name in time for Syttende Mai.

: Me: Let’s do everything on the main thread. Also me: No! Not those things! Obviously not those …

: With the property up for sale, my bet is that the Waterwheel will be shutting down. I’ve seen more …

: Further proof that the internet has collapsed all of space and time: I use YouTube to listen to …

: There are two stages to getting older. Stage 1: “Can you believe how long it’s been since [popular …

: One of my neighborhood’s cool traditions is the yearly Syttende Mai parade. It’s happening this …

: Two random but related Mac System Preferences tips: View > Organize Alphabetically and View > …

: This picture was taken the day of the Final Four games. The stadium reminded me of the Jawa droid …

: When I was at the Final Four semifinals, on the night before we got to go down on the court and …

: Grit is an open source app — currently in alpha state — for writing, editing, and publishing blog …

: File under open web: Skeletron is a Mac app for creating, editing, and generating static sites from …

: If you live in or near St. Paul, go see Live from New York! He’s a Prom Date! this weekend. It’s a …

: Partial view of the Olympics right by my bus stop on the way to work this morning.

: Note to Mac (AppKit) developers — it’s on us to be gracious and helpful to new Mac (Marzipan) …

: I do that Spotlight trick for opening apps, where you hit the keystroke and start typing the name. …

: Kim Philby, in his grave, must be awfully impressed with this Trump/Russia business.

: Here’s what happens. Eventually you lose your sunglasses and never replace them. Because you ain’t …

: When Windows is a Linux distribution, and doesn’t just include a Linux kernel, then I’ll check it …

: Mt. Rainier with clouds, taken a few weeks ago.

: Whenever I get a stuck tooltip — about once a day, usually from Slack, sometimes Mail or other app — …

: You’d have to call the entire band and the album a ’70s glam rock deep cut — but I absolutely love …

: I’m so happy to have found an app that lets me post to Instagram from my Mac.

: If you check out Downlink — a new Mac app that shows real-time satellite imagery on your desktop — …

: Hoping to see MPW for iPad at this year’s WWDC.

: I have only one game on my iPhone — Threes, which I still play and love — because I’m super-wary of …

: Mis-typed “The Omni Show” as “The Omni Shoe” just now, and started to wonder what that could be. It …

: How you can tell I’m a hopeless, stick-in-the-mud Luddite: on my beloved iPhone X I keep Bluetooth …

: TPM: Bill Barr is another Republican guy in his late 60s who’s been living, as Miller puts it, in …

: Mac App Store seems to be back up. 👍

: All green at www.apple.com/support/s… — but it appears the Mac App Store is actually down. (I …

: How can William Barr be obstructing justice? Did you not clearly hear the Attorney General of the …

: When I open the Mac App Store, it goes straight to this. Just me?

: The word “consume” cracks me up because I read it as “eat.” As in: “Using an RSS reader is a great …

: Consume the Internet!

: Imagine building a beautiful house. In one out-of-the-way spot, you used three nails when you were …

: 2009: “…you carried out 96 bags of leaves easily and quickly, then realized you can’t get those last …

: Maurice Parker just completed support for Dynamic Type in NetNewsWire for iOS. This is hugely …

: New RSS reader for iOS: Marc Maset has released NewsWave, a river-of-news style newsreader. I …

: People are suggesting I use Tokens. I’d love to — but it doesn’t work with IAP promo codes.

: Generating promo codes for IAPs using App Store Connect is a giant pain. So many clicks. Ugh.

: I learned how to do Apple events coding from Ultimate Mac Programming by @davemark! After all these …

: Daniel’s post about WWDC reminds me of this critical intel: we end up at Cinebar midnight-ish. Seems …

: Tonight is the Seattle Xcoders unofficial thing — social-only — at 6:30 pm at the Cyclops. Come hang …

: PSA: Never, ever eat sunchokes.

: For UIKit to become an app framework for Macs that makes great Mac apps, it will have to become …

: Code question: is there a way on iOS to set the default handler for a URL scheme? I’d like to give …

: Wouldn’t you want to read what an undead de Tocqueville has to say about America of 2019? I sure …

: With my first novel I’ve gotten as far as a title: “Alexis de Tocqueville, Vampire.”

: It’s time for Democrats to put country ahead of party. We asked Republicans to do so, and they …

: Lunch is among the most elusive of mid-day meals. Where’s lunch.

: I love everything about this video, including the sounds of the bugs and the wind in the background. …

: Core structuring tip: your under-the-hood code should import Foundation and not AppKit or UIKit. …

: Any time someone writes that they “still use an RSS reader,” I think to myself: I still use a web …

: Once, when I was about 10 years old, at my great-grandfather’s urging, I hand-fed a squirrel that …

: When I was a kid me and my friends would always go through all of our change carefully in hopes of …

: If Twitter becomes a place to follow topics rather than people, then the only thing good about it …

: Shouldn’t the past tense of gaslight be gaslit, or am I crazy.

: I’ve often wished for a mechanism — a kind of mental service — that would allow me to keep things in …

: I wish Apple News links were the original links to the website instead of into Apple News. I don’t …

: With the Swift proposal on property behaviors, would it be possible to create a …

: In case you missed it yesterday: go read Tim Ekl’s Swift Generics proposal explainer. So good.

: Rejiggered the NetNewsWire workspace tree to make it easier to work on a cross-platform Mac and iOS …

: Whenever I see GoT, I read it as Game of Things, because of IoT. “Game of Things” is, I assume, some …

: Just finished mowing. It was awesome. Will follow up with margaritas in celebration.

: Lawnmowers I hate shopping. Truly. In person or online. (The one exception is for books, which is why I have …

: The blog (and/or RSS) search engines of the past, that I know of: Blogbridge, Blogdigger, …

: I’m proud of myself because, without even reading the OmniGraffle manual yet, I was able to make a …

: The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch: A decent hedge-fund strategy would be to run a private …

: How can there not be a sewing machine emoji?

: I also have the “Space Oddity” problem with the English Beat. I love everything they’ve ever done. …

: It’s a Bukka White kind of day. Check out that slapping thing he does in Aberdeen Mississippi Blues: …

: David Bowie is my favorite rock-and-roller ever, by far — but I can’t hear “Space Oddity” even one …

: I read this thing about people making smart mice… www.nytimes.com/2019/04/0… …and all I can …

: Don’t forget to celebrate the beauty of April 2nd! It’s the longest period of time before the next …

: No combination of clicks will convince iTunes to actually shuffle. It says it’s going to shuffle, …

: Something changed in WKWebView in 10.4.4. As I select different articles in NetNewsWire, there’s a …

: I’ve just got to white-knuckle it through today. I’ll get my reward tomorrow, as April 2 is one of …

: I figured out how to build NetNewsWire without embedding the Swift libraries. App size went from …

: I saw “Cats” at the Paramount Theatre last night. I loved it. So great.

: It’s worth remembering Leonard Nimoy today on his birthday. (Well, every day, but still.)

: Orcas in my neighborhood: www.myballard.com/2019/03/2… Within walking distance, if I could …

: Lunch is only 45 minutes away. But I’m super hungry. Tough it out, or eat some potato chips?

: The unofficial Seattle Xcoders meeting this week — Thursday, 6:30 pm at Cyclops — is two days after …

: Thinking of changing the name of my app to NetNewsWire+.

: Sometimes, when I need a pick-me-up, I reread the Urban Dictionary definitions for Cecil County, …

: Marcel Weiher notes that Objective-C is climbing in the TIOBE index.

: This is not the end of investigations, indictments, and criminal prosecutions related to our corrupt …

: This is the time of year when Seattle goes from whatever to the most beautiful city in North …

: Somewhere on the web I saw someone call Devin Nunes ([R]ussia), a ding dong, and I can’t get it out …

: Couldn’t log in to App Store Connect. Quit and relaunched Safari. Still can’t log in. Switched to …

: I just realized that I switched over to marketing at Omni a year ago yesterday. It was the perfect …

: I used to watch the Lone Ranger TV show as a kid. I kept calling him the “Lone Stranger,” and my Mom …

: Let’s finish off February and never have another one!

: App notarization done. All good. Forget I ever complained.

: App notarization service is slow for me tonight. Grrr.

: Though it’s been 25 years since I worked in a restaurant, I still refer to my chores as my “side …

: I like all the Democrats running for nomination.

: It’s the saddest holiday in America.

: Here’s an explanation of Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program: www.seattle.gov/democracy…

: Democracy vouchers arrived in the mail today! I love my blue and green city.

: My brain is incapable of remembering what monads, functors, and currying are. I also can’t ever seem …

: The Big Meltdown brings roofalanches.

: I can’t see them, but I can hear AT-ATs slowly crunching in the distance.

: Cliff Mass: A Snow Event in Two Acts

: The crows are silent now, which is ominous.

: Not just flakes anymore. Snowing pretty hard already. Crows are yelling in my backyard.

: Snow flakes just started in Ballard.

: This reporter works from home Fridays (and Mondays), so I’ll be fine. My hope is that everyone in …

: As I was walking to work this morning, two women — cold-braving dog-walkers who appeared to be in …

: Cliff Mass has an update on the snowstorm that’s coming. In short: it’s coming. No maybes. …

: We’re going to get a crazy amount of snow. cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/02/a…

: We don’t get snow every year. Some years we get just a few flakes one day. But today we’ve got …

: Like all good Americans, I’ll be rooting for the Rams today. Go Rams!

: I had 12 bugs. After working pretty hard and fixing a half-dozen or so bugs, now I have 11 bugs.

: I have never taken a selfie.

: More of my recent searches: can lunch be had by people did everyone forget lunch did they ban lunch …

: My recent DuckDuckGo searches: When’s lunch Seems like lunchtime Is lunch still a thing we do Could …

: My brain was originally discovered in a jellyfish.

: Listening to Son House today. Just in that particular mood. (If you have Apple Music, look him up.)

: Edgar! Number 11! Señor Double!!! www.seattletimes.com/sports/ma…

: Earthlings have largely, and unknowingly, accepted me as one of their own, so far. …

: 512 Pixels: Twitter is Over

: Yes, “Shake Em on Down” has been my obsession for a while. One thing I love about songs like this is …

: Shake Em on Down performed by Bill Withers: www.youtube.com/watch

: Shake Em on Down performed by All Night Long Blues Band: www.youtube.com/watch

: Shake Em on Down performed by Mississippi Fred McDowell: www.youtube.com/watch

: Shake Em on Down performed by Samantha Fish on a cigar box guitar: www.youtube.com/watch

: Shake Em on Down performed by RL Burnside: www.youtube.com/watch

: Shake Em on Down performed by Bukka White: www.youtube.com/watch

: I got some new outlets in my very old house, and it’s better than Christmas.

: Signal v Noise exits Medium LIKE

: Got in to work early today — and now freaking out because it’s not lunch time yet. I’m the Garfield.

: Here’s that same sticker but with a cat’s paw, this being the internet and all.

: I’ve saved this sticker for more than ten years. I was at some party (probably at WWDC), and Merlin …

: In the future, everyone will launch their own streaming service.

: To take a screenshot that includes the mouse pointer, I expected the “Show Mouse Pointer” option in …

: The web will, eventually, make everyone a crime victim.

: When I was a kid, before the web, grifters and con men were exotic. We knew them through TV and …

: The Grim Reaper is just a title. His actual name is Centrum Silver.

: Nothing has made me feel my mortality more keenly than buying vitamins yesterday. Centrum Silver. If …

: FBI Secretly Collected Data on Aaron Swartz Earlier Than We Thought—in a Case Involving Al Qaeda

: If the Latest Facebook Revelations Won’t Get You to Delete It, What Will? Facebook’s …

: Of course it’s “not my father’s Republican party.” My Dad’s a Democrat. Who watches Rachel Maddow …

: Donald Trump’s signature reminds me of the Dow.

: My favorite TV show these days is Leah Remini’s show about Scientology.

: I wonder how many more times Facebook will apologize most sincerely for terrible things.

: Pretty exciting news for our friends at Black Pixel! www.geekwire.com/2018/ai-f… And again …

: The only notifications I allow on my iPhone are for text messages. It’s nice not to be bugged all …

: Republicans always screw up the stock market. It’s the worst reason that I vote for Democrats — but …

: Reminder — no talks at the Xcoders meeting in Seattle tonight. But there’s still a meeting, at the …

: I’m up to four Micro.blog accounts now! Love this service. So much thanks go to @manton and …

: Part of my maturation process — which I’m undergoing slowly, with great reluctance — is learning to …

: We just set up @xcoders, for folks in the Seattle and Vancouver, BC areas who go to Xcoders. It …

: In So Basic It’s Not Even Funny I talk about one of the happiest compliments I’ve ever received.

: I’m obsessive about turning off notifications on Mac and on iOS. Just about the only thing left is …

: I’ve been deleting accounts. StackOverflow and Quora yesterday. I had totally forgotten that I had a …

: Why write about lunch? You might wonder why I post what’s for lunch every weekday on the @omni account. Here’s why: If I …

: Hey! I’m on the Micro Monday podcast! Thanks, @macgenie! It was so much fun to do. Note to everyone …

: I dread this time of year with all its year-end retrospectives. I remember what happened! It was …

: Friday thing! If you know Jake Carter, you know he’s leaving Seattle and moving to California. So …

: Seattle Xcoders unofficial 5th Thursday is tonight at the Water Wheel in Ballard (not Cyclops!) …

: Why is there no emoji for Thor’s hammer! This 🔨 just isn’t enough.

: There are still a few days left to invest in Fair Isle Brewing. Here’s a look behind the scenes: …

: They always say to follow your passion. If you’re passionate about something, then that’s good, and …

: You could argue that app developers boycotting Saudi Arabia isn’t the right thing to do. I get it. …

: If I had an app for sale in the App Store, I’d make it unavailable in Saudi Arabia. The private …

: The Concourse, David Roth: This Is All Donald Trump Has Left: …living in his America feels like …

: There are Facebook offices next door and across the street. I walk by Facebook employees every day …

: S.E. Cupp makes a fantastic point — Trump isn’t driven by his ego. He’s driven by his id. And with …

: Asha Dornfest: Can blogs rebuild America? I’m not talking about all of us launching political …

: My current wish for the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket: Klobuchar/O’Rourke.

: Doug Russell explains how React Native Accessibility Is Pretty Bad.

: I am quite eager to see Donald Trump, Jr. in prison: nymag.com/intellige…

: Here’s the reggae version of Country Roads that’s beautiful and that we all need right now. …

: We may be days — or hours, or minutes — from needing to take to the streets. …

: In bed. Picked up my iPad to watch some TV before going to sleep. Got a notification about a …

: The other page I’m watching is this one, which shows live results: www.vox.com/a/midterm…

: Here’s the page I’m watching: fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog… Right now it has a Democratic …

: My predictions: Democrats regain the House, Republicans hold the Senate, Gillum wins, Beto loses …

: First numbers start coming in in 15 minutes or so as first polls close. Buckle up. Order pizza.

: Exit polls are junk. Don’t pay attention. For one thing, exit polls had us convinced in 2004 that …

: Guam governor will be a Democrat: www.guampdn.com/story/new…

: A Beto victory still seems less-than-likely to me — but I’d sure love to be surprised. Would be …

: What do you think? Democrats regain the House? Beto wins or loses? How about Abrams and Gillum?

: Vote! And then pray.

: HAT RED

: It’s Friday, so it’s the age-old question — do you pronounce it T-GIF or T-JIF?

: All I want for Christmas is for Nov. 6 to be Halloween for Republican politicians.

: The white nationalists running our country — let’s call them WhiNas — are afraid of babies.