mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Moved to @johnbrayton
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?
I released Unread and Feed Hawk updates to support the 2018 iPad Pro.
The Unread update required some design tweaks. The traditional layout would have put the title label right under the home indicator, and the iPhone X layout would have looked silly on such a wide device. I’m really happy with the device-specific layout changes.
I enabled cross-posting from Micro.blog to Mastodon.
Apparently my previous toot linking to my Micro.blog-based handle did not work for everyone. Here is the new handle in a format that should not get garbled:
AT-johnbrayton-AT-micro-DOT-virtualsanity-DOT-com
I am shutting down this account, and moving to @johnbrayton@micro.virtualsanity.com
That is my Micro.blog account, but you can follow it as if it was a Mastodon account. Please follow me at @johnbrayton@micro.virtualsanity.com if you want to.
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.
A great interview of Barack Obama by David Axelrod. https://castro.fm/episode/sy3WLK
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.
Presidential tantrum in 3, 2, 1, …
“Judge sides with CNN, orders restoration of Acosta’s press pass”
The first snowstorm of the season is here.
In response to the firing of Jeff Sessions and concern about the Mueller investigation, there will be a rapid response protest at 5pm Thursday in most American cities.
https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/
Good morning. Let’s do this, America.
Joking aside, please vote tomorrow if you have not already done so.
Do we get one vote for each email, text message, and phone call we receive reminding us to vote?