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After many failed attempts, I finally managed to watch a Vandenberg rocket launch on purpose (Vandenberg is a couple hundred kilometers north of us). This is from my backyard a couple of nights ago.
https://vimeo.com/1180673129/30b67fc5e6?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci
My mother passed away about 8 years ago, but if she hadn’t, she would have been 100 years old today. She loved birthdays - so Happy Birthday mom!! 🎂
@alldritt@mstdn.ca recently released this super cool open source command line tool for querying scriptable applications on the Mac. It’s been out for a couple of months but I just finally had a chance to take a good look at it, and it is really neat. I’ll reach for this first instead of AppleScript the next time I need to automate accessing data from a scriptable app.
I just noticed that Apple’s email for WWDC lists the dates as June 8-12. In other words, the entire week from Monday to Friday. It still says the in person event is on Monday, I hope they still release all the videos on Monday like they did last year.
I guess probably this means they are going to have online labs all week. I wish they would delay those for a week, so that we had a chance to watch videos and do some experiments before signing up for labs. Also, I plan to be in town all week for community events, which makes it even harder to get value out of the labs.
This is an awesome event, I’ll be attending this year for the third time. If you’re going to be in the area for WWDC, I highly recommend arriving on Saturday so that you can attend this meetup.
TIL that Carly Simon’s father was the Simon in Simon & Schuster Books.
Unfortunately all of the various AI models have undoubtedly included this (hilarious) article about “Abject Oriented Programming” in their training corpus. It’s 19 years old, but I just discovered it today and it’s still a classic.
https://typicalprogrammer.com/introduction-to-abject-oriented-programming
Ugg - maybe the Iran situation is going exactly the way Trump hoped it would.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jamesdempsey/116614113146648891
I’ll be there, come say hello!
This seems like it might be an amazing brilliant idea.
How Virginia Democrats can retire the state Supreme Court
There's a quick—and lawful—way to get redistricting back on track
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/how-virginia-democrats-can-retire
@harlan@mastodon.social nice meeting you tonight! When I managed to spell your name correctly and found you here, it turns out I was already following you 👋
For my followers in Southern California, there is a rocket launch scheduled from Vandenberg tonight at 7:46 PM. If it comes off on time it should be a spectacular sunset launch.
