This morning I managed to get back to Grit to work on Stream for Mac after a four week hiatus. I’ve been thinking about what I wanted and needed to do for a couple weeks now. The idea is to finish off my 1.0 release, which will most likely be labeled as 1.7.0 so I can sync it with the new release of Stream for iOS — which I also need to work on. 😁 I managed to get quite a few things buttoned up.…
Dave Rogers’ Nice Marmot Republicans, “conservatives,” always, always like to make a big show of “supporting the troops.” It’s bullshit. It’s performative bullshit by people who never served anyone but themselves. Republicans and conservatives and the MAGA crowd are unacquainted with the notion of honor. It’s absent from their lives. You reap what you sow.…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Manton Reece I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other data from apps. In the same way that creating an account on Micro.blog automatically gives you a fediverse handle, I wanted people to be able to create a…
Today marks 39 years my lovely bride has put up with me. I’m very grateful and love her more now than ever. ❤️
Windows Latest Microsoft is already putting effort into dumping legacy Win32 and WebView2 code across Windows 11 in favor of WinUI , and also admitted native apps still use more RAM than they should . I still like Windows and owe much of my long career to it. When I started writing Windows applications I was using C and the Windows API — most folks call it Win32 API but when I started on Windows…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Steve Rose • The Guardian In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining its 22‑point “technological manifesto”, which praised American “hard power”, western culture and AI weapons, denounced inclusivity and called for compulsory…
Something new and purdy just arrived! 😃 I’m stoked! I know what I’m doing tonight after everyone goes to bed. 😂
I’d mentioned earlier in the spring that Kim picks up two new hanging ferns every year so the birds can nest in them. This one has had two separate momma birdies choose it to birth and care for their young this year. And yes, that’s a lot of poop! 🤣
Yesterday took us from Elk City, Oklahoma, to Jackson, Tennessee. We traveled approximately 660 miles in about 10 hours. 🚙 Today we get back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Home. 🏡
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We’re on the road back home to Virginia this morning. I’m writing on my trusty iPhone using Tot — which is a great little writing app — and Bug is driving. We’re in the middle of New Mexico at the moment. Yes, I’ve had coffee! From Gallup Coffee Company , of course. ☕️ I hope you enjoy the links. Shirt Pocket The new version of SuperDuper is a…
We pull into Gallup, New Mexico, at 10PM local time last night. Totally pooped out. 🥱 Today we’re off to Elk City, Oklahoma. Much shorter day. We’re only covering 563 miles. 🚙 It’s hard to believe it’s August 1. Even one day on the road makes me forget what day it is. 🤣 Will I be able to write Saturday Morning Coffee on the road? Guess we’ll find out. 😃
Yesterday Bug and I visited San Luis Obispo , California, one of the many places our family has lived over the years. It’s a beautiful little town on the Central Coast. It’s not what most people think of when they think of the California coastline. That’s usually reserved for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. We stopped to walk around Higuera street and have lunch at Firestone Grill . If…
We start our journey back home today. Today’s leg takes us from Avila Beach, California to Gallup, New Mexico. Looks like 811 miles with an estimated time of around 12 hours. 🚙 It will, of course, take longer. 😃
Some Hayseed, LLC , behind the scenes. 🤣 I operate my app empire under the name Hayseed and I have two products; RxCalc and Stream . RxCalc RxCalc is a Pharmacokinetics Calculator. It’s used to calculate how long drugs interact with the body. Go read about it. It is interesting. My brother, Jerry , has a PharmD — Doctor of Pharmacy — and loves the more technical side of his profession, he’s a…
WHOA! This is an incredible deal. The Iconfactory is offering to do Indie App icon design for $750 . That is dirt cheap, especially for the incredible work the Iconfactory delivers . Yes, it was an instabuy for me. Yeah, yeah, my credit card couldn’t resist the price. Can I really afford it? No, not really. Especially when I don’t make a lot from my apps but when I see a deal like this from a…
Day Four. We left Gallup, New Mexico at 6:30AM local time outbound to Fresno, California. We arrived in Fresno at 6:30PM local time. It works out to 13 hours becuase we had a shift in time from the Central time zone (CST) to Pacific (PST). We covered 783 miles or 1260 kilometers. I’m happy to be out of the car. I’ve had trouble sleeping on this trip for some reason. Last night I slept like a baby.…
Today is a long one. Gallop, New Mexico to Fresno, California. Estimated 11 hours, 775 miles or 1,247 kilometers.
Day three, check. ✅ We blew out of Elk City, Oklahoma at 6AM and arrived in Gallup, New Mexico, at 3:15PM local time. We covered 563 miles or 862 kilometers. Tomorrow is another long drive. More in the morning.
Today we head to Gallup, New Mexico. I love the desert. Still tired. 😂
Day two in the books. We arrived in Elk City, Oklahoma at 5PM local time, Saturday. It was a much shorter drive, we only covered 532 miles or 856 kilometers. Being tired is kind of the norm on roadtrips for us but it feels really great to have a shorter day.
Dropped by a Scooter’s Coffee here in Maumelle, Arkansas. It’s good! ☕️ WillowTree did the Scooter’s app. 😃 Unfortunately I didn’t get to work on it but boy-o-boy did the team do an amazing job!
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ On the road with our youngest daughter, Bug. I’m passenger for the first couple hours because I have a difficult time waking up. 🤣 Hey, I’ve only had a single cup of coffee this morning! We’re on the road to California to visit family, Bug will visit friends while I work. Of course we’ll make the rounds to all of our old haunts just to see how…
Today’s leg of the trip takes us from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Elk City, Oklahoma. Short jaunt.
Day one in the books. We pulled into Forrest City, Arkansas, at 8:30PM CST, so it was 9:30 in Charlottesville. That comes to 14.5 hours of driving, including breaks for gas, food, and other things. Approximately 718 miles, or 1,155 kilometers. We’re both pooped out. This is the longest day of the trip. Tomorrow will be quite a bit shorter but still productive. Good night.
Our youngest daughter and I are headed out on our drive cross country to California. Today we go from Charlottesville, Virginia to Forest City, Arkansas. Total estimated time: 12h 2m