Brent Simmons

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  • I was curious about NetNewsWire for iOS usage per iOS release. Here are the percentages:

    iOS 26: 92.17%

    iOS 18: 6.28%

    iOS 17: 1.23%

    iOS 16 and earlier: 0.32%

    (The current version of NetNewsWire for iOS runs on iOS 17 and newer.)

  • Dog in my neighborhood.

    Dog disappearing between the end of a fence and a bunch of ivy.

  • I usually wait as long as possible before installing new betas of macOS — but this year I think I’ll do it asap and live out of the beta all summer, which I never do, but Golden Gate looks like such an improvement over Tahoe that I want it right goddamn now.

  • My biggest hope for WWDC this year is an easy summer 🐣🐥🌴

  • Saw The Church last night at the Showbox in Seattle — great show! If you like The Church and they’re doing a show in your town, don’t miss it.

  • This time of year in North Dakota things are more brown than green. The farmhouses almost always have trees planted around them for relief from the wind.

    Brown prairie and a bunch of trees around a farmhouse.

  • We had to wait for a slow-moving train in Voltaire, ND on our way one morning to Anamoose.

    View from a car waiting for a train to cross.

  • I was called away from home (back now) for unexpected reasons.

    Here’s what it looks like to fly into Minot, North Dakota in the evening. Note the many sloughs this time of year.

    View of North Dakota from the airplane window right before landing in Minot. Sunset and brown landscape with many small sloughs of water.

    Here’s the jail in Benedict, North Dakota. My trip was not actually related to the jail! I just thought it was cool.

    Jail in Benedict, ND. Very, very small run-down building with a sign above the door that says jail in capital letters.

  • Code is a liquid now.

  • Wordlebot got what was coming to it today. Such a jerk.

  • Reminder! The Seattle Xcoders presentation meeting tonight is one you really, really want to be there for!

  • Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

  • Jesper writes, in Welcome (back) to Macintosh, of his hope that Apple can “refocus its software and its humility too.” I don’t want to quote the best parts — just go read it if you haven’t yet.

  • Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. Should be first thing.

    Just me? Is my Mac haunted? Probably haunted.

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