Noah Liebman @noleli@mastodon.social

This is literally an article in 2020 breathless over the mainframe → personal computer transition of 40 years ago https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2020/07/27/why-big-money-is-already-pouring-into-edge-computing/

And I didn’t get killed being out in Chicago after dark. Obviously thanks to Trump’s federal forces 🙄

Too much light pollution to see the comet last night from Buena Park/Uptown (couldn’t even see the big dipper, though I could see some of its stars with binoculars), but I did spot a satellite zipping by!

Guy from a work van while I was on my bike: “Take your mask off!”

Ugh.

If I were to start a new static site from scratch, should I use Jekyll again, or are the cool kids using Hugo?

Well there’s a fun little reference to Apple lore in the Swift docs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

Why yes, I feel totally confident buying insurance from this well run operation

The reason outlining is so hard for me is that I’m a depth-first thinker, not a breadth-first thinker

Some middle/high school kid has been finding security flaws in  Messages.

In case you were feeling unaccomplished.

‪The Fed needs to lay off the Led Zeppelin, because it seems we have No Quarter https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/17/coin-shortage-economy-fed/‬

This is the best feature of iOS 13. I also wish you could turn it off for some amount of time (30 minutes, 8 hours) from Control Center.

Is no one at Apple ever expecting a call from an unknown number?

This will save lives even accounting for the number of Walmart “health ambassadors” who will get shot https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/15/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

Something for everyone:
A comet-y tonight! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2020_F3_(NEOWISE)

Good morning. It’s a dumpster fire out there.

Now that I’ve managed a 10–14 mile ride 6 weekday mornings since last Monday…thoughts on RunKeeper vs Strava? Features and privacy.

Is that a challenge?

lol there’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever seen one