Foxtrot. Delta. Tango.

Decent crowd for #NoKings in Hagerstown, Maryland. The crowd seemed to be about double the size of April.

#NoKings in #Staunton Virginia. The pic doesn’t do it justice. People lining sidewalks in front and on sides the courthouse. The courthouse lawn was packed. Signs, drag queens, Mexican flags, Pride flags, American flags. Even the cops were cooperative and closed down roads to vehicle traffic.

(A few days ago, spouse asked me to NOT travel to DC. Glad she did, because that’s looking like a nothing burger.)

“Whatever Apple announces, you can try it out immediately instead of setting up a whole Xcode project like some kind of animal.” https://notepadexe.com

Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.

Not only is this back your stuff up weekend it is order a new drive to archive your Mac weekend.

Get a new drive, clone your Mac to it, label it as a Sequoia archive and put it in a safe place to never touch again.

Molly White:

"The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.​"

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202501190959

Get your own domain name. If you don't know where, Micro.one hosting is $1/month.​

@jcrabapple good morning and a happy Friday to you, sir!

@grueproof good morning! Starting the day sunny here, but heading into rain this afternoon. I’m looking forward to knocking out a few things at work this morning, then hopefully getting an early start on the weekend.

via @dotnet : Announcing dotnet run app.cs – A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10

https://ift.tt/VCjZ3JF
#dotnet #CSharp #NET10 #programming #coding #developers #filebasedapps #dotnetrun #scripting #automation #learnCSharp #softwaredevelopment #programming…

For the past two weeks, I’ve been testing Sky, the new app by the original Shortcuts team.

It’s a mind-blowing app that brings AI + automation everywhere on your Mac. Coming later this year. It’ll change how we think of AI features on macOS.

My exclusive story: https://www.macstories.net/stories/sky-for-mac-preview/

Did you know that, in .NET Aspire, there's an easy way of connecting your distributed application to an existing database? Moreover, it's the same way for any database type, whether it's SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or even a NoSQL variety, like MongoDB.

If you want to learn how to do it, I wrote an article that contains some examples:

https://fiodar.substack.com/p/the-easiest-way-to-connect-net-aspire-to-any-database

#dotnet #aspire

This doesn’t create a single job and doesn’t make a single egg cheaper.

It’s a middle finger to families who want access to safe, proven vaccines.

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-trump-bb4de15b6ff955d6cd0b406aaec3cdc5

I’ll believe it when I see it
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114537444122831892

Brief history of everything, visualized. https://youtu.be/nOVvEbH2GC0

It felt good to jam on the #guitar this evening after a couple of months away. I need to get back into the habit.

Ever wonder how QR codes work? This is a great explanation.
https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work

PSA from the National Park Service.

Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology (from 1987). Including: “The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.” And: “It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.” https://kottke.org/25/05/nine-rules-for-evaluating-new-technology