Jeff Johnson writes, in If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?: "The iPhone seems to have engendered a culture of anti-intellectualism and learned helplessness so pervasive that users ha... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/11/learned-helplessness.html

From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell: "Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is ... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/09/inkwell-new-rss-reader.html

Different corner radiuses: https://ranchero.com/2026/03/04/different-corner-radiuses.html

I Tried to Explain What I Do: https://inessential.com/2026/03/03/i-tried-to-explain-what-i-do.html

Gazette: newsletter to RSS: https://ranchero.com/2026/03/03/gazette-newsletter-to-rss.html

Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable: https://inessential.com/2026/03/02/seattle-xcoders-talks.html

Why Objective-C: https://inessential.com/2026/02/27/why-objective-c.html

Beagle Bros love: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/26/beagle-bros-love.html

Unread remains cool: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/20/unread-remains-cool.html

Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/19/stress-free-rss-reader-feedcity.html

New RSS reader Today: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/18/new-rss-reader-today.html

New RSS reader Current: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/17/new-rss-reader-current.html

Many hours of coding later: stuartbreckenridge.net/netnewswire-... #NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire 7 for Mac is shipping! netnewswire.blog/2026/01/27/n...

Special Fifth Thursday at Waterwheel Tonight: https://xcoders.org/2025/10/30/special-fifth-thursday-at-waterwheel.html

On my blog — Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App: inessential.com/2025/10/04/w... “I still bristle, after all these years (now more than ever), at having to publish NetNewsWire for iOS through the App Store.”

No Longer on Meetup: https://xcoders.org/2025/09/17/no-longer-on-meetup.html

Just posted: Last Summer Social Meeting: xcoders.org/2025/09/17/l...

Happy 79th birthday to musician and composer Ralf Hütter - best known as the lead singer, keyboardist and founding member of Kraftwerk.

Tonight on Twitch I’m hosting “The Best of 1991” shoegaze, dream pop, electronic, hip hop, trip hop, industrial, grunge, college rock, indie, etc ... the assortment was and will be vast. Live (and free of charge) starting at 8pm central here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh

New single-page site from Brent Simmons: No Learnings.

Retirement day! inessential.com/2025/06/06/r...

Tonight I’m presenting “The Best of 1985.” With releases by New Order, Kate Bush, INXS, Tears For Fears, REM, The Cure, The Smiths, The Cult, Replacements & The Jesus & Mary Chain alone, there will be no lack of stellar content! Live at 8pm central here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh

Starting at 8pm central tonight, I’m hosting ‘The Best of 1984’ in sound & vision via my Twitch channel at twitch.tv/djjakerudh. 5+ hours of Depeche Mode, The Cure, Bunnymen, REM, Replacements, Psychedelic Furs, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Talk Talk, Smiths, Siouxsie & more.

My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers: inessential.com/2025/05/23/l...

Things are getting worse. Apple developer community has a responsibility to respond and WWDC is our opportunity. www.massicotte.org/resolve

It’s come to me desperately asking for help via a GoFundMe. I have no money for health insurance, rent, or medication. I’m screwed as of June 1st without help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/5dfd5a7b

Going live now via my Twitch channel at twitch.tv/djjakerudh presenting ‘The Best of 1982’ and the 5th anniversary of the channel! The Cure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, XTC, Simple Minds, Yaz, The Clash, Siouxsie & the Banshees, INXS, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, The Jam, Devo, Bauhaus, etc

I’ve been doing some C programming lately — not NetNewsWire, don’t worry! (it’s a personal project) — and just last night I learned about pthread_once and I’m over the moon. What a wonderful thing! (I used to use dispatch_once frequently in Objective-C code. I assume it uses pthread_once.)

Just today I learned about Codeberg, “a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.” I have open source projects, and plan to have more, and getting away ... https://micro.inessential.com/2025/02/17/just-today-i-learned-about.html

We’re 22 years old today! Shipped 1.0 on this day in 2003. Happy that the best years are still ahead! 🐣🎩🎸

I hadn’t looked at my Safari Privacy Report in a while. Wow Google! Holding the top five spots. Amazing work!

To be clear about the multiple windows thing — there are several ways on iPad (split view, Stage Manager, etc.) to create multiple windows for apps that support multiple windows. Which NetNewsWire does. But we think maybe nobody ever uses this feature with NetNewsWire.

Do people use the feature on iOS where you can create multiple NetNewsWire windows at a time? This feature adds complexity to the app that we’d like to remove — but not if people are using it!

Engineers — new rule — pay attention: whenever you hear or read the word learnings, as said or written by someone in your company, you have to take the rest of the day off.

Are we ready to make January 4th a holiday yet? Happy birthday to: New Order’s Bernard Sumner ‘56 REM’s Michael Stipe ‘60 Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie ‘62 Prefab Sprout’s Martin McAloon ‘62 Portishead’s Beth Gibbons ‘65 The Pogues Cait O'Riordan ‘65 RIP Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis (1955 - 2019)

…Kinch introduced Williams to the group. “He’s not the feds. And if he is, he’s doing a damn good job.” 😬 Read the whole thing. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Starting at 8pm central tonight, I’m hosting 5+ hours of classic new wave and alternative music videos from the ‘70s, ‘80s & ‘90s. Simply click twitch.tv/djjakerudh then and enjoy the show worldwide cover free.

This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew! I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. 🐥

NetNewsWire 6.1.7 for Mac: https://netnewswire.blog/2024/12/16/netnewswire-for-mac.html

NetNewsWire 6.1.5 for iOS TestFlight: https://netnewswire.blog/2024/12/07/netnewswire-for-ios.html

I get that “stop doing Combine!” sounds like an old guy thing to say — but I’m in on Swift structured concurrency and SwiftUI. My argument is the opposite of curmudgeonly — Combine is not the future, and we want to use future things. But I get that Combine tastes like honey and sparkles.

I keep telling the younger developers “stop doing Combine!” and… they keep doing Combine. To be fair, though — and I mean this sincerely — they’re all smarter than me. :)

Are there any Bluesky client apps that preserve my reading position in the timeline? I’ve tried the official app, Skeets, and Openvibe, none of which seem to know that reading position is even a thing. A fresh launch of the app puts me at the very top of the timeline every time.

Starting live now at www.twitch.tv/djjakerudh, I present 5+ hours of new wave, post-punk and classic alternative music videos. Beginning in 1980, I'll play four songs from every year that represented "alternative" music and move up through the years until we run out of time.

Dave Gahan and Annie Lennox backstage after a recent gig.

It’s Seattle Xcoders night! Standard place and time — 7 pm at Bale Breaker in Ballard. We’re usually outside by the fire things.

My hottest web standards take is that RSS has never been more healthy (basically every site besides social apps support it) and there have never been a better crop of RSS reader services than there are today. The best RSS services aren't made by Google and they've been around for 10+ years 😄

Added an account for @netnewswire.com — no posts yet, but there will be, and it will respond to replies and messages, of course.

On this day in 1985, the Duran Duran side project Arcadia released their only studio album “So Red the Rose” featuring singles “Election Day" "Goodbye Is Forever" "The Promise" and "The Flame"