Good crowd protesting against ICE in Boston, where it is 15°F (-9°C).

I enjoyed working with @mergesort.me on this cross-promotion discount. I highly recommend checking out @plinky.app if you have not already done so.

A blog post: Murder

Unread’s MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award arrived, and looks great on my desk. Huge thanks to the MacStories team!

Unread’s MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award arrived, and looks great on my desk. Thanks to @viticci.macstories.net, @johnvoorhees.macstories.net, and the entire @macstories.net team.

Protesting in Boston

Merry Christmas, you old building and loan.

I am so excited. Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.

I have a 100-day streak of walking at least 10,000 steps per day.

I recently moved most of my servers from Linode to Hetzner. I wrote a blog post describing the pros and cons of each hosting service: virtualsanity.com/202512/mo…

Happy Thanksgiving! www.youtube.com/watch

I voted (early).

Tomorrow is the No Kings protest. I am going. If you are here in the United States, please consider attending.

This is incredibly disappointing. Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

A 30-day streak. The streak will not end today.

I just released Unread 4.6 with improvements to support Apple’s operating system updates. www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2025/09/unre... Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes.

Next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting will be a dinner gathering at MEX Taqueria. Since it falls just a couple days after the iPhone event, we will have a lot to discuss. New participants are always welcome. www.meetup.com/cocoahead…

Watching the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

This is a great time to make an appointment to get a COVID shot, especially if you are here in the United States. I just made an appointment through the CVS app. Be aware that doing so requires answering yes when asked if you are at high risk for COVID.

FB19910081: Sometimes when opening a Safari View Controller on iPadOS 26, its toolbar covers the status bar.

On iPadOS 26, using the traffic lights control on a window often results in the scroll view scrolling to the top. A UIScrollView can be made to scroll to the top by tapping the status bar, but using the traffic lights should not have this effect. I filed FB19887491.

Stephen Colbert sums it up, as always. Introducing The Apple iKiss

Something to be aware of with Icon Composer: Tinted variants of icons generated from Icon Composer look as expected on iOS 26, but look terrible on iOS 18. I filed FB19089822.

Less importantly, who thought it was a good idea to pave over Copley Square?

Good trouble in Boston

I just released Unread 4.5 with a Website Accounts feature. This lets you view webpage text for paywalled articles. www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2025/07/unre... Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

I just released Unread 4.5 with a Website Accounts feature. This lets you view webpage text for paywalled articles. Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

I spent a significant portion of WWDC week learning what I could about Icon Composer and the new app icon system. I wrote about it here: micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/06/20/i...

FB17876856: Width of URL Bar in Safari on iOS 26: https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/06/10/fb-width-of-url-bar.html

Last night I got to hear Justice Breyer speak in person.

It is hard to see in the dark, but I ran across this deer while out for a late night walk.

CocoaHeads Boston will meet at MEX Taqueria | Bar this Thursday at 7:00 PM. There will be no classroom portion this time, but we will be back at the NERD Center in June. New participants are always welcome. Details are available on Meetup.

Good crowd on the Boston Common for the May Day protest.

Now we are at City Hall.

At the anti-Trump protest on the Boston Common. This is huge. I think there are tens of thousands of people here.

CocoaHeads Boston will meet on Thursday, April 10 at the Microsoft NERD Center. Brian Cardarella will present Server-Driven UI with SwiftUI. Details are available on Meetup. RSVPing via Meetup before April 2 is required; we have to give a list of attendees to building security.

FYI for local friends: Senator Warren is holding a town hall in Lowell tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. www.eventbrite.com/e/lowell-…

Big crowd protesting on the Boston Common.

On the Boston Common

A press release for an audience of one: www.apple.com/newsroom/202... 😡

My photos from today’s protest in Boston: micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/02/17/n... @50501movement.bsky.social @swingbluealliance.org

Photos From Today’s Protest at the Massachusetts State House: https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/02/05/photos-from-todays-protest-at.html

Coup: https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/02/04/coup.html

Calling Representatives: https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/02/03/calling-representatives.html

Whenever I hear Tim Cook state that privacy is a fundamental human right, I am going to remember that he attended and donated a million dollars to the Presidential inauguration of someone who cares nothing about human rights.

I released Unread 4.4. This update makes it easier to subscribe to feeds offered by Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, and YouTube. www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2025/01/u…