I read some marketing advice the other day that resonated with me. When creating apps is easy, the best use of time for developers is the human connections. In-person meetups. Podcasts. Support email.

Reviewing a huge bootstrap from @vincent to get Sunlit ported to Android. Sunlit has been like a fun side project for us. It fills an important space and is worth dedicating more time to.

Dave Rupert blogs that he won’t be participating in NaNoWriMo, but he does want to write more:

I don’t have any solid plans, words-per-day goals, charts, graphs, storyboards, outlines, or some Benjamin Franklin life hack schedule to make this happen. Instead I have an Obsidian vault with a hundred unsorted drafts.

NaNoWriMo is all-consuming. It’s really hard to make time for, but I hope to see a couple folks take up the challenge on their blogs.

Voted. I got fussed at for checking my phone to look up the details on a couple of the county propositions I couldn’t remember. 🇺🇸

It seems like the Democrats will take the House, but beyond that, who knows. James Talarico is in a great position. I’m hopeful. Nationwide, I’m not sure Democrats have learned the right lessons about bringing the country together… I think we’ll win despite ourselves, and maybe that’s enough. 🇺🇸

Watched: Ted Lasso S4E10, Being Alive. Finally finishing the season. Good last episode. 📺

OpenAI has a blog post about writing a new Git backend. There’s a lot of technical bits in it, some I glossed over.

Anthropic chose to build something completely new to replace Git. A lifetime ago, I was using CVS, and then Subversion, and don’t really want to switch again. GitHub is pervasive too.

Reading the Six Colors transcript of Apple’s earning call. Nothing really stands out in John Ternus’s comments, except maybe this line: “It’s the Siri we’ve always wanted.” Meanwhile, Apple still makes a lot of money.

This was a fun segment on 60 Minutes last night with Wemby. We are so lucky to have him. 🏀

Back to having a single version of Xcode installed, currently 27.1. A few weeks ago, had at least 3-4 different versions installed for different things. Hard drive space is at a premium right now.