RE: @soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social
Congratulations to @Aaronvegh@mastodon.social and @BenRiceM@mastodon.social.
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mastodon 4.7.3Working on @unread@social.goldenhillsoftware.com, an RSS reader. Co-organizer of @cocoaboston@iosdev.space
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Congratulations to @mergesort@macaw.social on the launch of Plinky for Mac!
https://www.plinky.app/blog/introducing-plinky-for-mac
25th. Or impeachment and removal. Take your pick.
Unread 4.8 significantly improved the reliability of its webpage text generation. I wrote a detailed description of these improvements in a new blog post:
https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/03/details-around-webpage-text-reliability-improvements/
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@gruber@mastodon.social I remember thinking in 2020 that Biden should campaign on a promise of bringing back slow news days.
Good crowd for the No Kings protest in Boston.
Gobbler is a new web-based RSS reader and RSS aggregator for third-party apps.
CBS was founded in 1927. 99 years is quite a run. RIP.
Manton Reece details the obstacles Apple has thrown in his way while he tries to release Inkwell for iOS:
https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html
Dealing with the App Store is the worst part of developing for Apple platforms. I hope that Apple approves Inkwell for iOS soon.
I just released Unread 4.8 with:
• Syncing with Inkwell, a new web-based RSS reader
• Reliability improvements around webpage text
• Faster opening of link articles
Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes.
I am seeing a bug involving keyboard shortcuts for menu items that have no modifier keys on macOS 26.5. I wrote it up at:
https://www.virtualsanity.com/202605/bug-involving-keyboard-shortcuts-for-menu-items-that-have-no-modifier-keys-on-macos-265/
Waking up to find out that our government started a war with another country is just a thing we do now.
A palette cleanser:
What Powers Should The President Not Have? Former President Obama Weighs In
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social 2020 ended in an election that put things back on the right track. That alone makes 2025 worse.
If we only hadn’t derailed things between times…
RE: @Aaronvegh@mastodon.social
I am waiting for a build to go through Beta App Review so that I can send it to *one* customer, in order to work through an issue that customer is seeing but that I cannot reproduce.
Beta App Review is security theater.
This sign made me laugh.
For local friends: the state of Massachusetts now has a place to report misconduct by ICE or other federal agents.
https://bsky.app/profile/massgovernor.bsky.social/post/3mgx4xfnc5s2m
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe I have been thinking about this too. I do not want violence, but I am honestly surprised this has not happened yet.
I also anticipate legally owned weapons being lawfully used in self defense against ICE thugs.
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe I don’t have one to offer. That’s how I know the system is rigged.
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Is the target of the menu items First Responser? Any chance it’s calling the method on something entirely different? Or maybe the objc annotation on the target method is missing?
Celebrity sighting.
We have a particularly good agenda for next week’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting. New participants are always welcome.
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social I encountered this as well, and was able to work around it by making my shortcuts end in a “Stop this shortcut” action.
But my app doesn’t need output from shortcuts, it just needs to know whether the shortcut succeeded. I don’t know how or if that can work if you need a shortcut to return a result.
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@pfandrade@mastodon.social Thanks for writing this. My experiences with SwiftUI on macOS are similar. Does your blog have an RSS feed? I could not find one.