To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

Linode/Akamai has notified me that they're forcing an offline migration of one of my primary databases within 48 hours.

In the middle of a week.

It'll cause ~8 hours of complete Overcast downtime if I don't bring up a new instance and migrate everything over myself by then.

And this server costs 20% more than it did a year ago.

The Akamai acquisition of Linode has not improved anything for Linode's customers, as far as I can tell. So far, we're just paying more for equal or worse service.

The #bevyengine 0.11 video is out 👀

https://youtu.be/TTFNwcIC3wA

The worst time to release a new app or substantial upgrade is around WWDC or any other Apple announcement.

Everyone’s paying attention to Apple, not to you. Apple fills the frame entirely: there’s no room for a halo effect.

Release your thing once the news quiets down again.

You will not remember why you worked late.

But your kids will remember how they felt.

I certainly remember that my dad was rarely home before 20:00 when I was a kid.

Rembr launched with success! Even published an actual performance upgrade in a 1.1 release.

What does it do, not to much, it looks at your library in Apple photos, and finds photos from todays date («this day») in previous years. It can show for this day, this week and this month 🤓

It's built entirely with SwiftUI, and it's been very delightful to re-discover and remember stuff over the years 😁

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/rembr/id6446772558

A fire-and-forget Task { … } that you never await silently swallows errors if you forget to handle them.

Tip: include the generic parameters in your task invocation, e.g. `Task<Void, Never> { … }`. Now the compiler will complain if the task lets an error escape. #Swift