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  On my blog — email from family in Minnesota: https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html

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  Fucking Reddit fucking sucks.

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  Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO. Apple will continue to do some good things and some very bad things. Any feelings of love you have toward Apple is not reciprocated: Apple has no feelings. It’s a multi-trillion dollar company that, like every other corporation, would like your money but does not care about you, or your values, at all.

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  Yesterday I thought it might be fun to get more into neovim — I’d downloaded and tried it a bit previously, and it seemed interesting. Anyway, I went to its home page to see if I could learn something useful there, and I saw a DHH quote. Nope. The DHH rule says nope. brew uninstall neovim

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  My mini-rant yesterday about the iOS 27 beta crashing bug turns out to have been late — the bug was already fixed in the latest beta, iOS 27 beta 4 build 24A5390f. (Or, at least, I have no logs for this crash that reference 24A5390f.) I’ve updated my blog post with the good news: https://inessential.com/2026/07/23/ios-27-nnw-crash.html

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  I was curious about NetNewsWire for iOS usage per iOS release. Here are the percentages: iOS 26: 92.17% iOS 18: 6.28% iOS 17: 1.23% iOS 16 and earlier: 0.32% (The current version of NetNewsWire for iOS runs on iOS 17 and newer.)

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  On my blog — what we’ve been doing with NetNewsWire over the past year: https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

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  Dog in my neighborhood.

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  There is no CEO of RSS.

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  I was called away from home (back now) for unexpected reasons. Here’s what it looks like to fly into Minot, North Dakota in the evening. Note the many sloughs this time of year. Here’s the jail in Benedict, North Dakota. My trip was not actually related to the jail! I just thought it was cool.

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  We had to wait for a slow-moving train in Voltaire, ND on our way to Anamoose. https://www.anamoose.com/home.php

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  This time of year in North Dakota things are more brown than green. The farmhouses almost always have trees planted around them for relief from the wind.

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  Fuck this translucency shit. Not sure how this has made my content front and center.

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  Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

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

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  What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person. And the LLM is going to fucking forget anyway.

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

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  Two things I didn’t note in my post on Objective-C but could have: the compiler is crazy fast, and the debugger is wonderfully smooth, without all the latency we’ve become used to the last bunch of years. The whole experience feels so different — so light and easy.

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

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  RE: https://social.lol/@swizzlevixen/116048729081283939 Hire my old friend and the better half of the original The Omni Show! I most wholeheartedly recommend Mark!

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  NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS has finally passed through the review process. It may take a few hours to propagate — but it should be on the App Store now or soon-ish 🎸