Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Building Zavala 4.0
Maurice Parker: Adding data syncing to any application is hard. iCloud helps with that somewhat, but it is still really hard to get right. Shoehorning a hierarchical data structure like an outline into a flat data structure like iCloud is super hard and I did not get it right the first time. While I did […]
Arizona Age Verification Bill
Ken Macon (Hacker News): Arizona legislators have introduced what may be the most aggressive app store age verification bill in the country. House Bill 2920 would require age verification not just for app downloads, but for preinstalled software, the browser, the text messaging app, the search bar, the calculator, and the weather widget. Every piece […]
France’s Social Media Ban
RTÉ (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. […] It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law. […] The legislation, which also provides […]
The Tale of Vanity, Prince’s True Love Who Couldn’t Escape Her Demons
Exactly ten years after her death, we're looking at Vanity, the singer-actress who shot to stardom in the 1980s before a tragic ending.
Oklahoma Cop Caught Beating a Black Man on Video—But Police Chief Says It’s Not What It Looks Like
After a clip of a Black man being punched in the head by an Oklahoma cop went viral, the police chief is speaking out, and what he says may shock you.