Notices by Rob Fahrni (fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe)

@marcoarment Hoooo-boy… Flame war commence in 3, 2, …

@WarnerCrocker Yeah, that sounds right. 👍🏼

I wonder if Apple will have a dip in sales after a little uptick?

@WarnerCrocker Wild!

My wife ordered it for me and at 11PM last night she tells me she got the cancellation e-mail.

At least we got our money back and I was able to order directly from Apple. It's all good. 👍🏼

Since my MacBook Air order from Amazon -- filled by someone else -- was canceled I ordered from Apple.

Almost the same config. I bumped the RAM to 32GB. The only downside is it won't be here until early to mid-August.

But, I'll take it! I'm just happy to have a personal MacBook again.

Aging is a really weird thing. One day you wake up and something has changed. Be it your vision or a new ache or pain you can't explain and it doesn't go away.

But, you just keep moving forward as best you can, hoping you don't drop dead for some unknown reason. 🤣

I like to tell folks I can't die because I have too many people who depend on me. 😃

Saturday Morning Coffee: https://rob.crabapples.net/2026/06/27/saturday-morning-coffee.html

RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/116800815357291336

I'm not doing this so folks will pile on. This needs to be talked about. Black Twitter didn't work out here either. I believe a lot of folks moved to Bluesky and formed collectives there.

How do we fix discovery, reply guys, and welcoming all comers?

Anyway, I don't have an answer, thought maybe some smart folks might have some good ideas to share with Anil.

@lylo @anildash Yeah, perhaps it can't. Especially when you achieve a bit of notoriety. Once that happens I feel like folks start coming for you.

Heh, in the early days of blogging I was attacked more than I have ever been on Twitter or here, but I'm not famous. (Thank goodness.)

@WarnerCrocker Did you post that anywhere else?

@WarnerCrocker Even with all the controversy surrounding WordPress they’ve been doing some great work lately.

I read somewhere they were working more closely with Ben Thompson on his Passport system for payments, but I can’t find it.

@WarnerCrocker I wish I could sell that idea to someone with money who'd like to see it happen. There's so much already out there to build on.

@WarnerCrocker I believe YouTube and Podcasts are more popular than traditional TV news and shows now.

All these traditional fogies need to get together with the younglings and form a new company that provides basic infrastructure that would give different up-and-coming orgs the means to do YouTube without YouTube.

An addition to the web, all open.

@WarnerCrocker I like the idea of something new, but making another YouTube channel with a Nazi loving Substack isn't the answer. 🤣

What would you like to see? I want the stories. I want investigative reporting. I want hard hitting truth.

ABC should pick up all the folks who’ve left 60-minutes and start a new show that IS essentially 60-minutes. Same folks, run the same way, same setup, everything.

Screw y’all at CBS. Way to destroy the best news show on television.

Idiots.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116557757097525763

Wow. 😳

RE: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/116415353834224952

He’s not wrong. 🤣

@WarnerCrocker Cute kiddos! We have our grandson this morning. Busy, busy, busy.

@WarnerCrocker For me the bigger concern is what kind of stupid stuff is he going to do in the name of it?

The religious right believes Trump is “the chosen one.” Chosen for what exactly?

@otaviocc You definitely need Stream for Mac when it ships. 🤣 The icon alone makes it worth having. It’s the one all the way on the right.

Notice anything strange here? 😳

Yeah, SourceTree could really use an icon upgrade. 🤣