Rob Fahrni
Rob Fahrni — Software developer in Charlottesville, Virginia
Software development (iOS, Mac, React Native), tech commentary, sports, and life observations.
rob.crabapples.netRob Fahrni has been writing software for nearly four decades, and his blog has the feel of a veteran developer's front porch. Come for the weekly "Saturday Morning Coffee" link roundups, stay for the honest takes on React Native migrations, indie software, and the state of the tech industry. He writes from Charlottesville with the kind of directness that comes from decades of shipping code.
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Saturday Morning Coffee
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Nothing much to say this week! Hope you enjoy the links. Whakkee I’m fed up with every other website telling me “we value your privacy”, and then showing me an opt-out list of hundreds of vendors they’d like to share my information with. If it’s free, you’re the product. Even when it’s not free, that seems to be the case. I think a lot of us are in the same boat as Whakkee, but they’re doing something about it. Cabel Sasser This post is about a...
Leave the Nazi Bar
Geraldine McKelvie • The Guardian The global publishing platform Substackis generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. It is the proverbial Nazi bar. I’m glad more publications are talking about this. There are a number of us nobodies out here talking about it and it’s not making a dent in the business or convincing extremely great writers to leave the platform. Even Jewish writers like Robert R...
Saturday Morning Coffee
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I hope you enjoy the links. 🙂 Freddie Harrison • Sketch Blog Here are five ways we’ve been using the MCP server internally at Sketch. We’ve included prompts we’ve tried for you to copy and adapt for your own use cases. We’re Claude Code fans here — so that’s what our examples use and what we’ve tested with — but you can use any MCP-compatible client. I have a couple friends who used to work on Sketch and I hope they’re proud of everything they d...
ICE is full of murdering thugs
Seeing this right after a friend died is a real gut punch. So many folks just don’t know they’re gone. 😔
Saturday Morning Coffee
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Well the day of sleet we got on Sunday really left us in a mess. We had somewhere between 8-10in of sleet on the ground, which turned into a crust of ice overnight. Temperatures have been frigid so that ice continues to thicken. Breaking it out is a pain so I hired someone with a skid steer and he did a great job clearing off our driveway. The gentleman who did the work is just a random dude helping out his neighbors. Absolutely worth the $50. Our...
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