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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A repairable iPhone?
Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason why they can’t do it; it really is what they’ve decided to produce. It does raise the question: Why isn’t more of our technology easy to fix? … People are going to start thinking about smartphones as longer-term investments, especially as prices have gone up for these phones.” Thi...
Work Note: Stream for Mac
This morning I managed to get back to Grit to work on Stream for Mac after a four week hiatus. I’ve been thinking about what I wanted and needed to do for a couple weeks now. The idea is to finish off my 1.0 release, which will most likely be labeled as 1.7.0 so I can sync it with the new release of Stream for iOS — which I also need to work on. 😁 I managed to get quite a few things buttoned up. If you logged a bug, thank you. I may not have fixed your bug or feature requests. At the end of a d...
Retired Navy Commander on the rot that is the Trump Administration
Dave Rogers’ Nice Marmot Republicans, “conservatives,” always, always like to make a big show of “supporting the troops.” It’s bullshit. It’s performative bullshit by people who never served anyone but themselves. Republicans and conservatives and the MAGA crowd are unacquainted with the notion of honor. It’s absent from their lives. You reap what you sow. I know people don’t like comparisons with Nazi Germany, but you should study how Hitler and...
Saturday Morning Coffee
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Manton Reece I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other data from apps. In the same way that creating an account on Micro.blog automatically gives you a fediverse handle, I wanted people to be able to create a Micro.blog account and have everything they needed to sign into Bluesky. This is extremely cool. Manton c...
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Today marks 39 years my lovely bride has put up with me. I’m very grateful and love her more now than ever. ❤️
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