Events

Once again, I'd like to point out that I have one of the best views in Chicago:

I had a bunch of errands to run today, including a trip down to City Hall to change my city car registration. (Yes, you have to do that in person if you're getting a parking zone added.) However, long experience with Butters tells me I can't really leave her alone for more than a few minutes. "Alone" in this case means "without human supervision," as even with Cassie present, Butters does a passable impression of an air-raid siren if she discovers she is without human company. I assume that keeping her...

It took me 3 hours to fix a bug in the way Weather Now finds weather lists for logged-in users. Simply put, the app could read private weather lists except when trying to edit them, which was kind of annoying. Even Claude had some trouble figuring this one out.

Let's start our round-up of the day's news with a note from Francis Fukuyama, leading with "It was both painful and humiliating to watch media coverage of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing" and getting more depressing from there. Yes, and:

I've closed three big Jira cards on Weather Now in the last three days, two of them new features. The bug fix was a pretty straightforward vibe coding, using Claude Sonata 4.6 iteratively to fix a bug. Basically, that means I had a conversation with it, watched it make changes to the code, then I tested the code and gave it feedback.

Despite Butters peeing on my floor due to the terror of living through a thunderstorm this morning, even while Cassie thought nothing of it and probably wondered why Butters was so anxious, Butters is kind of cute. She has a propensity to engineer sleeping spaces, for example. On Saturday, no one could possibly find her:

Someone has discovered a way to get around Bitlocker encryption, and somehow that wasn't the worst thing I read this morning:

A stationary front settled over the Chicago area overnight, drifting north through my area around 8am and drifting back south around 2pm. As those overlapped almost perfectly with when I walked the dogs today, I got to be incorrectly dressed twice. When I walked the girls at 8am, the temperature was drifting down from 20°C to 15°C; just now it vaulted from 15°C to 28°C (with a heat index over 30°C):

Cassie, Butters, and I took a 40-minute walk to the lake and back in a 28°C heat index an hour ago, and both of them are passed out on various surfaces. Good, especially in Butters' case. (As I typed this, Cassie came over to investigate.)

Look who's come to visit: