Events

I've once again released a version of this application, the third in as many days, because the previous two releases didn't quite fix a really irritating problem loading the Edit page. This didn't affect anyone but me, fortunately. But I could only create and edit entries by running the app in my development environment, which I can't really take with me anywhere.

Chief Justice of the US John Roberts (R) must have decided he's OK being second only to Roger Taney in presiding over a Supreme Court not just athwart history, but obviously on the wrong side of it. Taney had Dred Scott and Prigg; Roberts already had Citizens United and Heller, and now has Slaughter and too many others to name.

The National Weather Service issued a rare Extreme Heat Warning for Chicago this morning:

I've just released a new version of the Daily Parker. The most compelling new features are all under the hood; specifically, there are a lot of performance tweaks and data optimizations in this version.

This morning, the Republicans on the US Supreme Court overturned a 90-year precedent that had prevented the president from firing civil servants from nonpartisan agencies (except, wouldn't you know, the Federal Reserve):

This is what confronted us Friday evening, when we decided we really liked the cabin: