Salt Hank’s is officially OPEN!

Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC

People are interacting at Salt Hank's café, with Hank himself in a red and white cap and shirt engaging with seated patrons.

The Future is Now

The future creeps up on little cat feet. As I was updating the firmware in my front door lock I realized, I don’t carry keys any more. I open my front door with my fingerprint. My car starts with my phone. The only key I need is for my old timey post office box, and I’m sure that will be replaced soon.

No Kings in Petaluma.

Hundreds of protesters march past the US post office in Petaluma California

I have decided to stick with love.” — MLK

This is not a drill.

All is takes is 3.5% of a population engaging in peaceful protest to hold back authoritarian movements.

See you tomorrow.

A depiction of the Statue of Liberty holding a "NO KINGS" banner.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Today is the 20th Anniversary of Steve Jobs’s speech to the Stanford Graduating Class of 2005. He distilled a lifetime’s worth of insight into 15 minutes. It’s brilliant. Better yet, it’s deeply true. Take a moment to watch it today - it’s so worth it.

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I’m really excited that Apple is finally giving iPad its due. Our WWDC recap is live:

So long and thanks for all the RoundRects

I was so sad to hear of Bill Atkinson’s passing. He was one of the original Macintosh team members, creator of Quickdraw, MacPaint, HyperCard, inventor of the RoundRect, and so much of what makes personal computing enjoyable today.

Most of all, he was a friend. I spent many hours interviewing him. You can find the shows at the TWIT website. He was a deep, warm, and talented human and I will miss him.

The first time I met Bill, on the set of Triangulation in the old Brick House studio in 2016. Bill is holding an unopened copy of his masterpiece, Hypercard Bill and Leo on the set of Triangulation with some of Bill's inventions

A signed, unopened box of Hypercard

Photos credit: John Slanina

So long, Bill, and thanks for all the RoundRects.

Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 6: Contrast #mbjune

A person in a costume stands on stilts holding a black-and-white striped umbrella in front of a booth with a seated man and various items displayed on a table.

Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 5: Reflection

#mbjune

Reflection of Calatrava's amazing Opera House in Valencia, Spain. Two modern, futuristic buildings with large, curved glass and metallic surfaces are reflected in a serene body of turquoise water.

Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 4: Nostalgia

A bronze statue of a seated man, Horace Greely, with pigeons perched on it is set against a backdrop of modern glass buildings.

Micro.blog Challenge, Day 3: Shadow

A black and white cat is lounging beside a scratching post in a sunlit room.

Curve Three photographers travel a winding road. #mbjune

ceci n’est pas un arbre

Large, red, 3D letters spelling TREE are placed outdoors among a backdrop of green trees.

#mbjune

🐒📝 “Alas, I monkey dost swing through yon trees, seeking merriment and ripe bananas, huzzah!” ~Sigmo Bana

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I’ve just been informed that this is Towel Day

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Test posting this from Obsidian…

You don’t build strength by avoiding discomfort. You build it by seeking it.

It worked. Using the Micro.publish plugin by Otavio Cordeiro.

I use Obsidian, BTW.

Rosy is watching.

a small black cat sits at the top of the stairs glaring at you

Flipboard’s Mike McCue joins us on Intelligent Machines #818 to talk about his new app, Surf, the super social app. twit.tv/im surf.social

Bucket List ✔️

Over 25 years ago a producer on “The Screen Savers” came to me and said “Do you know a Dick DeBartolo?”

“Uh,” I eloquently replied, “THE Dick DeBartolo, MAD Magazine’s maddest writer? Yeah! Why?”

“He wants to be on the show.”

Thus began a quarter-century love fest with one of my childhood heroes. And a chance to be immortalized in the magazine that taught me everything I know about modern culture. Well, the culture of the 60’s, anyway.

From the upcoming MAD Magazine #42…(It’s a best-of so I guess it’s “bucket list ✔️ed again.”)

Leo and Lisa go MAD!

If only we had made band-aids with pictures of pets on them!

Dick still does his show every week with Chad Johnson over at GizWiz.tv (now over 2000 of them!) and will join me for a special reunion episode Friday 5/23 at 4PM Eastern. I’ll break out all the old GizWiz jingles.

And, of course, every TWiT episode is still available from the archives at twit.tv/dgw. Good times!

DOGE gave Russia access to private government data

A very brave senior DevSecOps architect at the National Labor Relations Board turned whistleblower has evidence that once DOGE infiltrated the NLRB, a 10GB data dump was exfiltrated and, within minutes, a Russian account logged in with DOGE credentials.

The whistleblower was threatened in a note taped to the door of his home featuring drone footage of him. US Cert was informed and has been told to stand down by senior US officials.

The original NPR story that broke the news: www.npr.org/2025/04/1…

The interview with Rachel Maddow:

Security researcher Matt Johansen is following the story: bsky.app/profile/m…

Security breaches don’t get much worse than this. And the cover-up is already under way.