Events

I just read the transcript from Thursday's hearing before US District Judge April Perry, in which acting US Attorney Andrew Boutros dismissed charges against the defendants with prejudice after admitting his office committed prosecutorial misconduct in the grand jury proceedings against the six last October.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will resign according to what I can only imagine to be gleeful "sources in the intelligence community," officially because of her husband's cancer diagnosis. Her ties to Russia have been well-known for years. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin must be furious.

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.