Events

Singer, actor, philanthropist, and all-around great person Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. She will truly be missed.

The European Union's Copernicus Project has put out this not-at-all-alarming graph:

Less than two weeks after I pass through London at the start of my upcoming holiday, The Guardian has chosen this moment to freak out about US-style tipping in the UK:

Book 3 in the John Dies at the End series

I've spent the morning on the Weather Now tasks generated by last month's architecture review and this past week's component updates. It looks like I'll get the next Weather Now release out on Wednesday, depending on how much the weather distracts me.

Cassie and I just finished a 90-minute walk covering almost 9 km, so I am about to take a shower while she starts what I expect will be a 15-hour nap. I have a couple of other things to do before a business function this evening, but none of those things involves blogging.

Last night I finished watching Le Bureau des Légendes, the brilliant French spy thriller that lasted for five seasons from 2015 to 2020. The last two episodes of the series were directed by noted French director Jacques Audiard, and to say that represented a departure from the tone and tenor of the preceding 48 episodes does not do justice to the word "departure."

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had taken advantage of Anthropic's promotional pricing to have Claude Fable 5 analyze all the Inner Drive applications for performance and robustness. That has led to a series of software releases built off the recommendations that Claude made, starting with this app on July 30th, a new IDEA™ release yesterday, and a pretty significant update to the Inner Drive Gazetteer today.

This morning I released a new version of Inner Drive Extensible Architecture™—the IDEA™—that supports the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). This means that apps using the IDEA™ can let users pick time zones using their own language.