Of course there were bugs

Yesterday's Daily Parker release (really the Inner Drive Journal) of course had a couple of bugs, which I am now fixing. Since I 100% dogfood this application, it really doesn't take long to find usability issues. Last night I found six, one of which took under a minute to fix (two lines of code had to move). I also decided to add a couple of small features, not because of usability bugs per se, but because they're not hard to add and they would really enhance the app. So look for a new release tomorrow morning, or even later today if things move quickly.

The real headache is that the new place search logic required re-indexing all 15 million documents in the Inner Drive Gazetteer. After 17 hours, 4.9 million index records are done. I can't wait to see my Cosmos DB bill this month...

Meanwhile, out in the rest of the world:

• An OAFPOTUS-appointed Federal judge ordered the reinstatement of press credentials to three news outlets the OAFPOTUS kicked out of the White House.
• The news outlets are back in cour this morning after the White House continued to block them. Sadly, because it's this bunch of clowns, it's hard to say whether this is incompetence or malice, but then again, we passed through Hanlon's Razor 18 months ago.
• Brian Beutler says "the [plutocratic] revolution has been televised, and it's about to fail," which is what happens when you choose a stupid and corrupt failed real estate developer who's also a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist as your figurehead.
• Speaking of people really bad at their jobs: former US Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who served as a US military officer, agrees with just about everyone on my side of the aisle that Defense Secretary "Pete Hegseth deserves to be impeached."
• MS Now reports that the OAFPOTUS wants to rename Ford's Theater after himself, which defies parody. We are living in the dumbest timeline.
• Paul Krugman compares the OAFPOTUS's speech yesterday to the UN General Assembly with the Woody Allen film Bananas, and I can't say he's wrong.
• Jeff Maurer argues (and I agree) that the real center of the Democratic Party is...the real center, and therefore our 2028 nominee is most likely to be pretty boring.
• Francis Fukuyama has changed his mind about AI, becoming neither an accelerationist nor a doomer, but edging closer to the latter.
• OpenAI's GPT-6 model spontaneously decrypted an Enigma message from 1941 that had defied human attempts to solve it. By "sponaneously" I mean the model just decided on that specific message after getting a general instruction to analyze a cache of still-undecrypted German WWII codes.
• A research team at Stanford Medicine has determined that our brain is really two distinct organs, which may open up completely new avenues of research into diseases like ALS.

Finally, a short strip of Bryn Mawr Avenue about 2 kilometers from me got a historic landmark dsignation yesterday, which will protect several threatened buildings for now. The area was already on the National Register of Historic Places, though that designation doesn't confer any protections against overeager developers the way the Chicago designation does. It's a pretty segment, made more attractive by the brand new El station that opened a year ago.