Linked List: July 23, 2023

Sunday, 23 July 2023

Jigx 

My thanks to Jigx for sponsoring last week at DF. Jigx empowers anyone with basic development and SQL skills to build native iOS apps. Not squashed websites in a native container. But powerful, pixel-perfect mobile apps that run natively on iOS and iPadOS. Serious well-crafted apps that you can be proud of, and that people love to use.

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Tony Bennett With Tony Bennett 

“Anthony, you look great. How you doing?”

Tony Bennett, the Epitome of New York Cool 

James Barron, writing for The New York Times:

Tony Bennett may have become famous for “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” but his own heart was unquestionably a New Yorker’s. He had that New York cool, decade after decade — the kid from Astoria, Queens, who made a go of it in Manhattan.

“He was Mr. New York,” said the philanthropist Iris Cantor, a friend of Mr. Bennett’s. “That’s who he was.”

The city shaped him, from a hard-knock childhood with only-in-New-York breaks: As a 9-year-old, he sang at the opening of the Triborough Bridge (now the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge). And his fortunes seemed to run in tandem with the city’s: In the 1950s and ‘60s he, and it, were flying high. In the ‘70s, his popularity sank, torpedoed by the rock revolution, and the city’s finances imploded.

Both managed comebacks, Bennett with breathtaking moments when he was 60. And 70. And 80. And 90.

Man, that photo of Bennett painting by himself in Central Park — amazing. Rest in peace.