This week we got a small update for tvOS and the third betas for for the .3 updates. From previous years' release dates, I would expect the RC next week with a release the week after? Since this not a feature laden update, it might go directly to release.

"This Time Last Week"

I am going off-topic for a moment. Please bear with me.

This time last week, while I was putting together this news summary, I was utterly distracted by a natural disaster unfolding in a place we used to call home. You have probably heard that the Los Angeles area was hit hard by two major and several smaller wildfires. This is very personal to me, since we lived in Altadena from 2010 to 2015. Altadena has been devastated by the Eaton fire. The house we used to own and live in is one of the several thousand that were lost.

We might have dodged this particular bullet. (Can you even say 'dodged' when you left nine years ago?) However, we still have many friends in the area who have lost their home or are otherwise affected. While pouring over the footage trying to determine which areas, restaurants, and stores were lost to fire, we tried to imagine how it would feel to fear about your home with everything in it. How would it feel when you learned for certain it was gone? Just imagining it was terrifying.

Our wonderful friends, Jessica and Jeff, aren't merely imagining any more. Their house, in which we have spent countless days and evenings sharing good food and drinks, talking and laughing while watching movies and playing board games, has burnt down. Jeff has shared some of their experiences:

Jess and Jeff have a GoFundMe to help them through the difficult times ahead.

There are at least two members of the MacAdmin community that have also lost their homes to these fires and they also have GoFundMe pages. Jeff and Adam actually met at the same hotel during the evacuation!

If you are able, please consider supporting these families as they rebuild what they have lost. I will be splitting up the sponsor income for this month among them and other local charities. Thank you!

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