A prayer for Minneapolis

Another week, another murder in Minneapolis by ICE agents after the murder of Renee Good. Today at Mass, one of our songs had a verse that was especially appropriate for the situation in Minneapolis and our country:

In the midst of persecution, Lord, stand by me

When my enemies surround me, Lord, stand by me

When the tyrant wields his terror and the armies wage their might

When the darkness overwhelms me, Lord, stand by me

Title: Stand By Me, words and music Copyright 2001 Tom Kendzia, published by Oregon Catholic Press (lyrics) (performance)

MyStatusTool development update

Late last year, I did some experiments with MyStatusTool to test use of async function calls to eliminate some startup errors I was seeing. Next, I did some tests of my ability to follow WordPress.com feeds. Eventually, I saw that I was not properly parsing the RSS server domain and path from the feeds. My prior setup had been for feeds using a separate rssCloud server for notification. The WordPress.com feeds use each WordPress site as the cloud server, so there is variation in the server URL. Now that has been worked out, my next step is update my startup logic to read the feeds, then parse the RSS server domain and path information. I may need to do more experiments with async programming again to get these steps to execute in a synchronous manner. See example installs here and here!