Barcelona won the treble, their second in history, outlasting a resilient Juventus side in Berlin. Busquets won praise for his defensive positioning, basically, which is like the on-call engineer winning the company award: finally, someone values prevention. The MSN attacking revolution has its trophy now. Every academy and every manager is about to copy it. Success is the most-forked repo.
E3 delivered the loudest crowd reaction in gaming history: Final Fantasy VII Remake. Announced. Real. My childhood, re-rendered. Also Fallout 4 went from announcement to “November this year” (a marketing miracle in an industry of eternal pre-orders), and Xbox announced backward compatibility, old games on new consoles, the feature “nobody” asked for except literally everyone.
The grimmer headline: the OPM breach, the US government’s HR agency, exposed security-clearance files on millions of federal workers. The deepest personal data the government holds, exfiltrated. After Sony, after this: assume breach. Design for it. The Proverbs file’s security section is now its longest chapter.
TIL: Apple announced Swift is going open source this fall (WWDC news). The language they surprise-shipped last June is becoming everyone’s. Watching a language grow up in real time is the good stuff.