Reverse Engineer. Blogger.
Satya Nadella in a video interview on YouTube at GeekWire Summit:
By the way, all of these efforts didn’t started three-and-a-half years ago. It was Bill [Gates] who started MSR and Steve [Ballmer] who started our cloud push.
A sprawling, candid interview with someone who may end up being Microsoft’s best CEO. I love that he doesn’t take sole credit for Microsoft’s most recent successes. Only a few hundred views on Youtube.
Testing the latest build of Micro.blog’s Mac app beta, which is now compatible with macOS Sierra, thanks to Manton for listening to the community.
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Cute. Howard seems to be having a ton of fun with this, which I think is great given the circumstances he walked into. I also think the name is great. It is what Jabba calls Han. SOLO.
What if I told you there are even ways to connect with like minded people in person? Whether it’s quickly learning something for the first time, discussions of discoveries, pulling all nighters to breath life into an idea or even devoting yourself to achieving mastery! We can do them together.
Online resources, like Hinterlang spells out, are amazing and one can learn a lot from them. However, there is still no substitute for face-to-face meet ups, workshops, etc. You’ve read about this time and time again here on my blog. I think developers should go to meet ups.
Speaking of which. If you’re in my area, and you care about the intersection of technology, business, the arts, you may want to join NEPA Tech. I hear big things are in store for that group in the coming months.
Listening to Manton’s 70th episode of Timetable. I like the “out and about” feel of it. It is similar to what I like to record for my audio bits.
The LIGO/Virgo announcement earlier this year will end up proving to be a watershed moment in astrophysics. I knew it was big, but I don’t think I realized how far reaching this will end up being. Very exciting.
In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes.
She goes on to show tons of details on their latest redesign. There are several bits I found interesting such as their attention to accessibility, how they handle fall backs for IE11, and how they made responsive illustrations.
/via Brad Frost.
Mac users can use the native Micro.blog for Mac app. It’s a free download and supports most of the same features as the iOS version.
You can see a short video of it on Manton’s blog. You’ll even notice a rather handsome avatar make an appearance.
Unfortunately I cannot give this a spin yet since I haven’t upgraded my Mac to High Sierra. And it doesn’t appear I’ll be doing so for at least a month or two since I haven’t seen any updates from Apple on that front. High Sierra just seems far too unstable to switch to on my main work computer at the moment.
Colin Walker, though, seems to like this new app:
Manton has repeatedly said that this is just a version 1.0 app but, I have to say, it’s been rock solid. Browsing, replying and posting to the blog have all been a breeze and I’ve not had a single issue or error.
Ryan Beene for The Seattle Times:
What they’ve found is that while the public may most fear a marauding vehicle without a driver behind the wheel, the reality is that the vehicles are overly cautious. They creep out from stop signs after coming to a complete stop and mostly obey the letter of the law — unlike humans.
So bots drive too well. Go figure.
Humans are terrible drivers. This middle phase of some driverless and some human drivers on the road can’t end soon enough.
European Southern Observatory:
ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae — disperse heavy elements such as gold and platinum throughout the Universe. This discovery, published in several papers in the journal Nature and elsewhere, also provides the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.
Just two neutron stars makin’ it rain.
What an incredible observation. Well done ESO.
Update: Here is the timelapse.
IBEROSTAR Playa Mita, Mexico – September 2017
Finished Star Wars: Aftermath – Empires End. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – My immediate reaction isn’t good. I liked the first two but expected so much more from this one.
iOS 11.1 Beta 2 doesn’t seem to be identifying people in photos. But the OS has no indication of this process that I know of.
I’ve spent most of the day writing JavaScript (fun!) which was an opportunity to try out ES 2018, the MDN docs, and laugh while reading Eevee’s take on the latest JavaScript spec updates.
The Giving Tree Wellness Center, Penn Avenue, Scranton, Pa – September 2017
In September Mark Keith and I poked our heads into this brand-new business in Downtown Scranton. They have a nice spot (and sensory deprivation chambers).