Search results for: “digg”
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E18: Ground Digger Wasp
http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e18.mp3 In late-July I stumbled upon a large mound of sand at a construction site that had several large wasps digging holes. I had never seen a wasp that large in my life. Turn your volume up for the tail end of this audio bit. Links Video: Ground Digger Wasps in Australia. Look a bit narrower…
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Digging Crowd Favorite
Joe Casabona, fellow Coalworker, recently joined the Crowd Favorite team. I’ve “known” Alex King, the founder of Crowd Favorite, for many, many years. But since Joe joined Coalwork I’ve been digging around their stuff more. I’m digging what I’m seeing. I think Plain will begin using a few of their products and solutions for upcoming projects.
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A different perspective on Digg
Om Malik has a different way to look at the success and failure of Digg: If the yardstick of success is making money for the founders, employees and the investors, then Digg will go down in the annals of web history as a colossal failure. However, if your yardstick of success is defined by a…
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Why I’m not blocking the DiggBar, yet
If you haven’t heard of the DiggBar, and the hoopla it has created over the last week or so, allow me to fill you in. The DiggBar is a new feature of Digg.com, a social news Web site, that puts a tool bar of sorts on top of any page on the Web. This bar…
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Giving away Viddler tshirts at the DiggNation Meetup
We were able to give away a fair amount of Viddler tshirts, in only a few minutes, at the DiggNation Meetup in Brooklyn, New York to those waiting in line for the live taping of DiggNation. We did have one stipulation, however, that you must wear the Viddler tshirt right now in order to get…
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Taping DiggNation
Live taping of DiggNation in Brooklyn, NY. Supposedly 2,000 people! This was shot from the VIP section, which was pretty close, while I felt sorry for the really big fans of DiggNation being squashed all the way into the back of Studio B.
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My appearance on This Week in WordPress #285
My thanks to Nathan Wrigley for having me as a guest on This Week in WordPress #285. (YouTube/Apple Podcasts) Show notes There are a few links on the WP Builds website for this episode but I thought I’d share some of the links I mentioned in the episode as well. It was a lot of…
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What I saw somewhat recently #100: March 23, 2023
This is it. The final WIS link list post. This series of posts has spanned 10 years. I’m happy that I published 99 lists of links and that thousands of people have clicked on them to enjoy the interesting, creative, useful, and fun webpages I stumbled upon over the last decade. I’m saddened, however, that…
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What I saw somewhat recently #96: September 9, 2022
The end of a dry, busy summer Three months is a long time to go, even for me, without publishing a post in this series of links. But this summer has been extraordinarily busy at work – in a way that consumed a lot of my creative and just overall energies. But of course, I’ve…
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As the snow melts and freezes and melts and freezes the deer have a tough time digging for food. So each February that I am able, I like to put out some corn for them. We now have four regular visitors at about 3am.
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Learning SwiftUI is tough because it is still early days
Back in early October I quipped that I was opening Xcode to start a new project. I have no qualms in telling you that the project was going to be a Mac app for Unmark. I was going to build the app for a variety of reasons but the main one was to learn SwiftUI.…
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Cicada Killer – July 2019
Cicada Killer – July 2019 For the last three years I’ve hiked 3 miles to the nesting grounds of these giant wasps. Amazing insects. (Listen to audio from 2017)
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Butterfly – July 2019
Butterfly – July 2019 Went for a hike last night to see the digger wasps again. The fields were full of butterflies.
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Frank Meeuwsen on What he doesn’t know
Fellow Dutchman Frank Meeuwsen, replying to my carpenter illustration in my What I don’t know post (translated by Google Translate): I immediately thought of a conversation I had with the electrician a few minutes before. He explained to me how the power from the meter cupboard is distributed throughout the house and how overload and…
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Whalebird – A Mastodon client for Mac, Linux, and Windows
h3poteto, the username of a software engineer from Japan that only goes by the name* of the fictional character Akira Fukushima online: Recently I started Mastodon. I can find some nice client applications in iOS and Android, but I could not find client for desktop application. The above from a post on Medium from March…
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What I saw this week #52: July 13, 2018
More accurately, what I’ve seen somewhat lately. I’ve been off my blogging game lately as I’m making the switch from Mac to Windows. So I’m busy moving photo libraries, installing apps and services, configuring options, and learning keyboard shortcuts. Here are a few things I wish I had more time to write about, but do…
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Digging Connecticut.
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The Quincy Jones interview
Quincy Jones: What would account for the songs being less good than they used to be? The mentality of the people making the music. Producers now are ignoring all the musical principles of the previous generations. It’s a joke. That’s not the way it works: You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you…
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A unique color for every address in the world
A recent, yet-to-be-announced client project had me designing a mobile app interface that dealt a lot with showing locations and events that are happening at certain locations (how is that for vague? sorry). While I utilized the brand’s colors to represent certain sections of the app I wanted the app to have tons of colors…
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What I saw this week #29: January 20, 2017
Be sure to peruse the archive of this series of posts. Best selfie ever? – Definitely in the running. Joe Robinet – I’ve been digging Joe’s stuff on YouTube. Behind-the-scenes of Rogue One – Photos by Alex Benetel. Zuckerberg’s team – A team of a dozen people help Mark Zuckerberg capture his day for his Facebook…
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What I saw this week #28: January 13, 2017
Video: What Comes Next is the Future – A documentary-style look back at the evolution of the web, and its underlying technologies that make it up, using interviews with those who have crafted and curated those technologies. Advanced Symbols in Sketch – A great tutorial by Matt D. Smith. Atom Dash – Via Lauren Pittenger…
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Digging Session Buddy for Chrome.
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what3words
what3words describes itself as "the simplest way to communicate location". Essentially, the service creates a three word phrase for every 9-square-meter point on the earth. I came across this via Joon Ian Wong’s Quartz piece regarding Mongolia’s upcoming adoption of this system since many of its people do not have a mailing address: Mongol Post…
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How I converted from Custom Post Types to Post Formats
It wasn’t too ugly. But it wasn’t exactly a cool swim either. I thought I would jot down why and how I moved from using a Custom Post Type for each type of post that I publish here — status, photo, audio, and normal post — to Post Formats. First, why move to Post Formats from Custom Post…
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Use what works, play with the new
I had Unmark’d Kyle Slattery’s post on his company site (which I think is rather good looking; here is why) regarding why his company uses Ruby on Rails. It is a good post. Notice this bit: It’s easy to get caught up in the newest trend, and there are lots of great technologies being developed, but…
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Photo stats and observations
As I’ve been moving my photos from Picturelife into Photos for OS X over the passed two weeks I’ve run across some interesting observations so I thought I’d jot them down.  Here are some statistics in no particular order: We take a lot of photos in October, August, and June. This is…
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Walking to lunch
Last week a few of us walked to Ale Mary’s — which I recommend if you haven’t tried it yet — and I took my GoPro along. I’m digging these.
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Effortless publishing
Manton Reece, writing on his blog, about quick blogging workflows: I believe there are two important facets to microblogging. The first is the timeline experience: a reverse-chronological list of posts from your friends, like you see on Twitter. The second is that posting should be effortless: if there’s less friction between your idea and publishing…
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Finding friends on Twitter
Today I used Twitter’s Find Friends feature that connects to Gmail to get a list of your contacts and subsequently searches Twitter for them. I have just over 2,550 contacts in my address book. Many are duplicates, due to how Gmail handles adding these addresses to your contact list. But, a cursory glance at the…
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Which type of glass to use for which type of beer?
Digg has a roundup of beer glass types and which brews to drink with them. Notice, 8 out of 10 glasses are recommended for IPA. IPA tastes great in anything.
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Hashtag ShareRSS
Marco Arment’s comment on his blog a few days ago got me thinking… we should be doing a better job to promote RSS. So here is one way to try doing it. My RSS feed is http://cdevroe.com/feed To subscribe to my RSS feed you need an RSS reader. There a tons of these for every…
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Litely
Cole Rise, whom I mentioned in What I saw this week #7, and Sam Soffes have collaborated on a great app called Litely. Litely is an app for editing photos using Rise’s Litely photo presets. I’ve been using it for a bit and I’m really digging some of the interactions and, obviously, the presets are…
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The blog isn’t dead. It is just sleeping.
Jason Kottke, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab: The design metaphor at the heart of the blog format is on the wane as well. Ina piece at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal says that the reverse-chronological stream (a.k.a. The Stream, a.k.a. The River of News) is on its way out. Snapchat, with its ephemeral media, is an obvious…
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Things I saw this week #2: August 30, 2013
This has been a busy week. We’ve just turned on the sales engine at Barley and it has been interesting to go out and talk to potential new customers, resellers, and partners. Even with this busy week, though, I managed to find some interesting things on the web. Here are some of them. I’m on…
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What I saw this week #1: August 23, 2013
Inspired by Om Malik’s What I’m Reading Today and Heather B. Armstrong’s Stuff I Found While Looking Around comes my own series of posts; What I saw this week. Video: CarChat with Don Dethlefsen of The WerkShop about the 1970 BMW 3.0si Estate Wagon – If I ever have the resources to restore an old…
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Gary Vaynerchuk’s 19 people you should follow on Twitter list
My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your’s truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me: his new project is something that I think has the real chance of blowing up in 2014. Keep an eye on him. I think he’s a great follow and someone who’s…
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WordPress Post formats Admin UI
WordPress 3.1 exhibited an underlying feature that didn’t reveal itself in the UI in much of any way. Post formats. Post formats are sort of like categories of posts but are used to "handle" different post types in different ways. You can [read more about Post formats over on the WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post\_Formats). [Crowd Favorite](http://crowdfavorite.com/) has…
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Web Actions
Tantek elikshares his thoughts on Web Actions for pages on the web. You may have already seen similar things over the years like share, digg, like, 1 and follow buttons. Now Tantek suggests that we call them all Web Actions and to follow a certain recipe when creating these services. A good read and a…
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Standing up for an entire week
No, I did not embark on some Houdini-style test of my endurance – I tried standing at my desk for an entire week. Overall it was pretty nice but I’m back to sitting down this week. I thought I’d share my experience and so I jotted down notes every day while I stood. Day one:…
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Keep up with the filming of The Hobbit
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The Hobbit: Part 1 is coming in 2012 but it is being filmed right now. How can you keep up with the news? Here are a few resources I’ve tucked away to check in on now and then. The Hobbit Blog – Official blog The Hobbit on Facebook – Official Facebook page…
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Explore the side streets
ATLANTIC CITY In any tourist-driven areas the side streets are where the best places are. Where the cabbies, cooks, and old timers hang out. Eliza and I are in Atlantic City for a short getaway (she surprised me) and tonight we went to The Irish Pub, and I’m very glad we did. The Irish Pub…
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The misguided Twitter guide for the new tweeter
So, you’re new to Twitter. Welcome! You’re about to tweet your first tweet – but there are some things you need to know first. Some rules to live by if you will. @cdevroe and @elizard, Twitter experts with over 20,000 tweets between them, have created the following rules which are inarguably true and beyond contestation.…
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Interview with GitHub team member Scott Chacon
I was digging through this interview of GitHub developer Scott Chacon trying to find the most quoatable portion to paste here in hopes that you’d follow the link to the interview to read it. The fact is, though, the entire interview is dripping with awesome. Read it. /via Simon Willison.
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Revision3 offers Conan a job/stake in the company
Revision3, the Internet video network that brought you DIGG Nation, The Totally Rad Show, Scam School, and other very popular video podcasts, is offering Conan O’Brien a spot on their network. What’s more they are offering a fair stake in the company itself to Conan if he decided to make the jump. Jim Louderback, the…
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A LessConf wrap up post by @Yardboy
Another nice post about LessConf, this time by @Yardboy, and he gives his general thoughts about each presentation and the conference as a whole. Here is what he wrote about Yours Truly: "Colin Devroe from Viddler seemd to have a lot of fun with his talk. Steve and Allan issued a series of challenges across…