Year: 2015

Scrapple 3. A shorter scrapple post today. Not sure why but perhaps I’m too busy to be thinking of little nuggets of scrapple lately. I find myself using the default Twitter clients. Partly because they’ve put a chokehold on what developers are able to do with their APIs. You win Twitter. For now. Things work…

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Marco Arment: If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that I agree with him. And I also don’t pretend to know the answers. Here…

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Last week I warned that we’d be hearing more about how Flipboard pulled off their new web app and how some would agree and disagree with how they went about it. Well, my boy Faruk Ateş weighed in:  Flipboard is a product focused heavily around text-based content, which is why it’s so deeply regretting that…

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Enrique Dans, in a bit on Medium about Feedly, on RSS: I simply cannot understand why RSS readers are not used by everybody. I think that any user, from the professional to the casual, can benefit from having a series of information sources, pages, and alerts set up in an orderly manner in a feeds…

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Julie Zhou, on Medium, lists out her manager’s manifesto: 5) Figure out which people rely on you and how you can help them be self-sufficient. You may feel important having a monopoly on salmon provisions, but if the whole village learns how to fish, it‘ll free you up to do something else. Like figuring out…

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Michael Johnston for the Flipboard Engineering blog: Most modern mobile devices have hardware-accelerated canvas, so why couldn’t we take advantage of this? HTML5 games certainly do. But could we really develop an application user interface in canvas? Expect to read a lot about this over the next several months as the pros and cons are…

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Jason Snell is on a roll this week blogging about Photos for OS X. This latest post answers people’s questions. I recommend looking through them if you’re interested in how this is going to play out.

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This scrapple thing is catching on. Fellow Coalworker Joe Casabona just published his first edition of scrapple. I liked his last bit: I’ve been using Unmark for bookmarks lately. You should give it a try. I really dig it. Thanks for that Joe. I hope to see more bloggers pick up the scrapple baton. It…

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My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, on Medium: I’m just going to come out and say it: hashtags are not ownable. Period. He’s right. Anyone at any time can post anything they’d like to your hashtag. So, simply be mindful of that if you try to use hashtags as part of your marketing campaigns.

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So, Apple may be looking into building a car. With approaching 200 billion in cash, and yesterday CEO Tim Cook saying that their biggest asset is innovation, and that they plan to continue to invest very heavily into R&D, I would say you can bet that Apple is “looking into” a wide variety of possibilities. Some…

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Snell, of Six Colors, writing for TidBITS on the feature in Photos for OS X Beta that allows you to store your original photos and videos in iCloud and only keeping smaller versions locally on your Macintosh to save space: It remains to be seen exactly how Photos determines whether you have enough space, and…

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Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change. And the company founder’s antics aside, this will end up being a good thing for the area.

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On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.

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My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers talk about making specs and handing them over to engineering. The process of “making specs“ implies that there is no conversation with your…

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The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d be nice if I could password protect a notebook. A way to have a notebook be a bit extra secure. Holding the original…

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Om Malik did a short email interview with Charles Young of Paperholm; which I linked to just a day or so ago.

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Helena Price on Medium: What if we made more active decisions about how we spent our Internet time? If we weren’t bogged down maintaining our inboxes and social networks, who would we set out to meet or get to know better? If we weren’t so busy clicking links or browsing photos in our feeds, what…

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What an incredible photo mosaic of Comet C/2014Q2 Lovejoy! I also recommend doing some further research on Lovejoy himself and the other comets he discovered. /via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.

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Charles Young, no relation to the West Wing’s own Charlie Young I presume, is building a paper city one daily model at a time.

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I’ve reached my capacity on Picturelife.* I want to rent more space but I’m hesitant because every other company that has attempted what Picturelife is doing has failed or been acquired and scuttled. Some of the other options I’ve looked at is Dropbox, Box, Amazon, and Flickr.  Both Dropbox and Box have options for unlimited space (or,…

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For good reason! Bill Gates shows us an amazing machine that turns feces into drinkable water. And that is not all. The by-products of this process, in addition to the water, are power and ash that can be used. Here’s Bill: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into…

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Reddit continues to be the best place to find public interviews with interesting people. Elon Musk did an AMA yesterday — fascinating stuff. Here is part of his answer to how he has managed to learn so much so quickly. One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic…

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Marco Arment had a rough day. He published a thoughtful, yet quick, post about Apple’s software quality. Most of us that follow and use Apple products nodded our heads in agreement as we read his post and moved onto the next one in our feed readers. Everyone who knows anything about Apple software knows that…

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You can put this app in the “I’ll likely never, ever use it” category but man does this look very well done. /via Mark Christian/Mike Davidson on Twitter.

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