Year: 2018
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Reid Hoffman on Microsoft
Reid Hoffman: Under Satya Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft has re-invigorated itself with an exploratory, future-oriented, and developer-focused mindset.
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Amazon needs to rebuild the Good Reads apps from the ground up. They are terrible.
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Microsoft buys GitHub
Satya Nadella: More than 28 million developers already collaborate on GitHub, and it is home to more than 85 million code repositories used by people in nearly every country. From the largest corporations to the smallest startups, GitHub is the destination for developers to learn, share and work together to create software. It’s a destination…
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The Dagobah cave in realtime
Todd Vaziri: Ever since I was a kid, I wondered what the scene might have looked like in real time, and how the scene, without slow-motion, would play differently to the audience. So I created it. I don’t write enough about Star Wars on my blog. For that I’m sorry. But this was too fun…
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I forgot to charge my moreFit band so I can definitively say that a single charge can last at least two weeks, likely much more, with 24/7 usage. Impressive. Charging it today, however.
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Starting to find my groove ordering things from Amazon.
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Corporate typefaces are all the rage
This isn’t a recent phenomena. Corporations have been creating their own typefaces since the beginning of type. But, lately, I’ve noticed more and more that they are using it in their marketing efforts or because the scale of these corporations make it cost prohibitive not to make their own typeface. Let me pull these two…
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Om Malik on Google Photos vs Apple Photos
I’ve finally found some time this morning to read Om Malik’s post on Google Photos vs Apple Photos – a post that has been sitting in my Unmark queue since the day he published it. Om Malik: The improvements in Google Photos and lack of magic in Apple Photos sometimes make me wonder if I…
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Cavs blew it. Terrible coaching in those last 5 seconds. Everyone on the team should have known what to do if the shot was made, missed, etc. One dunk could have taken Game 1.
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Observations on moreFit Slim Fitness Tracker
After switching to Android late last year and subsequently giving Eliza my Apple Watch Series 3 I have been wanting a simple fitness tracker for playing basketball. In most activities in my life I can keep my phone on me but for basketball I always miss out on tracking those steps. I wanted to purchase…
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I’ve hiked/walked roughly 64-miles in May so far. Aiming for 100 miles in June.
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My first impression of SOLO was not good. I must be missing something. Chewbacca, however, was great as always.
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A few hours of 4-on-4 full court basketball and my hip is in pain. Worth it.
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What superpower am I witnessing here?
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A new brand identity for Jujama
This project was not part of my Design Challenge. However, I thought I’d catalog this project here as I was the primary designer working on it, with help from Jujama’s designer Lindsey Jamieson. Jujama is a nearly 10-year-old business (and my current employer) with global clients and a sophisticated product that services top-tier customers. The…
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Kayaker – May 2018
Kayaker – May 2018 The rivers are up in our area due to so much rainfall. I was glad to see a few people taking advantage of it.
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Dialog – An Android app for Micro.blog
Dialog: At launch, the app makes available a number of features you’ll be familiar with from using the Micro.blog service including being able to view your timeline, your mentions, and the Discover page. Currently, you are unable to create a new post. This is planned for a future release. The current app is very much…
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I’m going to carve out some time this weekend to work on my site a little. I have a list of things I need to fix and clean up.
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John Carmack’s stories of Steve Jobs
John Carmack: I wound up doing several keynotes with Steve, and it was always a crazy fire drill with not enough time to do things right, and generally requiring heroic effort from many people to make it happen at all. I tend to think this was also a calculated part of his method.
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Trees of Longwood Gardens – May 2018
SET: Trees of Longwood Gardens I love that every tree was marked with it’s name. And that nearly 90 year old Bonsai.
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Flowers of Longwood Gardens – May 2018
SET: Flowers of Longwood Gardens I have far too many images to put all into a single set. So I’ll be sharing multiple photosets. Longwood Gardens in early May is an explosion of bloom. I took hundreds of photos of flowers.
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A new badge for Lackawanna Astronomical Society
This post is in a series I call The Grand Brand Design Challenge where I’m trying to flex my muscles in brand design. The Lackawanna Astronomical Society is a club membership for astronomical enthusiasts in the county that I live in. I frequent one of the observatories that they use for their events. When I…
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Observations on Oculus Go
At work we picked up an Oculus Go for research and development purposes. But of course I commandeered the device first to put it through its paces and I think I have a good enough feel for it to write up a few observations. These are, as always, in no particular order. Many of my…
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Wishing Micro.blog’s web site was a PWA so I could use it on Android.
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Oculus Go mini review: Impressive spacial feeling and controls. Mostly built for passive consumption, not for input. Wish the UI was more fluid and less “windowy” and also wish there was an email / calendar app.
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MeToday: May 4, 2018 – May the 4th be with you. Coworking with Ted and Aaron. (see also, and on Flickr) Also enjoyed some Pho.
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MeToday: May 3, 2018 – Go Sixers! (See also and on Flickr)
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Join me for MeToday Week on Flickr from May 7 – 13, 2018
Since Flickr’s acquisition to SmugMug I’ve been thinking about how best to jump back in over there. Back in the old days we posted things called MeTodays (now called selfies) and they were quite a thing. So I think I’ll start there again. Join me for one week of posting MeToday’s to Flickr’s MeToday Group.…
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One year of Micro.blog
Manton Reece: A little over a year ago we started rolling out Micro.blog to Kickstarter backers. So much has happened since then — from new Micro.blog platform features to companion apps like Sunlit and Wavelength — that I wanted to highlight a few milestones. See also, my interview with Manton earlier this year. So much has…
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Rob Shecter on switching from iPhone to Pixel 2
Robb Shecter: Notifications are far better than what I’m used to. They’re are so good, it’s maybe the killer feature for me This may be more of an observation of Android than of the Pixel 2. But I can say that my experience has been similar to Robb’s. I really, really like my Pixel 2 XL…
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Downtown Scranton in Bloom – April 2018
Downtown Scranton in Bloom – April 2018 I went for a quick stroll through the square to make sure I saw the trees in bloom. They shed these flowers very quickly.
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Finishing up a brand identity for local company for my design challenge. This is fun.
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The weekends are when I have a bit more time to slow down and enjoy a sane brew. See also Matt D’avella’s latest video.
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A new brand identity for The Watercolor Gallery
I’m excited to start a brand-new series here on my site — The Grand Brand Design Challenge. I’m equally excited to be starting this series with a personal project I’ve been working on since 2010, The Watercolor Gallery. Read more about The Grand Brand Design Challenge on its own page. I’ve only taken the time…
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On the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug
Thomas Hawk: As someone who joined Flickr back in 2003 pre-Yahoo and has been on the site pretty much daily since then, I thought I’d share my own thoughts on what this acquisition might mean for Flickr users and the larger Flickr community. No one has perspective on Flickr like Thomas. Go read his entire…
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iPhone X sales
John Gruber: Starting to sound like iPhone X sales really are falling short of expectations. He is referring to this report by Bloomberg. There have been other reports and rumors too but this one seems legit. I have no idea if the iPhone X is selling well or not. I have only seen a few…
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Apple’s iPhone 8 (RED) commercial has the best audio mixing I’ve ever heard.
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Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky – March 2018
Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky – March 2018 Heaven Hill Distillery makes many brands of bourbon. Evan Williams, Elijah Craig, Old Fitzgerald, and many more. The rickhouses you see pictured above, taken with a drone at a few hundred feet up, each hold 15,000-20,000 barrels of whiskey. Each building could be valued at $100,000,000 USD. The…
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Hiking Aylesworth, Jermyn, PA – April 2018
Hiking Aylesworth, Jermyn, PA – April 2018 Eliza and I are forcing spring to happen by spending as much time outdoors as we can.
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Repost: Christopher Castro on Minimalism
👉 Christopher Castro: Minimalism is not about deprivation. It comes down to what is adding value to one’s life. For everyone it’s different and it’s always changing. /via Micro.blog Discover
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Elon Musk on meetings
Elon Musk, in a recent memo to Tesla employees: Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get [rid] of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short. Also get rid of frequent meetings,…