Author: Colin Devroe
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Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s use of React
Matt Mullenweg: I’m here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year. Automattic will also use whatever we choose for Gutenberg to rewrite Calypso ā
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Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
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Repost: Ike on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
šĀ Ike: So hereās a nice wallpaper for your iPhone X, OWNING the notch. (be sure to follow the link) /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
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Cassini dies tomorrow
Lee Billings for Scientific American: All good things must come to an end. For NASAās Cassini orbiterāits fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planetās sprawling rings and dozens of icy moonsāthe end will come Friday at 7:55 A.M. Eastern time. Thatās when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with
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Jason Washo interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio
Jason Washo, owner of Sho Technology Solutions in downtown Scranton and someone who I’ve worked with on multiple client projects and who has become a friend over the last year, was recently interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio. Here’s just one bit: I work hard, and I will work to bring things to close and I think
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John George shares a solution
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: Iām writing this because I discovered the hard way thatĀ .NET Coreās ādotnet runā command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my website shut down when I exited my shell. Not even the ādisownācommand would dissociate the running service from the user. Posts like this
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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_DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3
_DavidSmith: While Iāll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a āmust carryā device is remarkable. This is why I’m ordering one. As I said I would.
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Dan Kimbrough reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note8
Dan Kimbrough seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. Itās weak and poorly located. Thereās only one speaker for media playback. At the bottom, to the right of the charging port. If youāre left handed, thatās probably where your pinky
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Get your NEPA BlogCon 2017 Tickets
NEPA BlogCon 2017 tickets are available: Attendees can expect presentations and roundtable discussions on branding, content development, podcasting, vlogging, and more. I like the format changeup. (See also) Looks like some friends are presenting as well. Go grab your tickets.
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Repost: Conan O’Brien on Twitter
šĀ Conan O’Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)
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Repost: Maciej CegÅowski re: iPhone X
šĀ Maciej CegÅowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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From a beachfront balcony in Mexico (audio)
Recorded on September 1, 2017 A quick audio bit from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Download Audio File.
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Repost: Daring Fireball on the iPhone X notch
šĀ John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
šĀ Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Canāt believe they didnāt indent it a little bit.
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Add favicons to tabs in Safari
Faviconographer: Faviconographer is a little utility that displays Favicons for the tabs you have opened in the current Safari window, just like almost every other browser does it. Magic. /via Daring Fireball.
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Clinton, PA – July 2017
Clinton, PA – July 2017
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CNN lite
Remarkable find by Jack Baty, CNN Lite: I could not love this more. Can we get all of the news sites to do this? I can’t tell if this is official or not. Either way, bookmarked.
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Python is blowing up
David Robinson, not The Admiral, for Stack Overflow: We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter
šĀ Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.
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Wishes for Appleās Fall Media Event
On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we āknowā just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short
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Mobile blogging goals (audio)
Recorded September 10, 2017 Starting with this audio bit I’m making a few changes. I’m ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren’t really episodes, and keeping track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post. I’m also
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Prompton State Park – July 2017
Prompton State Park – July 2017 Iām just getting to look at some photos I made with the drone in July.
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Jack Baty: āPlease just start a blogā
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I donāt care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or donāt. Implement Webmentions or donāt. Allow comments or donāt. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or donāt. Publish long posts or
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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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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Chris Lovie-Tyler on supporting different building blocks of the IndieWeb
Chris Lovie-Tyler, from the other side of our planet: After reading a handful of Colin Devroeās posts (links at the bottom), Iāve made a few decisions. I’m glad my posts, in which I was just thinking out loud and forming my own opinions on these matters, helped him to form his. I believe everyone should
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without
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Repost: Emily Lakdawalla on Voyager’s 40th Anniversary
šĀ Emily Lakdawalla on The Planetary Society blog: The fact that both Voyager spacecraft are still functioning and doing science, 40 years after their launches, is reason for optimism. We can build robust, adaptable machines capable of surviving unpredicted storms and responding to new discoveries. We can build them, launch them, and stably operate them for