Author: Colin Devroe
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Independent microblogging
Manton Reece re: Medium’s recent announcement that they are laying off 1/3rd of their team: The message is clear. The only web site that you can trust to last and have your interests at heart is the web site with your name on it. He’s right of course. He has said it a million times.…
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Faraday Future
Faraday Future (move playhead to 15 minutes in): Held at the Pavilions at World Market Center in Las Vegas, this event showcases our vision for the future of sustainable, connected mobility. Everything about this presentation is terrible. Aside from the fact that it takes them 30 minutes before they tell us about their product. It…
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In 20 years that which we call AI today will be considered an egregious misnomer. We are comparatively in the melainotype phase of what AI will become.
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What I saw this week #26: December 30, 2016
As we end the year I just wanted to say that I hope those of you that are reading and following the links in these posts find them useful. I’ve been referring to the archive a lot lately to send friends links to things. I try to keep the list light, fun, useful, and all…
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Brain Pickings on Vera Rubin
Maria Popova, on the always amazing Brain Pickings: That Rubin died without her Nobel Prize is nothing short of a travesty, bespeaking the flawed cultural machinery by which such honors are meted out. The number of amazing people turning to dust this year is heartbreaking.
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My blog’s traffic has increased month-over-month since May of this year. December has already passed November. I hope to continue my streak in January. Thanks for all the clicks!
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The exciting digital marketing landscape
Jack Reager of BlackOut Design, regarding the marketing panel we both took part in: While we all share some similarities in terms of our background and types of organizations we’ve been a part of, what was most interesting to me was how we all use our knowledge not only to aid our clients, but at…
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What I saw this week #25: December 23, 2016
Product Hunt’s Best – The best products of 2016 according to Product Hunt. A second industrial revolution – Kevin Kelly makes the case that AI will bring about a second industrial revolution. I really love this perspective. Bootstrap Studio 2.5 – Another update to a fantastic app. Apple focusing on iOS – This is a…
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Aaron Parecki tackles 100 Days of Indieweb
Aaron Parecki: Inspired by the "100 Day Project", I’m setting out on a goal to accomplish 100 days of visible improvements to my IndieWeb projects. The challenge is to ship something visible and post about it for 100 days. Some of the improvements may be super tiny, some of them might be big. I’m super…
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Angelina Simms on the Philly Burbs WordPress group
Angelina Simms published her experience at WordCamp US this year. Note this bit about the Philly Burbs WordPress group: Too often, we are surrounded by people who act like they are concerned about your well-being out of self-interest and totally disappear if you don’t fit into their grand scheme of things. That is definitely not…
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Photos app updated on iCloud
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major is a good word to describe this update. You’ll even notice the ‘url’ for the app is now #photos2 on iCloud.com. The app…
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Attending the Inventor’s Guild at TekRidge
Last night in Jessup at TekRidge, I attended the Inventor’s Guild – another meet up orchestrated by the folks at TecBridge – to meet inventors from the area. The turnout was very good (about 25 or so I’d say) and I’m hoping this event happens again. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know that…
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A guide for starting a business from Stripe
Patrick McKenzie, writing in the awesome Stripe Atlas Guide: We put together this guide to cover many of the details you’ll need for your business in its first year. New to business? Just starting out? Read this guide from Stripe.
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Resilient Web Design
Jeremy Keith: Resilient Web Design is a short book. It’s between sixteen and seventeen megawords long. You could read the whole thing in a couple of hours. Or—because the book has seven chapters—you could take fifteen to twenty minutes out of a day to read one chapter and you’d have read the whole thing done…
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The Future of Cities
I forgot to link to Oscar Boyson’s video in this week’s What I saw this week post. Sorry about that. So now he gets his very own post. Oscar Boyson on Ev’s blog: Jane Jacobs said that “cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by…
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What I saw this week #24: December 16, 2016
It was a busy week. You can catch up on the blog. But here are a few additional things that jumped out at me. New emoji in iOS 10.2 – Some very decent additions. Bartender – A small Mac utility that tidies up your menu bar. Animated Eleven – An animated Stranger Things? Yes please.…
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Attending the NEPA.js meetup
On Tuesday I attended the first monthly NEPA.js meetup at the Scranton Enterprise Center. Mark Keith, a JavaScript developer who somewhat recently moved into the area, was the organizer and TecBridge – who organizes the NEPA Tech meetup group – helped to coordinate, host, organize and provide pizza for this brand-new group. The common refrain…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Being on the \”Ask the Web Marketing Experts\” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal…
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Attending the Philly Burbs WordPress meetup
Do you know the visible signs of a strong community? If you’ve ever attended a Philly Burbs WordPress meetup then you definitely do. Last night my new coworker Tucker Hottes and I drove the 2.5 hours to Pheonixville, PA for this month’s WordPress meetup in the Philly Burbs meetup group. What we saw during the…
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People are switching from Macs to Surface
Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro – especially among professionals – is leading more and more people to…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout…
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Manton Reece on Twitter at 10 years
Manton Reece, like me, recently passed his 10 year anniversary on Twitter. I like this point he makes about how to see Twitter going forward: It used to be impossible to imagine that Twitter could fail. And today, it’s still unlikely to vanish or even change much overnight. But the web will be better if…
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Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
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What I saw this week #23: December 7, 2016
Since this is what-i-saw #23 let’s all watch the top 50 plays by Michael Jordan. The Modest Man Income Reports – Ever wonder what it looks like to run a blog for money? Brock from The Modest Man shares all of the numbers. Great insight. Web advent calendars – Two I’m following this month are…
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E15: Bots, Windows 10 Surface Book review, Twitter Head of Product
Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I’ve made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter’s new Head of Product hire. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3
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Money tree leaves – November 2016
Money tree leaves – November 2016
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Jason Fried on the Apple Store experience
Jason Fried: But in the last few years, the stores have really turned me off. I don’t like stepping into them. They don’t make me feel welcome — rather they make me feel like I need a good reason to be there. Of course I have a reason to be there, but I don’t like the fact…
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Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
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A visual history of Waking Ideas
Danny shows off a visual history of his personal site. As we change, so too our personal web sites.
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Bank tower, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Bank tower, Scranton, PA – November 2016
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The Outline
Joshua Topolsky: What’s most exciting about the platform is that we’re able to break apart and atomize story elements into forms that are sized for what we want to communicate. So our ability to point you toward some interesting data, or key facts about a story, or context about where a story is coming from…
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Along the path – October 2016
Along the path – October 2016
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I wish Instagram and Twitter would make up already. It’s been years. Maybe @kcoleman can facilitate that.
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How Surface changed Microsoft
Jason Ward, writing for Windows Central: Windows devices once perceived as low-end bargain basement devices are now seen as expensive cutting-edge hardware that rivals or exceeds Apple’s long-standing high-end market position. I make this same point in my forthcoming review of the Surface Book and Windows 10. I’m so sorry it is taking so long…
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Off Penn, Downtown Scranton – December 2016
Off Penn, Downtown Scranton – December 2016
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What I saw this week #22: December 2, 2016
SwitchResX – A small preference pane for macOS to help you set more specific resolutions for your displays above and beyond what Apple provides by default. NEPA.js – A new meetup in Scranton, PA for people that want to learn JavaScript. Lion – A gorgeous photo by Sam Scrimshaw. Italy, Boat, Wedding – My friend…