Author: Colin Devroe

Nat Friedman on the Xamarin blog: Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual…

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Crimson treetops mottle the landscape. Beautiful day.

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Dustin Kirkland on his blog: Finally, I imagine some of you — long time Windows and Ubuntu users alike — are still wondering, perhaps, "Why?!?" Having dedicated most of the past two decades of my career to free and open source software, this is an almost surreal endorsement by Microsoft on the importance of open…

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How many Mac developers will jump to Windows now that Bash can run in Windows 10? Fantastic update. #build2016

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Nearly all of the tech coverage I read about Snapchat’s latest update lead with “stickers” being part of the update. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bob the walrus. But how can they not lead with the fact that they’ve added realtime video and voice calling? I remember the first time I ever tried video chatting…

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Giving iCloud Photo Library a whirl. First observation is that it destroys your connection to the Internet. No other device on the network even knows the world exists outside these walls.

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Maciej Cegłowski on Pinboard’s blog: It’s entirely IFTTT’s decision to drop support for Pinboard (along with a bunch of other sites). They are the ones who are going to flip the switch on working code on April 4, and they could just as easily flip the switch back on (or even write an IFTTT recipe…

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Took a few minutes and worked on my basketball shot this afternoon.

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Warriors vs. Wizards. These late games are tough on this old man.

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Two friends (Matt, Ben) and I have been trying to plan an afternoon just to go out, explore, and shoot photos. Finally we were able to on Saturday afternoon. Left: Ben, me, Matt at Callicoon Brewing Company. We chose Callicoon on a whim but I’m glad we did. The weather was perfect to get out…

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Instagram’s feed going algorithmic may be the best reason to try Snapchat out since they never even had a feed. Interesting times to see how the “feed wars” will end up. I wonder if I’ll even be using Instagram in a year.

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Rainy start to the week. Excellent coding weather.

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Face detection got much worse in Photos in the latest OS X release.

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Warriors vs. Sixers. Regardless of who wins I win.

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Explored Callicoon, NY with Ben & Matt today. Quite an adventure! Had a run in with security and ended up in the Delaware. Mission accomplished!

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Going on a photo adventure. Warm up your like buttons.

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I just installed a GIF keyboard on my phone. I instantly feel 15 years younger.

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Basketball felt great. I am still in shock that we’ve played outdoors multiple times this year and it is only March.

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Business breakfast at a Waffle House. Keeping it classy, as always.

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Digging Kyle’s new thing called In Plain View: http://plainview.in

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I’ve decided that I won’t stop eating so I have to start moving.

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Ugh! For weeks I’ve had mobile Safari on my iPhone in “Private Mode” and didn’t know it. I was getting so frustrated that I couldn’t seem to stay logged into anything, I couldn’t see my history across devices (which I rely on) and Continuity wasn’t working at all. It wasn’t until I closed every tab in…

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Sarah Pressler, our Project Manager at Plain, wrote the latest Links From Last Week post (a series we publish on the Plain blog) and shared a bunch of stuff Kyle and I have been doing elsewhere on the web. I liked this bit: After long days of solving problems and writing the code that goes…

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Twitter for iOS’s web view butchers the layout of my site. Sorry to all of those seeing it that way. I’ll work on a fix if I can figure out why it is happening.

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We had a need for a bit of JavaScript that would look for hashtags (like #this) in content and auto-link them to search results. So I popped over to CodePen and scrawled out some messy jQuery to make that happen. This morning I woke up and thought… “it has been a little while since I…

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Just tagged the first beta build of Barley 2.0. Feels great.

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Apple Event take: I’ll be upgrading from an iPhone 6 to the iPhone SE as soon as possible. I’ll likely wait to upgrade to the 9.7-inch iPad Pro until Belkin updates their QODE Ultimate Pro keyboard.

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