David Karp on Tumblr’s downtime and Tumblr does a 180
I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I've done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, Wordpress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to…
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Jason Fried on downtime
Given my recent spat on Tumblr about their downtime and the messaging coming from their team and investors, I thought this quote by Jason Fried of 37Signals in INC. was apropos: "Of…
37signals dropping support for OpenID on May 1, 2011
I have been a supporter of OpenID for a long time. But I agree with the decision by 37signals to drop it. What could have been never happened and, as it would…
Again, Tumblr’s investors seem only focused on Tumblr’s traffic
I've already said all I've wanted to say about why I don't think Tumblr's team and investors should be focused solely on traffic. But, it appears they still are. Bijan Sabet, partner…
Teach a friend about RSS
For the last few years I've been hearing chatter that RSS "is dead", yet, I still continue to use it every single day. So, I thought – lets turn this on its…
Weigh in: January 25, 2011
The last time I did The Diet I had a "gain week" on the second week. This time it took me 6 weeks to have a "gain week". The reasons? The excuses?…
I’m heading to Florida for MagicRuby
Not many people know how well suited Viddler's platform is for developing on top of. Kyle Slattery and I are heading to Florida in a few weeks to attend Magic Ruby to…
Apostrophe 1.5 – Now with Viddler support
As I just announced on the Viddler blog, Apostrophe – the amazing CMS built by my friends at Punk Avenue, now includes deep support for Viddler. Huzzah!
Turn an iPad into a laptop
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I'm not sure I dig this (as I think it removes the entire point of an iPad) but I will give 100 points for style to the iPad Keyboard…
Weigh in: January 18, 2011
Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first…
Some thoughts on Google Chrome removing support for H.264 video playback
I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team's prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they'd like to but the reasons they've…
Weigh in: January 11, 2011
This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn't work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think…
Happy 42nd to Mom & Dad
Tomorrow my parents will have just hit their 42nd wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to them. /photo credit: Peter Devroe.
Inside Carwanna
Taken in February 2009 in Carwanna in Carbondale, PA.
Tron Legacy Terminal style for Mac OS X
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every since seeing Tron Legacy I've wanted Flynn's computer. From what I've heard on the Interwebs it runs Sun Solaris. Since I'm a Mac guy maybe I can have…
Wine labels that I’ve designed
One of the fun parts of making wine is making the wine label. Eliza really loves having a wine label per wine that we make. For the most part we've been able…
The Mac App Store is live
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So it turns out my fears have been abated. The Mac App Store is great. Simply run Software Update on any Macintosh running Snow Leopard.
Tumblr, falling.
How quickly things change! I've been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since…
PHP Classes by Tijs Verkoyen
Speaking of RSS to Twitter (which now supports OAuth by the way) the reason I was able to update that project so easily was due to the generosity of Tijs Verkoyen who…
RSS to Twitter using PHP now supports OAuth
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My handy dandy little script that makes it easy to parse an RSS feed and send links to Twitter using PHP just got a nice little update. It now…
BottomsUP Beer Tap. The perfect \”pour\”.
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.
Weigh in: December 28, 2010
It has been a frigid, snowy week here in Pennsylvania which has kept me from doing the jogging I said I wanted to do last week. But I still did great on…
Minimalist effect in the maximalist market by Antrepo
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] If only these guys did the packaging for, well, everything.
Upload video to Viddler using C#
ejveal on Viddler graciously shared a snippet of C# to upload video to Viddler. Thanks for that Eric. /via the Viddler Developers Group.
I’ve cleaned up my titles
John Gruber's lashing of the news media on the Web about their page titles reminded me that I hadn't cleaned up the titles provided by default by my current Wordpress theme. I've…
Brandice Schnabel. Size 8.
Speaking of diets; my friend and ex-coworker Brandice Schnabel is in a Size 8 pant. Go girl.
Export your Delicious bookmarks using Terminal on Mac OS X
Reading Jeremy Keith's recap of the fact that Delicious is shutting down being sold off and that he wanted to pull all of his bookmarks off of the service and onto his…
Instagram hits 1M users. I’m one of them.
Instagram has hit 1,000,000 users in only a few short months. I'm one of them. /via Dan Rubin on Twitter.
Weigh in: December 21, 2010
I can't believe that week one is already over and that I'm already doing the second weigh in. I don't know if it is because I've done this before or just that…
Sponsor The Watercolor Gallery
Reach 1,300 aspiring artists for only $80. This deal won't last very long. More about the sponsorship here and also the post on the gallery itself.