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For the record, I would buy a foldable device.
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I’m calling it, Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s best CEO ever
Me, in September 2017: I have the feeling we’re going to look back at Nadella as one of the best CEOs in the history of tech. We’ll see how this bold prediction pans out but I’m ready to call Satya Nadella the best CEO in Microsoft’s history. Microsoft reported a record-setting Q1. They are killing […]
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Paddle boarders on Shark River, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
Paddle boarders on Shark River, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
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Tesla’s self-driving fleet of Robotaxis
Fred Lambert, writing for Electrek: As part of Tesla’s presentations about their progress toward full self-driving, the automaker unveiled its ‘Robotaxi’ plan for a self-driving ride-sharing network with its electric cars to be activated as soon as next year with an over-the-air software update. I called this in my prediction time capsule back in 2017. […]
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Xamarin videos, now on YouTube
Me, 17-minutes into an audio bit in 2017 (paraphrasing): If you go onto YouTube search for a problem you’re having for Xcode and Swift you’ll find 15 well-produced videos to solve your problem. […] But you won’t find 15 well-produced videos with Visual Studio + C# (or Xamarin). For the last few years I’ve thought […]
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My interpretations of announcements by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter
Apple pre-announcing something: “We’re excited to get this in customer’s hands late next year”. My interpretation: “We never pre-announce things. Why are we doing this? We’re terrible at it. In fact, we make fun of other companies for doing it! Steve Jobs would never allow this! (mostly) We must be doing this because some group […]
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Repost: Brent Simmons on RSS readers
👉 Brent Simmons: Any time someone writes that they “still use an RSS reader,” I think to myself: I still use a web browser. I still use email and still send text messages. I still make sentences out of words. I still wear shoes. No need for the “still” word. See other reposts.
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On blog search engines
Brent Simmons has been reminiscing about blog search engines and writing down some ideas for how one could be made today. Something he wrote sparked a memory. Instead of having it crawl blogs, I’d have it download and index RSS feeds. This should be cheaper than crawling pages, and it ensures that it skips indexing […]
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Chris Coleman breaks down The Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer
Chris Coleman, on precedent for Darth Sidious making an appearance in Episode IX: That doesn’t mean that Dark Side users are completely out of luck. The Dark Side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. There are at least two recent examples where followers of the Dark Side were able to […]
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My happy place lately. Learning to fish is more nuanced than first glance but I’ve been enjoying every frustrating lesson.
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Darice de Cuba, Real talk about inclusiveness
Darice de Cuba, who recently wrote about inclusiveness in design, has now been interviewed by my former workmate at 9rules Matthew Oliphant about inclusiveness in the real world. She writes on her blog: The interview is very casual, we talk about real life examples and how to get people and companies to be more inclusive. […]
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Chris Coleman brings Boba Fett’s Liar back
Chris Coleman, writing about a site he built in the 90s on GeoCities: I still have two more or less complete versions of the site, along with lots of spare parts from earlier iterations. Today I’m sharing the 1998 and 1999 designs of the site. The content isn’t significantly different between the two, but each […]
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Happy Tools
Happy Tools: Distributed teams, changing business needs, and complex dynamics are redefining the workday. Happy Tools makes it possible for your office to run smoothly, no matter what it looks like or who makes it go. A suite of tools specifically built for the remote team by Automattic, a completely distributed company. I’d be very […]
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Indie web question: Any recommendations for a better WordPress plugin for sending webmentions? I’m using the Webmention plugin but it doesn’t seem to send a comprehensive webmention. See this. Or, am I doing something incorrectly?
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Op-Ed
Go read it. It is actually shorter than his recent Facebook post on privacy. This part was… umm, interesting? Finally, regulation should guarantee the principle of data portability. If you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. This gives people choice and enables developers to innovate and compete. […]
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I love watching YouTube videos to learn from people that have thousands of hours more experience than I do. I often find it isn’t what they are saying or explaining that I learn from the most – it is from watching what they are doing.
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Early observations from the first times fishing in 2019
I wish I had kept a fishing diary. I didn’t. But I might start. Either way, here are some quick observations before they leave my memory:
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Thoughts on Apple’s March 2019 Media Event
I’m writing this for posterity’s sake. For my own recollection. So please feel free to skip the reading of this post. I can’t imagine the amount of money or resources Apple has invested to get to the point where they were able to announce all of those services in a single day.
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Boring is good in software development
I use the term “boring” here to describe that which isn’t brand new. Sometimes we’re only excited about the new. The new car! The new house! Rather than being content with what we have, because it works or is paid off or we’re familiar with every nook and cranny, we sometimes can get wrapped up […]
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Chris Coleman returns
Chris Coleman, on his 17-year-old and recently unearthed personal blog: I want my platform back. I don’t want algorithms or the cacophony to drown it out. If nobody’s going to see what I write, it’s going to be on my terms. Chris was vital part of my career though he likely doesn’t know it. The […]
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The money problem with open source
Jerod Santo: I do believe there’s a money problem in open source. If you listen to our shows you know I believe that. It’s just that in open source that problem doesn’t manifest until much later in the process. It waits until the software has matured, the value has been proven, the community has been […]
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What I saw this week #58: March 22, 2019
Here are some things I’ve seen recently:
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Black Dirt Region, New York – April 2017
Black Dirt Region, New York – April 2017 The bottom of an ancient glacial lake, this region’s soil is jet black. Gorgeous area.
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Firefox 66
There is a lot to love about Firefox lately (especially the last 20 or so releases) and 66 is no different. Dan Thorp-Lancaster for Windows Central: Firefox version 66 includes support for Windows Hello for web authentication, allowing you to log in to websites that support the latest FIDO2 standards for passwordless logins. Very cool […]
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Apple’s position in this Spotify spat doesn’t seem very secure. They immediately attack Spotify’s character rather than the specific accusations? I was hoping this would move the needle. I don’t think it is going to unless Apple is forced.
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Carbondale, Pennsylvania – April 2017
Carbondale, Pennsylvania – April 2017
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What developers sound like to non-developers
No matter your profession, industry jargon can quickly become laden with acronyms, buzz-words, and other gibberish. I was reminded of this today when I read the abstract from this scientific paper re: mammoth cells showing some signs of activity in mouse cells. The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named ‘Yuka’, were found in Siberian […]
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Spotify takes Apple to court in the EU
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify: It’s why, after careful consideration, Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC), the regulatory body responsible for keeping competition fair and nondiscriminatory. Good. After reading through his post and their website – especially if it all is true – they have quite a good case. […]
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My photo in the Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau Spring Visitors Guide
I’m always pleased when my photos can be put to good use. It is why I license my photos the way that I do. A few months ago the Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau reached out and asked if they could use one of my photos (with credit) in their Spring Visitors Guide. Complete with credit […]
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Teams that build products for multiple platforms (web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux) should consider switching their browsers/platform choice each year if possible. It can be eye opening.
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How to use DuckDuckGo
Brett Terpstra: The search syntax is very similar to Google’s, so if you’re familiar with that you won’t need to learn much. Obviously you can just search a bunch of words, but there are a few additional syntaxes you can use to refine results. Duck.com (as I like to call it now) is my search […]
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Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator
Microsoft: Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives and increased participation […]
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I’m contemplating a move back to Mac within the next year or so (solely dependent on what Apple hardware and software happens in 2019). But I’d feel like I’m abandoning Windows right when things are improving so much. Inner turmoil.
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What I saw this week #57 – February 29, 2019
Don’t have time to get to all of these links today? No problem. Try Unmark (I’ll send you an invite if you’d like.) Also, there are tons more.
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I’ll have more to say soon, but we’re accepting requests for invites to Unmark – an open source to-do app for bookmarks. We’re slowly sending out invitations and are looking for people that collect/share a lot of links and willing to provide feedback.
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Joshua Blankenship celebrates 15 years of having a blog
Joshua Blakenship (dude has a name like a superhero doesn’t he?) on 15 years of blogging and on bringing his personal blog back online: I don’t know much, but I know I miss 2004 web, personal websites, and curation that has nothing to do with algorithms. And maybe you do, too. So here we are, […]
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The Sony of the PC industry
Jessica Williams (presumably no relation to whom this post is about) writing for Times News regarding Jeff Williams, COO of Apple, speaking to students and faculty at Elon University , regarding Steve Jobs’ new plan for Apple in the late-90s: Apple would become “the Sony of the PC industry.” It would make computers fashionable, and […]
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The Mac is turning less Pro
skywhopper, on Hacker News, commenting on a thread relating to Mark Gurman’s scoop on Apple’s (supposed) plan to have apps running on iOS and macOS using the same (or, similar) code bases by 2020: And then the Mac is losing what should be its primary audience through unwanted innovations and otherwise stagnant hardware, and a […]
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Repost: Pete Brown on Medium
👉 Pete Brown: It is always so disappointing when I discover a site that seem interesting and I want to follow it, and then I find out it is on Medium.
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Don’t get clever with login forms
Brad Frost: As time goes on I find myself increasingly annoyed with login forms. Excellent suggestions for designing simple, usable login forms. I’ve made a note to double-check anything I make with this list.
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Shopping for fishing gear. 🎣
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What I saw this week #56 – February 15, 2019
See more in this series.
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Large companies aren’t good homes for beloved services
(I had no idea what to title this post.) Peter Kafka, reporting for Recode earlier this year, re: Verizon shuttering relatively large services they’ve purchased over the years rather than “bothering” to sell them off (like they did with Flickr): So if Verizon thinks a property with 100 million users is better off dead than […]
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I’ve been giving Brave a try. I converted some Bitcoin into BAT (Brave’s Attention Token) so that I can “tip” various sites. Interesting model though I can see why the ad replacement technique is controversial (if not downright criminal?). Looking forward to seeing where this evolves.
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What I saw this week #55 – February 8, 2018
I want to be regular with this series. I do. I’ve just been busy. Sorry. Here are some links that you might find interesting. I did.
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