Blog
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Downtown Scranton in Bloom – April 2018
Downtown Scranton in Bloom – April 2018 I went for a quick stroll through the square to make sure I saw the trees in bloom. They shed these flowers very quickly.
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Finishing up a brand identity for local company for my design challenge. This is fun.
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The weekends are when I have a bit more time to slow down and enjoy a sane brew. See also Matt D’avella’s latest video.
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A new brand identity for The Watercolor Gallery
I’m excited to start a brand-new series here on my site — The Grand Brand Design Challenge. I’m equally excited to be starting this series with a personal project I’ve been working on since 2010, The Watercolor Gallery. Read more about The Grand Brand Design Challenge on its own page. I’ve only taken the time […]
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On the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug
Thomas Hawk: As someone who joined Flickr back in 2003 pre-Yahoo and has been on the site pretty much daily since then, I thought I’d share my own thoughts on what this acquisition might mean for Flickr users and the larger Flickr community. No one has perspective on Flickr like Thomas. Go read his entire […]
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iPhone X sales
John Gruber: Starting to sound like iPhone X sales really are falling short of expectations. He is referring to this report by Bloomberg. There have been other reports and rumors too but this one seems legit. I have no idea if the iPhone X is selling well or not. I have only seen a few […]
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Apple’s iPhone 8 (RED) commercial has the best audio mixing I’ve ever heard.
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Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky – March 2018
Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky – March 2018 Heaven Hill Distillery makes many brands of bourbon. Evan Williams, Elijah Craig, Old Fitzgerald, and many more. The rickhouses you see pictured above, taken with a drone at a few hundred feet up, each hold 15,000-20,000 barrels of whiskey. Each building could be valued at $100,000,000 USD. The […]
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Hiking Aylesworth, Jermyn, PA – April 2018
Hiking Aylesworth, Jermyn, PA – April 2018 Eliza and I are forcing spring to happen by spending as much time outdoors as we can.
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Repost: Christopher Castro on Minimalism
👉 Christopher Castro: Minimalism is not about deprivation. It comes down to what is adding value to one’s life. For everyone it’s different and it’s always changing. /via Micro.blog Discover
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Elon Musk on meetings
Elon Musk, in a recent memo to Tesla employees: Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get [rid] of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short. Also get rid of frequent meetings, […]
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Attend events and be less lonely
Dan Kimbrough, after his annual attendance of BEA in Las Vegas: It’s one of the few times of year where what I do made sense to those around me. It’s provided a place where I felt appreciated for my work and camaraderie in the hardships of working in media and being an educator. Something I […]
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Saw Rampage. One star.
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Put in my Harry’s order.
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After our walk yesterday we found a wrecking ball… and, well…
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Carriage House, Hill Section, Scranton, PA – April 2018
Carriage House, Hill Section, Scranton, PA – April 2018 I found this little gem just a few paces from my new office.
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Lackawanna County Courthouse, Scranton, PA – January 2017
Lackawanna County Courthouse, Scranton, PA – January 2017 This was one of the first photos I took with my current drone (the DJI Phantom 4 Pro) and has already been used by several Scranton-based companies in their materials. I remember being very cold making this photograph. This image is one of the most requested images […]
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Stitzel-Weller Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky – March 2018
Stitzel-Weller Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky – March 2018 You’ll have to forgive me, as it is going to take some time for me to get through all of my photos from our trip to Kentucky in late-Winter. If you follow me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter you may have already seen a few of the photos […]
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Daily blogging is freeing
Dan Moore on how blogging every day for 100 days lessened the pressure of publishing: But once I committed to writing once a day, I was focused on getting something out. I still wanted to be proud of it, but there wasn’t as much pressure. It could even be something really short, or just a […]
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Numi
Numi: Beautiful calculator app for Mac It isn’t only beautiful. It appears very powerful.
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Three updates to my site
I’ve recently made three small updates to my site. I suppose the first one isn’t so small. I’ve changed web hosts. Last week I migrated this site from WP Engine (which was getting very costly) to Dreamhost (which, so far, has under performed). Moving the site was rather painless. However, the performance of Dreamhost’s shared […]
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Many of my notes have a half-life. If I don’t get back to them within a certain period of time, all bets are off as to whether or not I will ever remember what their original meaning was. I’m going to attempt to do a little better at this.
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You should attend events, meetups, and conferences
I published the following article on LinkedIn in March. However, their publishing tool removed all of the photos from the post when I published it and I was so frustrated that I did not bother to go in and fix it. I’m republishing the post here with photos. For over a decade now I’ve put […]
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Trying out the WordPress Mac app.
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Hiking in Seven Tubs Nature Recreation Area, Bear Creek, PA – April 2018
Hiking in Seven Tubs Nature Recreation Area, Bear Creek, PA – April 2018 On Saturday Eliza and I went for a hike around Seven Tubs, a series of “tubs” carved out of the bedrock by glaciers a few thousand years ago. Beautiful area, beautiful day.
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Simmons returns to the blog
Brent Simmons: I realized that I want my blog to be me on the web. This used to be true, but then along came Twitter, and then my presence got split up between two places. Welcome back to using one spot to blog and microblog Brent. I find myself in the same dilemma with Instagram lately. I […]
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Retail AR
Dent Reality, a company looking to create practical applications for augmented reality, has released a video preview of their first offering Retail AR: Retail AR can improve the customer experience and boost sales, by surfacing product details, displaying spatial information and navigating customers to relevant areas. Be sure to watch the video. You’ll see its […]
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Listening to the Moon soundtrack on Jason’s recommendation. Good work material. I wish it were on Spotify but I’ve fired up Amazon Music to listen to it.
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Firefox Reality
Mozilla: Mozilla has always been on the frontlines of virtual and augmented reality (see our work with WebVR, WebAR and A-Frame), and this is a mixed reality browser that is specifically built to tackle the new opportunities and challenges of browsing the immersive web. Me, in April 2017: The way information is displayed is going to dramatically change within […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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Matt Haughey \”Communication is the hardest part\”
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I’ve worked on my whole life. I’m constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the “landing” of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn’t “getting me” it […]
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New office vibes – March 2018
New office vibes – March 2018 Jujama’s Scranton, PA offices are 👌
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Terry Myerson leaves Microsoft
Terry Myerson, on the success of Windows 10 under his watch: Today, we are now approaching 700 million active Windows 10 users, commercial usage is growing 84% year over year, Xbox One is running a Windows 10 core, Surface is leading PC innovation, HoloLens is bringing breakthroughs to computer vision, our universal Microsoft store enables […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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\”Just\”
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I’m guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over […]
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Want something? Write it down
Mark Boulton, on asking people to formally write down their requests: Next time someone asks you to do something, try it. I bet 3 times out of 10, they say ‘oh it doesn’t matter’. You’ll have that time back. They’ll be a little wiser and have a lower heart rate. Good post. Jump over to […]
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