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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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  • Beacon, New York has a few secrets to uncover.

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  • What I saw this week #51: March 16, 2018

    Between our trip to Kentucky and starting a new position (and other things) I haven’t had any blogging time. It was good to have a bit of a break I think. Here are some things I saw recently. That’s it for this week. I hope to return to a somewhat regular publishing routine soon but […]

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  • I wrote a piece on LinkedIn about why you should attend events. I also jotted down some notes from the last 18-months of going to a few events.

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  • Kentucky is proving to be a good place to find bourbon.

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  • Columbus Ohio is a bit of alright.

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  • What I saw this week #50: March 2, 2018

    The last post in this series came in August 2017. Don’t call this a comeback, but I’d like to do more of these since I won’t be blogging daily as much for a few months. Great list this week. There are many others. If you look in the right places the internet is full of […]

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  • Electric City Bakehouse, Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – February 2018

    Electric City Bakehouse, Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – February 2018 New cupcake joint downtown. I picked up something for Eliza yesterday after a nice walk around enjoying the weather.

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  • What I would write about Vero

    Colin Walker wrote his hot take on Vero and it is exactly what I would have written (only his post is far more eloquent than mine would have been). Go read the entire post but here are a few highlights. As soon as I saw what Vero was all about – the idea it “makes […]

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  • Went back to Mail.app this week. Missed it.

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  • Frosty morning prep flights for a gear check.

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  • The Anthracite Center, Carbondale, PA – February 2018

    The Anthracite Center, Carbondale, PA – February 2018 I seldom get the chance to drive through Carbondale at night. It was nice to see The Anthracite Center lit up.

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  • 90 minutes of full-court basketball felt great.

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  • Just downgraded iCloud and Drive to their least expensive plans. Sick of dealing with the cloud. I’m now investing in my own storage.

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  • Just drafted a lengthy post entirely within LinkedIn’s editor. It isn’t terrible but with a few tweaks it could be so much better.

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  • Socialocca presents a Social Media Workshop at the February 2018 NEPA Tech meet up

    This month’s NEPA Tech meet up was yet another smashing success. If you live in northeastern Pennsylvania and are interested in the intersections of business, technology, the arts, etc. (and you want to see our area thrive in all of these things) please consider attending an upcoming event. Ryan K. Hertel of Socialocca, a small […]

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  • Repost: Furaha Joyce re: personal growth

    👉 Furaha Joyce on Twitter: Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you’ve outgrown Gut punch of a tweet.

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  • Warm February Evening, Downtown Scranton – February 2018

    Warm February Evening, Downtown Scranton – February 2018 It has been nice to have a short respite from winter these last few days. Walking downtown in the evening, without rushing to my next destination. I’m looking forward to spring weather.

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  • Austin Kleon on daily blogging

    Austin Kleon: Also, quite frankly, Twitter turned into a cesspool almost overnight. My friend Alan Jacobs was very vocal about his split from Twitter, and after reading his vibrant blog and new book, How To Think, I just decided to give daily blogging a go again, and this time, to do it on my URL, on my old-school WordPress blog, […]

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  • Fiddled with a GoPro, and related software, for the first time in a few years today. No wonder they’re hurting as a company. Software is a mess.

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  • Three photos from Downtown Scranton – February 2018

    Three photos from Downtown Scranton – February 2018 The weather is just beginning to break here in the northeast. We just had 4″ of snow on Saturday evening and tomorrow should be somewhere in the 60s Fahrenheit melting any memory of it away. This causes me to stir and I begin walking around hitting my […]

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  • Micro.blog confusion

    Jeena Pa: I’m still super confused about micro.blog He then lists just a few things that lead to his confusion. One of which I also scratched my head about recently. When you view this thread and you click on the timestamp you expect to go directly to the post on M.b so that you can […]

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  • Capturing Starman from Earth

    Rogelio Bernal Andreo: Astrophotography can be applied in many different ways. I utilize technology that allows me to capture ancient photons so that I can later process and create my own interpretation of the data captured, effectively blending art and science like not many other disciplines do, but I don’t usually track “small pixels in […]

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  • We’re in phase one of Augmented Reality

    Apple just published a page dedicated to Augmented Reality in the latest versions of iOS. It is a good page overviewing some of the use cases we’re already seeing with AR. This is just the beginning. I’ve written about AR many times, so I won’t reiterate everything today. But look at these use cases and […]

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  • Microsoft for Startups

    Microsoft: We’re excited to announce Microsoft for Startups, a new program that delivers access to technology, go-to-market and community benefits that helps startups grow their customer and revenue base.  We are committing $500 million over the next two years to offer joint sales engagements with startups, along with access to our technology, and new community spaces […]

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  • Technology Dogmatism

    Are you dogmatic about the companies you will buy technology from? Are you an Apple fanboi? Or, perhaps you’ll only run Windows and Apple sucks at everything because reasons. I try not to be that guy. I try to look at the entire field of offerings in every category; hardware, software, cloud services, home entertainment […]

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  • Picked up The Abyss special edition at the local library (the only place I could find it) and re-watched it after having just finished the book. So good. This is the only novel that I can say works as a companion and enhances the experience so much. Thanks library.

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  • Releasing an app on the Google Play Store — 20 clicks Releasing an app on the iOS App Store — Some multiple of the number of clicks you’ve ever clicked in your life.

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  • I can’t confirm that LIGO is down for repairs. But I believe it is. Imagine how many gravitational waves we are missing while it is down.

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  • Wallenpaupack Brewing Company – February 2018

    Wallenpaupack Brewing Company – February 2018 Decent brews, roomy atmosphere, tours and merch.

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  • The Quincy Jones interview

    Quincy Jones: What would account for the songs being less good than they used to be? The mentality of the people making the music. Producers now are ignoring all the musical principles of the previous generations. It’s a joke. That’s not the way it works: You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you […]

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  • The Siri pause

    John Gruber, under “miscellaneous” in his review of HomePod: People seem to naturally think they need to pause between saying “Hey Siri” and issuing the command or query, but in my experience you don’t need to. In this review, I’ve been punctuating directives with a comma after “Hey Siri”, but verbally you can speak without […]

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  • I remember when being a computer nerd spending countless hours online wasn’t cool. Then it minted millionaires and internet celebrities. Today being a space nerd looking at the stars for countless hours may have made that same jump.

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  • I interviewed New Zealand based artist Rebekah Codlin

    Over on my other site, The Watercolor Gallery, I interviewed Rebekah Codlin about her journey into art. Her realistic portraiture is amazing. If you’re into that sort of thing go ahead and check it out. This is the first interview after a 22-month hiatus from publishing interviews. Far too long. But the process of restoring […]

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  • Shooting a car at Mars

    Space X  (watch this video): The first test flight of Falcon Heavy is targeted for Tuesday, Feb. 6th at 1:30 PM ET from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the […]

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  • Blew my chance at the Micro.blog 30-day pin by forgetting to post yesterday. No longer going to try. Posting to my blog needs to be natural.

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