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Taughannock Falls, Trumansburg, New York – May 2019 Had a nice weekend up north in an Airbnb with friends along the western shoreline of Cayuga Lake. The falls were running well with the spring rains.
The Creek, by Rolf Nylinder is my favorite video on YouTube so far this year. The techniques and tools are all invisible lending way to only the story. I try to explain this to those whose videos I respect but that could be improved. So typically on YouTube it is about the gear. The drone shot looks like…
South Branch Tunkhannock Creek – April 2019 Had a lovely time fishing here recently while the sun set at my back.
đ Simon Woods: The line between âI hate these silos and everything they representâ and âI like being part of the conversation with big groups and value the space where everybody can be foundâ continues to be a line upon which I stare. Ugh. This is at the core of my neuroticism.
Timothy Smith, on trying to promote his Kickstarter for Bokeh: I hate doing this type of stuff, but I feel like this idea is so important itâd be foolish of me not to try. Even if this Kickstarter ends up being unsuccessful, I wonât be able to live with myself if I didnât do everything in my power….
Lots of Microsoft developer related announcements over the last few days. Since I use WSL every single day I am really looking forward to this WSL 2 release. Initial tests that weâve run have WSL 2 running up to 20x faster compared to WSL 1 when unpacking a zipped tarball, and around 2-5x faster when using git clone,…
I am looking forward to this year's WWDC more than I have in the last 4 or 5 years. There is so much riding on this conference for my personal productivity but also for the Mac and iPad platforms as a whole. Here are a few reasons why and I'll follow with a few questions that I have….
I don't cover space nearly enough here on my blog. I miss the days of writing Space Bits with my friend Yaron Schoen. Sometimes announcements of new images of our vast Universe just seem to float by with the deluge of information we're bombarded with every single day. However, I figured this new image from Hubble worthy of…
Marco Arment: With todayâs 2019.4 update, you can now share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast. Simply tap the share button in the upper-right corner. This is an excellent feature. Though I'm currently on Android and using Pocket Casts (which is very good as well) I figured I'd link to this…
John Gruber: Even if they ship a truly new, reliable keyboard this summer (which I think they will, because if they donât, it means theyâre in deep denial of a huge problem), how long will it take for that new keyboard to roll out across the entire MacBook line? Even if Apple is on the case, hard at…
Me, in September 2017: I have the feeling weâre 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 it in the…
Fred Lambert, writing for Electrek: As part of Teslaâs presentations about their progress toward full self-driving, the automaker unveiled its âRobotaxiâ 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. At that time,…
Paddle boarders on Shark River, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
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. [âŚ] But you won't find 15 well-produced videos with Visual Studio + C# (or Xamarin). For the last few years I've thought that Microsoft needs…
đ Brent Simmons: Any time someone writes that they âstill use an RSS reader,â 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 âstillâ word. See other reposts.
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 of people is…
Chris Coleman, on precedent for Darth Sidious making an appearance in Episode IX: That doesnât 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 have some limited…
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, Iâd have it download and index RSS feeds. This should be cheaper than crawling pages, and it ensures that it skips indexing page junk (navigation…
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. The only thing…
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 Iâm sharing the 1998 and 1999 designs of the site. The content isnât significantly different between the two, but each one is a…
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 surprised if these…
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. This is important…
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: rushing and frustration only compound issues don't assume success was a result of technique if distracted, simply stop and wait for distraction to pass take cues from local environment to determine tactic…
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 in the excitement…