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Riva-Melissa Tez, who recently joined Intel, on making things: Lastly, one of my concerns of our generation is that we’re talking too much and not building enough, partially spurred on by the immediate reward mechanisms of social media. We seem to think we can all invest in or inspire hypothetical others into building the futures that we want….
Khoi Vihn, in an interview on Own Your Content: It’s hard to overstate how important my blog has been, but if I were to try to distill it down into one word, it would be: “amplifier.” Writing in general and the blog in particular has amplified everything that I’ve done in my career, effectively broadcasting my career in…
Zac Bowden, writing for Windows Central: Windows Update received some pretty significant upgrades with the May 2019 Update, and it's good news for users. Microsoft is backing off its heavy-handedness when it comes to forcing updates onto users. Starting this month, users will no longer be forced to install new feature updates unless they explicitly click on an…
Neat feature from Micro.blog. Here is Manton Reece, from his personal blog, on the new feature: You can now follow blogs in the Micro.blog timeline, even if the blogger hasn’t yet registered on Micro.blog. Manton describes this feature as another type of "username". I understand why he's framing it that way but I'm unsure if it is the…
Recorded March 11, 2018. A photo I took while hiking this same day. A little over a year ago I went for a short hike in the snow just after returning from a trip to Kentucky and just before starting my job at Jujama. Side note: I record tons of these audio bits that I never get around…
Gjáin, Stangarvegur, Iceland – September, 2018 Earth's history is written within it.
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.
👉 Simon Woods: The line between “I hate these silos and everything they represent” and “I like being part of the conversation with big groups and value the space where everybody can be found” 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 it’d be foolish of me not to try. Even if this Kickstarter ends up being unsuccessful, I won’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t 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 we’ve 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 today’s 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 don’t, it means they’re 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 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 it in the…
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. 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. […] 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…
👉 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.
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 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 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, I’d have it download and index RSS feeds. This should be cheaper than crawling pages, and it ensures that it skips indexing page junk (navigation…