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Clinton, PA – July 2017
Clinton, PA – July 2017
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CNN lite
Remarkable find by Jack Baty, CNN Lite: I could not love this more. Can we get all of the news sites to do this? I can’t tell if this is official or not. Either way, bookmarked.
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Python is blowing up
David Robinson, not The Admiral, for Stack Overflow: We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the […]
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter
👉 Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.
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Wishes for Apple’s Fall Media Event
On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we “know” just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short […]
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Mobile blogging goals (audio)
Recorded September 10, 2017 Starting with this audio bit I’m making a few changes. I’m ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren’t really episodes, and keeping track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post. I’m also […]
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Prompton State Park – July 2017
Prompton State Park – July 2017 I’m just getting to look at some photos I made with the drone in July.
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Jack Baty: “Please just start a blog”
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I don’t care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or don’t. Implement Webmentions or don’t. Allow comments or don’t. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or don’t. Publish long posts or […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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A unique color for every address in the world
A recent, yet-to-be-announced client project had me designing a mobile app interface that dealt a lot with showing locations and events that are happening at certain locations (how is that for vague? sorry). While I utilized the brand’s colors to represent certain sections of the app I wanted the app to have tons of colors […]
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Chris Lovie-Tyler on supporting different building blocks of the IndieWeb
Chris Lovie-Tyler, from the other side of our planet: After reading a handful of Colin Devroe’s posts (links at the bottom), I’ve made a few decisions. I’m glad my posts, in which I was just thinking out loud and forming my own opinions on these matters, helped him to form his. I believe everyone should […]
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David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without […]
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Repost: Emily Lakdawalla on Voyager’s 40th Anniversary
👉 Emily Lakdawalla on The Planetary Society blog: The fact that both Voyager spacecraft are still functioning and doing science, 40 years after their launches, is reason for optimism. We can build robust, adaptable machines capable of surviving unpredicted storms and responding to new discoveries. We can build them, launch them, and stably operate them for […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Florence’s two moons
Center for NEO Studies PR on Astronomy Now: Radar images of asteroid 3122 Florence obtained at the 70-metre antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex between August 29 and September 1 have revealed that the asteroid has two small moons, and also confirmed that main asteroid Florence is about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) in […]
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Reading Ready Player One, Downtown Scranton – July 2017 Easily my favorite book this year. Eliza just finished it too. I may want to read it again before the movie comes out.
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Repost: Noah Read on Trevorrow’s exit
👉 Noah Read: Heard the news about SW IX director. After seeing how Disney handled Rogue One’s director and the results I’m optimistic. They seem to be good stewards, with the humility to make changes when necessary. See also.
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Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There’s always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And […]
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Colin Trevorrow out as Star Wars Episode IX Director
Bryan Bishop reporting for The Verge: Lucasfilm’s creative process has been a bit of a mess lately. Rogue One had to undergo extensive reshoots before release, and earlier this year producer Kathleen Kennedy took the extraordinary step of firing directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller of the standalone Han Solo film just two weeks before […]
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E19: Launching Summit’s public beta
Recorded on August 23 2017. A quickly captured audio bit while walking to get a coffee the day after launching Summit’s public beta. Download MP3.
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Luke Skywalker is The Last Jedi
Earlier this week I rewatched Star Wars Episode VII. It is really great. Most of the criticisms of the film do not hold up well. It is fun, engaging the entire time, and the actors are perfect. And the film fits in perfectly with the other 3 originals. One thing I’m surprised about, and was […]
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Microsoft holding Surface Keynote in October
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft’s Surface chief will hold a keynote speech in London at the end of October. The software giant is holding its annual Future Decoded event in London from October 31st to November 1st, and Microsoft revealed to The Verge today that Panos Panay will be speaking. Microsoft typically launches new […]
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Just off Old Mining Road 3, Archbald, PA – June 2017
Just off Old Mining Road 3, Archbald, PA – June 2017 I haven’t been on a proper hike since July 29 and I’m starting to get the itch.
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does […]
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Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality
In this video Tom Warren of The Verge uses some mixed reality headsets for Windows. Watching them I’m reminded just how far this industry has to go. I’d call much of what I see in this video very much beta-level hardware and software. It has only been 5 months since I wrote the aforelinked piece […]
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Voyager’s 40th Anniversary
East coasters keep your lunchtime open on Tuesday as NASA is celebrating Voyager’s 40th Anniversary. Check out this description from APOD: Launched in 1977 on a tour of the outer planets of the Solar System, Voyager 1 and 2 have become the longest operating and most distant spacecraft from Earth. Nearly 16 light-hours from the […]
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Sunsets over the Pacific have their own special feel.
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Jack Baty on Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Jack Baty: Almost lost me in the first 15 minutes. Way too silly for its own good. Felt to me like they took what they thought made the first film successful and just cranked up those bits. I enjoyed the middle portion, so stuck with it. If I had written a review, this would be […]
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Morning on Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Morning on Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – August 2017
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Bank Towers, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Bank Towers, Scranton, PA – August 2017
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I want a dual-camera, edge-to-edge screen, waterproof iPhone SE
I miss my iPhone SE. Everything I ever wrote about it here on my blog was awash with my overwhelming love of the device. I still believe it is the best phone Apple has made to date. The only reason I use an iPhone 7 Plus is the camera. I said I wouldn’t switch from […]
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Pedometer++ 3.0
_DavidSmith: I’ve been steadily working on Pedometer++ now for nearly four years. Over that time the core conceit of the app has remained the same, to motivate you to be more active. It has done this with colors, confetti, complications and streaks. Now I’ve added another tool to hopefully motivate, achievements! Pedometer++ continues to be […]
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