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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
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Instagram launched what some are calling a direct competitor to YouTube, IGTV. First, I'll start by listing some reasons I think this is the perfect time for Instagram to have launched this product. Smartphones are just beginning to get real horsepower and amazing battery life to enable this kind of experience and the amount of time people will…
Jack Baty: Looking at my blog from 2003 makes me think we got blogging right early on. Yep. Everything else has been additive. But a blog from 20 years ago, like mine, would be just as good today as then.
Digging Connecticut.
Enjoyed Ocean's 8. My only gripe is that it should have been a more difficult heist. Seemed all too easy. Probably because women are better at everything. ☺️
Anthony Bourdain, in 1999, writing for The New Yorker: I’ve been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands. A few years ago, I…
Reid Hoffman: Under Satya Nadella's leadership, Microsoft has re-invigorated itself with an exploratory, future-oriented, and developer-focused mindset.
This last month's NEPA Tech meet up was very well attended, produced, and an all-around great time – as per usual. I've seen Mandy do several presentations over the last few years and so I knew going into this we were in for an informative and fun session. SEO could be a boring, drab topic but Mandy made…
Amazon needs to rebuild the Good Reads apps from the ground up. They are terrible.
Todd Vaziri: Ever since I was a kid, I wondered what the scene might have looked like in real time, and how the scene, without slow-motion, would play differently to the audience. So I created it. I don't write enough about Star Wars on my blog. For that I'm sorry. But this was too fun to pass at…
Satya Nadella: More than 28 million developers already collaborate on GitHub, and it is home to more than 85 million code repositories used by people in nearly every country. From the largest corporations to the smallest startups, GitHub is the destination for developers to learn, share and work together to create software. It’s a destination for Microsoft too….
I forgot to charge my moreFit band so I can definitively say that a single charge can last at least two weeks, likely much more, with 24/7 usage. Impressive. Charging it today, however.
Starting to find my groove ordering things from Amazon.
I've finally found some time this morning to read Om Malik's post on Google Photos vs Apple Photos – a post that has been sitting in my Unmark queue since the day he published it. Om Malik: The improvements in Google Photos and lack of magic in Apple Photos sometimes make me wonder if I made the right…
This isn't a recent phenomena. Corporations have been creating their own typefaces since the beginning of type. But, lately, I've noticed more and more that they are using it in their marketing efforts or because the scale of these corporations make it cost prohibitive not to make their own typeface. Let me pull these two things apart. Corporations…
Cavs blew it. Terrible coaching in those last 5 seconds. Everyone on the team should have known what to do if the shot was made, missed, etc. One dunk could have taken Game 1.
After switching to Android late last year and subsequently giving Eliza my Apple Watch Series 3 I have been wanting a simple fitness tracker for playing basketball. In most activities in my life I can keep my phone on me but for basketball I always miss out on tracking those steps. I wanted to purchase something inexpensive that,…
This project was not part of my Design Challenge. However, I thought I'd catalog this project here as I was the primary designer working on it, with help from Jujama's designer Lindsey Jamieson. Jujama is a nearly 10-year-old business (and my current employer) with global clients and a sophisticated product that services top-tier customers. The overall goal of…
Kayaker – May 2018 The rivers are up in our area due to so much rainfall. I was glad to see a few people taking advantage of it.
Recent springtime hike – May 2018 Notice the porcupine.
Dialog: At launch, the app makes available a number of features you’ll be familiar with from using the Micro.blog service including being able to view your timeline, your mentions, and the Discover page. Currently, you are unable to create a new post. This is planned for a future release. The current app is very much beta, but you…
Jim Thorpe – May 2018
I've been meaning to make this list for some time now. Finally, I emptied my backpack and took a photo so that I can make a list of my every day carry. The above items are with me, in my backpack, every single day. Speaking of my backpack. It is a graphite Collins by Brenthaven. A little over…
Moods of Longwood Gardens – May 2018
John Carmack: I wound up doing several keynotes with Steve, and it was always a crazy fire drill with not enough time to do things right, and generally requiring heroic effort from many people to make it happen at all. I tend to think this was also a calculated part of his method.