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Manton Reece: A little over a year ago we started rolling out Micro.blog to Kickstarter backers. So much has happened since then — from new Micro.blog platform features to companion apps like Sunlit and Wavelength — that I wanted to highlight a few milestones. See also, my interview with Manton earlier this year. So much has happened since that…
Since Flickr's acquisition to SmugMug I've been thinking about how best to jump back in over there. Back in the old days we posted things called MeTodays (now called selfies) and they were quite a thing. So I think I'll start there again. Join me for one week of posting MeToday's to Flickr's MeToday Group. Here is the…
Robb Shecter: Notifications are far better than what I’m used to. They’re are so good, it’s maybe the killer feature for me This may be more of an observation of Android than of the Pixel 2. But I can say that my experience has been similar to Robb's. I really, really like my Pixel 2 XL and I can't…
Downtown Scranton in Bloom – April 2018 I went for a quick stroll through the square to make sure I saw the trees in bloom. They shed these flowers very quickly.
My friend Frank, who recently loaned me his sweet goggles, has a small aerial footage company called 570 DRONE. Essentially he's officially certified to fly an UAV professionally. He uses his drone a lot for real estate and also to capture the local area. I decided, as part of my design challenge, to give him a simple brand…
John Gruber: Starting to sound like iPhone X sales really are falling short of expectations. He is referring to this report by Bloomberg. There have been other reports and rumors too but this one seems legit. I have no idea if the iPhone X is selling well or not. I have only seen a few of them in…
Thomas Hawk: As someone who joined Flickr back in 2003 pre-Yahoo and has been on the site pretty much daily since then, I thought I’d share my own thoughts on what this acquisition might mean for Flickr users and the larger Flickr community. No one has perspective on Flickr like Thomas. Go read his entire post. I joined…
I'm excited to start a brand-new series here on my site — The Grand Brand Design Challenge. I'm equally excited to be starting this series with a personal project I've been working on since 2010, The Watercolor Gallery. Read more about The Grand Brand Design Challenge on its own page. I've only taken the time to design two…
From the time I switched to Android in late-2017 (more here) I've been installing and uninstalling apps and services from my phone – trying to find the right mix for me. I expect the apps, preferences, and everything about my mobile experience to continue to change but lately it seems to have settled a little. So I thought…
Mozilla: We are excited about the future of Hubs and the potential for social VR experiences, but we need your help to test this and make it better. Check out the link below to try it out. Play with it. Share it. Break it. Contribute to it. Well, break it we did. The team at Jujama put this…
Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky – March 2018 Heaven Hill Distillery makes many brands of bourbon. Evan Williams, Elijah Craig, Old Fitzgerald, and many more. The rickhouses you see pictured above, taken with a drone at a few hundred feet up, each hold 15,000-20,000 barrels of whiskey. Each building could be valued at $100,000,000 USD. The larger, lower building…
Hiking Aylesworth, Jermyn, PA – April 2018 Eliza and I are forcing spring to happen by spending as much time outdoors as we can.
👉 Christopher Castro: Minimalism is not about deprivation. It comes down to what is adding value to one’s life. For everyone it’s different and it’s always changing. /via Micro.blog Discover
Elon Musk, in a recent memo to Tesla employees: Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get [rid] of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short. Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are…
Dan Kimbrough, after his annual attendance of BEA in Las Vegas: It’s one of the few times of year where what I do made sense to those around me. It’s provided a place where I felt appreciated for my work and camaraderie in the hardships of working in media and being an educator. Something I didn't state in…
Stitzel-Weller Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky – March 2018 You'll have to forgive me, as it is going to take some time for me to get through all of my photos from our trip to Kentucky in late-Winter. If you follow me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter you may have already seen a few of the photos I'm going to…
Lackawanna County Courthouse, Scranton, PA – January 2017 This was one of the first photos I took with my current drone (the DJI Phantom 4 Pro) and has already been used by several Scranton-based companies in their materials. I remember being very cold making this photograph. This image is one of the most requested images on my web…
Carriage House, Hill Section, Scranton, PA – April 2018 I found this little gem just a few paces from my new office.
I've recently made three small updates to my site. I suppose the first one isn't so small. I've changed web hosts. Last week I migrated this site from WP Engine (which was getting very costly) to Dreamhost (which, so far, has under performed). Moving the site was rather painless. However, the performance of Dreamhost's shared services is very…
Numi: Beautiful calculator app for Mac It isn't only beautiful. It appears very powerful.
Dan Moore on how blogging every day for 100 days lessened the pressure of publishing: But once I committed to writing once a day, I was focused on getting something out. I still wanted to be proud of it, but there wasn’t as much pressure. It could even be something really short, or just a pointer to a…
I published the following article on LinkedIn in March. However, their publishing tool removed all of the photos from the post when I published it and I was so frustrated that I did not bother to go in and fix it. I'm republishing the post here with photos. For over a decade now I've put in a lot…
Brent Simmons: I realized that I want my blog to be me on the web. This used to be true, but then along came Twitter, and then my presence got split up between two places. Welcome back to using one spot to blog and microblog Brent. I find myself in the same dilemma with Instagram lately. I publish photos there…
Hiking in Seven Tubs Nature Recreation Area, Bear Creek, PA – April 2018 On Saturday Eliza and I went for a hike around Seven Tubs, a series of "tubs" carved out of the bedrock by glaciers a few thousand years ago. Beautiful area, beautiful day.