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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.
Seth Godin: Don't read the words. It's bad enough that people use Powerpoint as a sort of teleprompter. Much worse that you don't trust the audience enough to read what you wrote. If you want them to read the precise words, stand quietly until they do. If you want to paraphrase the words, that can work. So few…
Dent Reality, a company looking to create practical applications for augmented reality, has released a video preview of their first offering Retail AR: Retail AR can improve the customer experience and boost sales, by surfacing product details, displaying spatial information and navigating customers to relevant areas. Be sure to watch the video. You'll see its practicality immediately. I…
Mozilla: Mozilla has always been on the frontlines of virtual and augmented reality (see our work with WebVR, WebAR and A-Frame), and this is a mixed reality browser that is specifically built to tackle the new opportunities and challenges of browsing the immersive web. Me, in April 2017: The way information is displayed is going to dramatically change within MR applications. How…
Matt Haughey at the January DonutJS meetup in Portland, Oregon: Being able to express myself is something I've worked on my whole life. I'm constantly learning this lesson both personally and professionally. Each time I do the "landing" of it is softer and softer as I get older. But if someone isn't "getting me" it is likely because…
Terry Myerson, on the success of Windows 10 under his watch: Today, we are now approaching 700 million active Windows 10 users, commercial usage is growing 84% year over year, Xbox One is running a Windows 10 core, Surface is leading PC innovation, HoloLens is bringing breakthroughs to computer vision, our universal Microsoft store enables Xbox GamePass, Azure…
New office vibes – March 2018 Jujama's Scranton, PA offices are 👌
Brad Frost: “Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word. I'm guilty of giving this type of advice. I try not to over simplify instructions and…
Mark Boulton, on asking people to formally write down their requests: Next time someone asks you to do something, try it. I bet 3 times out of 10, they say 'oh it doesn't matter'. You'll have that time back. They'll be a little wiser and have a lower heart rate. Good post. Jump over to his blog and…
Between our trip to Kentucky and starting a new position (and other things) I haven't had any blogging time. It was good to have a bit of a break I think. Here are some things I saw recently. Brain Pickings on Hawking – Of course, Brain Pickings is so so good. Interesting thought about Hawking; though he was…
The last post in this series came in August 2017. Don't call this a comeback, but I'd like to do more of these since I won't be blogging daily as much for a few months. Victor Buso captures a supernova – I'm elated when I catch our local star setting. This amateur astronomer managed to capture a star…
Colin Walker wrote his hot take on Vero and it is exactly what I would have written (only his post is far more eloquent than mine would have been). Go read the entire post but here are a few highlights. As soon as I saw what Vero was all about – the idea it "makes sharing online more…
Electric City Bakehouse, Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – February 2018 New cupcake joint downtown. I picked up something for Eliza yesterday after a nice walk around enjoying the weather.
The Anthracite Center, Carbondale, PA – February 2018 I seldom get the chance to drive through Carbondale at night. It was nice to see The Anthracite Center lit up.
Warm February Evening, Downtown Scranton – February 2018 It has been nice to have a short respite from winter these last few days. Walking downtown in the evening, without rushing to my next destination. I'm looking forward to spring weather.
👉 Furaha Joyce on Twitter: Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you’ve outgrown Gut punch of a tweet.
Ryan K. Hertel, Socialocca This month's NEPA Tech meet up was yet another smashing success. If you live in northeastern Pennsylvania and are interested in the intersections of business, technology, the arts, etc. (and you want to see our area thrive in all of these things) please consider attending an upcoming event. Ryan K. Hertel of Socialocca, a…
Austin Kleon: Also, quite frankly, Twitter turned into a cesspool almost overnight. My friend Alan Jacobs was very vocal about his split from Twitter, and after reading his vibrant blog and new book, How To Think, I just decided to give daily blogging a go again, and this time, to do it on my URL, on my old-school WordPress blog, like the old…
Three photos from Downtown Scranton – February 2018 The weather is just beginning to break here in the northeast. We just had 4" of snow on Saturday evening and tomorrow should be somewhere in the 60s Fahrenheit melting any memory of it away. This causes me to stir and I begin walking around hitting my shutter button at…