FollowFriday, belated
I was away for the weekend, so this is coming on Monday, sorry. Jimmy Baum: Colin Devroe suggested a #FollowFriday movement. I’ll start off with two bloggers I’m enjoying. Thanks to Jimmy…
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Marco Arment on needed watchOS updates
Marco Arment: But limitations in watchOS 4 make it impossible to deliver standalone podcast playback with the basic functionality and quality that people expect. His post focused on updates that are needed…
Trees, Merli-Sarnoski Park, Carbondale, PA – September 2017
Trees, Merli-Sarnoski Park, Carbondale, PA – September 2017
Austin Mann’s iPhone 8 Plus camera review
Austin Mann: While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially the same as the phone we’ve had since the 6 Plus, there are some new features in the 8 Plus which really impact…
How to save battery life on the Apple Watch Series 3
Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to read my blog. The following tips are very likely no-brainer battery saving tips for most of you and I’ve only used my Apple Watch…
Den Temple attends NativeScript Developer Day[s]
Den Temple, fellow NEPA.js attendee, hopped a bus to New York City for a developer conference: A three-hour bus ride and one sleepless night in a hostel later, I find myself attending…
Pre-Apple Watch chat (audio)
Listen to me ramble on about the Apple Watch for a few minutes. Download
Repost: Manton Reece re: NBA pre-season
👉 Manton Reece: NBA preseason starts in 10 days. 🏀
iPhone X’s new margins
Brian Voong on his excellent YouTube channel Let's Build That App: With the introduction of iPhone 10, we as developers are now faced with another option for our apps to be displayed…
John Gruber on Apple Watch Series 3
John Gruber: Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular networking completely alleviates this anxiety. It is not a replacement for a phone, and is not supposed to be. But it lets you leave…
Pacific ocean, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Pacific ocean, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico We had quite a view from our room's balcony.
PodcastMenu
PodcastMenu: PodcastMenu is a simple app which puts Overcast on your Mac's menu bar so you can listen to your favorite podcasts while you work. I use Overcast two or three times…
Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn't a problem with the watch's Cellular service. It's an existing issue that's just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very…
WatchDots
WatchDots: Personalize the look of your Apple Watch™ Sport with WatchDots™. Available in a variety of colors, WatchDots™ are precision cut, durable and thin. This is how the Apple Watch™ Sport should…
Colin Walker hits 1000 posts
Colin Walker: I am enjoying blogging now more than I have in a long time. The addition of microblogging greatly removes the burden of constantly writing essay pieces and the clamour for…
Harris’s Hawk, Mexico – August 2017
Harris’s Hawk, Mexico – August 2017 These hawks were used to keep the pesky, french-fry thieving, gray birds away from the tourists. Most effective.
Please turn on Do Not Disturb When Driving!
Jason Snell for Six Colors: iPhone users, well, there’s still great stuff there—Do Not Disturb When Driving is going to make the world safer—but it’s a bit less of a world-shaker. Not…
My tips for new iOS 11 upgraders
I’ve been using the iOS 11 public betas on my iPhone and iPad for several releases and I think it is one of the most important updates to iOS. It brings lifesaving…
Attending September’s NEPA.js meetup
On September 12th, NEPA.js held its September meetup. Anthony Altieri presented on beacons – the typically small Bluetooth devices that “chirp” some very basic information multiple times per second allowing app developers…
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
moz://a: The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – so Exhaustive Shopping Researcher Self can steer clear of Humble Bragging Social Self,…
Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s use of React
Matt Mullenweg: I'm here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a…
Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Repost: Ike on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
👉 Ike: So here’s a nice wallpaper for your iPhone X, OWNING the notch. (be sure to follow the link) /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
Yours.org – A social network that costs money to post
Ryan X. Charles: Most people told us it would never work, but we did it anyway: We started charging 10¢ to post content on our social network. Our users didn’t leave. In…
Cassini dies tomorrow
Lee Billings for Scientific American: All good things must come to an end. For NASA’s Cassini orbiter—its fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planet’s sprawling rings and dozens…
Jason Washo interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio
Jason Washo, owner of Sho Technology Solutions in downtown Scranton and someone who I've worked with on multiple client projects and who has become a friend over the last year, was recently…
John George shares a solution
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: I’m writing this because I discovered the hard way that .NET Core’s ‘dotnet run’ command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my…
_DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3
_DavidSmith: While I’ll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a ‘must carry’ device…
Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term “full-stack developer” implies that a developer is equally adept at both frontend code and backend code, but I’ve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that…
Dan Kimbrough reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note8
Dan Kimbrough seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. It’s weak and poorly located. There’s only one…