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…
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…
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…
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…
Morning on Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Morning on Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Bank Towers, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Bank Towers, Scranton, PA – August 2017
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…
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….
Repost: Saron Yitbarek
👉 Saron Yitbarek on Twitter: A lot of amazing people don't speak at conferences because they think speaking requires being an expert. It doesn't. At all.
LEVY, Penn Avenue, Downtown Scranton, PA – August 2017
LEVY, Penn Avenue, Downtown Scranton, PA – August 2017
Ben Franklin Techventures, Bethlehem, PA – August 2017
Ben Franklin Techventures, Bethlehem, PA – August 2017
Colin Walker on the Summit beta
Colin Walker: I've thoroughly enjoyed the time I've spent beta testing Summit and look forward to the new builds. Colin has provided excellent feedback on Summit. So have so many of the…
The Carbondale Grand Hotel & Conference Center, Carbondale, PA – July 2017
The Carbondale Grand Hotel & Conference Center, Carbondale, PA – July 2017
What I saw this week #49: August 25, 2017
Here are a few things that I think you should see. Video: Casey Neistat travels to see the eclipse – I regret not making plans to travel to see totality. Not just…
Colin Walker on thinking out loud on his blog
Colin Walker: It's always a little weird glancing at my visitor stats and seeing that someone has read a post that no longer reflects my position. 100% agree. Most of my posts…
Deep Learning and Siri’s voice
Apple: The training speech data contains a minimum of 15 hours of high-quality speech recordings sampled at 48 kHz. We segmented the speech into half-phones using forced alignment, i.e., automatic speech recognition…
Presenting at the August 2017 Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup
The Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup is an excellent community in the Lehigh Valley that meets monthly at the Ben Franklin Technology Partners incubator within the Lehigh University Mountaintop campus. The community around…
Capturing the ISS’s transit of the Sun during the eclipse
This is quite a feat. Photographer Trevor Mahlmann figured out where you'd need to be within the path of totality in order to capture the International Space Station transiting the sun during…
Fred Wilson’s public record
Fred Wilson: AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He goes on…
Repost: Dan Kimbrough on Twitter
☞ Dan Kimbrough: Cool new step counter, created here in #nepa. https://cdevroe.com/summit
Amber Leigh Turner on Bullet Journaling
Amber Leigh Turner on trying bullet journaling: And I was hooked. I knew this was a way to not only help me get back on track and focused, but would pull me out…
Martin McCallion on Text Editors
Martin McCallion: If you work with plain text, as I prefer to, then you probably try out different text editors from time to time (or, you know, constantly). For a long time…
Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter
This evening, at a presentation at the Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup, I'm opening up public beta access to my new iOS app, Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter. I've stitched together a…
Curry Caputo quits vlogging
Curry Caputo, cousin to vlogging legend Casey Neistat, is hanging up his hat when it comes to recording, editing, and publishing daily videos and will now post whenever he feels like it…
Daring Fireball at 15
John Gruber: 15 years ago this week, I started Daring Fireball with this piece on a then-new lineup of PowerMac G4’s. I've been subscribed to Daring Fireball since that first post. In…
Pilots, Prompton State Park – July 2017
Pilots, Prompton State Park – July 2017
Blank by Cotton Bureau
Cotton Bureau: Size-inclusive, made-in-the-USA, better-fitting, premium t-shirts for women and men. I wore a Cotton Bureau tee on Tuesday of this week (thanks Kyle). It felt great. It looks like these new…
John Quincy Adams on GTD
Not really. Maria Popova on the always excellent Brain Pickings re: John Quincy Adams and his thoughts on getting things done, learning, and wasting time: Years earlier, in observing his own habits…
What I saw this week #48: August 18, 2017
Adam Savage visits Third Man Records – I'm a huge fan of everything Jack White is involved in so this was an instant-watch for me. It also reminds me that I need…