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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout […]
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How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we’d rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout […]
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Manton Reece on Twitter at 10 years
Manton Reece, like me, recently passed his 10 year anniversary on Twitter. I like this point he makes about how to see Twitter going forward: It used to be impossible to imagine that Twitter could fail. And today, it’s still unlikely to vanish or even change much overnight. But the web will be better if […]
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Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
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What I saw this week #23: December 7, 2016
Since this is what-i-saw #23 let’s all watch the top 50 plays by Michael Jordan. The Modest Man Income Reports – Ever wonder what it looks like to run a blog for money? Brock from The Modest Man shares all of the numbers. Great insight. Web advent calendars – Two I’m following this month are […]
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E15: Bots, Windows 10 Surface Book review, Twitter Head of Product
Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I’ve made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter’s new Head of Product hire. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3
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Money tree leaves – November 2016
Money tree leaves – November 2016
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Jason Fried on the Apple Store experience
Jason Fried: But in the last few years, the stores have really turned me off. I don’t like stepping into them. They don’t make me feel welcome — rather they make me feel like I need a good reason to be there. Of course I have a reason to be there, but I don’t like the fact […]
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Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
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A visual history of Waking Ideas
Danny shows off a visual history of his personal site. As we change, so too our personal web sites.
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Bank tower, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Bank tower, Scranton, PA – November 2016
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The Outline
Joshua Topolsky: What’s most exciting about the platform is that we’re able to break apart and atomize story elements into forms that are sized for what we want to communicate. So our ability to point you toward some interesting data, or key facts about a story, or context about where a story is coming from […]
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Along the path – October 2016
Along the path – October 2016
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I wish Instagram and Twitter would make up already. It’s been years. Maybe @kcoleman can facilitate that.
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How Surface changed Microsoft
Jason Ward, writing for Windows Central: Windows devices once perceived as low-end bargain basement devices are now seen as expensive cutting-edge hardware that rivals or exceeds Apple’s long-standing high-end market position. I make this same point in my forthcoming review of the Surface Book and Windows 10. I’m so sorry it is taking so long […]
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Off Penn, Downtown Scranton – December 2016
Off Penn, Downtown Scranton – December 2016
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What I saw this week #22: December 2, 2016
SwitchResX – A small preference pane for macOS to help you set more specific resolutions for your displays above and beyond what Apple provides by default. NEPA.js – A new meetup in Scranton, PA for people that want to learn JavaScript. Lion – A gorgeous photo by Sam Scrimshaw. Italy, Boat, Wedding – My friend […]
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Google’s AMP is a gilded cage
Terence Eden: If, like me, you made the mistake of trying out AMP on your website – you’re in a tricky position if you try to remove it. Google doesn’t like anything leaving its clutches. I appreciate nothing about AMP. In fact, I don’t click any links that use it in protest. /via Jeremy Keith.
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Make accessibility job one
Jeffrey Zeldman: One small thing designers and developers can do is to make accessibility and usability Job 1 on every project. I need to heed this advice. Thanks for the reminder Jeffrey.
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micro.blog
Manton Reece regarding the forthcoming micro.blog: Renaming a product before its official launch may not seem like a big deal, but in this case it gives the app a new importance. Just by renaming it, the app feels more ambitious. It forces me to devote more attention to it, which means saying goodbye to some […]
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Sunset through pines, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
Sunset through pines, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
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First snow of fall 2016 – November 20 2016
First snow of fall 2016 – November 20 2016
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Fix the internet
Vicky Boykis: We are a LONG, long ways away from the destruction of the internet as a giant billboard. It takes time to turn a huge skyscraper into an gutted shell of a building, and it will take just as much time to turn our current internet from a loud, obnoxious, toxic mall, back into […]
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Learning Commons, Marywood University, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Learning Commons, Marywood University, Scranton, PA – November 2016
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Aerial, Lackawanna State Park – July 2016
Aerial, Lackawanna State Park – July 2016
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Lough Caragh, Ireland – October 2011
Lough Caragh, Ireland – October 2011
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Cows in pond – July 2016
Cows in pond – July 2016
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Aerial – July 2016
Aerial – July 2016
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What I saw this week #21: November 25, 2016
Light week as I spent most of my week away from the computer. curlbuilder – A simple tool to create curl commands. Bowie by Nick Runge – A small plug for my other site. On being verified – Maria Langer writes about being verified on Twitter. Instagram updates – A few new ways to share […]
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The colors of fall, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
The colors of fall, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
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E14: Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, streaming video solutions, Nintendo
On Sunday Danny and I discussed learning Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, a bit about video streaming services and the value they bring, and also a bit about Nintendo. Here are some links from this episode. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e14.mp3 Links: Video Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts another Windows 10 keyboard shortcut video Download MP3
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Manton Reece on AMP
Manton Reece on AMP: I want the web to be faster. Breaking links should not be part of the solution. AMP is terrible. As is any solution that changes the URL. When wap.* or m.* was "a thing" I hated that too. Now, more than ever, there is less reasons to change the URL to […]
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You have to be a Norwegian Strong Man competitor to open a packet of DayQuil.
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Not too hard to slink into the Sunday vibe with a fresh coat of snow on the ground. Coffee and biscuit morning.
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Fall leaves on the forest floor, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
Fall leaves on the forest floor, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
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What I saw this week #20: November 19, 2016
I’ve been sick most of the week and terribly busy so this week’s links are coming a day late. Inside Apple Design – Nice video showing some of the people and the workshop behind Apple’s iconic products. Wilderness – A gorgeous, chill video from Alastair Humphreys – someone on my follow list. PhotoScan by Google […]
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Sunlit ferns, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
Sunlit ferns, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
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Fall sunset on a dusty road – October 2016
Fall sunset on a dusty road – October 2016
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Removing the pro from Apple
John Gruber regarding Sal Soghoian being axed from Apple: If they had simply fired him, that’d be one thing, but the fact that they’ve eliminated his position is another. This is shitty news. I find this to be a profoundly worrisome turn of events for the future of the Mac. I hope I’m wrong. I […]
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Lobby, TekRidge, Jessup, PA – November 2016
Lobby, TekRidge, Jessup, PA – November 2016
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The Twitter grabbag
When I signed up to Twitter over 10 years ago the site was remarkably simple and easy to use. Back then using Twitter on mobile meant crafting SMS messages using particular syntaxes like "follow username" or "d username message". It was a fantastically simple experience with huge implications on how we all communicate. Today, there […]
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A tablet and a notebook in one
John Gruber: To me, an iPad in notebook mode — connected to a keyboard cover — is so much less nice than a real notebook. And the difference is more stark when compared to a great notebook, like these MacBook Pros. There are advantages to the tablet form factor, but no tablet will ever be […]
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Piano man, SAGE Awards, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Piano man, SAGE Awards, Scranton, PA – November 2016
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VR is not ready in 2016
Danny Nicolas: I hope someone is hard at work making an ubiquitous snow-crash-esq VR experience that compels everyone to rush to the stores to buy VR rigs, but 2016 was not the year where VR became the big thing. It might be the next big thing, but not this year. I’ve tested a bunch of VR […]
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Attending TecBridge’s Entrepreneurship Institute
On Friday I was able to pop into TecBridge’s Entrepreneurship Institute at Marywood University. It is an event designed to pull back the veil of starting, funding, branding, and generally running a company. When I arrived the panel for early stage funding was going on and the questions and answers seemed to be going pretty […]
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Up through pines, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
Up through pines, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
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E13: Switching to Windows 10 and the Surface Book, and pre-orders
Danny and I have a Saturday morning conversation about my purchase of the new Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base and switching from macOS to Windows 10. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e13.mp3 Links: Simplenote OneDrive and iCloud exFAT Surface Book and Surface Studio Thanks to Danny for the early wakeup. I edited this MP3 and published this post on Windows […]
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Lobby, Scranton Enterprise Center – November 2016
Lobby, Scranton Enterprise Center – November 2016
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