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E12: The Mac, RSS feeds, Shopping, and Stranger Things
We hit our stride in this bit. Danny and I have a Sunday-evening chat about how Apple could move away from the Mac and survive, RSS feed habits, shopping for clothes (naturally) and Stranger Things. Site Danny references is Woodpile Report. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e12.mp3 Download MP3
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Saving cognitive load: Notes
In my line of work (mostly programming) it can be incredibly difficult to keep all of the details of what is going on in my brain. In fact, it is impossible. To save cognitive load I employ a rigorous note taking strategy that frees up my working memory and allows me to focus on singular […]
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Stop worrying, hit publish
Jen Simmons, on her blog: So I have nothing much to say in this post. Or more honestly, I have so freaking much to say, I don’t know where to start. So I’m going to start here. I just need to break the silence. And get into a habit of posting. So I’m posting this. […]
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Terptra’s excursions
Similar to my What I saw this week series of posts Brett Terpstra has his own Web Excursions series. He describes his series like this: Web excursions are select bookmarks from Brett’s travels around the internet. You can see them all on Pinboard. Visit the bookmarks page for previous Excursions. Pretty cool that he incorporates […]
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The canopy, Lackawanna State Park – September 2016
The canopy, Lackawanna State Park – September 2016
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Tweeting for 10 years
Last week Jeremy Keith reminded me, yet again, of an anniversary I share with him. That is, we’ve now both been tweeting for 10 years. Here is my first tweet. Jeremy beat me by 6 days and only 5,000 tweets. Can you believe that back then only 5,000 tweets were sent in 6 days? These […]
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What I saw this week #18: November 4, 2016
My blog scheduled was knocked off tilt this week so this post is two days later than usual. It will be back on schedule this week. Cinemagraph GIFs – Take a still from a movie and animate just a small portion of it. I’ve seen these floating around for a few years but just now […]
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Empire State Building from Herald Square, New York City – November 2011
Empire State Building from Herald Square, New York City – November 2011
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Mallard, Frances Slocum State Park – October 2016
Mallard, Frances Slocum State Park – October 2016
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Mushroom, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
Mushroom, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
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Experiment more
Try new things with what you already have. In 2006 I wrote a post about taking full advantage of the things you already own. Knowing every feature of your SLR or Bluray player or getting to know the features of your most-used software. In this post I want to encourage you to try something completely new […]
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E11: Browsers, Surfaces, MacBook Pros, and Tesla roof
Danny and I have an early Sunday morning conversation about our browsers of choice (he likes Vivaldi), Microsoft and Apple’s announcements this week and the Tesla roof. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e11.mp3 Download MP3
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Penn State Worthington, Scranton, PA – October 2016
Penn State Worthington, Scranton, PA – October 2016
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Tree-lined street, San Francisco – July 2015
Tree-lined street, San Francisco – July 2015
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800, Wood door, University of Scranton – June 2015
800, Wood door, University of Scranton – June 2015
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FADE INTO A WORDPRESS LOGO
INTERIOR, COFFEE SHOP, HOUSTON, TEXAS Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, wearing a WordPress tshirt, brainstorms over a latte. MULLENWEG, internal dialogue: "How can I get WordPress in front of the Wix customer base for free?" … MULLENWEG: *opens WordPress on his Mac* …. MULLENWEG: Publishes: "The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint" to his WordPress-powered blog. […]
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Moss on tree – October 2016
Moss on tree – October 2016
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Brooklyn New York – August 2014
Brooklyn New York – August 2014
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What I saw this week #17: October 27, 2016
This week it feels like I saw tons of great things but when I checked my list in Simplenote for this post it wasn’t as full as I thought it would be. So I need to do a better job next week of keeping track of all the great things I’ve seen. One Letter Removed […]
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Fall on Bullhead Bay – October 2016
Fall on Bullhead Bay – October 2016
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What am I building here?
If you’re reading this you likely do something every single day that you haven’t put a name to. You publish. And, it is very likely, that you publish different things in several different places with just a little overlap. You might publish: quippy remarks about a live event on Twitter filtered photos, that presumably look a […]
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Hiking Lackawanna State Park: Frost Hollow Trail and Snowflake Trail
_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in October 2016 – Approx. 3.2 miles – I ended up jogging most of these trails rather than my normal casual hike. Because of this I ended up not taking near […]
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Moth – June 2010
Moth – June 2010
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Seagull, Sandbridge, Virginia – October 2015
Seagull, Sandbridge, Virginia – October 2015
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Thirty days of images
Each morning, at around 9am Eastern, a new image is published to my blog. I schedule these posts each weekend (I even built a WordPress plugin to help me) and they publish automatically without any other interference from me. I’ve just hit 30 consecutive days of this schedule and I’d like to keep it up in […]
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E10: Email services, business travel, food, and life journaling
Danny and I have a wandering Saturday afternoon discussion about email services, business travel, some food, and life journaling in the modern age. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e10.mp3 Download MP3
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Goat, Greenfield Township – October 2016
Goat, Greenfield Township – October 2016
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Fall horses, Greenfield Township, PA – October 2016
Fall horses, Greenfield Township, PA – October 2016
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RC Plane, Greenfield Township, PA – September 2016
RC Plane, Greenfield Township, PA – September 2016
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Lackawanna River, Simpson, PA – September 2016
Lackawanna River, Simpson, PA – September 2016
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What I saw this week #16: October 21, 2016
Lots of things funneled in from Twitter this week. And yet, at the same time, Twitter may slowly be losing grip on its ability to stay in business. Pity. Virtual Forest – VR is coming. Just watch Mark Zuckerberg’s demo recently and you’ll immediately see why a catalog like Virtual Forest is going to come […]
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How to fix bad thumbnails in Photos on macOS Sierra
Since updating to macOS Sierra my Photos library will show some bad thumbnails that are either completely black or have black "bars" on them. Here is just one example that I managed to screenshot (see: top left photo). If you come across this issue it is pretty easy to fix. Right-click (or, control+click, or two-finger […]
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Foggy sunset, Greenfield Township, PA – September 2016
Foggy sunset, Greenfield Township, PA – September 2016
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Hiking Lackawanna State Park: Kennedy Creek Trail, Basset Path, Abington Trail, Lee Hill Trail, Lakeshore Trail, Ranger Trail
_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in early October 2016 – Approx. 5.2 miles – If you’re looking at the map, the trails I hiked on this particular day rest just southeast of Bullhead Bay on Lee […]
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Prompton Lake, Prompton, PA – June 2016
Prompton Lake, Prompton, PA – June 2016
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Grimaldi’s, Brooklyn, NY – March 2014
Grimaldi’s, Brooklyn, NY – March 2014
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Hey, umm, Siri?
I was happy this week to see that the topic of how far behind Siri is came up on many tech blogs. It is a topic I’ve thought, but not wrote, a lot about. In 2012 Siri was ahead on ability, but behind on speed. Earlier in 2016, prior to WWDC, I wrote a WWDC […]
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UAV, Lackawanna State Park, PA – October 2016
UAV, Lackawanna State Park, PA – October 2016
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Cancún, Mexico – January 2015
Cancún, Mexico – January 2015
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E9: Follow up, Blog comments, and personal blogging
Danny and I enjoyed listening to ourselves talk so much that we did it again this week. Our conversation is mainly about blog comments and personal blogging. Riveting stuff. Listen to all of it. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e9.mp3 Download MP3
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San Juan, Puerto Rico – October 2012
San Juan, Puerto Rico – October 2012
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What I saw this week #15: October 14, 2016
I’m noticing that a fair portion of the items I’ve made note to include in this post are videos. That isn’t all bad. If you have time this weekend perhaps you’ll watch a few of them. PowerPress Podcast – In this episode of this podcast MacKenzie Bennett and Jane Ellen talk about Anchor (which I mentioned […]
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Hacking rather than waiting
Yesterday afternoon Sarah Pressler retweeted Jono Young’s request for a plugin that would add a submenu to the WordPress’ Admin with the current pages for the site under the Pages menu. This would reduce the number of clicks to get to the page editor. I was waiting for an upload to finish and I thought, given the code […]
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Ross Castle, Kilarney, Ireland – October 2011
Ross Castle, Kilarney, Ireland – October 2011
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