Blog
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I’m considering a return to jogging.
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Documentation by Stack Overflow
Kevin Montrose of Stack Overflow explaining Documentation: Documentation is community-curated, example-focused developer documentation, based on the principles of Stack Overflow. A natural extension to Stack Overflow and a welcome one. I should likely make this my homepage.
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How can I get into programming?
Linus Torvalds in 2004 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel – not just on an […]
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Rocket
I had bookmarked Rocket by Matthew Palmer almost two weeks ago and today I finally took the time to install it. Game changer on the Mac. Recommended. Also, give it an up-vote on Product Hunt if you like it.
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Today is going to be a headphone-mode type of day. Lots to catch up on after a week off.
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"Let’s make the zippers as loud as possible." – Tent Manufacturers
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"Let’s make a bag that only fits the tent once and never again." – Tent Manufacturers
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Warning: Gmail affected by Google Drive space
A few months ago I gave Google Photos a trial. I wanted to give the service a real, honest test so I purchased one of Google’s larger Drive plans (1 TB) and started uploading. Google Photos is great. In fact, the only reason I didn’t stick with it was because — like so many Google things […]
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Did some tweeting last night while Juno was preparing to slow down and enter Jupiter’s orbit.
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Broke my GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition’s waterproof case yesterday. Excuse to go Hero 4 Black?
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I hope @NASA’s Juno mission has a great day tomorrow. Will be an awesome 2016 if they do.
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Going to try a slightly different social approach for one week. Share here, and everywhere else separately.
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A remote workers review of Cocoon Coffeehouse in Hawley, PA
Yesterday Kyle and I wanted to get out of our home offices and work somewhere new. He suggested Cocoon Coffeehouse next to the Silk Mill in Hawley. A panoselfie of yours truly. It turned out to be a nice little spot to get work done. Comfortable chairs. Easily accessible wifi. Good food (I tried the […]
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Vestal, New York – June 2016
Vestal, New York – June 2016.
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Building a single page web site using an Excel spreadsheet
Need something like this? Consider hiring me for your next project. I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to use the work they’ve already done and the data they’ve already keyed in and wouldn’t need […]
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Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
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Loren Brichter on web apps
K. Q. Dreger interviewed Loren Brichter about his recent sale of Letterpress (my favorite iOS game). The interview is full of little behind-the-scenes tidbits on Letterpress and how it was made and where it is going. However, when Dreger asks Brichter what he’s been up to and what he will be doing next, I thought […]
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The Evernote slide continues
Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was seemingly happening. I’d be willing to bet that is about to accelerate. Back then, I wrote: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the people that […]
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The iPhone turns 9
Nine years ago today Eliza, John Gruber, Rob Sandie, Matt Regula and I were standing in line for the original iPhone. Here are a few photos: John, before having a computer in his pocket. It was quite a day. Looking back on it now, that day changed everything we do now.
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GoPro open sources Camera Toolkit
GoPro just updated their iOS app. In the release notes I noticed a link to their developer page wherein they’ve open sourced their Camera Toolkit for iOS and Android. Let’s hope a ton of bug fixes result so I can stop hacking mine.
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How many hats can you wear?
Maria Langer, on her blog, on owning and operating her own small business: I am the owner of a small business, Flying M Air, LLC. I do just about everything for the company except maintain the aircraft: schedule flights, preflight the aircraft, fly, take payment from passengers, manage the drug testing program, work with the FAA, […]
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Microsoft open sources .NET Core
Richard Lander on the .NET Blog: We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications. They said they would, and […]
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On rebranding
Over on our company blog we published our recipe for rebranding a company. Here’s a snippet on how our outsider view is an advantage: Our suggestions and feedback come with no internal bias, no politics, no fear of losing our jobs, and certainly no fear of sounding stupid. We’re experts at dumb ideas. Out of […]
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Three Toe: A simple SMS autoresponder on top of the Twilio API
If you find yourself needing something like this, why not hire me to make it for you? A friend of mine somewhat recently became a licensed realtor. One thing that surprised him was the lack of technology being used in his workplace. Though not a technologist himself, he enjoys an efficient workflow such as using a […]
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Hope Hill Lavender Farm’s Lavender Festival 2016
This weekend a few friends, Eliza, and I went to Hope Hill Lavender Farm‘s Lavender Festival. As one would expect with all lavender events, it was an absolute smashing success with thousands upon thousands of people turned away due to it being overcrowded. Wait, what? Let me back up and explain what happened then I’ll […]
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Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
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What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of over 4,000 objects, memories, and facial expressions that Photos for iOS and OS X will be able to mine all on its own […]
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We’ve had a good run of really nice, albeit hot, days so far this year. Don’t complain. It will be January again very soon.
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Three microphones
I began posting to my own site in earnest on March 6th of this year. I wrote: So, starting tonight that is what I’m going to try again to do with a goal of sticking with it in perpetuity. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be posting to Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, but that everything […]
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Regardless of the outcome of tonight’s game this has been the most fun to watch season of basketball in my lifetime.
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Book review: 2001: A Space Odyssey. – 5 stars.
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Signature style
Great piece from Lea Alcantara on her company blog on how originality and style have fallen to practicality and everything looking the same in web design: The result usually ends up being less creative or original due to drowning with these constraints. It’s understandable. It might even be laudable. I’m still soaking all of it […]
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Migrating Subscriptions from one Stripe account to another
Update June 2021: I’ve had enough interest in this service that I’ve created StripeTransfer.com — Please visit this site to schedule your consultation. Learn More at StripeTransfer.com One of my recent client programming projects (hire me here) was to help a company migrate all customers, cards, plans, and subscriptions from one Stripe account to another […]
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Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
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what3words
what3words describes itself as "the simplest way to communicate location". Essentially, the service creates a three word phrase for every 9-square-meter point on the earth. I came across this via Joon Ian Wong’s Quartz piece regarding Mongolia’s upcoming adoption of this system since many of its people do not have a mailing address: Mongol Post […]
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I’ve updated my list of subtle software updates announced by Apple this week.
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Random subtle updates to Apple software
Apple could not possibly cover every update to iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS in their Keynote. So as the nerds have been picking through the trash in and around San Francisco they’ve been able to dig up several subtle changes that are worth noting. Here are a few of them that I’ve found via Twitter […]
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WWDC murdered my wish list
In a good way. Yesterday I scrawled a few comments during the WWDC Keynote, and did 1 second reviews of the announcements on Snapchat, but I thought I’d jot down the tally of things I had hoped for against what was actually announced. First, however, let me just say that the amount of work Apple showcased yesterday […]
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WWDC 2016 wish list
Wish lists have been swirling around these last few days and many of them are quite good. But none of them are mine. So here is my wish list, not my predictions, for what will be announced today at WWDC. I hope Siri can do a lot more – I think we’re overdue on being […]
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Bad days are there to help you understand what a good day is.
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App Store Subscriptions
Yesterday the news hit of Apple’s changes to App Store policies and features including allowing developers to leverage Subscriptions for their applications so that they can better make a living making great apps. This, from John Gruber’s coverage at Daring Fireball: Now, subscription-based pricing will be an option for _any_sort of app, including productivity apps and games. […]
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Got Loop’d
It is always a pleasure to be linked to from The Loop. Yesterday, one of my posts about Photos for OS X and what I think can be done to improve it, was linked to (at my behest) by Dave Mark. My link is in good company there. Be sure to check out the other […]
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Foggy Apple Orchard – June 2016
Foggy Apple Orchard – June 2016
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Observations from the first two years of kayaking
I’ve been kayaking for two years and one month. My first post about kayaking is a sprawling post about my first two paddles but one that I’m really happy I wrote and published. In it I show exactly the types of things a new paddler worries about; falling in, being cold, getting in and out […]
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Standing desks make people more productive
The Wall Street Journal on a Texas A&M study on standing desks and their impact on productivity: The researchers attributed much of the productivity gains to the greater physical comfort reported by the workers at the higher desks. Nearly three-quarters of those workers said that they felt less discomfort after using the desks for the […]
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Love lazy Sunday mornings.
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Frozen Lackawanna Lake, February 2016
Frozen Lackawanna Lake, Lackawanna State Park, February 2016
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My #FollowFriday recommendations
Today I decided to go through the list of accounts that I follow on Twitter and cherry-pick those I think others should consider following and why. I’ve tweeted all of the suggestions but I also wanted to catalog them here on my blog. @jensimmons – Jen is writing tons of CSS tests so you don’t have to. […]
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I agree with Seth, read more blogs
Seth Godin, on his blog: Other than writing a daily blog (a practice that’s free, and priceless), reading more blogs is one of the best ways to become smarter, more effective and more engaged in what’s going on. The last great online bargain. I obviously agree with Seth. Everyone should blog. And should read blogs. […]
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Is Medium embracing the open web?
Julien Genestoux, founder of Superfeedr, on his company’s blog regarding his company being acquired by Medium and how Medium is supporting open protocols already: At Superfeedr, we’ve promoted the open web by embracing open formats and protocols, such as RSS, Atom, XMPP and PubSubHubbub. Over the years, we’ve also learned that these protocols are only […]
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