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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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Milanville Bridge, New York, March 2016
Milanville Bridge, New York, March 2016
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Wirelessly transfer files from a GoPro using any computer without software
Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to subscribe to my blog. (Skip to the bottom of this post if you just want to know how to connect to your GoPro using an internet browser.) As I mentioned my GoPro Hero3+ Silver Edition has been giving me issues lately. It started 6 months ago as […]
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Kayaking Merli-Sarnoski County Park in May 2016
When choosing a location to go for a paddle, don’t be fooled by the size of the body of water. Enormous lakes aren’t necessarily any more fun than the small ponds. Merli-Sarnoski’s Mountain Mud Pond is an excellent example of this. The entire shoreline of the pond could be paddled in under an hour yet […]
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Thomasz Furmanek, Kayaker, Instagrammer
I’ve been following Thomasz Furmanek on Instagram for a few years already (right around the time I got my first kayak, the Oru Kayak, which is the same one Furmanek uses). I liked this bit in his photographic interview with Daily Mail: The kayak enables me to travel to remote places and show people these places […]
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Cape May Island – May 2016
Cape May Island – May 2016
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General Dynamics, from S. River Street, Scranton, PA – January 2016
General Dynamics, from S. River Street, Scranton, PA – January 2016
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Stop tracking referral spam with Google Analytics
Nice tip from Scott Buscemi on the Luminary Web Strategies blog: Have you ever logged into Google Analytics and noticed a huge, unexpected spike in traffic to your site? Maybe your last blog post was shared by a huge influencer on Twitter — or maybe you’re the victim of referral spam. One simple click. Be […]
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Upcoming.org Archive
Andy Baio has resurrected a massive amount of Upcoming.org’s first 10 years of event data: This is a static historical archive more than 7 million events saved from Upcoming’s first ten years. The vast majority of events were saved, and the original URLs for nearly all of them are active again — along with the […]
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A custom skin for MyFantasyLeague
Kyle Ruane on why he created a custom skin for MyFantasyLeague: There are things on that page that defy explanation—nested tables driving layout, 8px text, inline styles on everything, five different ‘main’ navigation elements. One big dumpster fire. And this is actually one of the better views in terms of usability. The power of the open web. If […]
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How I converted from Custom Post Types to Post Formats
It wasn’t too ugly. But it wasn’t exactly a cool swim either. I thought I would jot down why and how I moved from using a Custom Post Type for each type of post that I publish here — status, photo, audio, and normal post — to Post Formats. First, why move to Post Formats from Custom Post […]
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Jermyn Farm Road, May 2016
Jermyn Farm Road, May 2016
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Observations on using a standing desk
I’ve used a standing desk on-and-off for a few years. In 2011 I stood for a week before giving up. At the time I claimed that I wasn’t able to focus on my work as well while standing as I was while sitting. Reading that now confuses me as I believe standing is far more […]
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Penn Avenue at night, Scranton, PA – February 2016
Penn Avenue at night, Scranton, PA – February 2016
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Ba & Me, Honesdale, PA, November 2015
Ba & Me, Honesdale, PA, November 2015
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Sunset through Cattails, Lackawanna State Park, February 2016
Sunset through Cattails, Lackawanna State Park, February 2016
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If you turn on AC for the year try to remember to turn your heat off. *facepalm*
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Foggy Dam, Aylesworth Park, Jermyn, PA, May 2016
Foggy Dam, Aylesworth Park, Jermyn, PA, May 2016
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Sunset Beach, Cape May, May 2016
Sunset Beach, Cape May, May 2016
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Today will be fueled by coffee and headphones.
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How I create a combo feed using WordPress
When my site was on Barley I had something we called a "combo feed". A combo feed combined all content types (what we called custom post types) into my main RSS feed. This allowed someone to subscribe to a single feed and get all of the blog posts, statuses, photos, and audio bits that I publish. […]
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Sunset over Jermyn, PA – May 2016
Sunset over Jermyn, PA – May 2016
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Instagram has now become 100% friends and family. Which means we early adopters are about to jump ship. I thought it would be to SnapChat but that is still too disjointed (though crazy fun). I wonder what is next.
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We’ve already used our BBQ more this year than all of last. Hoping to keep it up.
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Everyone should write (or, blog?)
Deanna Mascle wrote on her blog on why all teachers should write. In it she says this about why students should write in every class every day: Reflective writing at the beginning of a class or before a lesson can help students access existing knowledge and build a foundation for new information. Writing activities during […]
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Owning my words and photos and audio bits
Jeremy Keith wrote on his blog about owning his words, or, being willing to publish his words (snarky or otherwise) on his own site under his own name. I recommend you read his entire post. But this bit stood out: I wish I could articulate how much better it feels to only use Twitter (or […]
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Sunset, Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA
Sunset, Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA
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Lately I’ve helped clients
Lately I’ve helped clients generate Excel and PDF files. Next I’ll be creating a bot that generates stone tablets. *rimshot*
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Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
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How to fix iTunes
How to fix iTunes: Remove App Store, remove Apple Music, remove Podcasts, remove syncing to iOS. Improve OS X App Store to include iOS apps. Make Apple Music app. Make Syncing app. Make Podcasts app. iTunes now just a jukebox. As it was. Perfect.
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I’m surprised the Warriors lost Game 1. I think this is going to be an incredible series.
I’m surprised the Warriors lost Game 1. I think this is going to be an incredible series.
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IFTTT recipes
Just took some time to clean up my IFTTT recipes for posting statuses, photos, audio bits, and blog posts to both Twitter and Facebook. I may need to rejigger the bits a few more times to get it right.
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Kayaking is therapy.
Kayaking is therapy.
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The Inn at Cape May
The Inn at Cape May, May 2016
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The iPhone SE is going to win every award it deserves. The camera is incredibly good.
The iPhone SE is going to win every award it deserves. The camera is incredibly good.
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The Unicode Consortium is responsible for more than emoji
Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, [on their blog](The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web. An essential part of our mission is to […]
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We know better now
Manton Reece, on his blog, on podcasting lock-in, the open web, silos, and more: While the open web still exists, we really dropped the ball protecting and strengthening it. Fewer people’s first choice for publishing is to start a web site hosted at their own domain. Like the destruction of Pennsylvania Station, sometimes you only […]
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Cape May Island, May 2016
Cape May Island, May 2016
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Guy in this coffee shop
Guy in this coffee shop ends all of his dictated text messages with “ellipses”. Class act.
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Improving Photos for OS X and iOS and iCloud Photo Library
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at all is magic. It is amazing. And I’m tickled that I even have it. That being said, we’re a few years away from […]
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Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett continues to take his own advice. He once said “In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine.” So as Carl Icahn sells $APPL Buffet buys $APPL. Sounds about right.
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When I show
When I show http://h2ocolor.com to someone in real life they are amazed that I’ve spent countless hours over 5 years curating an online watercolor gallery. Believe me, so am I.
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Your blog doesn’t need to make money
Sarah Pressler, on her blog: But the thing is you can just write for the sake of sharing your thoughts with the world at large. Or mostly, just for the sake of getting your thoughts out of your own head. It is true. Your blog does not need to make money. You do not need […]
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Yesterday was Astronomy Day and I didn’t write a word about it.
Yesterday was Astronomy Day and I didn’t write a word about it. Someone is going to take away my space nerd card.
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Mornings
For about 10 years now I haven’t set an alarm unless I had a plane or bus to catch. My belief is that if my body needs to sleep it will and if it doesn’t it won’t. For the most part this has worked out just fine for me. I’m not someone who needs to […]
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Photos has finished syncing to iCloud Photo Library.
Photos has finished syncing to iCloud Photo Library. Yay! I started on the 29th of March and synced nearly every night that I could.
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Some Fridays are more Friday than other Fridays. Today is the Fridayest.
Some Fridays are more Friday than other Fridays. Today is the Fridayest.
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Apple Didi
You have $250. Smart friend asks for $1. Says they can turn it into at least $15. You give them $1. That’s Apple’s $1B Didi investment.
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ear hair
I have the ear hair of a 90yr old Abe Vigoda and the chest hair of a 9yr old Macaulay Culkin. I guess it balances out?
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How emoji get rendered
Monica Dinculescu gets all geeky about how emoji are rendered in the Chrome browser. It is a great read but she makes this very important point: Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen. Now you know.
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