Upcoming.org is back
Andy Baio: In September 2003, I opened Upcoming.org to the public. And now, 4,941 days later, four years after Yahoo shut it down and deleted everything, Upcoming.org is back — thanks to…
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What I saw this week #37: March 31, 2017
Chrome still won't show me more than two days of browsing history. Unfortunately this week I relied on this bug being fixed. So, for next week I'll keep better track of URLs…
Attending NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017
Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017. It was a panel discussion regarding how agencies use WordPress with Jack Reager of Black Out Design (our gracious host, thanks Jack…
What I saw this week #36: March 24, 2017
Chrome v57 is really cramping my style. It only shows me the last few days of browsing history. I hope they fix this issue soon. So, this week is a little light…
What should a conference look like in 2017?
Karla Porter: I find myself searching for the value of spending a boatload of money and travel time to attend conferences. Not just for myself, but for you too. After all, that could be…
Andrew Ng on the impact of AI
Andrew Ng resigns from Baidu to focus on helping AI impact more companies and industries. In his resignation post he mentions the impact AI is having, and will continue to have, on…
Clips
Apple: Introducing Clips. A new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more. I've been looking for an app like this for a long time. The Verge…
The new MacBook Pro with Touchbar
Sarah Parmenter: By the time 2016 rolled around, I was overdue an upgrade and I thought the new MacBook Pro’s were enough of an upgrade to warrant a new purchase. After all,…
How do you get work?
Aspiring freelancers always ask this question. Lara Schenck answers: I tell people I’m looking for work. Then, while I wait for referrals, I do a bunch of stuff for free. That includes…
What I saw this week #35: March 17, 2017
I took two weeks off for travel/vacation (and didn't read much online during that time) so this list will likely be a bit all over the place and sparse. Dunbar's Number – I've…
GitLab to open source Gitter
Jordan Novet for VentureBeat: GitLab won’t bundle it in its community edition or its enterprise edition yet, but it will open-source the Gitter code for others to build on, GitLab cofounder and…
Attending Small Agency Idea Lab (SAIL) in Walt Disney World, Florida
Last week I attended SAIL, Second Wind's Small Agency Idea Lab, at the Boardwalk Resort in Walt Disney World, Florida. This is the first marketing and advertising agency event that I've been to…
CSS Grid
CSS Grid is rolling out to browsers. Firefox already, Chrome this week. Eric Meyer: For well more than a decade now, when asked what CSS needs more than anything, I’ve said it…
No-pressure blogging
Manton Reece: I love that blogs can scale from the trivial to the important. The microblog post about what you had for breakfast. The half-baked rant about something you’re passionate about. And…
Slingshot around the moon, for two
SpaceX: We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. That sentence makes me immeasurably happy. For…
What I saw this week #34: February 24, 2017
Video: Ratchet Face – From a longer performance by Tom Thum who you may remember from this TEDx presentation. Amazing stuff. Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson on JRE – Joe Rogan had Tyson…
Arguments aren’t parameters
Eevee on the names of things in programming languages: Part of the problem here is that we’re not actually doing computer science. We’re doing programming, with a wide variety (hundreds!) of imperfect…
What the FAA really just said about drone encounters
You'll likely read a headline on your favorite news site today that reads as if the FAA has said drone strikes are up for 2016. And they likely are – as there…
Multiple photos and videos in a single post on Instagram
Instagram: With this update, you no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember. Now, you can combine up to 10 photos and…
The crescent of Venus
Harold Jenkins: From February through March 2017 Venus will put on quite a show in the west after sunset. Unmistakably bright, its crescent will be getting thinner while the disc of the…
TRAPPIST-1
The following two sentences encapsulate an incredible feat in the advancement of human discovery: TRAPPIST-1 is a planetary system, located 12 parsecs away from the Solar system (39 light years), near the ecliptic,…
Overcast 3
Marco Arment just released version 3 of Overcast, the podcast player I use on my phone every single day. I like this bit in the update: No closed-source code will be embedded…
Whiskey Bacon reviews Blue Apron
Team Whiskey Bacon tears into Blue Apron and lists 10 things they hate about it. I agree with many of their points, especially #2 and #6 on their list and that Blue…
What I saw this week #33: February 17, 2017
Oristand – Want to try a standing desk? This is a pretty inexpensive and portable way to try it. Houdiniopoly – A local Houdini Museum is creating a boardgame and kickstarted the…
Information water torture
Emily Lakdawalla, on taking a writing sabbatical: I feel less and less satisfied doing rushed news-update-style reporting, and am more interested in spending more time to explain science or engineering in depth,…
Attending February’s NEPA.js meet up
NEPA.js is quickly becoming my favorite tech-related event to attend. On Monday night at the Scranton Enterprise Center a solid group of attendees listened and shared in Jason Washo's presentation on whether…
The music for Stagehand
I linked to this post in #32 but, just in case you missed it, I'm linking to it properly because I believe it deserves it. Cabel Sasser, on creating the intro song…
Live streaming video, by the numbers
Dan Kimbrough: Facebook makes sense as the leader. More people use Facebook than YouTube. And by that, I mean we consume a lot on YouTube, most of its traffic is viewing videos,…
David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”
David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few…
Interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio Episode 5
Phil Condron and I were recently interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio – a radio show cum podcast about business, entrepreneurship and the knowledge economy in northeastern Pennsylvania. Topics included marketing for small businesses, who…