Repost: Conan O’Brien on Twitter
šĀ Conan O'Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)
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Get your NEPA BlogCon 2017 Tickets
NEPA BlogCon 2017 tickets are available: Attendees can expect presentations and roundtable discussions on branding, content development, podcasting, vlogging, and more. I like the format changeup. (See also) Looks like some friends are presenting as well. Go grab your tickets.
Dan Kimbrough reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note8
Dan Kimbrough seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. Itās weak and poorly located. Thereās only one speaker for media playback. At the bottom, to the right of the charging port. If youāre left handed, thatās probably where your pinky will sit. Sorry….
Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I've seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also administer server architectures…
_DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3
_DavidSmith: While Iāll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a āmust carryā device is remarkable. This is why I'm ordering one. As I said I would.
Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And AAA game titles…
Share Instagram Stories via Direct Message
Instagram: Starting today, you can share stories with your friends in Direct. This is a meaningful update. Stories sucked a lot of the activity out of the feed. Being able to share Stories you find – whether they are about a place, event, an interest, a celebrity, or from a friend – means that a lot more eyeballs…
Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
šĀ Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Canāt believe they didnāt indent it a little bit.
Repost: Daring Fireball on the iPhone X notch
šĀ John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.
From a beachfront balcony in Mexico (audio)
Recorded on September 1, 2017 A quick audio bit from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Download Audio File.
Wishes for Appleās Fall Media Event
On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we āknowā just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short of Eddy Cueās…
Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter
šĀ Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.
Python is blowing up
David Robinson, not The Admiral, for Stack Overflow: We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the growth of Python…
CNN lite
Remarkable find by Jack Baty, CNN Lite: I could not love this more. Can we get all of the news sites to do this? I can't tell if this is official or not. Either way, bookmarked.
Clinton, PA – July 2017
Clinton, PA – July 2017
Add favicons to tabs in Safari
Faviconographer: Faviconographer is a little utility that displays Favicons for the tabs you have opened in the current Safari window, just like almost every other browser does it. Magic. /via Daring Fireball.
Prompton State Park – July 2017
Prompton State Park – July 2017 Iām just getting to look at some photos I made with the drone in July.
Mobile blogging goals (audio)
Recorded September 10, 2017 Starting with this audio bit I'm making a few changes. I'm ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren't really episodes, and keeping track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post. I'm also switching to the…
Jack Baty: āPlease just start a blogā
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I donāt care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or donāt. Implement Webmentions or donāt. Allow comments or donāt. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or donāt. Publish long posts or short, it doesnāt…
Repost: Emily Lakdawalla on Voyager’s 40th Anniversary
šĀ Emily Lakdawalla on The Planetary Society blog: The fact that both Voyager spacecraft are still functioning and doing science, 40 years after their launches, is reason for optimism. We can build robust, adaptable machines capable of surviving unpredicted storms and responding to new discoveries. We can build them, launch them, and stably operate them for four decades, and…
David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”
David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether youāve never heard of it before or youāve abandoned it for pastures new, hereās why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I've used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don't see a future of the web without RSS. So if…
Chris Lovie-Tyler on supporting different building blocks of the IndieWeb
Chris Lovie-Tyler, from the other side of our planet: After reading a handful of Colin Devroeās posts (links at the bottom), Iāve made a few decisions. I'm glad my posts, in which I was just thinking out loud and forming my own opinions on these matters, helped him to form his. I believe everyone should do whatever is…
A unique color for every address in the world
A recent, yet-to-be-announced client project had me designing a mobile app interface that dealt a lot with showing locations and events that are happening at certain locations (how is that for vague? sorry). While I utilized the brand's colors to represent certain sections of the app I wanted the app to have tons of colors in order to…
Rian Johnson: \”Luke is The Last Jedi\”
Rian Johnson in The New York Times: Itās in the opening crawl of āThe Force Awakens.ā Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. Thereās always wiggle room in these movies ā everything is from a certain point of view ā but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And heās removed himself…