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Lee Billings for Scientific American: All good things must come to an end. For NASA’s Cassini orbiter—its fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planet’s sprawling rings and dozens of icy moons—the end will come Friday at 7:55 A.M. Eastern time. That’s when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two-ton, bus-size…
👉 TNW: iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook [Pro] speeds and destroy Android phones That is impressive and remarkable.
👉 Maciej Cegłowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)
👉 Conan O'Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)
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 seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. It’s weak and poorly located. There’s only one speaker for media playback. At the bottom, to the right of the charging port. If you’re left handed, that’s probably where your pinky will sit. Sorry….
Brad Frost: The term “full-stack developer” implies that a developer is equally adept at both frontend code and backend code, but I’ve 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: While I’ll 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 ‘must carry’ device is remarkable. This is why I'm ordering one. As I said I would.
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 size—a small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And AAA game titles…
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…
👉 Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Can’t believe they didn’t indent it a little bit.
👉 John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.
Recorded on September 1, 2017 A quick audio bit from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Download Audio File.
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 “know” just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short of Eddy Cue’s…
👉 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.
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…
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
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 I’m just getting to look at some photos I made with the drone in July.
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 on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I don’t care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or don’t. Implement Webmentions or don’t. Allow comments or don’t. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or don’t. Publish long posts or short, it doesn’t…
👉 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 on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s 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…