What I saw this week #32: February 13, 2017
I missed publishing this on Friday so I'm publishing it today. Roper Game Prototype – Mary Rose Cook showing off again. Maja Kuczyńska wind freestyle – Humans shouldn't be able to move…
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Post filtering fixes at Homebrew Website Club
Last night Tucker Hottes, Den Temple and I held the first Homebrew Website Club at The Keys in Scranton, PA. I really appreciate that HWC will force me to set aside some…
Josh Ginter on Instagram pressure
Josh Ginter re: my Instagram pressure post: I tried to fix this by unfollowing just about everyone I know personally and following as many talented photographers as I could find. The result…
iPad sales
Marco Arment posits the idea that, maybe, the iPad isn't the future of computing based on the fact that sales are down year-over-year again. He writes: What if, like so much in technology,…
What I saw this week #31: February 3, 2017
Short list this week. Video: Apple Campus flyover – Getting closer to being complete every month. Video: Matt D'Avella's YouTube channel – Friend, former collaborator on many projects, and Director of Minimalists. ASCII…
Chris Aldrich on Instagram pressure
Chris Aldrich: While in some sense I do miss the beautiful Instagram feeds of yore when it was mostly professionals, it's more interesting now with friends who use it to capture small…
Scranton’s first Homebrew Website Club
Next Wednesday I'll be hosting the first Scranton-based Homebrew Website Club at Condron Media's headquarters on Penn Avenue. There are other locations HWC will be happening on that day too. If you have…
Instagram pressure
Kevin Weil, Instagram's head of product, within a piece by Kurt Wagner for Recode regarding Instagram: “It became a place where people kept raising the bar on themselves in terms of the…
My drone pre-flight checklist
Since I shared my hiking checklist I thought I'd also share my always-a-work-in-progress drone pre-flight checklist. Not every question on this applies to every single situation and some of these rules you…
Observations about flying a DJI Phantom 4 Pro
Maria Langer, professional helicopter pilot, blogger and Twitter friend, got her DJI Mavic Pro on nearly the same day as I got my DJI Phantom 4 Pro. She's taken the time to…
What I saw this week #30: January 27, 2016
Flexbugs – Described as "A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them." Video: Hovering a helicopter is hard – I've been going back through Smarter Everyday's archive. An inverted aquarium…
Dreamhost supports Micro.blog
Jonathan LaCour, SVP, Product & Technology at Dreamhost: We’d like to make it as easy as possible to launch a WordPress-powered microblog on DreamHost that integrates well with Manton’s upcoming Micro.blog service. In…
How we got Linux on Windows
Brian Jepson writing about the Windows Subsystem for Linux: But there's a lot more going on. First, WSL is really a new infrastructure for Windows that implements a Linux kernel-compatible ABI (Application…
Lauren Pittenger’s Bookmarked series
Lauren Pittenger: Inspired by Colin Devroe’s What I Saw This Week series and Elise Blaha‘s newsletters come my own series of posts of links I find worth sharing. Excellent. You can follow along via…
The slow web and POSSE
David Mead: This year all of my posts, replies, and retweets on Twitter will be coming from this blog and not using the Twitter app (#OwnYourData). That probably means doing it at…
Duck Duck Growth
Two years ago I wrote about DuckDuckGo, my search engine of choice on all devices, reaching 12M daily active searches. They are still growing. Gabriel Weinberg: We are proud to say that…
How I create my weekly link posts
With my What I saw this week series of posts hitting #29 this week I thought I'd take a second to share how these posts do on my site, how I create…
Looking beyond launch
Jeremy Keith regarding Clearleft's upcoming rebrand: I think it’s good to remember that this is the web. I keep telling myself that we’re not unveiling something carved in stone. Even after the…
What I saw this week #29: January 20, 2017
Be sure to peruse the archive of this series of posts. Best selfie ever? – Definitely in the running. Joe Robinet – I've been digging Joe's stuff on YouTube. Behind-the-scenes of Rogue One…
Joining Condron Media
I see huge opportunity in digital marketing over the next decade. We're now reaching the point where billions of people are using social platforms to share information every single day, where the…
The Micro.blog stretch goal
Manton Reece has added a thoughtful stretch goal to Micro.blog's Kickstarter campaign: If the Kickstarter reaches $80,000, I will use some of the money to make my very first part-time hire for…
App.net shutting down
Dalton Caldwell: We envisioned a pool of differentiated, fast-growing third-party applications would sustain the numbers needed to make the business work. Our initial developer adoption exceeded expectations, but that initial excitement didn’t ultimately translate into a big…
Micro.blog’s iPhone app
Manton Reece recently published an update to Micro.blog's Kickstarter showing a video demonstration of the iPhone app he's creating for the service. He mentions a really important point that I think many…
Power-save mode
Lauren Pittenger: Reminds me of all of the times I’ve been told I’m too quiet, or “you haven’t moved from this spot this entire party.” Or feeling bad about hanging out with…
Cartographic comparison between Google and Apple Maps
Justin O'Beirne: In this series of essays, we’ll compare and contrast the cartographic designs of Google Maps and Apple Maps. We’ll take a look at what’s on each map and how each map…
PodSearch
_DavidSmith has a new side project called PodSearch. He explains: The concept was simple. Take a few of my favorite podcasts and run them through automated speech-to-text and make the result searchable….
What I saw this week #28: January 13, 2017
Video: What Comes Next is the Future – A documentary-style look back at the evolution of the web, and its underlying technologies that make it up, using interviews with those who have…
Attending January’s NEPA.js meet up
Photo: Aaron Rosenberg presenting an intro to Node.js. January's NEPA.js meet up, the second monthly meet up for this group, was held on Tuesday evening at the Scranton Enterprise Center. This group, though…
Attending the Wilkes-Barre Programming meetup
On Saturday I braved the frigid temperatures and attended a Wilkes-Barre Programming meetup at the Osterhout Free Library in downtown Wilkes-Barre. I arrived a few minutes late – it was Saturday so…
Independence is a long play
Jason Kottke re: Medium's announcement and why he chose not to move Kottke.org to Medium: New businesses are unstable…that’s just the way it is. In Silicon Valley (and in other startup-rich areas),…