Blog
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Use what works, play with the new
I had Unmark’d Kyle Slattery’s post on his company site (which I think is rather good looking; here is why) regarding why his company uses Ruby on Rails. It is a good post. Notice this bit: It’s easy to get caught up in the newest trend, and there are lots of great technologies being developed, but […]
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It must be monsoon season.
It must be monsoon season.
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Shot rather poorly at ball last night. It was probably too cold.
Shot rather poorly at ball last night. It was probably too cold.
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard lands again
This video is absolutely mind-blowing. Everything about this was science fiction a few years ago. In fact, the video looks fake while you watch it because you can’t believe this is happening on Earth. And now with some regularity. Watching this video makes me think that I’ll be alive when people (perhaps even with their […]
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Digital Transformations
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on LinkedIn: Each of us are part of our economies and our societies. Long-term growth is directly related to our ability to make our climate more sustainable, our economies more viable and our societies more equitable. Those changes can only happen if we ask ourselves two questions: What difference is […]
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Queued up a few blog posts since I was behind a bit.
Queued up a few blog posts since I was behind a bit.
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Release notes by Slack
Anna Pickard on Ev’s blog about Slack’s release notes: That means if something was a massive pain in the peach, or made people’s lives just a little worse, we don’t splatter it with jokes and pretty words to try and hide it. We say sorry, thank people for their continued patience, and let them know […]
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Stripe’s API documentation
Stripe has had best-of-breed API documentation for the last several years. They’ve just made it even better with a “quickstart tour” that works wonderfully. Anyone documenting an API should look very closely at what Stripe has done. Much of their success is very likely due to them caring about their docs. /via John Collison on Twitter.
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The Loop Magazine closes
Jim Dalrymple: I hate failure, and this was a failure for me. I will learn from it and focus my attention back on The Loop website, where it belongs. I’m sorry to the subscribers of the magazine, and hope you enjoy the upcoming issues I have prepared for you. We’ve all failed. We have an […]
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Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA October 2015
Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA October 2015
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How did I just now come across Mogwai?
How did I just now come across Mogwai?
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Our early spring…
Our early spring has felt more like winter than winter did.
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Wearing my Millenium Falcon tee.
Wearing my Millenium Falcon tee.
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Power out at home. Not to be denied our productive day Kyle and I have moved to Panera Bread.
Power out at home. Not to be denied our productive day Kyle and I have moved to Panera Bread.
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Putting in a long day today. Hustle!
Putting in a long day today. Hustle!
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Ice, snow, wind, and brilliant blue skies. One last push as winter is tilting south into the Southern Hemisphere.
Ice, snow, wind, and brilliant blue skies. One last push as winter is tilting south into the Southern Hemisphere.
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Woke up at 6:45a and built an import tool for Barley
Woke up at 6:45a and built an import tool for Barley 1 users to migrate to Barley 2. I thought this was going to be a herculean task but I ended up finishing in under 3 hours and 61 lines of code. A good reminder that sometimes I worry about things being tougher than they […]
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Brewing a second cup of coffee and reading…
Brewing a second cup of coffee and reading Gruber’s review of the iPhone SE: http://daringfireball.net/2016/03/the_iphone_se
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E6: Verizon, iPhone SE, Yeti
The iPhone SE is for me and Yeti is changing my life. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e6.mp3 Download MP3
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In Flight
In Flight
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iPhone SE reviews
The greatest living bearded blogger, Jim Dalrymple, on The Loop: I still think it’s going to make for an incredible upgrade for those iPhone 5s users, but I also think it’s going to appeal to some current iPhone 6 users. A lot of people upgraded to the newest design for the technology, and of course, […]
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The Model 3 looks…
The Model 3 looks like an amazing car and it is an equally amazing achievement. Congrats Tesla. Interesting to note: they brought in 115 million dollars in downpayments and have over 4 billion dollars committed. Not bad for a single day. No wonder Apple wants a peice of this pie.
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A few iCloud Photo Library observations
Somewhat related: Photo stats and observations. I began the switch to iCloud Photo Library a few days ago and so far it has been a mixed experience. Since weaving a good narrative is not in my wheelhouse, here is a laundry list of observations that I’ve made over the last few days. iCloud Photo Library […]
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Get used to the sight of people lining up for cars…
Get used to the sight of people lining up for cars. Tesla is as beloved as Apple. If Apple jumps into the auto-arena we’ll see this happening again. Happy day to all of you out there nabbing a Tesla 3. I wish I could.
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Imagine if your favorite software company said…
Imagine if your favorite software company said; we didn’t waste any resources this year on an April 1st joke, instead we are delivering these bug fixes. That would be something.
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The April jokes are starting to roll in already…
The April jokes are starting to roll in already. I think I’ll close all social sites for the next 48-hours.
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Trying to figure out how to keep my…
Trying to figure out how to keep my current pace at work without burning out. I honestly think it could be possible.
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Xamarin included in Visual Studio
Nat Friedman on the Xamarin blog: Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual […]
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Crimson treetops mottle the landscape. Beautiful day.
Crimson treetops mottle the landscape. Beautiful day.
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Dustin Kirkland and Ubuntu on Windows
Dustin Kirkland on his blog: Finally, I imagine some of you — long time Windows and Ubuntu users alike — are still wondering, perhaps, "Why?!?" Having dedicated most of the past two decades of my career to free and open source software, this is an almost surreal endorsement by Microsoft on the importance of open […]
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How many Mac developers will jump to Windows…
How many Mac developers will jump to Windows now that Bash can run in Windows 10? Fantastic update. #build2016
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I’m looking forward to Microsoft’s Build conference today…
I’m looking forward to Microsoft’s Build conference today. Last year’s presentation left me with a completely different attitude toward the company. Let’s hope they keep up the momentum this year.
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Satya is killing it.
Satya is killing it. #Build2016
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Snapchat’s Chat 2.0
Nearly all of the tech coverage I read about Snapchat’s latest update lead with “stickers” being part of the update. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bob the walrus. But how can they not lead with the fact that they’ve added realtime video and voice calling? I remember the first time I ever tried video chatting […]
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Bullhead Bay, Lackawanna State Park, November 2015
Bullhead Bay, Lackawanna State Park, November 2015
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E5: Cereal thoughts and missed opportunities
I’m upset with myself for not recording more audio. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e5.mp3 Download MP3
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Giving iCloud Photo Library a whirl…
Giving iCloud Photo Library a whirl. First observation is that it destroys your connection to the Internet. No other device on the network even knows the world exists outside these walls.
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IFTTT tries to strong arm Pinboard
Maciej Cegłowski on Pinboard’s blog: It’s entirely IFTTT’s decision to drop support for Pinboard (along with a bunch of other sites). They are the ones who are going to flip the switch on working code on April 4, and they could just as easily flip the switch back on (or even write an IFTTT recipe […]
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Scranton, PA, July 2015
Scranton, PA, July 2015
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Took a few minutes and worked on my basketball shot this afternoon.
Took a few minutes and worked on my basketball shot this afternoon.
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Warriors vs. Wizards…
Warriors vs. Wizards. These late games are tough on this old man.
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Western Hotel, Callicoon, NY, March 2016
Western Hotel, Callicoon, NY, March 2016
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A photo adventure in Callicoon, NY
Two friends (Matt, Ben) and I have been trying to plan an afternoon just to go out, explore, and shoot photos. Finally we were able to on Saturday afternoon. Left: Ben, me, Matt at Callicoon Brewing Company. We chose Callicoon on a whim but I’m glad we did. The weather was perfect to get out […]
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Delaware River, Milanville, NY, March 2016
Delaware River, Milanville, NY, March 2016 – From the Callicoon Photo Adventure.
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Instagram’s feed going algorithmic may…
Instagram’s feed going algorithmic may be the best reason to try Snapchat out since they never even had a feed. Interesting times to see how the “feed wars” will end up. I wonder if I’ll even be using Instagram in a year.
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It is lectern…
It is lectern http://xkcd.com/1661/
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Rainy start to the week. Excellent coding weather.
Rainy start to the week. Excellent coding weather.
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Incredibly productive day.
Incredibly productive day.
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Face detection got much worse in Photos in the latest OS X release.
Face detection got much worse in Photos in the latest OS X release.
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Warriors vs. Sixers. Regardless of who wins I win.
Warriors vs. Sixers. Regardless of who wins I win.
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