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The Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup is an excellent community in the Lehigh Valley that meets monthly at the Ben Franklin Technology Partners incubator within the Lehigh University Mountaintop campus. The community around the meetup is excellent and the building is amazing*. While the tail-end of my presentation walked through my experience building my first iOS app Summit, the…
Apple: The training speech data contains a minimum of 15 hours of high-quality speech recordings sampled at 48 kHz. We segmented the speech into half-phones using forced alignment, i.e., automatic speech recognition to align the input phone sequence with acoustic features extracted from the speech signal. This segmentation process results in around 1–2 million half-phone units, depending on…
Colin Walker: It's always a little weird glancing at my visitor stats and seeing that someone has read a post that no longer reflects my position. 100% agree. Most of my posts are out-of-date and my opinions have changed slightly since I've written them. I love this bit: This is why I always refer to the blog as…
☞ Dan Kimbrough: Cool new step counter, created here in #nepa. https://cdevroe.com/summit
Fred Wilson: AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He goes on to say that this has created a public record. A record that shows when he was right and when he was wrong. And he really likes…
This is quite a feat. Photographer Trevor Mahlmann figured out where you'd need to be within the path of totality in order to capture the International Space Station transiting the sun during the eclipse. That alone is pretty awesome. But there was a hitch. The land area that you'd need to be on in order to capture it…
This evening, at a presentation at the Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup, I'm opening up public beta access to my new iOS app, Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter. I've stitched together a temporary web site for the app as well as a mailing list that will allow you to get access to the final few beta builds prior…
Martin McCallion: If you work with plain text, as I prefer to, then you probably try out different text editors from time to time (or, you know, constantly). For a long time I used plain text files via nvAlt (as McCallion does). I miss plain text files. Then I moved to Simplenote. Then for a short time to…
Amber Leigh Turner on trying bullet journaling: And I was hooked. I knew this was a way to not only help me get back on track and focused, but would pull me out of the rut and the mess I made. I needed some way to keep track of my goals in my personal life, business life, and in…
Pilots, Prompton State Park – July 2017
John Gruber: 15 years ago this week, I started Daring Fireball with this piece on a then-new lineup of PowerMac G4’s. I've been subscribed to Daring Fireball since that first post. In fact, I'm a card-carrying member (when John was selling Memberships) and have more than one t-shirt. DF has set the standard for what blogging is on…
Curry Caputo, cousin to vlogging legend Casey Neistat, is hanging up his hat when it comes to recording, editing, and publishing daily videos and will now post whenever he feels like it instead. It was an incredible run. Kudos to him for doing it as long as he did.
Adam Savage visits Third Man Records – I'm a huge fan of everything Jack White is involved in so this was an instant-watch for me. It also reminds me that I need to go through and prune some records from our collection to make room for some newly pressed ones. Ready Player One trailer breakdown – Do not…
Not really. Maria Popova on the always excellent Brain Pickings re: John Quincy Adams and his thoughts on getting things done, learning, and wasting time: Years earlier, in observing his own habits of mind in the course of his voracious self-education, Adams had become aware of the meager correlation between effort exerted and results obtained when a clarity…
Cotton Bureau: Size-inclusive, made-in-the-USA, better-fitting, premium t-shirts for women and men. I wore a Cotton Bureau tee on Tuesday of this week (thanks Kyle). It felt great. It looks like these new carefully considered tees will be even better than the high-quality product they already offer. /via Kyle Ruane on Twitter.
Vines – July 2017
Finally Blasts Destroys Braces Defends Smashes …and you won’t believe what happened next
The State Street Grill, Clarks Summit, PA – August 2017 I had a recent business lunch at The State Street Grill and finally remembered to add anchovies to my Caesar Salad. It was delicious.
Zach Leatherman: As my own little corner of the web uncermoniously turned ten years old this year, it’s really starting to feel more like a garden than a piece of software. I certainly enjoy tending to it. I can plant what I like and with proper care it can grow into something useful. First, how cool is his…
Hudson River, Newburgh, New York – August 2017 On a recent weekend trip Eliza and I ate BBQ on the Hudson. It was a gorgeous weekend in the Hudson River Valley area.
https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e18.mp3 In late-July I stumbled upon a large mound of sand at a construction site that had several large wasps digging holes. I had never seen a wasp that large in my life. Turn your volume up for the tail end of this audio bit. Links Video: Ground Digger Wasps in Australia. Look a bit narrower and perhaps smaller…
Ron Chester: I have only one reservation about the development of this IndieWeb stuff. While it is in progress, most of these websites have disabled regular comments, if they ever had them. Often there is also no contact information given, or it takes a lot of hunting on their websites to find it. So if one doesn’t have…
☞ Phil Schiller: Celebrating #HyperCard (I created some insane stacks in the day…) http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/
If you visit my site at all you may have noticed many of the recent posts have replies showing up on them from Micro.blog. Here is one example post. That is because webmention works pretty well on Micro.blog. However, this is causing me a bit of frustration because it feels as though the conversation about a post is…