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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
Topics: AI, blogging, photography, programming, projects, Signboard
Panic: With one massive update we’ve brought everyone’s favorite file-transferring truck into the future with more speed, more servers, more features, more fixes, a better UI, and even Panic Sync. Everything from the core file transfer engine to the “Get Info” experience was rethought, overhauled, and improved. Hard to believe Transmit 4 is over 7 years old.
Spine Magazine: Spine was founded in 2014 by Emma J. Hardy, and covers creative and production aspects of the book publishing industry with a primary focus on book cover design. Its mission is to offer creator insight, long-form stories, product information, and community content for an audience that is highly enthusiastic about books. The first piece I read…
Jay Kothari, Project Lead for Glass: Now the Glass product team is back at X, and we’ll be collaborating with the Google Cloud team and our partners to help customers across a variety of business sectors make the most of Glass. Together, we’re looking forward to seeing more businesses give their workers a way to work faster and…
Bank Towers, Scranton – July 2017
Caiman, Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Earlier this week my Condron Media cohort Tucker Hottes and I presented at the July NEPA.js Meetup. Our presentation was about automation and all of the things we can automate in our lives personally and professionally. And also how we employ automation in our workflows for creating applications and web sites using our own task management suite. Here…
Mumford & Sons concert, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Colin Walker: Using OSX can be more intuitive at times but it is visually inconsistent. It may have been through various aesthetic revisions but it can feel old. I think Microsoft has done a better job of enforcing a standard look for applications on the desktop and the Windows design language is now generally more modern. In the…
In early June I decided I wanted to learn iOS app development using Swift. I've made a lot of progress over the last month, building two apps that I can use on my own phone, and one app that I'm now in beta testing via TestFlight with a few friends. Over the last month I've made some observations…
Belmar Marina, overlooking the Shark River – July 2017
Shark River Inlet, Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey – July 2017
Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
I don't have a good list this week since I spent most of it staring at my toes in sand. WSJ iPhone video interview – Similar to last week's link is this video interview of key people behind the creation of the iPhone. Yu's Bullet Journal – Vibrant journal. Makes me want to add some flare to mine…
Garrett Sloane for AdAge: Apple News will let top media partners use their own technology to fill the ad space in their content, becoming more of an extension of the publishers' own websites than the walled-off island it is now, the people said. At first I thought those that were linking to this have this wrong. But, the…
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia – June 2017
Scott McNulty: Let me repeat that: I've lost 50 pounds in 5 months! Scott and I have dieted together in the past. In fact, it has already been 12 years! He did tremendously well then so it is of no surprise that he's killing it yet again. He, like so many dieters including myself, had a relapse -…
Top of the World, Dunmore Pine Barrens – June 2017
Ben Brooks reviewing Hello Weather: This app is without a doubt, my favorite weather app. Not just now but of all the apps I’ve tried over the years. Well done. Ben's enthusiasm for Hello Weather reminds me of mine for Dark Sky. An app I use every day and gladly paid for. Hello Weather uses the same backend…
Twan van Elk: Everytime I open up my feed reader and read about people’s lives, thoughts, work, observations, what they ate, that beautiful flower they saw, I ask myself: why do I enjoy this so much more than any social media timeline I’ve ever been on? Because blog posts feel more permanent than social media posts causing people…
Turkey egg – May 2017
Tabledo: Create dynamic websites automatically using data from your spreadsheets as content. Cool idea. It appears Tabledo takes my idea much further. Last June I wrote: I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to use the work they’ve…
Colin Walker: Evergreen content. It’s what many bloggers crave. Posts that keep people coming back. Passive traffic that you don’t have to do anything more to receive. Back-in-the-day we called this the longtail. Publish enough posts on a given niche and generate tons of traffic over the longterm due to people searching for those topics and your blog…
Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Quad trail – June 2017