Doug Lane’s Micro.blog photo challenge
Doug Lane: I thought we could start on Saturday (Nov. 11) and go for seven days. He has a theme for each of the 7 days. I'm in.
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Twitter’s new character UI
Josh Wilburne, Designer at Twitter: With this in mind, we designed a system that defines two types of written languages, dense and non-dense, and expands the character limit for non-dense languages. By…
Apollo for reddit
Apollo: Apollo is built by a former Apple employee with feedback from thousands of Redditors to sculpt the best client possible. It features a beautiful, native iOS design, smooth, customizable gestures, fast…
Waymo is running trials without drivers
Darrel Etherington, for TechCrunch: Waymo is operating at full Level 4 autonomy, sharing public roads with human-driven cars and pedestrians, with no one at the wheel able to take over in case…
Condron Media podcasting audio test (audio)
Tucker Hottes and I are setting up new equipment for a forthcoming podcast from Condron Media. We're looking for feedback in the comments on how the audio sounds. Thanks in advance for…
Independent interviews Mike Krieger of Instagram
Adrian Weckler interviewed Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, for Independent.ie out of Dublin. Regarding longer form video Krieger replies: What we have right now is a minute. If we introduce longer video,…
Prompton Lake – October 2017
Prompton Lake – October 2017
Speaking at the 2017 tecBRIDGE Entreprenuerial Institute
Photo credit: Mandy Pennington on Twitter. On Friday I had the privilege to host two sessions at the 2017 tecBRIDGE Entrepreneurial Institute Conference at Marywood University. The event was very well attended…
August’s kilonova in NGC 4993
Robert Naeye for Astronomy magazine, on the instrumentation that detected a 130M year-old kilonova: The LIGO and Virgo instruments detected a crescendo of waves for a whopping 100 seconds — much longer…
A technology predication time capsule
Readers of my blog will know that I occasionally attempt to predict when certain technologies that I write about will hit the mainstream. While I'm very passionate about a few technologies, I…
The number of liquids, ointments, gels, and creams I purposefully rub onto my body on a daily basis has increased exponentially with age.
\”My Fares\” by Joseph Rodriguez
Joseph Rodriguez: It was not unusual to see shoe-shiners outside of Grand Central. They’re not there anymore. I think it’s a Banana Republic now. Incredible photo portfolio backed with incredible stories. /via…
An interview with Dan Rubin by Polaroid
My boy Dan Rubin on the Polaroid OneStep 2: First of all, it’s insanely exciting to see a brand new instant camera with the Polaroid name on it. The OS2 is a…
Corn – October 2017
Corn – October 2017
iOS shelf apps
Des Paroz: One of the great things about iOS 11 is the multitasking capability, and with it the emergence of so-called ‘shelf’ apps. I had never heard of the term "shelf apps"…
Rob Weychert reflects on 10 years of tweeting
Rob Weychert, reflecting on 10 years of Twitter usage, and the next 10: I don’t know how the positive experiences I’ve had with Twitter stack up against the harm it’s caused, and…
Finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. So much to glean.
Prompton Dam, Prompton State Park – October 2017
Prompton Dam, Prompton State Park – October 2017
Creating Summit: The current summit view
This post is the first in a series of posts about my experience building and designing Summit. This post focuses on just one view within the application; the current summit view. The…
Cedar Ave. Scranton, PA – September 2017
Cedar Ave. Scranton, PA – September 2017
Repost: Daman Rangoola on Twitter
👉 Daman Rangoola: Random iOS 11 bug: type 1+2+3 quickly in the stock calculator app, see what happens. Bet it won’t say “6”.
Apple picking – October 2017
Apple picking – October 2017 Eliza and I did some apple picking last weekend. We ate as many as we could while picking and then she made apple butter with our take.
Attending October’s NEPA.js meet up
On Tuesday, October 10 I attended October's NEPA.js meet up. John George of NEPA Web Solutions was this month's presenter and his topic was Bitcoin and the Blockchain: Democratizing How We Exchange…
First week of the NBA season has been pretty dramatic. I like it.
Developers, Let me tell you about Microsoft (audio)
I've been writing about Microsoft's moves for the last three years. This week everything has come together and I've been writing my first multi-platform application using C# and Visual Studio. In this…
GeekWire Summit: Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
Satya Nadella in a video interview on YouTube at GeekWire Summit: By the way, all of these efforts didn't started three-and-a-half years ago. It was Bill [Gates] who started MSR and Steve…
Be a social developer
Dwayne Hinterlang on CodePen: What if I told you there are even ways to connect with like minded people in person? Whether it's quickly learning something for the first time, discussions of…
SOLO
Ron Howard: Hey #Twitterville we just wrapped production so here's a special message #StarWars Follow the link for his video. Cute. Howard seems to be having a ton of fun with this,…
Listening to Manton's 70th episode of Timetable. I like the "out and about" feel of it. It is similar to what I like to record for my audio bits.
ESO observes kilonovae
European Southern Observatory: ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of…