Longer-form posts and essays.

Jeremy Keith on JSON Feed

Jeremy Keith: I don’t know if syndication feeds have yet taken on their final form, but they’re the canonical example of 927ing. 🙂 See also.

Dan Kimbrough’s weekly links

Dan Kimbrough on his own blog: Going to try to share cool stuff I come across weekly. This is the best sentence I've read this week.

Alpaca. December 2016

Alpaca. December 2016

iOS 11 and iPad wishes from Mac Stories

Federico Viticci: We haven't seen something truly new, bold, and transformational happen on the iPad platform in nearly two years. It's time for Apple to step up their game and continue pursuing the vision for the future of computing set forth in 2015. There's so much more work to be done with iOS, multitasking, and the redefinition of…

Human waste. Scranton, PA – November, 2016

Human waste. Scranton, PA – November, 2016

E16: The Dark Crystal, Netflix, Amazon and more

Danny and I sat down on Saturday afternoon to chat about a few things. Below are a few links relevant to our conversation. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e16.mp3 Links The Dark Crystal on Netflix trailer Netflix spending $6B on content Amazon spending over $3B Google I/O Keynote Microsoft Build Keynote | Day 2 Download MP3

Flight over sunset. September 2016

Flight over sunset. – September 2016

Twan van Elk quits social media

Twan van Elk, in response to my recent post: This week I am deactivating several social media accounts and focusing more on my blogging. He followed through too. I loved this bit after only a few days away from social media: That is also something that has changed: I now write for me. Sorry people, I hope you…

Supporting WebMentions

Jeremy Cherfas, in response to a recent post of mine: Not exactly sure what Colin Devroe means when he says he's "just going to publish her on my blog". I guess that means he's not interested in people, like me, publishing our comments on our blogs. Of course there's no compulsion to POSSE to be part of the…

What I saw this week #42: May 19, 2017

Video: The Infinite Now – Armand Dijcks, whom I met in Hawaii many years ago, released these hauntingly beautiful animated cinemagraphs from photos by Ray Collins scored by André Heuvelman and Jeroen van Vliet. Photographs of Films – Jason Shulman does long exposure photography of entire films. Very cool. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance – Netflix is creating a 10-part prequel…

Google Assistant for iOS is a clunky mess

Karissa Bell for Mashable: For starters, Assistant's iOS app is a confusing, disjointed, mess. You'd think the Assistant would be able to easily link up with all your other Google services, but that wasn't the case in my initial testing. It isn't often that I agree with an article on Mashable. However, in this case I very much…

I've been enjoying Meat Eater on Netflix. Steven Rinella seems like someone I'd hang with.

Google I/O 2017 wish list

I figured that since I wrote my Build 2017 wish list and the reviewed that list after the event, and that I plan on doing the same for WWDC this year, it would only be prudent to write down my wishes for Google I/O as well. At first when I sat down to write this list I could only…

My thoughts on Build 2017

I have a few thoughts on Build 2017. First, how did Build 2017 measure up against my very short wishlist? Windows Phone. Although a few presenters over the few days managed to get an applause from the crowd when referring to Windows Phone, we saw zero announcements from MSFT in this area. The complete opposite of what I…

Two blankets are better than one.

What I saw this week #41: May 12, 2017

Minecraft: Microsoft is continuing to make good on their acquisition of Minecraft. Most recently they've created their own currency in the platform and launched an educational version. /sessions: A bunch of videos on front-end development. Artemis: Andy Weir, writer of The Martian (which I loved), has a new book coming out. Tokio Myers: I like how this guy…

Tech IPOs in 2017, so far

Tomasz Tunguz: The IPO market in 2017 seems to be very healthy and is on pace to be twice as active as last year. Only two VC-backed tech IPOs from this year are currently trading down. Not bad.

Attending the 2017 Pennsylvania sUAS Expo

Acronyms are all the rage these days and so it can be tough to keep them all straight. Don't be ashamed if you have no idea what UAS stands for. I didn't either. UAS stands for Unmanned Aerial System. Like an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) an UAS involves more than simply a vehicle and usually also includes camera,…

Iron Horse movie bistro in downtown Scranton

On Sunday we went to the Iron Horse movie bistro in downtown Scranton. I was going to write a review but Joe Evans of NEPA Scene has already hit most points that I would cover. All of the follow quotes are from his review. Be sure to head to their site to read it. The first thing that…

Windows Central on Build

Speaking of Build, Zac Bowden at Windows Central has a list of things to expect on Wednesday. Including this Windows Phone long shot: I have in fact been hearing that internally Microsoft continues to develop CShell for Windows 10 Mobile in Redstone 3 builds. Whether that means we'll see it at Build, or at all, is another question….

Tim Bray on blogging in 2017

Tim Bray: On a blog, I can write about blog­ging and whim­si­cal­ly toss in self-indulgent pic­tures of May’s bud­ding aza­leas. OK, Tim. I see your azaleas and raise you these springtails. Tim's post via Jason Kottke and Jeremy Keith. See also.

My old blog is back

You may have noticed a slight uptick in my publishing. That's because I am, once again, coming back to my blog as the central place that I publish. Except this time I care far less about any of the content getting to any social networks. It is simply too exhausting to get working correctly. And once you have…

My Build wishlist

Microsoft's Build conference starts on Wednesday. I've been watching this conference closely for the last three years.* Each year Microsoft has shown that they are a completely different company since Satya Nadella has become CEO. They actually make the things they show. Over these same years they've improved upon Windows so-much-so that I have a hard time defending my…

Bashing Windows

Ben Brooks likes the look of the new Surface Book Laptop. But he says this about Windows: Still runs Windows though. I don't know if Ben has used the very latest Windows 10 builds but if he hasn't he should give it a try. I've already said not to bet against Microsoft but I would also say, at…