Building a single page web site using an Excel spreadsheet
Need something like this? Consider hiring me for your next project. I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from…
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Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Loren Brichter on web apps
K. Q. Dreger interviewed Loren Brichter about his recent sale of Letterpress (my favorite iOS game). The interview is full of little behind-the-scenes tidbits on Letterpress and how it was made and…
The Evernote slide continues
Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was…
The iPhone turns 9
Nine years ago today Eliza, John Gruber, Rob Sandie, Matt Regula and I were standing in line for the original iPhone. Here are a few photos: John, before having a computer in his…
GoPro open sources Camera Toolkit
GoPro just updated their iOS app. In the release notes I noticed a link to their developer page wherein they've open sourced their Camera Toolkit for iOS and Android. Let's hope a…
How many hats can you wear?
Maria Langer, on her blog, on owning and operating her own small business: I am the owner of a small business, Flying M Air, LLC. I do just about everything for the company…
Microsoft open sources .NET Core
Richard Lander on the .NET Blog: We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is…
On rebranding
Over on our company blog we published our recipe for rebranding a company. Here's a snippet on how our outsider view is an advantage: Our suggestions and feedback come with no internal…
Three Toe: A simple SMS autoresponder on top of the Twilio API
If you find yourself needing something like this, why not hire me to make it for you? A friend of mine somewhat recently became a licensed realtor. One thing that surprised him was…
Hope Hill Lavender Farm’s Lavender Festival 2016
This weekend a few friends, Eliza, and I went to Hope Hill Lavender Farm's Lavender Festival. As one would expect with all lavender events, it was an absolute smashing success with thousands…
Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of…
Three microphones
I began posting to my own site in earnest on March 6th of this year. I wrote: So, starting tonight that is what I’m going to try again to do with a…
Signature style
Great piece from Lea Alcantara on her company blog on how originality and style have fallen to practicality and everything looking the same in web design: The result usually ends up being…
Migrating Subscriptions from one Stripe account to another
Update December 2025: At the very kind request of Stripe, Stripe Transfer has been renamed to Good Migrations. The process on this page is out of date.Please reach out to Good Migrations…
Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
what3words
what3words describes itself as "the simplest way to communicate location". Essentially, the service creates a three word phrase for every 9-square-meter point on the earth. I came across this via Joon Ian…
Random subtle updates to Apple software
Apple could not possibly cover every update to iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS in their Keynote. So as the nerds have been picking through the trash in and around San Francisco they've…
WWDC murdered my wish list
In a good way. Yesterday I scrawled a few comments during the WWDC Keynote, and did 1 second reviews of the announcements on Snapchat, but I thought I'd jot down the tally of things…
WWDC 2016 wish list
Wish lists have been swirling around these last few days and many of them are quite good. But none of them are mine. So here is my wish list, not my predictions,…
App Store Subscriptions
Yesterday the news hit of Apple's changes to App Store policies and features including allowing developers to leverage Subscriptions for their applications so that they can better make a living making great apps….
Got Loop’d
It is always a pleasure to be linked to from The Loop. Yesterday, one of my posts about Photos for OS X and what I think can be done to improve it,…
Foggy Apple Orchard – June 2016
Foggy Apple Orchard – June 2016
Observations from the first two years of kayaking
I've been kayaking for two years and one month. My first post about kayaking is a sprawling post about my first two paddles but one that I'm really happy I wrote and…
Standing desks make people more productive
The Wall Street Journal on a Texas A&M study on standing desks and their impact on productivity: The researchers attributed much of the productivity gains to the greater physical comfort reported by…
Frozen Lackawanna Lake, February 2016
Frozen Lackawanna Lake, Lackawanna State Park, February 2016
My #FollowFriday recommendations
Today I decided to go through the list of accounts that I follow on Twitter and cherry-pick those I think others should consider following and why. I've tweeted all of the suggestions…
I agree with Seth, read more blogs
Seth Godin, on his blog: Other than writing a daily blog (a practice that's free, and priceless), reading more blogs is one of the best ways to become smarter, more effective and…
Is Medium embracing the open web?
Julien Genestoux, founder of Superfeedr, on his company's blog regarding his company being acquired by Medium and how Medium is supporting open protocols already: At Superfeedr, we’ve promoted the open web by…