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Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, [on their blog](The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for…
Manton Reece, on his blog, on podcasting lock-in, the open web, silos, and more: While the open web still exists, we really dropped the ball protecting and strengthening it. Fewer people’s first…
Cape May Island, May 2016
Guy in this coffee shop ends all of his dictated text messages with “ellipses”. Class act.
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at…
Warren Buffett continues to take his own advice. He once said “In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine.” So as Carl…
When I show http://h2ocolor.com to someone in real life they are amazed that I’ve spent countless hours over 5 years curating an online watercolor gallery. Believe me, so am I.
Sarah Pressler, on her blog: But the thing is you can just write for the sake of sharing your thoughts with the world at large. Or mostly, just for the sake of…
Yesterday was Astronomy Day and I didn't write a word about it. Someone is going to take away my space nerd card.
For about 10 years now I haven’t set an alarm unless I had a plane or bus to catch. My belief is that if my body needs to sleep it will and…
Photos has finished syncing to iCloud Photo Library. Yay! I started on the 29th of March and synced nearly every night that I could.
Some Fridays are more Friday than other Fridays. Today is the Fridayest.
You have $250. Smart friend asks for $1. Says they can turn it into at least $15. You give them $1. That's Apple’s $1B Didi investment.
I have the ear hair of a 90yr old Abe Vigoda and the chest hair of a 9yr old Macaulay Culkin. I guess it balances out?
Monica Dinculescu gets all geeky about how emoji are rendered in the Chrome browser. It is a great read but she makes this very important point: Emoji does not have a plural…
Ian Spalter, Head of Design at Instagram, on Medium: The evolution of the community has been inspiring, and we hope that we’ve captured some of the life, creativity, and optimism people bring…
Went for a short walk. Nicest day of the year so far.
Sunset Beach, Cape May, NJ – May 2016
GitHub: We couldn’t be more excited to announce that all of our paid plans on GitHub.com now include unlimited private repositories. GitHub will always be free for public and open source projects,…
An all-new kayak from Oru Kayak, Beach. It's the easiest collapsible boat in the world to put together, taking just three minutes. Its 28" width makes it stable and comfortable. The open…
We are in for a gorgeous evening. Oh, and I mowed the lawn like an adult.
There is no such thing as a bad day on the beach.
We are spoiled with excellent coverage and views of the goings on of the universe. Imagine what Gallileo would think of the Hubble?
Today Mercury transits the Sun. But don't look, it'll hurt.
Dogfish Head Brewing, October 2015
Grateful to be invited to a friends house tonight. It feels good to be invited.
I didn't know long-pressing on the camera in iMessage was a thing.
I miss John Candy.
Last year gave us our first real photograph of Pluto. I hope in the next few we’ll see a man waving back to Earth from the moon (again) and from Mars. And…
Space X killed it last night.