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Marco Arment: If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that I agree with him. And I also don’t pretend to know the answers. Here […]

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Last week I warned that we’d be hearing more about how Flipboard pulled off their new web app and how some would agree and disagree with how they went about it. Well, my boy Faruk Ateş weighed in:  Flipboard is a product focused heavily around text-based content, which is why it’s so deeply regretting that […]

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Enrique Dans, in a bit on Medium about Feedly, on RSS: I simply cannot understand why RSS readers are not used by everybody. I think that any user, from the professional to the casual, can benefit from having a series of information sources, pages, and alerts set up in an orderly manner in a feeds […]

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Julie Zhou, on Medium, lists out her manager’s manifesto: 5) Figure out which people rely on you and how you can help them be self-sufficient. You may feel important having a monopoly on salmon provisions, but if the whole village learns how to fish, it‘ll free you up to do something else. Like figuring out […]

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Michael Johnston for the Flipboard Engineering blog: Most modern mobile devices have hardware-accelerated canvas, so why couldn’t we take advantage of this? HTML5 games certainly do. But could we really develop an application user interface in canvas? Expect to read a lot about this over the next several months as the pros and cons are […]

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Jason Snell is on a roll this week blogging about Photos for OS X. This latest post answers people’s questions. I recommend looking through them if you’re interested in how this is going to play out.

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This scrapple thing is catching on. Fellow Coalworker Joe Casabona just published his first edition of scrapple. I liked his last bit: I’ve been using Unmark for bookmarks lately. You should give it a try. I really dig it. Thanks for that Joe. I hope to see more bloggers pick up the scrapple baton. It […]

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My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, on Medium: I’m just going to come out and say it: hashtags are not ownable. Period. He’s right. Anyone at any time can post anything they’d like to your hashtag. So, simply be mindful of that if you try to use hashtags as part of your marketing campaigns.

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So, Apple may be looking into building a car. With approaching 200 billion in cash, and yesterday CEO Tim Cook saying that their biggest asset is innovation, and that they plan to continue to invest very heavily into R&D, I would say you can bet that Apple is “looking into” a wide variety of possibilities. Some […]

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Snell, of Six Colors, writing for TidBITS on the feature in Photos for OS X Beta that allows you to store your original photos and videos in iCloud and only keeping smaller versions locally on your Macintosh to save space: It remains to be seen exactly how Photos determines whether you have enough space, and […]

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Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change. And the company founder’s antics aside, this will end up being a good thing for the area.

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On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.

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My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers talk about making specs and handing them over to engineering. The process of “making specs“ implies that there is no conversation with your […]

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The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d be nice if I could password protect a notebook. A way to have a notebook be a bit extra secure. Holding the original […]

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Om Malik did a short email interview with Charles Young of Paperholm; which I linked to just a day or so ago.

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Helena Price on Medium: What if we made more active decisions about how we spent our Internet time? If we weren’t bogged down maintaining our inboxes and social networks, who would we set out to meet or get to know better? If we weren’t so busy clicking links or browsing photos in our feeds, what […]

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What an incredible photo mosaic of Comet C/2014Q2 Lovejoy! I also recommend doing some further research on Lovejoy himself and the other comets he discovered. /via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.

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Charles Young, no relation to the West Wing’s own Charlie Young I presume, is building a paper city one daily model at a time.

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I’ve reached my capacity on Picturelife.* I want to rent more space but I’m hesitant because every other company that has attempted what Picturelife is doing has failed or been acquired and scuttled. Some of the other options I’ve looked at is Dropbox, Box, Amazon, and Flickr.  Both Dropbox and Box have options for unlimited space (or, […]

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For good reason! Bill Gates shows us an amazing machine that turns feces into drinkable water. And that is not all. The by-products of this process, in addition to the water, are power and ash that can be used. Here’s Bill: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into […]

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Reddit continues to be the best place to find public interviews with interesting people. Elon Musk did an AMA yesterday — fascinating stuff. Here is part of his answer to how he has managed to learn so much so quickly. One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic […]

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Marco Arment had a rough day. He published a thoughtful, yet quick, post about Apple’s software quality. Most of us that follow and use Apple products nodded our heads in agreement as we read his post and moved onto the next one in our feed readers. Everyone who knows anything about Apple software knows that […]

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You can put this app in the “I’ll likely never, ever use it” category but man does this look very well done. /via Mark Christian/Mike Davidson on Twitter.

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In a world where every new e-mail client must support Gmail or die, this is a breath of fresh air. JMAP, from FastMail, is an API that improves upon IMAP. It is open. And free. JMAP does everything. Instead of separate protocols with different syntax for sending email than for receiving it (and separate protocols […]

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Fred Wilson uses 2014 as a lens to see not only what happened but what is happening: the “sharing economy” was outed as the “rental economy.” nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it made buying things a decade […]

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Over on the Barley blog we wrote: today we’re very excited to let you know that a brand-new media uploading and management experience is now available This was a lot of fun to work on. But it is even more fun to use. It will make my life a hundred times easier curating The Watercolor […]

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Over the last few weeks Aaron Draplin’s video for Lynda.com made the rounds. However, over on the great Metafilter there is a post by filthy light thief chocked full of Draplin stuff.

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See Scrapple 1. I’m begrudgingly using Evernote. It is working. But I wish the sync capabilities were equal to Simplenote’s. Tip: Close your inbox. Only open it when you’re reading and/or writing email. Do not leave it open in between. I would like to have a Russian dash cam installed in my car. My drive […]

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It has been 14 days since I said I’d be committing for 30 weekdays straight. I’ve committed code 12 out of those 14 days. (This weekend Eliza and I painted our living room so you’ll have to forgive me for not pulling out my computer.) What have I accomplished? What have I learned? These last […]

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James Somers: If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. For a while now Google Docs, or Drive, or Docs Drive, or whatever they are calling it today, […]

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Stephen Thomas goes long on Metafilter: So: Nominally, MetaFilter is a venue for people to talk about things other people have done, intelligently and with respect for each other (if not necessarily for the thing being discussed), and a small number of people are paid well to ensure this is what happens. All of this, […]

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Simon (simurai): Flick Scrolling in short: An idea of a new gesture that extends scrolling content on a touch-screen. Instead of letting momentum stop the scrolling, you can decide exactly where it should stop. Pretty cool. I’d really like this on my iPad.

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This is just me shooting from the hip here, but follow me through the last few days of Instagram news to see if, perhaps, they might have done all of this on purpose. On December 10th Instagram announces they hit 300M accounts and also said this: We’ve been deactivating spammy accounts from Instagram on an […]

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Jeffrey Ventrella: Any coder who claims that fast programming is the same as slow programming (except that it’s fast), doesn’t understand Design Process. For the same reason that many neuroscientists now believe that the fluid-like flow of neuronal firing throughout the brain has a temporal reverberation which has everything to do with thought and consciousness, […]

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There are a lot of choices for pocket notebooks so which pocket notebook is the best value? /toby on blogspot: SOooo, that then leads us to… WHICH ONE do I buy? If you write often enough, you start to fill them up, and you have to buy more of them. So which one shakes out […]

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Inspired by local blogger and reporter Andy Palumbo’s scrapple posts — I’ve decided to try my hand at it. Today’s scrapple: There are about 3 people in the entire world that know exactly what they are doing and we’re all just copying off of them. Best thing I‘ve found in the last few weeks. http://php-osx.liip.ch […]

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Similar to the 30 weekday blog challenge… I’m going to challenge myself, and you dear reader, to 30 weekdays of committing code to one of your projects. Any project. The projects I’m challenging myself to commit to, for 30 weekdays straight, are Barley CMS, Barley for WordPress, or Unmark. What does this mean? I will […]

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This was fun to work on. Since I did 30 weekdays of blogging I think now I’ll aim for 30 weekdays of committing code to Barley CMS.

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Update Fixed! With this tweet Jim Lind has saved my day. So, I’m working on issue #52 for Unmark and I’m having what is quickly becoming the oddest issue I’ve ever had in my professional career. As with most programming oddities, I’m willing to bet that when the issue is found it will be something […]

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VSCO Cam is now available for iPad. Good catch by Shawn Blanc: With this update, your VSCO Cam Library now syncs across devices. You can tell if a photo is synced by the double-circle icon in an image’s top right corner. And, not only do the images themselves sync, so too do the edits you’ve […]

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Marco Arment: What’s apparent from most of the recent podcast stories is that most of their reporters have talked to very few sources and either don’t listen to podcasts themselves or have just started. Most podcast listeners and producers know that the truth is much less interesting: podcasts started out as a niche interest almost […]

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Josh Ginter for Tools and Toys: Overall, the thinness of the new iPad Air 2 makes it the best iPad to hold, use, and carry with you on a daily basis. The image of Steve Jobs using the original iPad on the couch during the famous 2010 keynote has come into full fruition with the […]

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Amazon has this new tube-thing you can talk to called Echo. You can ask it questions by simply talking out loud. Similar to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Google’s OK Google features. I find the entire thing odd – though, perhaps as a first step beta thing it’ll be OK – but I found it […]

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David Mark writing for The Loop: I think Amazon will sell a ton of these. I’m going to pull a Dalrymple and say “Nope”.

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Kevin Roose for New York Magazine: According to Edison Research, 39 million people listened to a podcast in the last month, the highest number on record. See.

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Fred Wilson: As is often the case, a simple little thing turns out to be the big thing. That little thing is that almost every car that has been sold in the past five years has had bluetooth connectivity to the car audio system. These days your phone is connected wirelessly to your car the […]

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Seven out of 365 days of #travelfeet have passed. It has been an interesting week. The small group of friends that have joined in the fun have added over 125 travelfeet photos. I’ll be interested to see if they continue or if some people drop off and others join, etc. Here are my first 7 […]

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