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Welcome to 2017. Let's get started. ichelle im – Andrew Kim (remember him?) and his wife Michelle JY Park launched something new. Slack Fund's bots – Slack's fund for investing in apps that integrate into Slack invested in 11 bots. Pretty neat collection. Great to see them investing in this particular way. I'll write more on this in…
Jason Kottke re: Medium's announcement and why he chose not to move Kottke.org to Medium: New businesses are unstable…that’s just the way it is. In Silicon Valley (and in other startup-rich areas), these unstable businesses have lots of someone else’s money to throw around — which makes them appear more stable in the short term — but they…
Manton Reece re: Medium's recent announcement that they are laying off 1/3rd of their team: The message is clear. The only web site that you can trust to last and have your interests at heart is the web site with your name on it. He's right of course. He has said it a million times. So have I….
Dan Kimbrough touches on several trends he thinks will continue in 2017 such as this bit on AR/VR: 2017 will see AR & VR make great strides to becoming how we experience and interact with the world around us. I agree we'll see great strides in this area. I'm especially bullish on AR. But I still believe we're…
Faraday Future (move playhead to 15 minutes in): Held at the Pavilions at World Market Center in Las Vegas, this event showcases our vision for the future of sustainable, connected mobility. Everything about this presentation is terrible. Aside from the fact that it takes them 30 minutes before they tell us about their product. It screams of early…
As we end the year I just wanted to say that I hope those of you that are reading and following the links in these posts find them useful. I've been referring to the archive a lot lately to send friends links to things. I try to keep the list light, fun, useful, and all around interesting. I'm…
Maria Popova, on the always amazing Brain Pickings: That Rubin died without her Nobel Prize is nothing short of a travesty, bespeaking the flawed cultural machinery by which such honors are meted out. The number of amazing people turning to dust this year is heartbreaking.
Maria Langer, helicopter pilot: As a helicopter pilot, I’ve felt a rather unique threat from the rise of drones (no pun intended). I want to take a moment to explain, mostly because although my general opinion of drones has changed, my views about their threats have not. This is an important post to read if you, like me,…
Product Hunt's Best – The best products of 2016 according to Product Hunt. A second industrial revolution – Kevin Kelly makes the case that AI will bring about a second industrial revolution. I really love this perspective. Bootstrap Studio 2.5 – Another update to a fantastic app. Apple focusing on iOS – This is a thread I've been…
Jack Reager of BlackOut Design, regarding the marketing panel we both took part in: While we all share some similarities in terms of our background and types of organizations we’ve been a part of, what was most interesting to me was how we all use our knowledge not only to aid our clients, but at one point or…
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major is a good word to describe this update. You'll even notice the 'url' for the app is now #photos2 on iCloud.com. The app is significantly improved…
Angelina Simms published her experience at WordCamp US this year. Note this bit about the Philly Burbs WordPress group: Too often, we are surrounded by people who act like they are concerned about your well-being out of self-interest and totally disappear if you don’t fit into their grand scheme of things. That is definitely not the case when…
Aaron Parecki: Inspired by the "100 Day Project", I'm setting out on a goal to accomplish 100 days of visible improvements to my IndieWeb projects. The challenge is to ship something visible and post about it for 100 days. Some of the improvements may be super tiny, some of them might be big. I'm super swamped else I'd…
Last night in Jessup at TekRidge, I attended the Inventor's Guild – another meet up orchestrated by the folks at TecBridge – to meet inventors from the area. The turnout was very good (about 25 or so I'd say) and I'm hoping this event happens again. If you follow me on Twitter you'll know that there were three…
It was a busy week. You can catch up on the blog. But here are a few additional things that jumped out at me. New emoji in iOS 10.2 – Some very decent additions. Bartender – A small Mac utility that tidies up your menu bar. Animated Eleven – An animated Stranger Things? Yes please. Ronnie del Carmen…
I forgot to link to Oscar Boyson's video in this week's What I saw this week post. Sorry about that. So now he gets his very own post. Oscar Boyson on Ev's blog: Jane Jacobs said that “cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” I’ve worked…
Jeremy Keith: Resilient Web Design is a short book. It’s between sixteen and seventeen megawords long. You could read the whole thing in a couple of hours. Or—because the book has seven chapters—you could take fifteen to twenty minutes out of a day to read one chapter and you’d have read the whole thing done in a week….
Patrick McKenzie, writing in the awesome Stripe Atlas Guide: We put together this guide to cover many of the details you’ll need for your business in its first year. New to business? Just starting out? Read this guide from Stripe.
On Tuesday I attended the first monthly NEPA.js meetup at the Scranton Enterprise Center. Mark Keith, a JavaScript developer who somewhat recently moved into the area, was the organizer and TecBridge – who organizes the NEPA Tech meetup group – helped to coordinate, host, organize and provide pizza for this brand-new group. The common refrain in our area…
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the Web Marketing Experts. I was flanked by other experts in the area including Jack Reager of Black Out Design, Gerard Durling of Coal Creative, and Ben…
Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro – especially among professionals – is leading more and more people to make the switch…
Do you know the visible signs of a strong community? If you've ever attended a Philly Burbs WordPress meetup then you definitely do. Last night my new coworker Tucker Hottes and I drove the 2.5 hours to Pheonixville, PA for this month's WordPress meetup in the Philly Burbs meetup group. What we saw during the evening was the…
Since this is what-i-saw #23 let's all watch the top 50 plays by Michael Jordan. The Modest Man Income Reports – Ever wonder what it looks like to run a blog for money? Brock from The Modest Man shares all of the numbers. Great insight. Web advent calendars – Two I'm following this month are 24 ways and…
Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016