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Manton Reece, like me, recently passed his 10 year anniversary on Twitter. I like this point he makes about how to see Twitter going forward: It used to be impossible to imagine that Twitter could fail. And today, it’s still unlikely to vanish or even change much overnight. But the web will be better if we assume that…
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we'd rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your life, or even more than one, that you’d rather not be mined by Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Here’s how to set a blackout for any period(s)…
Money tree leaves – November 2016
Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I've made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter's new Head of Product hire. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3
Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
Jason Fried: But in the last few years, the stores have really turned me off. I don’t like stepping into them. They don’t make me feel welcome — rather they make me feel like I need a good reason to be there. Of course I have a reason to be there, but I don’t like the fact that I have…
Joshua Topolsky: What’s most exciting about the platform is that we're able to break apart and atomize story elements into forms that are sized for what we want to communicate. So our ability to point you toward some interesting data, or key facts about a story, or context about where a story is coming from is vastly expanded….
Bank tower, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Danny shows off a visual history of his personal site. As we change, so too our personal web sites.
Along the path – October 2016
SwitchResX – A small preference pane for macOS to help you set more specific resolutions for your displays above and beyond what Apple provides by default. NEPA.js – A new meetup in Scranton, PA for people that want to learn JavaScript. Lion – A gorgeous photo by Sam Scrimshaw. Italy, Boat, Wedding – My friend Matt D'Avella made…
Off Penn, Downtown Scranton – December 2016
Jason Ward, writing for Windows Central: Windows devices once perceived as low-end bargain basement devices are now seen as expensive cutting-edge hardware that rivals or exceeds Apple's long-standing high-end market position. I make this same point in my forthcoming review of the Surface Book and Windows 10. I'm so sorry it is taking so long to finish up…
Sunset through pines, Lackawanna State Park – October 2016
Manton Reece regarding the forthcoming micro.blog: Renaming a product before its official launch may not seem like a big deal, but in this case it gives the app a new importance. Just by renaming it, the app feels more ambitious. It forces me to devote more attention to it, which means saying goodbye to some of my other…
Jeffrey Zeldman: One small thing designers and developers can do is to make accessibility and usability Job 1 on every project. I need to heed this advice. Thanks for the reminder Jeffrey.
Terence Eden: If, like me, you made the mistake of trying out AMP on your website – you're in a tricky position if you try to remove it. Google doesn't like anything leaving its clutches. I appreciate nothing about AMP. In fact, I don't click any links that use it in protest. /via Jeremy Keith.
Vicky Boykis: We are a LONG, long ways away from the destruction of the internet as a giant billboard. It takes time to turn a huge skyscraper into an gutted shell of a building, and it will take just as much time to turn our current internet from a loud, obnoxious, toxic mall, back into a public forum.
First snow of fall 2016 – November 20 2016
Learning Commons, Marywood University, Scranton, PA – November 2016
Aerial, Lackawanna State Park – July 2016
Lough Caragh, Ireland – October 2011
Cows in pond – July 2016
Light week as I spent most of my week away from the computer. curlbuilder – A simple tool to create curl commands. Bowie by Nick Runge – A small plug for my other site. On being verified – Maria Langer writes about being verified on Twitter. Instagram updates – A few new ways to share from Instagram. Dan…