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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
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…