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Longer-form posts and essays.

Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.

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Nov 10, 2016

Surface Book reviews

I'm keeping an extremely close eye on all things Microsoft lately. I've even stated, publicly, that I think if they continue on their current course they are going to be beating Apple on several fronts within half a decade. One product out of Redmond I'm watching closely is the new Surface Book. Even though today is the day they…

Nov 8, 2016

Terptra’s excursions

Similar to my What I saw this week series of posts Brett Terpstra has his own Web Excursions series. He describes his series like this: Web excursions are select bookmarks from Brett's travels around the internet. You can see them all on Pinboard. Visit the bookmarks page for previous Excursions. Pretty cool that he incorporates Pinboard into the…

Nov 8, 2016

Stop worrying, hit publish

Jen Simmons, on her blog: So I have nothing much to say in this post. Or more honestly, I have so freaking much to say, I don't know where to start. So I'm going to start here. I just need to break the silence. And get into a habit of posting. So I'm posting this. And I'm going…

Nov 8, 2016

Saving cognitive load: Notes

In my line of work (mostly programming) it can be incredibly difficult to keep all of the details of what is going on in my brain. In fact, it is impossible. To save cognitive load I employ a rigorous note taking strategy that frees up my working memory and allows me to focus on singular tasks. And, it…

Nov 8, 2016

E12: The Mac, RSS feeds, Shopping, and Stranger Things

We hit our stride in this bit. Danny and I have a Sunday-evening chat about how Apple could move away from the Mac and survive, RSS feed habits, shopping for clothes (naturally) and Stranger Things. Site Danny references is Woodpile Report. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e12.mp3 Download MP3

Nov 7, 2016

Tweeting for 10 years

Last week Jeremy Keith reminded me, yet again, of an anniversary I share with him. That is, we've now both been tweeting for 10 years. Here is my first tweet. Jeremy beat me by 6 days and only 5,000 tweets. Can you believe that back then only 5,000 tweets were sent in 6 days? These days I'd guess…

Nov 6, 2016

What I saw this week #18: November 4, 2016

My blog scheduled was knocked off tilt this week so this post is two days later than usual. It will be back on schedule this week. Cinemagraph GIFs – Take a still from a movie and animate just a small portion of it. I've seen these floating around for a few years but just now see they have…

Nov 2, 2016

Experiment more

Try new things with what you already have. In 2006 I wrote a post about taking full advantage of the things you already own. Knowing every feature of your SLR or Bluray player or getting to know the features of your most-used software. In this post I want to encourage you to try something completely new with something you…

Oct 31, 2016

Touch Bar

I've been tweeting like crazy about the new MacBook Pros and how I've found the most recent updates underwhelming. But I couldn't come up with a great way to describe how I felt about Touch Bar in a way that I wanted in my blog archives. Until I read this. Michael Tsai: I’m not crazy about Touch Bar, but…

Oct 30, 2016

FADE INTO A WORDPRESS LOGO

INTERIOR, COFFEE SHOP, HOUSTON, TEXAS Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, wearing a WordPress tshirt, brainstorms over a latte. MULLENWEG, internal dialogue: "How can I get WordPress in front of the Wix customer base for free?" … MULLENWEG: *opens WordPress on his Mac* …. MULLENWEG: Publishes: "The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint" to his WordPress-powered blog. For free. ……