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_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in August 2016 – Approx. 2.5 miles – This first hike I completed with my father one Sunday morning. We meandered our way over Ranger trail just off of Route 407 and walked…
For several weeks I've been slowly tracing my way through the trails found within the confines of Lackawanna State Park and I'm just about halfway through my goal of hiking every trail. The park boasts over 18-miles of hiking and 15-miles of multi-use trials (hiking, horseback riding, biking) giving me plenty of places to explore. Counting a bit of…
Yesterday Jehu II took quite a tumble. I've been doing a lot of flying. Nearly every day. And though the Syma X8G would be considered by most to be a "toy" (which is a designation I agree with for sure) it has enabled me to get quite good at flying. So much so that two local aero clubs…
Remy Sharp recently celebrated 10 years of blogging. What is he most happy with? More importantly, every single URL on my blog that's ever been published still works, and even better than that (for me) is my archive showing off the decade of writing I've been producing over all this time. My blog archive is a source of…
DV8 (now, DVEIGHT) Magazine on a bench in Ba & Me in Honesdale, PA – November 2015
Hop Bottom, August 2016
Friend Dan Rubin took the new iPhone 7 Plus out for a test-drive using a ring light. On whether or not the iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone to get for jumping into photography: Is it the best place to start if you’re just trading up to a smartphone for photography? I don’t think so: the iPhone…
Yesterday fellow UAV pilot Jonathan Edwards and I hiked to the "top of the world" at the Dunmore Pine Barrens to get some exercise, see the sights, and fly a little. I decided to hike this area because of local hiker, writer and blogger Jeff Mitchell's blog post wherein he details the hike. He provides specific detail for…
Manton Reece: A long-overdue product is difficult to push forward, the weight starting to carry as much burden as potential. And everywhere I look there’s a new excuse to procrastinate. Boy does this resonate.
Alexei Baboulevitch (archagon) in a comment on Hacker News: These indie apps are often marketed as beautiful, wholesome alternatives to grimy corporate or open source software, but how could I possibly rely on these products for essential tasks like note-taking if they're just going to disappear out from under me in a few years? The idea that software…
After a few weeks of trial and error, (lots, and lots of error) video tutorial binging, manual devouring, and literally swimming for and losing my first UAV, I thought it might be good to jot down some tips for new drone owners. So here they are, in no order, but all worth considering: Fly over shallow water -…
I had been thinking and talking about buying a UAV, drone, quadcopter* (whatever you personally call them) for a long time now. Many months. When they first hit the scene they were way out of my price range. These days they are not only affordable but incredibly capable and simple to use. Of course my focus was on…
I've been thinking a lot about a quote Matt Mullenweg wrote about earlier this year. It reads: Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative. I'm going to drop in my own personal suggestion that we add a hobby that also forces us to explore. I've noticed something in myself, and perhaps this…
I had bookmarked Rocket by Matthew Palmer almost two weeks ago and today I finally took the time to install it. Game changer on the Mac. Recommended. Also, give it an up-vote on Product Hunt if you like it.
Linus Torvalds in 2004 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel – not just on an intellectual level ("I…
Kevin Montrose of Stack Overflow explaining Documentation: Documentation is community-curated, example-focused developer documentation, based on the principles of Stack Overflow. A natural extension to Stack Overflow and a welcome one. I should likely make this my homepage.
A few months ago I gave Google Photos a trial. I wanted to give the service a real, honest test so I purchased one of Google's larger Drive plans (1 TB) and started uploading. Google Photos is great. In fact, the only reason I didn't stick with it was because — like so many Google things — it had…
Vestal, New York – June 2016.
Yesterday Kyle and I wanted to get out of our home offices and work somewhere new. He suggested Cocoon Coffeehouse next to the Silk Mill in Hawley. A panoselfie of yours truly. It turned out to be a nice little spot to get work done. Comfortable chairs. Easily accessible wifi. Good food (I tried the quiche). And my…
Need something like this? Consider hiring me for your next project. I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to use the work they've already done and the data they've already keyed in and wouldn't need to do double…
Nine years ago today Eliza, John Gruber, Rob Sandie, Matt Regula and I were standing in line for the original iPhone. Here are a few photos: John, before having a computer in his pocket. It was quite a day. Looking back on it now, that day changed everything we do now.
Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was seemingly happening. I'd be willing to bet that is about to accelerate. Back then, I wrote: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the people that are leaving Evernote…
K. Q. Dreger interviewed Loren Brichter about his recent sale of Letterpress (my favorite iOS game). The interview is full of little behind-the-scenes tidbits on Letterpress and how it was made and where it is going. However, when Dreger asks Brichter what he's been up to and what he will be doing next, I thought his thoughts on web…
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016