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Nice tip from Scott Buscemi on the Luminary Web Strategies blog: Have you ever logged into Google Analytics and noticed a huge, unexpected spike in traffic to your site? Maybe your last blog post was shared by a huge influencer on Twitter — or maybe you’re the victim of referral spam. One simple click. Be warned, though, you…
General Dynamics, from S. River Street, Scranton, PA – January 2016
Cape May Island – May 2016
Penn Avenue at night, Scranton, PA – February 2016
I've used a standing desk on-and-off for a few years. In 2011 I stood for a week before giving up. At the time I claimed that I wasn't able to focus on my work as well while standing as I was while sitting. Reading that now confuses me as I believe standing is far more conducive to focus than…
Jermyn Farm Road, May 2016
It wasn't too ugly. But it wasn't exactly a cool swim either. I thought I would jot down why and how I moved from using a Custom Post Type for each type of post that I publish here — status, photo, audio, and normal post — to Post Formats. First, why move to Post Formats from Custom Post Types? For my…
Kyle Ruane on why he created a custom skin for MyFantasyLeague: There are things on that page that defy explanation—nested tables driving layout, 8px text, inline styles on everything, five different ‘main’ navigation elements. One big dumpster fire. And this is actually one of the better views in terms of usability. The power of the open web. If you don't like…
Sunset through Cattails, Lackawanna State Park, February 2016
Ba & Me, Honesdale, PA, November 2015
Foggy Dam, Aylesworth Park, Jermyn, PA, May 2016
Sunset Beach, Cape May, May 2016
When my site was on Barley I had something we called a "combo feed". A combo feed combined all content types (what we called custom post types) into my main RSS feed. This allowed someone to subscribe to a single feed and get all of the blog posts, statuses, photos, and audio bits that I publish. Optionally, they could…
Sunset over Jermyn, PA – May 2016
Jeremy Keith wrote on his blog about owning his words, or, being willing to publish his words (snarky or otherwise) on his own site under his own name. I recommend you read his entire post. But this bit stood out: I wish I could articulate how much better it feels to only use Twitter (or Medium or Facebook)…
Deanna Mascle wrote on her blog on why all teachers should write. In it she says this about why students should write in every class every day: Reflective writing at the beginning of a class or before a lesson can help students access existing knowledge and build a foundation for new information. Writing activities during a lesson can…
Sunset, Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA
Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
Lately I’ve helped clients generate Excel and PDF files. Next I’ll be creating a bot that generates stone tablets. *rimshot*
Manton Reece, on his blog, on podcasting lock-in, the open web, silos, and more: While the open web still exists, we really dropped the ball protecting and strengthening it. Fewer people’s first choice for publishing is to start a web site hosted at their own domain. Like the destruction of Pennsylvania Station, sometimes you only know in hindsight…
Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, [on their blog](The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web. An essential part of our mission is to educate and engage…
The iPhone SE is going to win every award it deserves. The camera is incredibly good.
The Inn at Cape May, May 2016
Kayaking is therapy.