Photos from NEPA BlogCon 2015
To date I’ve been typing NEPA BlogCon as NEPABlogcon — the organizers of the event can please accept my deepest apologies. I’ve gone back and fixed my mistake. This past weekend’s event…
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The future of TV
I strongly dislike the TV model. The always-on, million channel, ad ridden model. But I love watching things on my TV. So, for many years Eliza and I have had both a…
At NEPA BlogCon on Saturday
As I said in early August, Kyle and I are going to NEPA BlogCon again this year. Both of our businesses; Coalwork and Plain, are sponsors and we each purchased a personal ticket. I’ll…
Neocities and the distributed web
The discussion started by the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle that I linked too earlier this month is starting to ripple out over the web. Neocities, a free web site hosting service, has…
Photos that will make you want to go kayaking
If the kayking photos that I publish to my blog or Instagram aren’t enough to get you into the water perhaps 500px’s latest post will help.
The unfollow Q&A
Since I’ve covered this topic in several sprawling posts here on my blog I wanted a single place to link to about why I unsubscribe from all feeds and unfollow nearly all Twitter…
Fire with friends
A few times a year a few of our friends get together, start a fire in a field, set off a few fireworks, and enjoy each other’s company. Here are a few…
Ben Brooks’ iPhone home screen
Ben Brooks on The Brooks Review writing about removing mental overhead on his iPhone’s home screen: The most immediate change that you notice: there is a lot less mental overhead involved in…
Clearing Safari’s cache without deleting your history or cookies
I like to keep my browsing history and cookies intact for as long as possible. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve searched my browser’s history to find a site I…
Distributed web
Fascinating read on Brewster Kahle’s blog (he founded the Internet Archive) about restructuring the fabric of the web to be distributed like the Internet is. Contrast the current Web to the Internet—the…
Paddling White Oak Pond in July
Last paddling season I managed to squeeze a paddle in a few times per week. Perhaps I did this because it was new to me (last year was my first time kayaking)…
The new NetNewsWire
The app that keeps on ticking… NetNewsWire 4 for Mac and iOS has been released by the folks at Black Pixel. Syncing is free. Nice.
You can buy BB-8
Given my site’s new theme (which purposefully looks as if I coded it when I was 16 in celebration of the new Star Wars film this December) I’d be remiss not to…
Countr
Super simple yet incredibly great iOS application from Josh Hrach, Countr helps you count things without needing to write down a bunch of numbers. The app is quick and small. I can…
Flash-free clipboard
For years and years the only way to create a button on a web site that would copy something to the visitor’s clipboard was to use a Flash shim of sorts since Flash…
Developers helping designers
Kylie Timpani writing on the Humaan blog: The tricky thing, however, is that people are now finding themselves in unknown territory unsure of how exactly they should contribute. While I’m not a…
Picking up a second kayak
A few weeks ago a friend told us he was willing to part with his kayak. I knew I wanted it immediately because I knew it was only a year old, I…
Issues with iOS 8.4.1
Until recently iOS 8 has been a fairly solid release. I had issues with iCloud syncing — as everyone has — since the beginning but overall iOS 8 – 8.4 gave me…
Sandbridge Virginia 2014
In less than a month we’ll be heading back to Sandbridge, VA for a little getaway. We don’t normally go to the same location back-to-back for vacations but we had a great…
An abandoned mini golf course in Scranton
On our way back to Coalwork after walking all the way across town for yummy Indian food last week Kyle and I saw an abandoned mini golf course.
Tsunami stones
Martin Fackler for the NY Times in 2011: While some are so old that the characters are worn away, most were erected about a century ago after two deadly tsunamis here, including…
Coworking turns 10
Cat Johnson marks the 10th anniversary of coworking over on the Shareable blog: Ten years ago this month, coworking was born in San Francisco when Brad Neuberg set up some card tables…
Acorn 5
Gus Mueller, on his blog, about taking the time to squash bugs that weren’t even reported in Acorn: It took months and months of work, it was super boring and mind numbing…
Disney’s steal of a deal
MG Siegler on (bleh!) 500ish/Medium: As we saw a couple days ago at Disney’s D23 Expo, the last deal is the focal point for the company for the foreseeable future. And it’s…
Kayaking Quaker Lake and Lake Carey
Last weekend my friend Eric and I went paddling around Quaker Lake and Lake Carey; each in northeastern PA pretty close to the New York border and each equally different. Quaker Lake is…
Getting off the treadmill
Speaking of jwz, last night he weighed-in on the continuing trend of companies pushing the culture that to succeed in tech you must never sleep. He did so by pointing to a…
HTML email
jwz: It's possible that HTML email is my fault. Thanks Jamie. :’(
Floating down the Delaware
Eliza and a few friends floated down the Delaware River in tubes so I joined them by paddling around with the yak.
The value of a great Project Manager
John Ellison, who is blogging about each day that he interns at Clear Left in Brighton, UK writes about the value of a great project manager after 16 days on the job:…
Why I like Personalsam
YouTube will not allow me to comment without a Google+ account so I’m putting my comment for Sam Soffes’ daily vlog post right here: “I think I like personalsam for the same…