This is Our Planet From a Million Miles Away
Jason Major, writing for Universe Today: More than just a pretty picture of our blue marble, this image will be used by the EPIC team to help calibrate the instrument to remove…
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Two weeks notice: the first weekend
Manton Reece, on his personal blog about quitting his “day job” and going full time indie: I thought it would be fun to do a series of blog posts about the early…
Visual Studio 2015
S. Somasegar on his own blog at Microsoft: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 are an exciting next step for developer tools from Microsoft – combining new productivity for existing Visual Studio…
Beme
I watch Casey Neistat every day. Today he and his team released Beme. (App Store Link) Mike Isaac for Bits: Users capture four-second bursts of video by covering a sensor directly above…
Coda for iOS 2.0
Mark this app down as one of the apps that will make iOS become a platform that rivals the Macintosh for creators over the next few years. This is just the beginning….
Idle Words
I had no idea that Maciej Cegłowski, operator of Pinboard, had a personal blog chocked full of great writing. Did you? How did I miss this? I’m only now aware of this…
Nerd news media blackout
Rich Cicci writing for the excellent NEPA Scene: San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, but unless you kept your face inches away from your cell phone, tablet, PC, or laptop…
Why WordCamp Scranton is important
Disclosure: I’m not an organizer of WordCamp Scranton, though two of my companies; Plain and Coalwork are sponsors, nor am I speaking for anyone involved with the event. I’m personally grateful for…
Commuting to NYC with an Oru Kayak
Tal F commutes to NYC on a bicycle and has done so for years. He decided to shake things up and use a kayak to commute into work — and not just…
Evernote vs Notebooks
Luca G, from the Netherlands, on Medium: I’ve compared the two and came to the conclusion that Evernote is the best option for me. I always carry my phone around, and it’s…
Seven rejections for Airbnb
In 2008 seven investors were approached to buy 10% of Airbnb for $150,000. Five of them turned them down flat, two never responded. Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, on Medium: Next time…
Canning links from Marisa McClellan
Marisa is excited: Oh friends. Canning season is on so hard right now. I have 25 pounds of apricots spread out on baking sheets on my living room floor, and I have…
Casey Neistat recorded 100 daily vlog episodes
Since we’re on the subject of hitting milestones around things done daily and the number 100… this one is a doozy. Casey Neistat just hit 100 episodes of daily video blog episodes….
On a Slower Life
Carl T. Holscher on growing up at a slower pace: I wasn’t ignorant. I read voraciously. I wrote and thought. I shared my thoughts in that fledgling collection of wires and computers….
Shipping crappy code
Jared Sinclair: Here’s a little secret for newbie app developers out there: a fun app has nothing to do with clean code. You can replace “fun” with anything here. Shipping is better than…
Jeremy Keith wrote 100 words for 100 days
What an amazing feat by Jeremy Keith: I missed the daily deadline once. I could make the excuse that it was a really late night of carousing, but I knew in advance…
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It has been a whirlwind this last week or so. I'm writing this while 35,000 feet in the air as Kyle and I are off to San Francisco on a business trip….
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Today was a beatiful day. After lunch I went for a 2.5 mile walk around the city. Each time I venture out, either alone or with a Coalwork member or two, I…
Noah Read on posting snippets
Noah Read, on his blog, on why he is posting “snippets” to his site which then get distributed to the social networks of his choice. Some of the content is so great that…
Walking
We’ve been doing some walking in the afternoons lately.
10,000 free DuckDuckGo shirts
DuckDuckGo: DuckDuckGo just crossed ten million searches a day for the first time ever! We’re proud to be helping so many people take back their privacy. In celebration, we’re giving away ten…
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Yesterday a young chap walked into the doors of Coalwork wanting to see “what we were up to”. He moved away from Scranton but would like to see Scranton improve. After talking…
Effortless publishing
Manton Reece, writing on his blog, about quick blogging workflows: I believe there are two important facets to microblogging. The first is the timeline experience: a reverse-chronological list of posts from your…
Monkey Keyboard
Monkey Keyboard: Monkey is a free keyboard for iOS and Android that allows you to drop stickers while you're chatting in WhatsApp, snatch a file from DropBox while you're writing email, or…
riverBrowser
Dave Winer is at it again. This time with an open source “browser” that can read a “river” called riverBrowser. riverBrowser is, at its core, a set of HTML, JavaScript, CSS that can read…
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Yes, I skipped the weekend. I’m going to skip all weekends likely. Here is why. And you may just have to live with that. Speaking of the weekend, this one was pretty…
43North
43North “Behold the world’s largest business idea competition.” Five million dollars in cash awarded to the winners (plural) of this competition happening in Buffalo, New York. If you’re into investing this is a…
Microblogging with WordPress
Manton Reece, on his blog, about the fact that he’s using WordPress to “tweet”: I’m very excited about the potential for microblogging. For the last year I’ve been working on a new platform…
WordCamp Scranton
WordCamp is a big deal in the WordPress community and I’m very pleased that Joe Casabona, fellow Coalworker, is organizing one for Scranton, PA. There are only 88 seats left so run…
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At Coalwork we somewhat recently began offering $5 Fridays. A chance to come in and work for just $5 (regularly $15). And today was the first day that someone officially took us…