We’ve Made Web Development Complicated
Alex King: I’m working on a web app now and it recently struck me how much more complicated things have become. I agree. While some of the tools we’ve added onto the…
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Longer thoughts, quick observations, photographs, and links. All in one place, newest first.
What is a Panoselfie?
They aren’t new. You can find them if you dig. But they aren’t “a thing” and I think they should be. So, yesterday I created a Flickr group called Panoselfies. I recommend giving…
My weekend
A few images from the weekend.
Today: May 7, 2015
A little something new. Another try at daily blogging. This is what I looked at most of the day. We’re putting in a fair bit of work on some new things for…
Casey Liss on Code
Casey Liss on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code: All told, Code may or may not be for you, but it’s working out really nicely for me so far. I definitely suggest giving it…
Stop calling businesses unicorns
Me, on Twitter early this morning from bed: Startup culture is such that the word unicorn is used to describe a successful business. Imagine if the culture fostered success more often. Then,…
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Vision Isn’t Simple
Cade Metz for Wired on Microsoft’s vision for Windows 10 to be on a billion devices and for applications from Android, iOS, and Windows all running on them “easily”: But this kind of…
Brent Simmons deletes his tweets
Brent Simmons on his blog: But those aren’t my reasons for deleting my tweets. Instead, it’s because Twitter is a blogging (or micro-blogging, really) service that doesn’t meet my requirements […] Follow…
Windows Media Center finally shot in head
Ed Bott, of the Ed Bott Report, reporting on ZDNet that Microsoft is shooting Windows Media Center in the head: That decision shouldn‘t come as a surprise. Media Center, once a signature…
Why I wouldn’t bet against Microsoft
If you follow me on Twitter you can probably tell that for the past 48 hours my brain is swirling around Microsoft’s Build conference and keynote. In a lot of ways my…
Microsoft’s Build Keynote
I just finished watching Microsoft’s Build Keynote from yesterday. If you haven’t seen it, and understand developer jargon, I recommend you watch it. My takeaways: Windows is about to get a lot…
Quit it with the loading screens
Web people,
Draplin on Clinton
Aaron Draplin on the reaction of Hillary Clinton’s logo: Knee-jerk reactions. Cheap comparisons. Lazy remixes. Predictable reactions. So it goes. Unfortunately this is how it goes. A woman runs for President of…
Zeldman on Medium
Jeffery Zeldman on whether or not Medium is a death knell of the open web: You may think I exaggerate, but I’ve heard more than one respected colleague opine that publishing in…
The full-stack employee
Chris Messina, inventor of #hashtags, on Medium: The conventional seams between disciplines are fraying, and the set of skills necessary to succeed are broader and more nebulous than they’ve been before. He…
The pull towards design
For the past several years our industry, the tech industry, has been pulling designers that work within it down the stack — so to speak — towards engineering. They’ve drilled into their…
Two needs for deep linking
What are Deep Links? Scott Rosenberg recently wrote a piece on Backchannel on Medium about Deep Links. He wrote: Deep linking means to bore a wormhole-tunnel that hops you directly from a…
GIF Artist Kevin Weir
iGNANT interviews GIF Artist Kevin Weir. You can find more of his stuff here.
DuckDuckGo
Marco Arment on DuckDuckGo: In my experience so far, DuckDuckGo’s search is good enough the vast majority of the time. Sometimes, its results are even better than Google’s, and they’re rarely much…
A whale of a distraction
Photographer Eric Smith in Going Viral on Medium: When I reviewed the pictures two weeks ago I was astounded by the juxtaposition of the young man immersed in his phone while this creature…
Beautiful Maps
Beautiful Maps by Dennys Hess. I love maps. /via Coudal.
Beethoven
Noah Read on music: When I became a teenager this music fell by the wayside as my tastes followed those of most teenagers trying to be cool while not popular. Some of…
git turns 10
Linus Torvalds, creator of git: You can actually see how it all took shape in the git source code repository, except for the very first day or so. It took about a…
You don’t need a watch to be distraction free
In March 2013 I turned off all notifications on my phone, tablet, and computer. In May of that year I went one step further and closed most applications that would keep me…
Bird nests
We have a number of bird nests throughout our 3 acre property. Some I’ve seen, most I haven’t laid eyes on yet. Last year we had a Woodcock (weird bird alert) nest under…
Blanton tries Twitter blogging
Justin Blanton decides to muddy the waters on the definition of the word blogging even more by using textshots on Twitter to “blog”: With the advent of “textshots”—screenshots of text linked within tweets…
“Myself” v1.0.3
This is a pretty cool use of Code Pen.
100words by Jeremy Keith
I’m loving this series of posts by Jeremy Keith tagged 100words.
April 1, 2015
Spring, they say.
What about SnapChat?
You already read my thoughts on the Meerkat vs. Periscope debate. It is still way too early to tell. Let’s see what the next 12 months give us. Gary Vaynerchuk… a friend…