What is Dawn doing?
Earlier this month I was aglow with anticipation as Dawn reached orbit around Ceres. At Coalwork we even had it marked on the public calendar thinking it’d be a historic event. I…
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The next generation of live video streaming
Kaboom! That is the sound of the live video streaming market over the last few weeks. Why? Why has it “suddenly” exploded with interest when live video streaming, even the one-to-many applications like…
You need your own site
Charlotte Jackson, experimenting on her own site: I‘ve been super excited to see what all the fuss is about, so I have added flexbox to the simple header on this website. This…
Personal blogs
Bijan Sabet, on his personal blog: My favorite blogs are the simple ones. The ones that are honest, direct and authentic. The ones that allow for self expression and vulnerability. There sure…
Good Old-Fashioned Marketing
Joe Cieplinski, on his blog, writing about the press surrounding the launch of Fantastical 2 for Mac — which I recommend you grab a copy of: It’s brilliant. And it obviously works….
Filters for iPhone by Mike Rundle
I worked with Mike Rundle for a few years on 9rules and a few client projects. One of the best designers I ever worked with as he bridged the gap between design…
Lando’s deal
So Facebook may be talking to news outlets about (and this is how the tech press has explained it) “hosting” their content on Facebook. I’ll wait until I see exactly what this might…
Photo
Instagrams from a weekend at Seneca Lake
I took a few photos at Seneca Lake this weekend and posted a few of them on Instagram. I also put them into an album on Flickr.
Matt Gemmell “On blogs”
I’m still meditating on Gemmell’s piece On blogs a few days after reading it. Instead of a blog, let your site be a site. Or a journal. An online anthology. Your collected…
Software engineers should write
Shubhro Saha: Software engineers should write because it promotes many of the same skills required in programming. A core skill in both disciplines is an ability to think clearly. The best software…
Step Out of the Echo Chamber
Shawn Blanc, again, in a piece about stepping out of your echo chamber: When we look to the echo chamber as our sole source of inspiration, it’s like looking to a bag…
Surreal Houses by Matthias Jung
Real photographs put into real photographs to create Surreal Houses. /via David Kick on Twitter.
What is the definition of blog?
Ben Thompson, in a posted entitled Blogging’s Bright Future which I saved in Unmark for over a month… says sites like TechCrunch added to the confusion over the word blog: A big…
Procrastination
Shawn Blanc on Procrastination: Surely the most common reason to procrastinate is a lack of motivation. If we were motivated (or, instead of “motivated”, use the word “excited”) to accomplish a task,…
Chuck Wendig is writing a Star Wars novel
Chuck Wendig is writing a Star Wars novel. He writes: I cannot feel my legs, and I have been drunkenly pirouetting wildly around the house for months, making lightsaber sounds and forcing…
My photos from Designal Tap 1
I just published a small album of photos on Flickr from Designal Tap 1 which Kyle Ruane hosted at Coalwork last week. Be sure to read Kyle’s recap of the event. At…
Wanted: A JS library that converts real language date strings to dates
I’m doing a bit of support for Barley today and a customer is having an issue sorting some dates in JavaScript. They’d like to compare a few dates on the page and…
Matt Gemmell goes long on Windows Phone
Matt Gammell goes long on Windows Phone: This isn’t a review, or even a comparison. You can think of it as a sort of traveller’s guide for iPhone users, who find themselves…
Ferengi
Mandy Brown, on her blog, on the origin of blogs and how platforms for writing have to find a way to solve the “where will the money come from” problem. All of which…
In This Skin
Artist Natalie McComas was recently inducted into VSCO’s Artist Initiative to take photos of people with rare skin defects: When Natalie first met Patience Hodgson (of the Australian indie-rock band, The Grates),…
Thoughts on Apple’s Spring Forward Event
I’m going to follow MacSparky’s lead here and provide a laundry list of thoughts now that what happened yesterday has sunk in a little. While reading this keep the following things in…
Automattic wins DMCA case
Ernesto Van Der Sar of TorrentFreak: The case is mostly a symbolic win, but an important one. It should serve as a clear signal to other copyright holders that false DMCA takedown requests…
myword.io adds inline editing
Dave Winer, creator of the open-source myword.io: Last Monday I decided to spend three days taking myword.io to the next step. To add an editor that publishes stories to their own static…
Trying iOS, Android, and Windows
Fred Wilson: I plan to go back to iOS when the next iPhone ships, and then back to Android six months after that. In this way, I can stay current on both…
An Einstein Cross
Or, gravitational lensing. It is when a distant object in space has so much gravity that it bends light around it allowing for us to observe what is behind the object. Blackholes,…
Breaking
New Mac and iOS “app” that adds RSS feeds directly to your Today tab. Not for me. I prefer Feedly. But I’ll help link to anything that uses RSS without people knowing they…
Crayon Sculptures by Hoang Tran
Superb sculptures in crayon by Hoang Tran. Ackbar is fantastic. /via iGNANT.
Dawn reaches Ceres
Today NASA’s Dawn Mission reaches dwarf planet Ceres.
MacSparky on Word 2016
Last night I quipped, on Twitter (I know, I know): Office for Mac 2016 Preview. AKA Toolbars McGee. The screenshots of this Office for Mac 2016 preview that have been floating around…