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The greatest living bearded blogger, Jim Dalrymple, on The Loop: I still think it’s going to make for an incredible upgrade for those iPhone 5s users, but I also think it’s going to appeal to some current iPhone 6 users. A lot of people upgraded to the newest design for the technology, and of course, to have the…
In Flight
The iPhone SE is for me and Yeti is changing my life. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e6.mp3 Download MP3
Brewing a second cup of coffee and reading Gruber’s review of the iPhone SE: http://daringfireball.net/2016/03/the_iphone_se
Nat Friedman on the Xamarin blog: Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual Studio with no…
Trying to figure out how to keep my current pace at work without burning out. I honestly think it could be possible.
The April jokes are starting to roll in already. I think I’ll close all social sites for the next 48-hours.
Imagine if your favorite software company said; we didn't waste any resources this year on an April 1st joke, instead we are delivering these bug fixes. That would be something.
Get used to the sight of people lining up for cars. Tesla is as beloved as Apple. If Apple jumps into the auto-arena we’ll see this happening again. Happy day to all of you out there nabbing a Tesla 3. I wish I could.
Somewhat related: Photo stats and observations. I began the switch to iCloud Photo Library a few days ago and so far it has been a mixed experience. Since weaving a good narrative is not in my wheelhouse, here is a laundry list of observations that I’ve made over the last few days. iCloud Photo Library brings the Internet…
Nearly all of the tech coverage I read about Snapchat’s latest update lead with “stickers” being part of the update. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bob the walrus. But how can they not lead with the fact that they’ve added realtime video and voice calling? I remember the first time I ever tried video chatting on a Macintosh…
Satya is killing it. #Build2016
I’m looking forward to Microsoft’s Build conference today. Last year’s presentation left me with a completely different attitude toward the company. Let’s hope they keep up the momentum this year.
How many Mac developers will jump to Windows now that Bash can run in Windows 10? Fantastic update. #build2016
Dustin Kirkland on his blog: Finally, I imagine some of you — long time Windows and Ubuntu users alike — are still wondering, perhaps, "Why?!?" Having dedicated most of the past two decades of my career to free and open source software, this is an almost surreal endorsement by Microsoft on the importance of open source to developers….
Crimson treetops mottle the landscape. Beautiful day.
Western Hotel, Callicoon, NY, March 2016
Warriors vs. Wizards. These late games are tough on this old man.
Took a few minutes and worked on my basketball shot this afternoon.
Scranton, PA, July 2015
Maciej Cegłowski on Pinboard’s blog: It's entirely IFTTT's decision to drop support for Pinboard (along with a bunch of other sites). They are the ones who are going to flip the switch on working code on April 4, and they could just as easily flip the switch back on (or even write an IFTTT recipe that does it…
Giving iCloud Photo Library a whirl. First observation is that it destroys your connection to the Internet. No other device on the network even knows the world exists outside these walls.
I’m upset with myself for not recording more audio. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e5.mp3 Download MP3
Bullhead Bay, Lackawanna State Park, November 2015