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Hashtag Angels
Looks like a pretty stellar group of women coming out of Twitter to form an investment group called #Angels. Excellent reasoning too: Technology is no longer an industry category. As has been…
Working from a hospital today
Adding tens-of-thousands of photos to a Flickr Group can be tedious
On Kyle’s suggestion I’m using a private Flickr Group for Eliza and I to share our entire photo collection with one another. (related) Pretty simple. This is all we need to do:…
Apple Watch in CSS
Luke James Taylor has made an Apple Watch “container” in CSS that can be used to create mock ups for how things will look on the Apple Watch. Nice.
Don’t Follow Your Heroes
Justin Jackson: As creators, there’s a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their success. We think if we follow their instructions, we’ll be able to reproduce…
Going all-in on Flickr
It is settled. I’m going with Flickr. (related) Why? Flickr has been around for a decade. It is owned by a public company that hasn’t shown signs it wants to kill Flickr…
Haughey hangs it up at MetaFilter
Matt Haughey, matthowie, had an incredible 16 year run with Metafilter. And, in true Mefi fashion… the post about his departure drips with just the right amount of MetaFilter-isms: LobsterMitten is returning…
Revoking application access on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter
I am going all-in on Flickr. However, I haven’t logged into Flickr in, oh, forever? If you’re in the same boat you may want to check out which applications you’ve given access…
The Web’s Grain
Another instant classic from Frank Chimero where in he describes the essence of designing for the web: an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple…
March Experiment
Matt Cutts does 30 day challenges. He’s famous for it. And I’ve done small things before like #travelfeet, 30 days of blogging, and other things. Similar to things I’ve tried to do…
Troika
New music podcast from Jon Hicks. The first episode is ready for your earlobes: This first edition of Troika is about ambient music. Not the bleepy,beaty, dancy kind, but the more soothing…
Thursday Scrapple 5
Scrapple 1, Scrapple 2, Scrapple 3, Scrapple 4. Writing Space Bits isn’t easy but incredibly rewarding for me personally. I’d love to write more. This has been an incredibly cold February. With March…
Designal Tap – A design critique meetup in Scranton, PA
My boy Kyle Ruane, who cofounded Plain and Coalwork with me, is putting together his own reoccurring design critique meetup for people in and near Scranton, PA. Designal Tap is an informal…
The what is more interesting than the how
Recently I read Charlotte Spencer’s blog post about being a new developer. The entire post is worth a read but this bit jumped out at me: As a new developer, I don’t…
The Eye of Sauron is in the Fomalhaut system
I wrote a Spacebit about the Fomalhaut system: Imagine a bulbous ball of ice, rock, and metal that stretches at least 6 miles across moving at 85,000 miles an hour smashing into…
Bill Gates on The Verge
The Verge: For the month of February, Bill Gates will be guest-editing The Verge. Over the course of four weeks, Gates will be guiding us as we explore how technology will transform…
Wednesday Scrapple 4
Scrapple 3. A shorter scrapple post today. Not sure why but perhaps I’m too busy to be thinking of little nuggets of scrapple lately. I find myself using the default Twitter clients….
A case for modernizing blogs
Marco Arment: If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next. If you’ve read my…
More on Flipboard for the Web
Last week I warned that we’d be hearing more about how Flipboard pulled off their new web app and how some would agree and disagree with how they went about it. Well,…
Enrique Dans on RSS
Enrique Dans, in a bit on Medium about Feedly, on RSS: I simply cannot understand why RSS readers are not used by everybody. I think that any user, from the professional to…
A Manager’s Manifesto
Julie Zhou, on Medium, lists out her manager’s manifesto: 5) Figure out which people rely on you and how you can help them be self-sufficient. You may feel important having a monopoly…
Building Flipboard for the web
Michael Johnston for the Flipboard Engineering blog: Most modern mobile devices have hardware-accelerated canvas, so why couldn’t we take advantage of this? HTML5 games certainly do. But could we really develop an…
Photos for OS X questions
Jason Snell is on a roll this week blogging about Photos for OS X. This latest post answers people’s questions. I recommend looking through them if you’re interested in how this is…
Casabona Scrapple
This scrapple thing is catching on. Fellow Coalworker Joe Casabona just published his first edition of scrapple. I liked his last bit: I’ve been using Unmark for bookmarks lately. You should give…
Gary Vaynerchuk on Hashtags
My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, on Medium: I’m just going to come out and say it: hashtags are not ownable. Period. He’s right. Anyone at any time can post anything they’d like to…
Hard Links and Photos for OS X
Jason Snell, after reviewing the beta of Photos for OS X, has figured out how Apple imports photos into the new Photos for OS X without taking up any additional space: It…
The names of Apple products
So, Apple may be looking into building a car. With approaching 200 billion in cash, and yesterday CEO Tim Cook saying that their biggest asset is innovation, and that they plan to…
Snell on Photos for OS X Beta
Snell, of Six Colors, writing for TidBITS on the feature in Photos for OS X Beta that allows you to store your original photos and videos in iCloud and only keeping smaller…
Uber hits Scranton
Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change….