Did some tweeting last night while Juno was preparing to slow down and enter Jupiter’s orbit.
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Broke my GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition’s waterproof case yesterday. Excuse to go Hero 4 Black?
I hope @NASA’s Juno mission has a great day tomorrow. Will be an awesome 2016 if they do.
Going to try a slightly different social approach for one week. Share here, and everywhere else separately.
A remote workers review of Cocoon Coffeehouse in Hawley, PA
Yesterday Kyle and I wanted to get out of our home offices and work somewhere new. He suggested Cocoon Coffeehouse next to the Silk Mill in Hawley. A panoselfie of yours truly….
Vestal, New York – June 2016
Vestal, New York – June 2016.
Building a single page web site using an Excel spreadsheet
Need something like this? Consider hiring me for your next project. I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from…
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Loren Brichter on web apps
K. Q. Dreger interviewed Loren Brichter about his recent sale of Letterpress (my favorite iOS game). The interview is full of little behind-the-scenes tidbits on Letterpress and how it was made and…
The Evernote slide continues
Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was…
The iPhone turns 9
Nine years ago today Eliza, John Gruber, Rob Sandie, Matt Regula and I were standing in line for the original iPhone. Here are a few photos: John, before having a computer in his…
GoPro open sources Camera Toolkit
GoPro just updated their iOS app. In the release notes I noticed a link to their developer page wherein they've open sourced their Camera Toolkit for iOS and Android. Let's hope a…
How many hats can you wear?
Maria Langer, on her blog, on owning and operating her own small business: I am the owner of a small business, Flying M Air, LLC. I do just about everything for the company…
Microsoft open sources .NET Core
Richard Lander on the .NET Blog: We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is…
On rebranding
Over on our company blog we published our recipe for rebranding a company. Here's a snippet on how our outsider view is an advantage: Our suggestions and feedback come with no internal…
Three Toe: A simple SMS autoresponder on top of the Twilio API
If you find yourself needing something like this, why not hire me to make it for you? A friend of mine somewhat recently became a licensed realtor. One thing that surprised him was…
Hope Hill Lavender Farm’s Lavender Festival 2016
This weekend a few friends, Eliza, and I went to Hope Hill Lavender Farm's Lavender Festival. As one would expect with all lavender events, it was an absolute smashing success with thousands…
Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
Jersey Cattle at Stone Mountain Wine Cellars – June 2016
What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of…
We’ve had a good run of really nice, albeit hot, days so far this year. Don’t complain. It will be January again very soon.
Three microphones
I began posting to my own site in earnest on March 6th of this year. I wrote: So, starting tonight that is what I’m going to try again to do with a…
Regardless of the outcome of tonight’s game this has been the most fun to watch season of basketball in my lifetime.
Book review: 2001: A Space Odyssey. – 5 stars.
Signature style
Great piece from Lea Alcantara on her company blog on how originality and style have fallen to practicality and everything looking the same in web design: The result usually ends up being…
Migrating Subscriptions from one Stripe account to another
Update December 2025: At the very kind request of Stripe, Stripe Transfer has been renamed to Good Migrations. The process on this page is out of date.Please reach out to Good Migrations…
Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
Merli-Sarnoski County Park Kayakers – May 2016
what3words
what3words describes itself as "the simplest way to communicate location". Essentially, the service creates a three word phrase for every 9-square-meter point on the earth. I came across this via Joon Ian…
Random subtle updates to Apple software
Apple could not possibly cover every update to iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS in their Keynote. So as the nerds have been picking through the trash in and around San Francisco they've…
WWDC murdered my wish list
In a good way. Yesterday I scrawled a few comments during the WWDC Keynote, and did 1 second reviews of the announcements on Snapchat, but I thought I'd jot down the tally of things…