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Mar 22, 2016

Subscribing to my audio bits

Tickle your earlobes by subscribing to my audio bits via Huffduffer. Here are some links to do so: All posts tagged ‘cdevroeaudio’ on Huffduffer Subscribe in Apple’s Podcasts app Subscribe in Overcast Subscribe in Downcast Subscribe in Instacast Subscribe in another app Personally, I adore Huffduffer so I’d totally understand if you’d prefer to cherry-pick specific “episodes” to listen to. For…

Mar 22, 2016

E3: Owl sounds

In early-winter 2014 I recorded some owls in my backyard. Perhaps you’d like to hear them too? https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e3.mp3 For a much better recording of owls, listen here. Download MP3

Mar 22, 2016

Becoming cameras

Matt Hackett, CTO/Co-founder of Beme, on Ev’s blog*: We are approaching a world in which visual and auditory presence at a distance—seeing as another, instantly—is not a rare luxury good, but a basic assumption of society and industry. The superpower of unbounded remote vision is becoming mundane. Periscope, Beme, YouTube, SnapChat. These services were not on my phone…

Mar 22, 2016

Auto-link hashtags with jQuery and JavaScript

We had a need for a bit of JavaScript that would look for hashtags (like #this) in content and auto-link them to search results. So I popped over to CodePen and scrawled out some messy jQuery to make that happen. This morning I woke up and thought… “it has been a little while since I wrote JavaScript without…

Mar 21, 2016

In reply to Manton: If the iPhone SE…

In reply to Manton: If the iPhone SE ends up with a 6 or 6+ quality camera in it I’ll likely be switching to it late summer. But the 10” iPad still feels perfect to me. Side note: I look forward to when Barley 2.0 supports Web Mentions so that Manton would have been notified of this reply.

Mar 18, 2016

Riversport Rapids

Wow, this place looks incredible. Eugene Buchanan at Canoe & Kayak: Riversport Rapids, Oklahoma City’s new $45.2 million whitewater rafting and kayaking center, is holding its grand opening celebration May 7-8 after nearly 10 years of planning and building. Included in the amenities: the world’s highest-volume, fully adjustable pumped freestyle feature, at 1,200 to 1,400 cfs. $45,000,000 complex, $4…

Mar 18, 2016

Open source retreats

Krithika Muthukumar on the Stripe blog: This January, we invited three developers to come work on open-source projects full-time at Stripe. We specifically chose projects for this Open-Source Retreat that we felt would have deep impact in a variety of different areas. Stripe has done this for several years. I’m very jealous of it. If our company was…