Foggy Dam, Aylesworth Park, Jermyn, PA, May 2016
Foggy Dam, Aylesworth Park, Jermyn, PA, May 2016
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Sunset Beach, Cape May, May 2016
Sunset Beach, Cape May, May 2016
Today will be fueled by coffee and headphones.
How I create a combo feed using WordPress
When my site was on Barley I had something we called a "combo feed". A combo feed combined all content types (what we called custom post types) into my main RSS feed. This…
Sunset over Jermyn, PA – May 2016
Sunset over Jermyn, PA – May 2016
Instagram has now become 100% friends and family. Which means we early adopters are about to jump ship. I thought it would be to SnapChat but that is still too disjointed (though crazy fun). I wonder what is next.
We’ve already used our BBQ more this year than all of last. Hoping to keep it up.
Everyone should write (or, blog?)
Deanna Mascle wrote on her blog on why all teachers should write. In it she says this about why students should write in every class every day: Reflective writing at the beginning…
Owning my words and photos and audio bits
Jeremy Keith wrote on his blog about owning his words, or, being willing to publish his words (snarky or otherwise) on his own site under his own name. I recommend you read…
Sunset, Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA
Sunset, Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA
Lately I’ve helped clients
Lately I’ve helped clients generate Excel and PDF files. Next I’ll be creating a bot that generates stone tablets. *rimshot*
Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
How to fix iTunes
How to fix iTunes: Remove App Store, remove Apple Music, remove Podcasts, remove syncing to iOS. Improve OS X App Store to include iOS apps. Make Apple Music app. Make Syncing app….
I’m surprised the Warriors lost Game 1. I think this is going to be an incredible series.
I’m surprised the Warriors lost Game 1. I think this is going to be an incredible series.
IFTTT recipes
Just took some time to clean up my IFTTT recipes for posting statuses, photos, audio bits, and blog posts to both Twitter and Facebook. I may need to rejigger the bits a…
Kayaking is therapy.
Kayaking is therapy.
The Inn at Cape May
The Inn at Cape May, May 2016
The iPhone SE is going to win every award it deserves. The camera is incredibly good.
The iPhone SE is going to win every award it deserves. The camera is incredibly good.
The Unicode Consortium is responsible for more than emoji
Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, [on their blog](The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for…
We know better now
Manton Reece, on his blog, on podcasting lock-in, the open web, silos, and more: While the open web still exists, we really dropped the ball protecting and strengthening it. Fewer people’s first…
Cape May Island, May 2016
Cape May Island, May 2016
Guy in this coffee shop
Guy in this coffee shop ends all of his dictated text messages with “ellipses”. Class act.
Improving Photos for OS X and iOS and iCloud Photo Library
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at…
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett continues to take his own advice. He once said “In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine.” So as Carl…
When I show
When I show http://h2ocolor.com to someone in real life they are amazed that I’ve spent countless hours over 5 years curating an online watercolor gallery. Believe me, so am I.
Your blog doesn’t need to make money
Sarah Pressler, on her blog: But the thing is you can just write for the sake of sharing your thoughts with the world at large. Or mostly, just for the sake of…
Yesterday was Astronomy Day and I didn’t write a word about it.
Yesterday was Astronomy Day and I didn't write a word about it. Someone is going to take away my space nerd card.
Mornings
For about 10 years now I haven’t set an alarm unless I had a plane or bus to catch. My belief is that if my body needs to sleep it will and…
Photos has finished syncing to iCloud Photo Library.
Photos has finished syncing to iCloud Photo Library. Yay! I started on the 29th of March and synced nearly every night that I could.
Some Fridays are more Friday than other Fridays. Today is the Fridayest.
Some Fridays are more Friday than other Fridays. Today is the Fridayest.