First morning paddle
On Sunday I was able to get out early for my first morning paddle ever. Paddling in the morning is completely different than the afternoon or evening. I wasn’t prepared for the…
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William Shatner and Facebook Mentions
For reference: App Constellations. First, William Shatner has a Tumblog. I’m cool with this. Second, he wrote about Facebook Mentions — yet another app from Facebook specifically created to help “celebrities” with managing…
Bank Towers Building
Bank Towers Building, Wyoming Avenue, Scranton.
Rap Genius didn’t raise $40M
It turns out, it was bigger than that. I’ve seen a few tweets and heard a few comments this weekend along the lines of “Rap Genius raised $40M? I quit.” Funny. But pretty…
Two paddles this weekend
I managed to get away from work on Friday and do some paddling. Then, on Saturday, things happened to align where I could meet my friend Andrew for a second paddle. Very…
Walking the Glen Gour to Strontian
Simon Willis, someone who has been a huge inspiration to my kayaking endeavors with his Sea Kayak Podcasts series, recently went for a hike. I love this bit: Show me an horizon,…
FrenchGirls hits 1M installs, raises $500k
Our friends at Appek, a company just a few miles south from Plain in Scranton, recently hit 1,000,000 installs for their selfie-drawing app FrenchGirls. The concept is pretty simple; take a selfie,…
Pinboard turns 5
Pinboard, the excellent bookmarking service, recently turned five. Here is Maciej Cegłowski on the Pinboard blog: Now back to some beard-stroking: I see my role much like a small-town praire banker in the…
Urllib3 and Stripe’s Open-Source Retreat
In April Stripe announced an Open-Source Retreat. A little over a month later they had chosen three grantees. Though unannounced on the company blog, Andrey Petrov wrote about his experience working on…
A paddle between storms
Last night there was a thunderstorm warning for our county. I desperately wanted to get out kayaking since I hadn’t all weekend. So, I opened up Dark Sky and found a slot of…
The future of blogging
I don’t know what the future of blogging is. I go back and forth between feeling that the glory days are long over to feeling that the best is yet to come….
What Matt Krizan learned paddling the California coast
Matt Krizan paddled the California coast in a 36-day expedition. Dave Shivley wrote about what Krizan learned for Canoe & Kayak. Here is what happened on day two: Four miles offshore, the…
Kurkdjian on Vimeo
I’ve been following Guillaume Kurkdjian’s Tumblr for awhile. He posts “weekly animated gifs”. But, what’s better than a gif? An animation with sound. Vehicle #4 – Food Truck from Guillaume Kurkdjian on Vimeo….
Agency or Product?
Richard Banfield, on Medium, in a piece titled The Myth of the Design Studio Turned Product Company relates how he feels it got started by 37Signals: In the process of doing that…
Aperture shut
Jim Dalrymple, on The Loop: Apple introduced a new Photos app during its Worldwide Developers Conference that will become the new platform for the company. As part of the transition, Apple told…
Home office 2014
Due to an influx of work at Plain I found myself working from home this weekend. It wasn’t so bad. Great view, good Cornflakes.
Wolfram and the World Cup
Speaking of Wolfram Alpha (I mentioned them yesterday). Wolfram Alpha was used to try to predict the outcome of the World Cup. Again, Brazil is the favorite, but with a 32% chance…
Google I/O Keynote 2014
I do not think it is fair to compare Apple’s WWDC keynote with Google’s I/O keynote. It should be fair. But the two simply do not compare. It should be fair because…
The myth of the cool office
This piece on The Wire is over a year old but this morning Unmark reminded me that I had read it last year around this time. I think it still rings very…
Vox Media acquires Editorially
The team behind my favorite, yet now defunct, service for collaborating on the written word — Editorially — is joining Vox Media to work on Product. From the outside this seems like…
My Great Grandfather’s pocket-watch
This is my Great Grandfather’s pocket-watch. A few weeks ago my father gave it to me and I wore it for the first time yesterday. I have a lot to say about…
RunPee
Have you ever wondered when would be a good time to go pee during a movie? Or, whether or not you should wait through the end credits? RunPee will tell you these…
The great unbundling continues
Dave Morin, CEO of Path, recently did a small AMA on Product Hunt. He pointed out this article on Wired about Path breaking apart its mobile apps into other applications. Something I…
Frank Chimero AMA
Frank Chimero did a wonderful “Ask Me Anything” session on Designer News earlier this week. I loved this bit about the window of approval on your own work: Writing and publishing a book…
Magic Hour from Oru Kayak
I paddled for about an hour last night on the way home from work. I think I’m starting to get used to this routine. Of course, there is a square crop.
PaperLater
Tom Taylor, the maker of Satellite Eyes (among other things), has been working on a way for people to receive print versions of the things they’d like to read online. It is…
A small herb garden
Eliza and I planted a few herbs this past weekend.
Slingshot
In an effort to further confuse us as to which of their apps to use for what purpose… Facebook introduces Slingshot. The app isn’t yet available but there is more detail on…
Evening at Mountain Mud Pond
Friday, after work, I went for a short paddle on Mountain Mud Pond. This pond is on my way home from work.
Great World Cup Goals by Richard Swarbrick
So cool. You can see more great stuff from Swarbrick on his site. /via Devour.