You, too, can be a geek
John Siracusa, on his personal blog, The Road to Geekdom: You don’t have to be a geek about everything in your life—or anything, for that matter. But if geekdom is your goal,…
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Presenting at the NEPA WordPress Meetup
Tonight I had the privilege of presenting at our local NEPA WordPress Meetup. We were also privileged to host the event at our space in Carbondale, PA.  My presentation was…
Brett Terpstra goes indie
No one can say his name correctly, but Brett Terpstra has pumped out a slew of amazing projects over the years — most of which were offered for free. Brett has decided…
Fuelling the iPad-as-Camera Bandwagon
Shadoe Huard, on his personal blog: I‘m officially coming out in favour of iPads as cameras. Brave man. Loosely related: Craig Mod’s piece in The New Yorker, and Apple’s new iPad ad.
Blogging matters
Dave Winer, on why comments on a blog post turned bad: What bloggers are guilty of — always — is telling their story imperfectly. It's the imperfections that make it interesting, and…
Comments are not dead
Tina Roth Eisenberg on Twitter: Comments are not dead. She’s right, of course. However, I don’t have comments on my blog for the following reasons. I do not want to manage them…
How to turn off Google‘s new Gmail option that allows strangers to send you emails
Yesterday The Verge revealed that Google “made it really easy for strangers to email you”. Google being Google. No one can out-Google Google. Anyway, TUAW shows how to turn it off.
Hyperrealistic pastel drawings of icebergs by Zaria Forman
These works by Zaria Forman are simply amazing. /via Marco Suarez on Twitter.
Software in 2014
Tim Bray on the state of Software in 2014. I agree with him on many things including: Browsers suck too. […] JavaScript is horrible. […] CSS sucks too. […] /via John “I can…
Some non-tech podcasts I’ve enjoyed lately
I think when some of us hear the word podcast we immediately think of those that deal with technology or those in which a few tech nerds sit around and chat about…
Source Code in TV and Films
If you're even remotely geeky you'll have noticed countless instances of code showing up in television shows and movies. And, usually, you can see that the code is total junk. In comes…
The Indie Ocean
Jared Sinclair, on his personal blog, on the potential for indie devs to up their game. My finger-to-the-wind says that apps and services aiming for mainstream consumer appeal, which were already impossibly…
What blogging was
Dave Weinberger, who started blogging even before me, writes about What blogging was. Your blogroll was a list of links to the bloggers you read and engaged with. It was a way…
Will we lose the web?
Cory Doctorow, on his personal blog, is worried we’ll lose the web this year: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web….
Writing from home
Me, last night on Twitter: I know @jkottke said blogs were dead. I know I said they were “just sleeping”. It might be Jason’s fault, but I think they’re on the upswing….
Writing it down
Brian Doll, on his personal blog: Today, while technology has seeped into every cranny of our personal and professional lives, when a thought comes to me, when I want to remember something…
Yahoo News Digest
Yahoo News Digest is a new app from Yahoo in collaboration with the team behind Summly, which Yahoo purchased last year, to show you a digest of the day’s news stories twice…
Jelly
Biz Stone and Ben Finkel have launched Jelly. Jelly changes how we find answers because it uses pictures and people in our social networks. In short, if you're wondering about something and…
iOS 7 restarts
MG Siegler laments in I Got Bugs: At least two times a day now, my devices running iOS 7 will simply cease to function and restart themselves. Ditto. iOS 7 and Mavericks,…
Changes to Evernote, spurred by a blog post
Jason Kincaid wrote, on his personal blog, Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant. The post met with some very encouraging responses… Two days ago I published Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant, recounting the ongoing issues I’ve…
\”Write for two people\”
Speaking of blogging, Matt Mullenweg (who knows a thing or two about blogging), gives his tips for writing on your blog and not worrying about stats and click-throughs and sensational headlines. The…
re/code
The team behind AllThingsD, a property of the Wall Street Journal, has just launched "a new tech and media news, reviews and analysis site" re/code. And it seems that it will just…
Inspecting view hierarchies of iOS apps
This is far too geeky and cool not to link to. Peter Steinberger has cleverly used an iOS 7 jailbreak loophole to see the view hierarchies of other iOS applications. He explains…
The anatomy of Smaug
Great post going over the anatomy of Smaug. It seems Smaug changed from one release to another. Keen eyes. /via Michael Heilemann on Twitter.
In dependence
Jeremy Keith has chimed in on the conversation started by Jason Kottke's "The blog is dead" piece from a few weeks ago with In dependence. Many of us are feeling an increasing…
Tech journalists have no enthusiasm
Or, at least according to John Gruber many don't. There’s a nihilistic streak in tech journalism that I just don’t see in other fields. Sports, movies, cars, wristwatches, cameras, food — writers…
Wil Shipley describes John Carmack’s source code
Wil Shipley, in a story about porting Doom to NeXT, describes John Carmack's code: Don't take this to mean his code was spaghetti—it was actually some of the easiest-to-understand code I've ever…
Jack Dorsey to join Walt Disney’s board
Interesting, the way this stuff works. According to the BBC Jack Dorsey merely has an opportunity to join the board of The Walt Disney company. Shareholders will be able to vote on his…
Research Publications at Facebook
What does it take to build a social network of 1B+ people sharing billions of statuses, photos, videos, links, events and more? Earlier this year Facebook has opened up their research publications. Fascinating…
Homesteading
In March 2008 I began to regret using so many different services to store and share different types of content like photos, tweets, videos, links. And so I began to plan bringing…