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YouTube will not allow me to comment without a Google+ account so I’m putting my comment for Sam Soffes’ daily vlog post right here: “I think I like personalsam for the same reasons I've always enjoyed reading personal blogs. Living and working online since I was 14 could have been a lonely endeavor but tweets, blog posts, instagrams,…
John Ellison, who is blogging about each day that he interns at Clear Left in Brighton, UK writes about the value of a great project manager after 16 days on the job: We had so many different threads working in different directions and as soon as Clare jumped on the project the threads were working together towards a…
SelfControl: Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites–even if you restart your computer or delete the application. Emphasis mine. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
WordCamp Scranton happened in mid-July. I mentioned it once or twice.
Eliza and I visited with a few friends in Brooklyn PA a month or so ago. Nice place to go for a walk but man oh man there were a lot of dead things on the road.
Mark Gurman, as per usual, has the skinny on the next Apple TV. We have two Apple TV’s in the house and two at work. At home we use the Apple TV every single day. If that Mark is laying out ends up being the reality of what ships we’ll buy two immediately.
I use Evernote on my desktop, tablet, and phone. I don’t particularly care for their applications* but the service and structure works well enough that I’ve been productive using them. Jeremy Brown, a local designer and developer and frequent Coalworker, recently wrote about Alternote: It's clean, and it's generally nice to use. What's good is great, and what's…
I shared a photo on Instagram/Facebook of a recent paddle on White Oak Pond and within seconds a perfect stranger suggested I paddle Dunn Pond due to its similarities. I love White Oak Pond so the first opportunity I had I went to paddle Dunn Pond. I’m glad I did. I ended up shooting more videos than photos…
This is what can happen when two little girls grab your camera and shoot over 100 photos in a matter of minutes. 🙂
Last week a few of us walked to Ale Mary’s — which I recommend if you haven’t tried it yet — and I took my GoPro along. I’m digging these.
Yesterday we had a client meeting in Wilkes-Barre and so we decided to grab lunch downtown just before it. Our intent was to visit Maer’s BBQ but, to our surprise, it was and has been closed for a while. However, we found Franklin’s. Nice atmosphere, good food, and decent beer selection on draught. So if you’re downtown…
This summer I’ve found myself shooting with my GoPro Hero3 a lot. And not just while kayaking. I really dig the perspective and most of what is captured is fairly Instagrammable. I’ll also mention that the GoPro form factor is less obtrusive than the iPhone in that people hardly notice the GoPro at all. In late-June Kyle and…
Bradley Chambers, commenting on a new feature in the latest beta of iOS 9 that will allow the iPhone to switch to cellular data when a Wi-Fi connection gets weak: This is going to be huge for Siri. One of the places that I typically use Siri is backing out of the driveway at home or the parking…
In this “year of the smartwatch” I’m happy I stumbled across the Timex Datalink. From Wikipedia: The Datalink line was introduced in 1994 and it was co-developed with Microsoft as a wearable alternative to mainstream PDAs with additional attributes such as water resistance, that PDAs lacked, and easy programmability. Microsoft would give these watches away when you bought…
The Sweet Setup: The Belkin Qode Pro is the Cadillac of iPad keyboards. It comes with a shell for the iPad to clip into that works in conjunction with the keyboard itself. When you’re done working, simply pull the iPad away from the magnets in the base and supporting piece in the back, and the keyboard will stay…
David Auerbach, writing for Slate: By default, Windows 10 gives itself the right to pass loads of your data to Microsoft’s servers, use your bandwidth for Microsoft’s own purposes, and profile your Windows usage. Despite the accolades Microsoft has earned for finally doing its job, Windows 10 is currently a privacy morass in dire need of reform. Oh…
Walter Chang traveled the world for 3 years and then made this video and wrote this on Medium: Yet, traveling in this manner is really an educational experience and an investment in yourself. You get to see how other people live and how they view life. You also get time to reflect on your own issues from an…
Will Freeborn, whom I’ve featured on The Watercolor Gallery, recently put together a bit of stencil work for a local bakery in Scotland. I thought it was a cool post on his blog. They also ask artists to make stencils for their bread, I was asked if I wanted to join in. The way the loaves are displayed…
Paul Stamatiou, on 10 years of blogging: For me blogging here is an outlet for creativity and an eternal personal project where I can tinker with design ideas and various web technologies. As good as any reasons to have your own blog. He also notes this about personal sites: The era of the personal website is over. It's…
Last year Coalwork sponsored NEPA BlogCon, which I wrote about on the Coalwork blog at the time, and this year we’re sponsoring the conference again. From their press release: NEPA BlogCon is designed to bring together bloggers of all experience levels, as well as those interested in marketing, social media, creativity, leadership, and branding. It’s also an excellent…
Leo Marini on Quartz: Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. When AOL was at its height many thought it was the internet. Now, those using Facebook don’t even know they are using the internet.
Kurt Wagner on Re/code: Trevor O’Brien, who joined Twitter a year and a half ago from YouTube and oversees product for Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, is departing the company, according to multiple sources. Based on the application updates I’ve seen these last few months I’d say O’Brien wasn’t overseeing much of anything. The state of applications at…
Microsoft is reporting 14,000,000 Windows 10 installs in 24 hours. Not bad. Me, in May: I want Microsoft to do great things. I want Windows Phone to be as amazing as it is but with thousands more applications. I want HoloLens to exist. I want to see whether Microsoft’s unified Windows Platform will be a better idea than…
This is great. ~karlen on tilde.town reads aloud bits on the web that says “no one will ever read this but”. My only wish was that this site linked to the source. /via Andy Baio.