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Interesting write-up on Medium by Pasquale D’Silva Creative Director at Elepath. He says this about Spotify: One of the most spatially confusing, while popular pieces of consumer software. To describe how Spotify’s interface makes use of space, would be to describe a rat’s nest of wires. I challenge you to effectively sketch it on a piece of paper….
Kyle Eschenroeder over at The Art of Manliness: Then there is the person scrolling through Lifehacker collecting listicles. Reading and re-reading the same hacks spewed out a thousand times. This is the person who won’t go to the gym until they know for a fact that they have the “perfect” workout regimen. This is the person who doesn’t…
Maciej Ceglowski, operator over at Pinboard, in a talk in 2014: The Web belongs to us all, and those of us in this room are going to spend the rest of our lives working there. So we need to make it our home. You’ve likely already read the transcript of his talk but I thought it would be…
Good move from GoPro. They’ve created a licensing platform for stock videos made by GoPro users. Christopher Heine for Adweek: At launch, GoPro Licensing will feature more than 600 videos from amateur and professional videographers with whom the San Mateo, Calif.-based company has struck licensing agreements. It plans to continuously expand the number of clips available, with the…
S. Somasegar on his own blog at Microsoft: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 are an exciting next step for developer tools from Microsoft – combining new productivity for existing Visual Studio users with new platform support for developers targeting a wider range of platforms and programming models. Huge update to Visual Studio but most notable is the…
Manton Reece, on his personal blog about quitting his “day job” and going full time indie: I thought it would be fun to do a series of blog posts about the early part of this transition. For the next couple weeks, as I wind down one set of projects and ramp up new ones, I’m going to post…
Jason Major, writing for Universe Today: More than just a pretty picture of our blue marble, this image will be used by the EPIC team to help calibrate the instrument to remove some of the blue atmospheric haze from subsequent images. Once the camera is fully set to begin operations daily images of our planet will be made available…
Kyle Ruane, on his personal blog: It’s no secret that the more this region (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, everywhere in-between) becomes comfortable with technology and success within that industry, the greater our ability will be to develop and keep homegrown talent as well as attract entrepreneurs from other areas. This conference was another big step in the right direction. While one…
Disclosure: I’m not an organizer of WordCamp Scranton, though two of my companies; Plain and Coalwork are sponsors, nor am I speaking for anyone involved with the event. I’m personally grateful for the coverage on WNEP about WordCamp Scranton but I believe it could have been so much better. I believe WordCamp’s organizers could have done a better…
Rich Cicci writing for the excellent NEPA Scene: San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, but unless you kept your face inches away from your cell phone, tablet, PC, or laptop this past weekend, you may not have known. That fact is shocking considering how much nerd culture has permeated everything nowadays. I mean, between Hollywood’s reliance…
I had no idea that Maciej Cegłowski, operator of Pinboard, had a personal blog chocked full of great writing. Did you? How did I miss this? I’m only now aware of this due to Jeremy Keith’s writing about Maciej’s Kickstarter. He’s looking to travel to Antarctica and write about the experience. At first I thought… why can’t he…
Mark this app down as one of the apps that will make iOS become a platform that rivals the Macintosh for creators over the next few years. This is just the beginning. iOS 9 will open the door for much, much more apps like this. Also, kudos to Panic for their hat tip to Dennis Nedry.
I watch Casey Neistat every day. Today he and his team released Beme. (App Store Link) Mike Isaac for Bits: Users capture four-second bursts of video by covering a sensor directly above the earpiece of the iPhone. During an interview in his Manhattan office on Thursday, Mr. Neistat demonstrated this by pressing the phone to his chest —…
In 2008 seven investors were approached to buy 10% of Airbnb for $150,000. Five of them turned them down flat, two never responded. Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, on Medium: Next time you have an idea and it gets rejected, I want you to think of these emails. Airbnb is currently valued at a $25.5 billion dollars.
Luca G, from the Netherlands, on Medium: I’ve compared the two and came to the conclusion that Evernote is the best option for me. I always carry my phone around, and it’s always charged. I’m much the same. I’ve defaulted to Evernote for almost everything. I say almost because I find that having a notebook on hand for…
Tal F commutes to NYC on a bicycle and has done so for years. He decided to shake things up and use a kayak to commute into work — and not just any kayak, an Oru Kayak. Tal F, on his excellent blog: Predictably, the process of setting up and dismantling the boat in Manhattan always attracts a…
Jared Sinclair: Here’s a little secret for newbie app developers out there: a fun app has nothing to do with clean code. You can replace “fun” with anything here. Shipping is better than not shipping. Manton Reece: Most programmers try to improve their code a little from one project to the next. But obsessing about how the code looks…
Carl T. Holscher on growing up at a slower pace: I wasn’t ignorant. I read voraciously. I wrote and thought. I shared my thoughts in that fledgling collection of wires and computers. I talked to classmates and spent hours on the phone with a friend talking to the wee hours of the morning. No matter where or how…
Since we’re on the subject of hitting milestones around things done daily and the number 100… this one is a doozy. Casey Neistat just hit 100 episodes of daily video blog episodes. A huge accomplishment given the quality of Casey’s videos. I watch an episode every single day at lunch and catch up on the weekend’s episodes on…
Marisa is excited: Oh friends. Canning season is on so hard right now. I have 25 pounds of apricots spread out on baking sheets on my living room floor, and I have four pounds of super ripe peaches on my kitchen counter. There are dilly beans fermenting on the dining room table, and I put a finished half…
What an amazing feat by Jeremy Keith: I missed the daily deadline once. I could make the excuse that it was a really late night of carousing, but I knew in advance that I was going to be out so I could’ve written my 100 words ahead of time—I didn’t. I didn’t go twelve days before missing my…
It has been a whirlwind this last week or so. I'm writing this while 35,000 feet in the air as Kyle and I are off to San Francisco on a business trip. A trip we didn't know we were taking until late last week. Isn't flying amazing? The process of flying, however, is about as terrible as possible….
We’ve been doing some walking in the afternoons lately.
Noah Read, on his blog, on why he is posting “snippets” to his site which then get distributed to the social networks of his choice. Some of the content is so great that it seems a shame to be dumping it into 3rd party services, which may be gone within a few years. Microblogging and social sharing will survive,…