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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
Topics: AI, blogging, photography, programming, projects, Signboard
Noah Read on music: When I became a teenager this music fell by the wayside as my tastes followed those of most teenagers trying to be cool while not popular. Some of what I liked then has stood the test of time, but much of it has proven itself culturally and emotionally bankrupt. In recent months I have…
Beautiful Maps by Dennys Hess. I love maps. /via Coudal.
Photographer Eric Smith in Going Viral on Medium: When I reviewed the pictures two weeks ago I was astounded by the juxtaposition of the young man immersed in his phone while this creature is feet away. Over the course of six shots showing the whale emerging and vanishing, he never looked up, even while the three other people on…
In March 2013 I turned off all notifications on my phone, tablet, and computer. In May of that year I went one step further and closed most applications that would keep me distracted and only opened them when I wanted to. To this day the only notifications I get on my devices are for SMS and calendar events….
This is a pretty cool use of Code Pen.
Justin Blanton decides to muddy the waters on the definition of the word blogging even more by using textshots on Twitter to “blog”: With the advent of “textshots”—screenshots of text linked within tweets (and viewed inline on many Twitter clients)—I’ve decided to try something new with Twitter: “blogging”. Blanton is a blogging veteran so we’ll allow him his experimentation….
We have a number of bird nests throughout our 3 acre property. Some I’ve seen, most I haven’t laid eyes on yet. Last year we had a Woodcock (weird bird alert) nest under our spruce trees in the backyard. See blurry photo. Each morning we have turkeys roosting throughout the forest. I love it. Here are a few related…
Earlier this month I was aglow with anticipation as Dawn reached orbit around Ceres. At Coalwork we even had it marked on the public calendar thinking it’d be a historic event. I expected a live stream. There was none. I expected a live audio stream. There was none. There wasn’t so much as a blog post on the…
You already read my thoughts on the Meerkat vs. Periscope debate. It is still way too early to tell. Let’s see what the next 12 months give us. Gary Vaynerchuk… a friend and business partner of mine, and investor in Meerkat, wrote on LinkedIn: I do it for my brand over my investments. So my voice and my…
Spring, they say.
I’m loving this series of posts by Jeremy Keith tagged 100words.
Charlotte Jackson, experimenting on her own site: I‘ve been super excited to see what all the fuss is about, so I have added flexbox to the simple header on this website. This also gave me a nice introduction to how it all works. If you do anything at all on the web and you do not have your…
Kaboom! That is the sound of the live video streaming market over the last few weeks. Why? Why has it “suddenly” exploded with interest when live video streaming, even the one-to-many applications like we’re seeing with Meerkat and Periscope, has been around for years? I’m not sure there is a single answer. I believe it is a bit more…
Bijan Sabet, on his personal blog: My favorite blogs are the simple ones. The ones that are honest, direct and authentic. The ones that allow for self expression and vulnerability. There sure seems to be a lot of chatter about blogging lately. We are seeing the format, medium, style, definition, layout, and tools all change so quickly right…
Joe Cieplinski, on his blog, writing about the press surrounding the launch of Fantastical 2 for Mac — which I recommend you grab a copy of: It’s brilliant. And it obviously works. But only because it’s genuine. And only because he’s willing to put in that time. That incredible amount of time. Not coding. Not designing. (That’s all…
So Facebook may be talking to news outlets about (and this is how the tech press has explained it) “hosting” their content on Facebook. I’ll wait until I see exactly what this might be before I cast any judgement but I think John Gruber may be on the right track: I can see why these news sites are tempted…
I worked with Mike Rundle for a few years on 9rules and a few client projects. One of the best designers I ever worked with as he bridged the gap between design and engineering really, really well. Today he released Filters, an app for iPhone that boasts 800+ photo filters for $0.99. The app is really well done…
Ben Thompson, in a posted entitled Blogging’s Bright Future which I saved in Unmark for over a month… says sites like TechCrunch added to the confusion over the word blog: A big problem with this entire discussion is that there really isn’t a widely agreed-upon definition of what a blog is, thanks in part to the rise of…
Real photographs put into real photographs to create Surreal Houses. /via David Kick on Twitter.
Shawn Blanc, again, in a piece about stepping out of your echo chamber: When we look to the echo chamber as our sole source of inspiration, it’s like looking to a bag of chips for our sole source of nourishment. The constant barrage of our timelines and inboxes — those “little updates” — are like snacks and junk…
Shubhro Saha: Software engineers should write because it promotes many of the same skills required in programming. A core skill in both disciplines is an ability to think clearly. The best software engineers are great writers because their prose is as logical and elegant as their code. Saha is right. But I’ll extend his premise and say that…
I’m still meditating on Gemmell’s piece On blogs a few days after reading it. Instead of a blog, let your site be a site. Or a journal. An online anthology. Your collected works. Your essays, to date. Your body of writing. A blog is a non-thing; it’s the refusal to categorise what you produce, and an implicit opt-in…
I took a few photos at Seneca Lake this weekend and posted a few of them on Instagram. I also put them into an album on Flickr.