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Fred Wilson: I plan to go back to iOS when the next iPhone ships, and then back to Android six months after that. In this way, I can stay current on both operating systems and ecosystems which I think is useful in my business. I wish I could do this again. For a time I was when we…
Dave Winer, creator of the open-source myword.io: Last Monday I decided to spend three days taking myword.io to the next step. To add an editor that publishes stories to their own static pages. I have a very good back-end, written in Node.js, that‘s all set up to do this. I started with the MacWrite demo program, and it…
Ernesto Van Der Sar of TorrentFreak: The case is mostly a symbolic win, but an important one. It should serve as a clear signal to other copyright holders that false DMCA takedown requests are not always left unpunished. DMCA takedown notices are an enormous amount of work for any company offering a service that allows the publishing of user…
Last night I quipped, on Twitter (I know, I know): Office for Mac 2016 Preview. AKA Toolbars McGee. The screenshots of this Office for Mac 2016 preview that have been floating around are laughable. But David Sparks (MacSparky) brings me back to Earth: I think complaining about the menus in office and the massive number of features is…
Today NASA’s Dawn Mission reaches dwarf planet Ceres.
Superb sculptures in crayon by Hoang Tran. Ackbar is fantastic. /via iGNANT.
New Mac and iOS “app” that adds RSS feeds directly to your Today tab. Not for me. I prefer Feedly. But I’ll help link to anything that uses RSS without people knowing they are using RSS. Long live RSS!
Or, gravitational lensing. It is when a distant object in space has so much gravity that it bends light around it allowing for us to observe what is behind the object. Blackholes, quasars and galaxies being the primary sources of gravitational lensing. Sometimes this effect helps us to see distant objects even clearer because it magnifies that which…
Looks like a pretty stellar group of women coming out of Twitter to form an investment group called #Angels. Excellent reasoning too: Technology is no longer an industry category. As has been well-chronicled, it has become a foundation to every business, ranging from healthcare to transportation to finance to education and beyond. Every company will be a technology…
Another instant classic from Frank Chimero where in he describes the essence of designing for the web: an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment Fascinating read and I’m sure it was even better as a presentation in person. I can…
I am going all-in on Flickr. However, I haven’t logged into Flickr in, oh, forever? If you’re in the same boat you may want to check out which applications you’ve given access to read/write to your Flickr account. You can do so right here. Also, I recommend doing the same for Twitter here and Facebook here.
Matt Haughey, matthowie, had an incredible 16 year run with Metafilter. And, in true Mefi fashion… the post about his departure drips with just the right amount of MetaFilter-isms: LobsterMitten is returning as a full-time moderator All yours LobsterMitten.
It is settled. I’m going with Flickr. (related) Why? Flickr has been around for a decade. It is owned by a public company that hasn’t shown signs it wants to kill Flickr (on the contrary they’ve given people more space than ever). And, I believe Flickr may just be too big to fail at this point. So, as…
Justin Jackson: As creators, there’s a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their success. We think if we follow their instructions, we’ll be able to reproduce their winning magic. But it doesn’t work that way. Tips, tricks, advice… these should all be used to help you mold your own thoughts, opinions, processes,…
Luke James Taylor has made an Apple Watch “container” in CSS that can be used to create mock ups for how things will look on the Apple Watch. Nice.
On Kyle’s suggestion I’m using a private Flickr Group for Eliza and I to share our entire photo collection with one another. (related) Pretty simple. This is all we need to do: Upload every photo we’ve ever taken with the Mac uploadr
New music podcast from Jon Hicks. The first episode is ready for your earlobes: This first edition of Troika is about ambient music. Not the bleepy,beaty, dancy kind, but the more soothing ‘neo-classical’ or drone style of Ambient. Music for watching the stars (amongst other things). Music for watching the stars. Or, perhaps reading a few Space Bits….
Matt Cutts does 30 day challenges. He’s famous for it. And I’ve done small things before like #travelfeet, 30 days of blogging, and other things. Similar to things I’ve tried to do in the past, for the rest of March — not quite 30 days left in it but who cares — I’ll be posting only to my blog. If…
Scrapple 1, Scrapple 2, Scrapple 3, Scrapple 4. Writing Space Bits isn’t easy but incredibly rewarding for me personally. I’d love to write more. This has been an incredibly cold February. With March right around the corner I know the cold weather is about to break and I’m sort of thinking that Spring is going to happen far too…
My boy Kyle Ruane, who cofounded Plain and Coalwork with me, is putting together his own reoccurring design critique meetup for people in and near Scranton, PA. Designal Tap is an informal meetup of local designers, sharing what we‘re working on. A lot of people in the area work on small teams or by themselves, which can be…
Recently I read Charlotte Spencer’s blog post about being a new developer. The entire post is worth a read but this bit jumped out at me: As a new developer, I don’t care what you are programming in, I just want to know what you’re building. A programming language is just a programming language to me. You’ve got…
I wrote a Spacebit about the Fomalhaut system: Imagine a bulbous ball of ice, rock, and metal that stretches at least 6 miles across moving at 85,000 miles an hour smashing into another bulbous ball of ice, rock and metal traveling at similar speeds. It would create an explosion that, if it were to happen in our atmosphere,…