Apple Watch in CSS
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.
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Adding tens-of-thousands of photos to a Flickr Group can be tedious
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
Troika
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….
March Experiment
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…
Thursday Scrapple 5
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…
Designal Tap – A design critique meetup in Scranton, PA
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…
The what is more interesting than the how
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…
The Eye of Sauron is in the Fomalhaut system
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,…
Wednesday Scrapple 4
Scrapple 3. A shorter scrapple post today. Not sure why but perhaps I’m too busy to be thinking of little nuggets of scrapple lately. I find myself using the default Twitter clients. Partly because they’ve put a chokehold on what developers are able to do with their APIs. You win Twitter. For now. Things work more often than…
Bill Gates on The Verge
The Verge: For the month of February, Bill Gates will be guest-editing The Verge. Over the course of four weeks, Gates will be guiding us as we explore how technology will transform the lives of those in the developing world through advancements in banking, healthcare, farming, and education technology. Bill Gates and his work the last decade or…
A case for modernizing blogs
Marco Arment: If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that I agree with him. And I also don’t pretend to know the answers. Here is what I…
More on Flipboard for the Web
Last week I warned that we’d be hearing more about how Flipboard pulled off their new web app and how some would agree and disagree with how they went about it. Well, my boy Faruk Ateş weighed in: Flipboard is a product focused heavily around text-based content, which is why it’s so deeply regretting that Accessibility was thrown…
Enrique Dans on RSS
Enrique Dans, in a bit on Medium about Feedly, on RSS: I simply cannot understand why RSS readers are not used by everybody. I think that any user, from the professional to the casual, can benefit from having a series of information sources, pages, and alerts set up in an orderly manner in a feeds reader. Each time…
Photos for OS X questions
Jason Snell is on a roll this week blogging about Photos for OS X. This latest post answers people’s questions. I recommend looking through them if you’re interested in how this is going to play out.
Building Flipboard for the web
Michael Johnston for the Flipboard Engineering blog: Most modern mobile devices have hardware-accelerated canvas, so why couldn’t we take advantage of this? HTML5 games certainly do. But could we really develop an application user interface in canvas? Expect to read a lot about this over the next several months as the pros and cons are hashed out all…
A Manager’s Manifesto
Julie Zhou, on Medium, lists out her manager’s manifesto: 5) Figure out which people rely on you and how you can help them be self-sufficient. You may feel important having a monopoly on salmon provisions, but if the whole village learns how to fish, it‘ll free you up to do something else. Like figuring out how to grow…
The names of Apple products
So, Apple may be looking into building a car. With approaching 200 billion in cash, and yesterday CEO Tim Cook saying that their biggest asset is innovation, and that they plan to continue to invest very heavily into R&D, I would say you can bet that Apple is “looking into” a wide variety of possibilities. Some may think that…
Hard Links and Photos for OS X
Jason Snell, after reviewing the beta of Photos for OS X, has figured out how Apple imports photos into the new Photos for OS X without taking up any additional space: It creates hard links to the contents of your iPhoto library inside the Photos library. If you delete your iPhoto library, the files that were hard-linked from…
Gary Vaynerchuk on Hashtags
My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, on Medium: I’m just going to come out and say it: hashtags are not ownable. Period. He’s right. Anyone at any time can post anything they’d like to your hashtag. So, simply be mindful of that if you try to use hashtags as part of your marketing campaigns.
Casabona Scrapple
This scrapple thing is catching on. Fellow Coalworker Joe Casabona just published his first edition of scrapple. I liked his last bit: I’ve been using Unmark for bookmarks lately. You should give it a try. I really dig it. Thanks for that Joe. I hope to see more bloggers pick up the scrapple baton. It is a remarkably…
Snell on Photos for OS X Beta
Snell, of Six Colors, writing for TidBITS on the feature in Photos for OS X Beta that allows you to store your original photos and videos in iCloud and only keeping smaller versions locally on your Macintosh to save space: It remains to be seen exactly how Photos determines whether you have enough space, and whether it’s just…
Uber hits Scranton
Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change. And the company founder’s antics aside, this will end up being a good thing for the area.
BRUTAL LONDON
On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.
Wednesday Scrapple 3
The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d be nice if I could password protect a notebook. A way to have a notebook be a bit extra secure. Holding the original iPhone in my…