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This is excellent. After our interview was published yesterday Steven Frank of Panic has now posted a call for help on his Tumblog. He’s asking what the community thinks Panic should do to become more transparent. "In short, what can we do to help you better?" Asking the community to help forge Panic’s new communication […]

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My thoughts on transparency in software development got me thinking about a particular application that I use on a daily basis, Coda. I think it is safe to say that most Coda users, of which I consulted six for this post, are not just Coda users, they are Coda plus other software users. Why? Because […]

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Well ok then.

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I wish I thought of this! The Museum of Animal Perspectives is, exactly what it sounds like, a collection of videos taken from the perspective of animals by literally putting a camera on an animal. Awesome.

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I assure you this link is SFW. Ever wonder why men’s dress shirts have two buttons and only one hole? Ben Gray knows and is willing to let you in on the secret. Via Pat Dryburgh.

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With Snow Leopard comes a markedly better way of handling window minimization into the Dock however Chris Clark feels as though it could be done better. His proposal is to minimize the windows directly behind the application icon on the Dock. I like it.

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After climbing a tree at Lehigh University in an attempt to capture a cicada I ended up finding several skins left on a tree at about eye level. Go figure. There is tons of information on Cicadas on Wikipedia. Worth perusing.

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The only review of the latest version of Mac OS X you’ll ever need to read, John Siracusa’s review of Snow Leopard.

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Corporate transparency has always been a lesson in balance, a constant struggle between altruism and self-preservation, and proves itself to be a different challenge to each company striving to stay as transparent to their customers as possible while maintaining their foothold in their space. Nearly no other business is impacted by corporate transparency more than […]

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For our 10th anniversary, which was on the 27th of August, we received an incredible gift from Eliza’s mother Carla – an anniversary party in our favor. Since she told us many months in advance that she was going to throw us this party we were able to help with some of the planning and, […]

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My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk‘s new book "Why Now Is A Good Time To Crush It! And Cash In On Your Passion", also called "CRUSH IT!", is set to ship on October 13th. The new Web site for the book includes a sample chapter which gives a pretty good glimpse into the style and message […]

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With so many lessons to learn from, and so many companies doing such a bad job or being dug in too deep, now seems like the perfect time to start a bank. Leveraging some of that information Matt Mullenweg weighs in on starting SafeBank and what it would do differently. Interesting read and comment thread.

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A late lunch with a few friends on a hot Thursday.

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(via fightfirewithariot) Except this is exactly what is happening. Tumblarity has increased the amount of content on Tumblr, that is indesputable, but it probably hasn’t increased the amount of unique or even good content in equal measure to the junk. I would also argue that Tumblarity doesn’t build incentive to interact with the community by […]

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Hands on video with Juan A. Pons from Outdoor Photo Gear using a Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L lens which measures 38 inches, weighs in at 36 pounds, and costs $120,000. Interestingly enough, the footage makes me think it is worth the money.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] "If it tastes good, it is probably bad for you." We’ve all heard this saying and for the most part it is true. Although I tend to like all food (my vice in life) – most of the food that you crave, that you pine for, that you’d be willing to walk […]

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I think this is a genius feature. Tag channels by Tumblr combines a normal tag search with a slider to filter your results based on the number of times something was "liked". Tumblr is moving faster than anyone in their space and still managing to put out high-quality features.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Eliza spotted this little guy yesterday. Left him alone. I have enough pictures of cross orbweaver spiders.

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As if we could hide from the Broph in a pub.

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Jonathan Christopher of Monday By Noon talks about snippets and zen-coding, a "Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding", in a nice piece about his experience with same. I’ve been dabbling with zen-coding plugins with Coda for about a week. Loving it.

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Retweeting, or the act of relaying a tweet to your followers with attribution to the original author using ‘RT @username msg’ in a message on Twitter, is about to change a bit. Biz Stone has shared their vision for how Retweeting could become integrated into Twitter. I like this. First of all, Retweeting has become […]

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The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.

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More opaque than transparent but I believe this is a pretty good mix. Cultured Code shares some insight into upcoming version(s) of Things. More software companies should offer insight like this.

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Inspired by Chris Masto’s Workspace shot on Flickr – here is my way-too-messy desk. Made with Pano for iPhone.

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A few photos from fishing the other night with my friend Johnny. I posted a pretty wicked toothed Walleye on that night but we ended up with a pretty decent catch in a relatively short period of time. Huzzah.

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I’m not a guitar player, but I’m a very, very big fan of guitar players. The world lost perhaps the most influential slayer today. Les Paul has died.

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Summary update: If you read this entire post you will learn that it was only my WordPress.com account, and the account of the company that I had access to, that was affected. This was not a widespread issue with all WordPress.com accounts. Here is what I learned from all of this. — original post below

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Have you ever said something and say "That didn’t come out right"? What about this? Have you ever been a little less than patient and do or say something a little bit too soon? Or, or maybe this? Have you ever thought you were doing something exactly the way that you should only to look […]

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I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me. My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a need for them. I prefer Bit.ly over any other URL shortening services that I’ve used to-date. With Tr.im dying I thought that there was always […]

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This guy had some wicked teeth!

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Easily one of my favorite TV-series of all time. Thanks to Tim Crowe for reminding me. Tim, you’ve just taken up a huge portion of the rest of my summer. And I shall love every second of it. Here we go, Season 1 Disk 1 Episode 1.

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TechCrunch reports that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. I suppose my question last week about who uses FriendFeed now has an answer: Everyone that uses Facebook.

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Page not found. Error 404. Those of us that build Web sites for a living have all had to deal with creating these pages. Planning for people to stumble across a URL that we don’t plan on is fairly important to the user’s experience on your site. However, many 404 pages could be done better. […]

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I’ll try to keep this a short and sweet question, but this one does have a bit of background so let me catch you up. FriendFeed is leading the way in many areas. Their API is really, really well done. The stuff they do real time is great. The fact that they have groups, allow […]

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A feature that has been sorely needed on Viddler since day one has now finally made it out of cold storage and onto the main site. Using an image that you upload, rather than using a still frame from within the video, as the video’s default thumbnail (or, the frame you see before you hit […]

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The Sambo Swag in his natural habitat.

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Lately Twitter’s Trending topics have been full of nearly worthless junk and people asking "Why is ______ trending?". I hope that their removal from the home page is both temporary and evidence that they’re trying to address the problems related to that. Update: 8:13am EST: And they are back. Update 10:20 am EST: Twitter.com, and […]

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The White Stripes Weird Al Charles Nelson Reilly JibJab = Weird Al: C.N.R.. There is no way in the world I would miss this.

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I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the […]

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Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog: "The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a bit so we figured we’d share with you how easy it is to include PHPViddler, the open source PHP API wrapper class for […]

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Due to cashier error we got two McFlurries for the price of one. Score!

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Click on the images to zoom. For much, much larger versions click here, and here. I’ve been remiss to update everyone on our current bird feeder situation. Since Eliza purchased the $1 bird feeder we’ve upgraded our offerings to our feathered friends many fold. First, we put out a bird-bath type feeder that, rather than […]

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I’m still on a Brightkite break. I’m not really sure how to quantify my feelings about Brightkite without sounding pedantic or somehow aloof. The people that work there are, no doubt, extremely concerned with the community that uses it and, from what I’ve seen, go to great lengths to keep the service up and running. […]

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