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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to
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Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”
Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to
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Please turn on Do Not Disturb When Driving!
Jason Snell for Six Colors: iPhone users, well, thereās still great stuff thereāDo Not Disturb When Driving is going to make the world saferābut itās a bit less of a world-shaker. Not a world shaker? This isn’t a ho-hum, hum-drum update for iPhone. This is going to save a ton of lives, injury, heartache, and
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Harrisās Hawk, Mexico – August 2017
Harrisās Hawk, Mexico – August 2017 These hawks were used to keep the pesky, french-fry thieving, gray birds away from the tourists. Most effective.
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Colin Walker hits 1000 posts
Colin Walker: I am enjoying blogging now more than I have in a long time. The addition of microblogging greatly removes the burden of constantly writing essay pieces and the clamour for perfection that it instills. And that’s something to be thankful for. Agreed. Congratulations to Colin. I expect him to hit 2000 in no
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My tips for new iOS 11 upgraders
Iāve been using the iOS 11 public betas on my iPhone and iPad for several releases and I think it is one of the most important updates to iOS. It brings lifesaving features to the iPhone and powerful features to the iPad. Tomorrow iOs 11 is being released to the public, I thought Iād jot
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Many are sweating over a notch on a phone while Space X is making trips to Earthās orbit routine.
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Repost: Ike on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
šĀ Ike: So hereās a nice wallpaper for your iPhone X, OWNING the notch. (be sure to follow the link) /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
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Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
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Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s use of React
Matt Mullenweg: I’m here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year. Automattic will also use whatever we choose for Gutenberg to rewrite Calypso ā
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
moz://a: The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives āĀ so Exhaustive Shopping Researcher Self can steer clear of Humble Bragging Social Self, and Super Professional Work Self can go about the bizness without worrying about being followed by those other two. What a fantastic feature
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Attending Septemberās NEPA.js meetup
On September 12th, NEPA.js held its September meetup. Anthony Altieri presented on beacons – the typically small Bluetooth devices that āchirpā some very basic information multiple times per second allowing app developers to understand the proximity of a user. This allows for things like understanding where a shopper is in a retail space. His overview
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John George shares a solution
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: Iām writing this because I discovered the hard way thatĀ .NET Coreās ādotnet runā command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my website shut down when I exited my shell. Not even the ādisownācommand would dissociate the running service from the user. Posts like this
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Jason Washo interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio
Jason Washo, owner of Sho Technology Solutions in downtown Scranton and someone who I’ve worked with on multiple client projects and who has become a friend over the last year, was recently interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio. Here’s just one bit: I work hard, and I will work to bring things to close and I think
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Cassini dies tomorrow
Lee Billings for Scientific American: All good things must come to an end. For NASAās Cassini orbiterāits fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planetās sprawling rings and dozens of icy moonsāthe end will come Friday at 7:55 A.M. Eastern time. Thatās when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with
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Repost: Maciej CegÅowski re: iPhone X
šĀ Maciej CegÅowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)
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Repost: Conan O’Brien on Twitter
šĀ Conan O’Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)
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Get your NEPA BlogCon 2017 Tickets
NEPA BlogCon 2017 tickets are available: Attendees can expect presentations and roundtable discussions on branding, content development, podcasting, vlogging, and more. I like the format changeup. (See also) Looks like some friends are presenting as well. Go grab your tickets.
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Dan Kimbrough reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note8
Dan Kimbrough seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. Itās weak and poorly located. Thereās only one speaker for media playback. At the bottom, to the right of the charging port. If youāre left handed, thatās probably where your pinky
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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_DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3
_DavidSmith: While Iāll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a āmust carryā device is remarkable. This is why I’m ordering one. As I said I would.
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Brad Frost on \”full-stack developers\”
Brad Frost: The term āfull-stack developerā implies that a developer is equallyĀ adept at both frontend code and backend code, but Iāve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I’ve seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch
šĀ Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Canāt believe they didnāt indent it a little bit.
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Repost: Daring Fireball on the iPhone X notch
šĀ John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.
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From a beachfront balcony in Mexico (audio)
Recorded on September 1, 2017 A quick audio bit from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Download Audio File.
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Tom Dale: \”Compilers are the new frameworks\”
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file sizeāa small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And
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Wishes for Appleās Fall Media Event
On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we āknowā just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short
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Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter
šĀ Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.
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Python is blowing up
David Robinson, not The Admiral, for Stack Overflow: We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the
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CNN lite
Remarkable find by Jack Baty, CNN Lite: I could not love this more. Can we get all of the news sites to do this? I can’t tell if this is official or not. Either way, bookmarked.
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Clinton, PA – July 2017
Clinton, PA – July 2017
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Add favicons to tabs in Safari
Faviconographer: Faviconographer is a little utility that displays Favicons for the tabs you have opened in the current Safari window, just like almost every other browser does it. Magic. /via Daring Fireball.
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Prompton State Park – July 2017
Prompton State Park – July 2017 Iām just getting to look at some photos I made with the drone in July.
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Mobile blogging goals (audio)
Recorded September 10, 2017 Starting with this audio bit I’m making a few changes. I’m ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren’t really episodes, and keeping track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post. I’m also
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Jack Baty: āPlease just start a blogā
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I donāt care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or donāt. Implement Webmentions or donāt. Allow comments or donāt. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or donāt. Publish long posts or