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Following Twitter accounts via RSS
I haven’t missed Twitter that much since deleting my account. The first week or two I missed Moments – but once that subsided I realized that Moments are generally a waste of time. Realtime reporting of most newsworthy events result in ill-informed, unsubstantiated tweets. I’m at a point now where I’d much prefer to get
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Weeds – July 2017
Weeds – July 2017 Summertime hikes offer a completely different experience to early spring hikes. Most of this grass was only a few inches high in early spring, about a foot or so in June, and in this photo in late-July it is at least 3-feet high.
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Magnet for macOS
Magnet: Activated by dragging, customizable keyboard shortcuts or via menu bar, Magnet declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles. Although macOS Sierra has a great split-screen option* that rival’s Windows 10 snap-to-side feature I’ve always wanted a bit more control. This utility is currently only a dollar and does a lot more. /via
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Turkey, Archbald, PA – July 2017
Turkey, Archbald, PA – July 2017 This young Jake wanted blood. He spotted me from about 50 yards away and decided to come investigate. I crouched behind a bush and got smaller and smaller to try not to intimidate him and he got within a single yard from me. I have it all on video.
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Grass – July 2017
Grass – July 2017
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Moby Dick Big Read
Moby Dick Big Read: ‘I have written a wicked book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media.
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Matt D’Avella interviews Ryder Carroll
My friend Matt D’Avella, director of the documentary Minimalism (available now on Netflix), recently interviewed Ryder Carroll – the creator of the Bullet Journal. I like Matt, I use the Bullet Journal method every day, so this is an instant-watch.
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Less apps is more
Tim Nahumck: I always try to reduce the number of apps that I use at any given time and cutting the reliance on multiple services when and where possible. This sounds a lot like my repeated attempts to consolidate around Apple’s default applications. I like Tim’s use of Slack as a personal center of information.
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I can work on anything I want
One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on your own project is that there is so much to do. That may seem strange, why would I want to have so much to do? But if you look at it a different way it becomes a much more enjoyable experience. Whenever I sit down to
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Central Railroad of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Freight Station, Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA – July 2017
Central Railroad of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Freight Station, Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA – July 2017 I captured this one on a recent afternoon constitutional. I hate seeing buildings like this waste away to nothing.
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Your customers will never care what programming language you used.
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It appears that the WordPress for iOS beta text editor has some character encoding issues. Other than that, I like it.
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Beach Haus Brewery, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
Beach Haus Brewery, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017 – ★★☆☆☆ Eliza and I dropped in and sampled a few brews at Beach Haus Brewery in early July. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything in particular notable about the brewery or the beer.
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Goodbye Google.com
BBC: Google is adding a personalised Facebook-style news feed to its homepage – Google.com -to show users content they may be interested in before they search. End of an era.
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Diversity vs. Inclusivity
Estelle Weyl: Interviewing diverse candidates will not create a diverse environment. While the above organizations may have filled that diversity pipeline, that pipeline is full of leaks. Diversity recruiting is really only lip service. Work, school, community and conference environments need to be inclusive. Inclusivity in the sealant that prevents many pipeline leaks. Many companies
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9th Ave Pier, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
9th Ave Pier, Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017 Earlier this month Eliza and I ate dinner at 9th Ave Pier in Belmar, New Jersey. It was an interesting experience. At 9th Ave Pier you find a seat yourself (despite the fact that the place was packed). This could be done by creating your own
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Gardening is a violent act
Harold Jenkins: I’ve long wanted to do a piece on the subject of gardening as violence. Gardening is an extremely violent act. To start a garden you must first kill whatever is already growing in the place you want to garden: cut down trees, tear out vines, rip up or smother sod. Then you break
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Franklin Court, Scranton, PA – July 2017
Franklin Court, Scranton, PA – July 2017 I hastily snapped this walking back to my car from July’s NEPA JS after-gathering at Ale Mary’s.
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Apple Machine Learning Journal
Apple: Welcome to the Apple Machine Learning Journal. Here, you can read posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning technologies to help build innovative products for millions of people around the world. The first post Improving the Realism of Synthetic Images is already live.
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White Oak Pond – July 2017
White Oak Pond – July 2017 (click to zoom) On Saturday I drove passed White Oak pond to check on its status. You might remember this post as to why it has been drained. Compare the above photo with October 2015.
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Transmit 5
Panic: With one massive update we’ve brought everyone’s favorite file-transferring truck into the future with more speed, more servers, more features, more fixes, a better UI, and even Panic Sync. Everything from the core file transfer engine to the “Get Info” experience was rethought, overhauled, and improved. Hard to believe Transmit 4 is over 7
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Spine Magazine
Spine Magazine: Spine was founded in 2014 by Emma J. Hardy, and covers creative and production aspects of the book publishing industry with a primary focus on book cover design. Its mission is to offer creator insight, long-form stories, product information, and community content for an audience that is highly enthusiastic about books. The first
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Glass Enterprise
Jay Kothari, Project Lead for Glass: Now the Glass product team is back at X, and we’ll be collaborating with the Google Cloud team and our partners to help customers across a variety of business sectors make the most of Glass. Together, we’re looking forward to seeing more businesses give their workers a way to
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Bank Towers, Scranton – July 2017
Bank Towers, Scranton – July 2017
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Caiman, Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Caiman, Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
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Published Build 11 of my iOS app to TestFlight this morning. Some great improvements in this build. Now to fly the UAV a little.
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Presenting at the July NEPA.js Meetup
Earlier this week my Condron Media cohort Tucker Hottes and I presented at the July NEPA.js Meetup. Our presentation was about automation and all of the things we can automate in our lives personally and professionally. And also how we employ automation in our workflows for creating applications and web sites using our own task
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Mumford & Sons concert, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Mumford & Sons concert, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
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Colin Walker on macOS software
Colin Walker: Using OSX can be more intuitive at times but it is visually inconsistent. It may have been through various aesthetic revisions but it can feel old. I think Microsoft has done a better job of enforcing a standard look for applications on the desktop and the Windows design language is now generally more
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Observations on building my first iOS app in Swift
In early June I decided I wanted to learn iOS app development using Swift. I’ve made a lot of progress over the last month, building two apps that I can use on my own phone, and one app that I’m now in beta testing via TestFlight with a few friends. Over the last month I’ve
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Belmar Marina, overlooking the Shark River – July 2017
Belmar Marina, overlooking the Shark River – July 2017
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Shark River Inlet, Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey – July 2017
Shark River Inlet, Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey – July 2017
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Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
Belmar, New Jersey – July 2017
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You never get to "start over". You only get to try again. There is a big difference.
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What I saw this week #46: July 7, 2017
I don’t have a good list this week since I spent most of it staring at my toes in sand. WSJ iPhone video interview – Similar to last week’s link is this video interview of key people behind the creation of the iPhone. Yu’s Bullet Journal – Vibrant journal. Makes me want to add some
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Their own technology
Garrett Sloane for AdAge: Apple News will let top media partners use their own technology to fill the ad space in their content, becoming more of an extension of the publishers’ own websites than the walled-off island it is now, the people said. At first I thought those that were linking to this have this
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Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia – June 2017
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia – June 2017
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Well done Scott McNulty
Scott McNulty: Let me repeat that: I’ve lost 50 pounds in 5 months! Scott and I have dieted together in the past. In fact, it has already been 12 years! He did tremendously well then so it is of no surprise that he’s killing it yet again. He, like so many dieters including myself, had
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Ben Brooks on Hello Weather
Ben Brooks reviewing Hello Weather: This app is without a doubt, my favorite weather app. Not just now but of all the apps I’ve tried over the years. Well done. Ben’s enthusiasm for Hello Weather reminds me of mine for Dark Sky. An app I use every day and gladly paid for. Hello Weather uses
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Turkey egg – May 2017
Turkey egg – May 2017
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Tabledo
Tabledo: Create dynamic websites automatically using data from your spreadsheets as content. Cool idea. It appears Tabledo takes my idea much further. Last June I wrote: I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to
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Colin Walker on evergreen content
Colin Walker: Evergreen content. It’s what many bloggers crave. Posts that keep people coming back. Passive traffic that you don’t have to do anything more to receive. Back-in-the-day we called this the longtail. Publish enough posts on a given niche and generate tons of traffic over the longterm due to people searching for those topics
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Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
Adventure Aquarium, Camden, New Jersey – May 2017
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Quad trail – June 2017
Quad trail – June 2017
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What I saw this week #45: June 30, 2017
As the summer heat rises in our hemisphere it seems that the river of content online dries up to a slow trickle. I wonder if that means I should expect more from our friends Down Under during these months? Here are a few things that caught my attention: Mars on Google Maps – Google has