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Keuka Lake, February 2016
Keuka Lake, February 2016
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I wish I were better at debugging code.
I wish I were better at debugging code.
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How was Breakthrough Starshot not already a great band’s name? Also, lasers!
How was Breakthrough Starshot not already a great band’s name? Also, lasers!
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Twitter’s problem
I already quoted Gary this morning but I might as well do it again. In Daily Vee #29 (go right to the moment here) he said: I know that 8 years ago if I said “follow my friend Joel, he’s awesome” 2,000 people would do that when I had 7,000 followers and now 37 will do…
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“Needed: Rockstar, expert, ninja, WordPress developer. $100.00 budget”
“Needed: Rockstar, expert, ninja, WordPress developer. $100.00 budget” Job boards are funny.
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Is GoPro doomed?
Those that follow along here on my blog know that I love my GoPro. And I “only” have the HERO 3. See this, this, this, this, and this for examples of me playing around with my GoPro. GoPro’s stock price and sales figures are plummeting. And as I sit here, going over everything they have, and…
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Every time Zuck says “bot” I’m going to eat a Frito.
Every time Zuck says “bot” I’m going to eat a Frito. #f8
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Dug up a sewer today. Bucket list item checked.
Dug up a sewer today. Bucket list item checked.
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What will vehicles look like when they become completely autonomous? What about non-passenger vehicles like delivery trucks? What about when they are all electric and autonomous? The near future is going to look very different.
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I do like Mondays. This one was no different.
I do like Mondays. This one was no different.
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PHP is pretty bad
Since I wrote "I’m perfectly happy using PHP” last week I figured I’d show the other side’s viewpoint as well. There are those out there that loathe the language. Evee goes off on PHP like no one else could: PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by…
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I was reading up on ipfw…
I was reading up on ipfw (deprecated on Mac I guess), pf, and dnctl (which is within pfctl?) over the weekend. My *nix firewall foo is lacking to say the least. My goal is to find a way to create a pipe just for Photos for OS X and limit its bandwidth to only a few…
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I only have one feature request for the iPhone SE. Make it waterproof.
I only have one feature request for the iPhone SE. Make it waterproof.
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This weekend went by far too quickly. Do over?
This weekend went by far too quickly. Do over?
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Sky grid
Sky grid
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Use what works, play with the new
I had Unmark’d Kyle Slattery’s post on his company site (which I think is rather good looking; here is why) regarding why his company uses Ruby on Rails. It is a good post. Notice this bit: It’s easy to get caught up in the newest trend, and there are lots of great technologies being developed, but…
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IFTTT is taking almost an hour to publish my posts to Twitter and Facebook. I’m looking forward to leaving it behind soon.
IFTTT is taking almost an hour to publish my posts to Twitter and Facebook. I’m looking forward to leaving it behind soon.
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I’m reading reports of the iPhone SE being in low supply…
I’m reading reports of the iPhone SE being in low supply. I know when I picked up mine I had to call three, and drive to two, locations before I found one. And I ended up with a color I hadn’t originally intended (though I like it now). I don’t know if Apple was caught…
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Congratulations to Space X. I’m glad you never gave up.
Congratulations to Space X. I’m glad you never gave up.
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Shot rather poorly at ball last night. It was probably too cold.
Shot rather poorly at ball last night. It was probably too cold.
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It must be monsoon season.
It must be monsoon season.
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The Loop Magazine closes
Jim Dalrymple: I hate failure, and this was a failure for me. I will learn from it and focus my attention back on The Loop website, where it belongs. I’m sorry to the subscribers of the magazine, and hope you enjoy the upcoming issues I have prepared for you. We’ve all failed. We have an…
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Stripe’s API documentation
Stripe has had best-of-breed API documentation for the last several years. They’ve just made it even better with a “quickstart tour” that works wonderfully. Anyone documenting an API should look very closely at what Stripe has done. Much of their success is very likely due to them caring about their docs. /via John Collison on Twitter.
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Release notes by Slack
Anna Pickard on Ev’s blog about Slack’s release notes: That means if something was a massive pain in the peach, or made people’s lives just a little worse, we don’t splatter it with jokes and pretty words to try and hide it. We say sorry, thank people for their continued patience, and let them know…
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Queued up a few blog posts since I was behind a bit.
Queued up a few blog posts since I was behind a bit.
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Digital Transformations
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on LinkedIn: Each of us are part of our economies and our societies. Long-term growth is directly related to our ability to make our climate more sustainable, our economies more viable and our societies more equitable. Those changes can only happen if we ask ourselves two questions: What difference is…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard lands again
This video is absolutely mind-blowing. Everything about this was science fiction a few years ago. In fact, the video looks fake while you watch it because you can’t believe this is happening on Earth. And now with some regularity. Watching this video makes me think that I’ll be alive when people (perhaps even with their…
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Wearing my Millenium Falcon tee.
Wearing my Millenium Falcon tee.
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Our early spring…
Our early spring has felt more like winter than winter did.
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How did I just now come across Mogwai?
How did I just now come across Mogwai?
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Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA October 2015
Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA October 2015
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Putting in a long day today. Hustle!
Putting in a long day today. Hustle!
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Power out at home. Not to be denied our productive day Kyle and I have moved to Panera Bread.
Power out at home. Not to be denied our productive day Kyle and I have moved to Panera Bread.
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Ice, snow, wind, and brilliant blue skies. One last push as winter is tilting south into the Southern Hemisphere.
Ice, snow, wind, and brilliant blue skies. One last push as winter is tilting south into the Southern Hemisphere.
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Woke up at 6:45a and built an import tool for Barley
Woke up at 6:45a and built an import tool for Barley 1 users to migrate to Barley 2. I thought this was going to be a herculean task but I ended up finishing in under 3 hours and 61 lines of code. A good reminder that sometimes I worry about things being tougher than they…
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The Model 3 looks…
The Model 3 looks like an amazing car and it is an equally amazing achievement. Congrats Tesla. Interesting to note: they brought in 115 million dollars in downpayments and have over 4 billion dollars committed. Not bad for a single day. No wonder Apple wants a peice of this pie.
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iPhone SE reviews
The greatest living bearded blogger, Jim Dalrymple, on The Loop: I still think it’s going to make for an incredible upgrade for those iPhone 5s users, but I also think it’s going to appeal to some current iPhone 6 users. A lot of people upgraded to the newest design for the technology, and of course,…
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In Flight
In Flight
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E6: Verizon, iPhone SE, Yeti
The iPhone SE is for me and Yeti is changing my life. http://cdevroe.local/media/audio/e6.mp3 Download MP3
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Brewing a second cup of coffee and reading…
Brewing a second cup of coffee and reading Gruber’s review of the iPhone SE: http://daringfireball.net/2016/03/the_iphone_se
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Xamarin included in Visual Studio
Nat Friedman on the Xamarin blog: Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual…
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Trying to figure out how to keep my…
Trying to figure out how to keep my current pace at work without burning out. I honestly think it could be possible.
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The April jokes are starting to roll in already…
The April jokes are starting to roll in already. I think I’ll close all social sites for the next 48-hours.
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Imagine if your favorite software company said…
Imagine if your favorite software company said; we didn’t waste any resources this year on an April 1st joke, instead we are delivering these bug fixes. That would be something.
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Get used to the sight of people lining up for cars…
Get used to the sight of people lining up for cars. Tesla is as beloved as Apple. If Apple jumps into the auto-arena we’ll see this happening again. Happy day to all of you out there nabbing a Tesla 3. I wish I could.
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A few iCloud Photo Library observations
Somewhat related: Photo stats and observations. I began the switch to iCloud Photo Library a few days ago and so far it has been a mixed experience. Since weaving a good narrative is not in my wheelhouse, here is a laundry list of observations that I’ve made over the last few days. iCloud Photo Library…
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Snapchat’s Chat 2.0
Nearly all of the tech coverage I read about Snapchat’s latest update lead with “stickers” being part of the update. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bob the walrus. But how can they not lead with the fact that they’ve added realtime video and voice calling? I remember the first time I ever tried video chatting…
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Satya is killing it.
Satya is killing it. #Build2016