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Instagram is jumping on the algorithmic feed bandwagon. But, they say they have a reason: You may be surprised to learn that people miss on average 70 percent of their feeds. As Instagram has grown, it’s become harder to keep up with all the photos and videos people share. This means you often don’t see…

I’ve just crested 40,000 photos in my Photos for OS X library with about 20,000 more to import from Picturelife. After using the app for a few days I have a few things I’d love to see in future updates. Speed – My 60-some-odd-thousand photos is far from abnormal. I would think that Photos for OS…

Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for February 2016. The weather got a bit crazy yesterday and so the organizers, Phil & Joe, decided to take the meetup online rather than at Coalwork. So that’s what we did. We chatted using Google Hangouts and answered questions presented to us via Slack. It seemed to…

I’ve been loving YouTube lately. I watch much more YouTube than traditional TV. I find a lot more value in YouTube. Though I spend a lot of time researching particular topics there are a few channels I’ve subscribed to. Here are a few of them in no particular order and without comment: MKBHD Smarter Everyday…

Dave Winer recently wrote that if you have something you want to publish that you should publish it anywhere but Medium. His argument is that Medium could shut down or change course at any moment and your content and your URLs would then be in jeopardy of disappearing. He’s right. That could happen. But that…

I’m concerned about Flickr. I’m concerned about Flickr because Yahoo! is going through a tumultuous time as a company. Last year it was speculated that Yahoo! would sell off its share in Alibaba to earn some dough while they continued to attempt to turn the company around. That quickly turned into rumors about Yahoo! splitting…

I gave Peach a try for 10 minutes (even though I’m on a break). Here are my thoughts: I don’t know if text-based commands will triumph over buttons. Path had buttons for many of the ‘shortcuts’ that are built into Peach, such as sharing your location, and that never “took off” relatively speaking. Will people type them…

I saw that Bijan Sabet wrote a short post enumerating a few things he’d like to see in some of the applications that he uses. I thought that was cool so I’m doing to do it too. git, the command-line source control tool that I use, has every conceivable feature you could imagine. Except undo.…

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.” # Today marks the first week of my social break. This has been a complete break from Twitter, RSS, Instagram, Facebook, any Slack channels that aren’t work related, Ello, Flickr, VSCO, Google+, etc. and most recently Swarm got the axe. To be certain that…

I run Ghostery in Safari on my Mac. Currently I’m allowing Google Analytics (stats), Adobe TypeKit (fonts), and The Deck (ads). Here is why The Deck is the only ad network I’m currently allowing through. Some may block TypeKit for speed but I don’t mind a small amount of load time to read the current…

Gabe Weatherhead at MacDrifter on using Reminders to create lists of map locations: Reminders is also great for vacation planning. I keep a list of map locations for New England breweries in Reminders. When I recently took a trip to Portland Maine, it was a simple task to put the map list in the order…

I am not all that eager to jump into the recent discussion on ads and ad blocking. Over the last near decade, however, I’ve mentioned advertising a few times here on my blog so I decided to go back and curate a few pull-quotes that help to show my opinion on the subject. Here are the…

Since I’ve covered this topic in several sprawling posts here on my blog I wanted a single place to link to about why I unsubscribe from all feeds and unfollow nearly all Twitter accounts a few times a year. Here are some questions I’ve gotten about it. Why go through all of the trouble? Doesn’t it…

YouTube will not allow me to comment without a Google+ account so I’m putting my comment for Sam Soffes’ daily vlog post right here: “I think I like personalsam for the same reasons I’ve always enjoyed reading personal blogs. Living and working online since I was 14 could have been a lonely endeavor but tweets,…

If you follow me on Twitter you can probably tell that for the past 48 hours my brain is swirling around Microsoft’s Build conference and keynote. In a lot of ways my brain is swirling in the same way that it did in 2002 when I saw Steve Jobs debut the 17” iMac. This was…

Marco Arment on DuckDuckGo: In my experience so far, DuckDuckGo’s search is good enough the vast majority of the time. Sometimes, its results are even better than Google’s, and they’re rarely much worse. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine on all of my devices for several months. I’ve had some speed issues with…

Last night I quipped, on Twitter (I know, I know):  Office for Mac 2016 Preview. AKA Toolbars McGee. The screenshots of this Office for Mac 2016 preview that have been floating around are laughable. But David Sparks (MacSparky) brings me back to Earth: I think complaining about the menus in office and the massive number…

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…

Amazon has this new tube-thing you can talk to called Echo. You can ask it questions by simply talking out loud. Similar to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Google’s OK Google features. I find the entire thing odd – though, perhaps as a first step beta thing it’ll be OK – but I found it…

Google Street View is pretty amazing. Here is the corner of Adams and Spruce in Scranton — the same corner Coalwork is on today and from where I’m writing this post. But something got me thinking this morning… I love looking at old photos of cities (example) from 10, 20, 50 or 100 years ago.…

It was nice to be included in Founders Grid’s list of productivity hacks. When they asked me what productivity hacks I had for other founders this is what I wrote: Productivity hacks are a myth. Not that none of the proposed productivity hacks we see every day do not work, just that any of them…

Marco Arment’s comment on his blog a few days ago got me thinking… we should be doing a better job to promote RSS. So here is one way to try doing it. My RSS feed is http://cdevroe.com/feed To subscribe to my RSS feed you need an RSS reader. There a tons of these for every…

There is so much awesome going on in the resurgence of personal blogging. I can’t stop reading and linking and smiling. Brent Simmons: My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll…

Speaking of Wolfram Alpha (I mentioned them yesterday). Wolfram Alpha was used to try to predict the outcome of the World Cup. Again, Brazil is the favorite, but with a 32% chance to win now. After its impressive victory against Spain, the Netherlands’ odds jumped to 23.5%: it is now the second favorite. Germany (21.6%)…

This piece on The Wire is over a year old but this morning Unmark reminded me that I had read it last year around this time. I think it still rings very true today. In general it speaks to how the perks of the modern-day tech company are really a waving-of-the-hands to entice people to…

There are hundreds of thousands of third-party apps that you can use on your computer, phone, and tablet. Some of them are amazingly good and far better in a number of ways than what ships with these devices by default. By using third-party apps, however, you sometimes give up a level of seamless integration between…

Jeffrey Kalmikoff on Medium: I effectively stopped looking at my Instagram feed, but did continue to use it to take, filter, and post photos (to Facebook). Early this year, in an effort to reduce overall social media noise from all accounts, I decided to unfollow everyone on Instagram and start over. As you may, or…

Fred Wilson on the growing trend of companies producing more than one mobile application, each that expose different sets of features from the same service: I have been calling this trend App Constellations. Facebook now has a collection of mobile apps that share a single login and have app to app linking built in. Google…

I had written a much longer draft of this post called “Greed and ignorance in the stock market” but after writing what became a very long, whiny post about how I used to work at a stock brokerage and have thus learned how completely broken and stupid the entire system is — I realized it sounded…

Biz Stone and Ben Finkel have launched Jelly. Jelly changes how we find answers because it uses pictures and people in our social networks. In short, if you’re wondering about something and have a question you can use Jelly to ask those in your extended social network to find the answer rather than searching for…

If you could have anything (whether or not it actually exists does not matter) what would it be? Dustin Curtis wrote up some of the things he’d like and a few of them are great. Such as, a device that would detect cancer, a pill that would limit caloric intake daily, and an always on,…

DistroKid allows anyone to quickly upload a music track to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Amazon. First track is free, just $19.99 per year thereafter. This seems like a steal of a deal. If Philip Kaplan can get the word out about this then I think it will be a huge success and (more than…

For the last few months our team at Plain has been using Editorially to collaborate on blog posts, newsletters, magazine columns, interviews and much more. Now, we can’t live without it. Editorially is a Markdown editor; which means a simple text-based markup language that allows you to add just enough emphasis and style to your…

Related: I’d love to see Windows Phone become the third horse in the smartphone OS race. Marco Arment in Google Blindness: Developers aren’t fools. We aren’t swayed by charismatic figureheads who try to convince us to develop for their platforms. The formula is quite simple. We’ll develop for a platform if: We use it. A…

Marco Arment finishes Lockdown, his piece on the war Facebook started and its latest casualty Google Reader, this way: We need to keep pushing forward without them, and do what we’ve always done before: route around the obstructions and maintain what’s great about the web. Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to…