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  • Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

    Microsoft: Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives and increased participation…

  • Testing inconsistent Web Share Target API data with a Progressive Web App

    One of the latest things I’ve been working on for Unmark is turning the app into a Progressive Web App (PWA). Among other benefits, this affords Unmark the capability of being a “Web Share Target” on Android. (Sadly, only Android for now) A Web Share Target is very similar to a feature you likely use…

  • The Mac is turning less Pro

    skywhopper, on Hacker News, commenting on a thread relating to Mark Gurman’s scoop on Apple’s (supposed) plan to have apps running on iOS and macOS using the same (or, similar) code bases by 2020: And then the Mac is losing what should be its primary audience through unwanted innovations and otherwise stagnant hardware, and a…

  • An interview with Ryan Hertel of Socialocca

    I’ve devoted a lot of my time and effort in trying to help local entrepreneurs through advising, attending meetups, and being an active part of the local tech and business communities. I haven’t, however, taken those insights and shared them here on my blog. Nor have I done much to help promote local businesses through…

  • Don’t get clever with login forms

    Brad Frost: As time goes on I find myself increasingly annoyed with login forms. Excellent suggestions for designing simple, usable login forms. I’ve made a note to double-check anything I make with this list.

  • What I saw this week #55 – February 8, 2018

    I want to be regular with this series. I do. I’ve just been busy. Sorry. Here are some links that you might find interesting. I did.

  • There are several single posts in my blog’s archive that get well over 1,000 hits per month. I wish all of these people became subscribers or said just hello.

  • Noah Read on China

    Noah Read recently visited China. His post has some lovely photos and great first-hand insights. I like this bit: The trade war, debate over the gravity of China’s economic slowdown, currency manipulation, Chinese vs Western interpretations of economic theory, and debt backed development were all in the air in our lectures, company visits, and discussions.…

  • Baremetrics left Medium last year

    Josh Pigford, last year, on leaving Baremetrics leaving Medium: I realized Medium is really great about surfacing content, but it removes the face of it. It neutralizes all content to basically be author-agnostic. It’s like Walmart or Amazon in that you can buy from thousands of different brands, but you rarely actually know what brand…

  • Twitter isn’t going anywhere

    Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: Regardless of all of that, I think it’s clear the leadership at Twitter has no idea what they are doing, and I think the network’s time is ticking away faster than ever. Not to be contrarian but I disagree. Update January 24, 2019: I must have misread Hackett’s post. I…

  • Is Instagram about to plummet?

    When Instagram first started to hit popularity – long after their failed attempt at being a check-in service – the app was all about photo filters. Anyone could snap a photo with their phone and quickly add a filter to make it look “better” or at least more interesting. It made everyone feel like a…

  • Responses to RSS isn’t dead. Subscribing is alive.

    There were a number of responses to RSS isn’t dead. Subscribing is alive. Partly due to being on Micro.blog Discover and perhaps also due to Brent Simmons linking to it (thanks Brent!). Chris Aldrich: I’ve been enamored of the way that SubToMe has abstracted things to create a one click button typically with a “Follow…

  • Signal v Noise exits Medium

    DHH: These days Medium is focused on their membership offering, though. Trying to aggregate writing from many sources and sell a broad subscription on top of that. And it’s a neat model, and it’s wonderful to see Medium try something different. But it’s not for us, and it’s not for Signal v Noise. SvN was…

  • RSS is not dead. Subscribing is alive.

    Sinclair Target, writing for Motherboard: Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was. This isn’t the first nor the last article to cover the creation of the RSS standard, its rise to relative popularity with Google Reader, and its subsequent fall from popularity. But the big…

  • Dialog out of beta

    Mike Haynes: We appreciate everyone’s patience as we worked through the development process and look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback. Mike may see the development and launch of Dialog as taking longer than he would have liked, but from where I sit the app has come a long way in a relatively short…

  • What I saw this week #53 – January 4, 2019

    I’m bringing back my What I saw this week series of posts for 2019. Likely to be published on Fridays.

  • Frank Meeuwsen on What he doesn’t know

    Fellow Dutchman Frank Meeuwsen, replying to my carpenter illustration in my What I don’t know post (translated by Google Translate): I immediately thought of a conversation I had with the electrician a few minutes before. He explained to me how the power from the meter cupboard is distributed throughout the house and how overload and…

  • What I don’t know

    Dan Abramov, lead contributor to React, in a post listing the various technologies, languages, etc. that he doesn’t know: Still, even experienced engineers have many knowledge gaps. This post is about mine, and I encourage those who can afford similar vulnerability to share their own. But let’s not devalue our experience while we do that.…

  • Scott McNulty read 101 books this year, what did you do?

    Scott McNulty: I managed to read 101 books this year (that’s over 35,000 pages!), the most I’ve read in a year since I’ve been keeping track. Don’t forget his tip for reading so much. Conversely I didn’t do as well as he did on my own personal reading goal. My annual goal is typically 24…

  • Best of 2018

    This year I’m taking a slightly more comprehensive approach to my “best of” list. I’ve taken a look at previous year’s lists: 2008, 2009, 2017 and comprised a slightly more complete set. Again, this is only the things I came across this year and can remember. I don’t keep a list throughout the year but…

  • My crypto and indie web goals for 2019

    Steven Johnson, in Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble: The true believers behind blockchain platforms like Ethereum argue that a network of distributed trust is one of those advances in software architecture that will prove, in the long run, to have historic significance. I’m very late to the game in reading Johnson’s piece in the NYT. I’ve…

  • Microsoft gives up on EdgeHTML

    Chris Beard, CEO Mozilla Corporation: Microsoft’s decision gives Google more ability to single-handedly decide what possibilities are available to each one of us. From one point-of-view this move by Microsoft might seem to make total sense. They spin this as “it will be easier for web developers to target one less browser engine”. However, this…

  • Repost: Annie Mueller on Creativity

    👉 Annie Mueller: Creativity is anyone making anything out of anything. /via Micro.blog in Discover

  • I don’t have analytics on my blog. So I don’t know if one topic or post has done better than another. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. I blog for me.

  • Gutenberg, the new content editor for WordPress, is very good

    I’m writing this post using a new post editor that is coming in the next version of WordPress code-named, and likely named for all-time, Gutenberg. In fact, I’ve written several of my most recent posts, including this photo post of South Iceland, using this new editor. Gutenberg is an editor that allows a WordPress author…

  • Google Pixel Night Sight on a Google Pixel 2 XL compared to iPhone Xs

    My wife has a brand-new iPhone Xs and I have a one-year-old Google Pixel 2 XL. We always compare photos in a variety of situations. When she had the iPhone X my Pixel 2 XL would win handily in a variety of situations. Her new iPhone Xs wins here and there (e.g. in Portrait mode…

  • I’ve been very happy hosting my blog on a WordPress Droplet on Digital Ocean since April. I’d like to move The Watercolor Gallery now. Does anyone know if I should use the same Droplet or better to create a new one?

  • Google+ shutting down for consumers

    Ben Smith: Given these challenges and the very low usage of the consumer version of Google+, we decided to sunset the consumer version of Google+. Thank heavens. Also, this bit: At the same time, we have many enterprise customers who are finding great value in using Google+ within their companies. Our review showed that Google+…

  • I haven’t been in the mood to blog much lately. Not ashamed of that either. I’ll write more when I feel like it.

  • Matt Haughey and I disagree about Instagram Stories

    Matt Haughey, on this blog: Instagram stories feel like work, like being forced to watch ads from my friends’ lives instead of casually browse stuff at my own pace. The feed: I can just scroll through quickly, and stop on interesting photos, but Stories slow down the whole process of popping into Instagram for just…

  • Systrom and Krieger resign from Instagram

    Kevin Systrom, former CEO and co-founder of Instagram: We’ve grown from 13 people to over a thousand with offices around the world, all while building products used and loved by a community of over one billion. What a run! Talk about leaving while on top. A Seinfeld-esque move.

  • Leo Laporte leaves Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook

    Leo Laporte: Yesterday I deactivated my Twitter account and kicked Tumblr to the curb. A couple of weeks ago I did the same with Instagram. A month or so before that I killed Facebook. And I survived. No, thrived! I had deleted my Twitter account in the past and lived. And while I haven’t deleted…

  • Seeing every social tool begin to see growth is very reassuring. I think a decentralized future – one where no one network owns all people or content – is coming. It won’t just be Mastodon or just blogs or even just Micro.blog. It will be them all and others.

  • Back on a different Mastodon instance

    Longtime readers of my blog will know that I was on Mastodon and then didn’t log back in for a long time. My first instance (mastodon.cloud) was sold? or was given? to a new admin and somehow my account was suspended and I couldn’t reset my password. I reached out to the current admin via…

  • Keeping a record of your thoughts and media and owning it

    Go ahead and read Matt Haughey’s post on why he left Twitter. But I wanted to pull out this bit: I didn’t like that everything I wrote ended up being hard to find or reference, and even hard for me to pull up myself when I wanted, where a blog makes it pretty dang easy…

  • Colin Walker takes a break (so I will too)

    Colin Walker: I’m not going to be blogging much – maybe the occasional post but nothing regular. I’m going to remove my feed from micro.blog for the time being so that I’m not drawn into conversations there that might result from any posts – if any conversations occur they will have to happen locally, for…

  • Things about Windows 10 #1: Task Bar Previews

    There is so much blogger coverage for Apple’s hardware and software products that I feel there needs to be a few more in the Microsoft and Google world. To that end I’m going to start a few new series here on my personal blog; Things about Windows 10, Things about Android. Generally, I’ll be keeping…

  • Xamarin.Forms 3.1

    David Ortinau on the Xamarin Blog: Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just…

  • Still working through my new photo library, syncing, back-up strategy but I believe I’ll have a much better solution than Apple provided me when I’m finished. And, of course, I’ll document it on my blog.

  • What I saw this week #52: July 13, 2018

    More accurately, what I’ve seen somewhat lately. I’ve been off my blogging game lately as I’m making the switch from Mac to Windows. So I’m busy moving photo libraries, installing apps and services, configuring options, and learning keyboard shortcuts. Here are a few things I wish I had more time to write about, but do…

  • New ways to monetize on YouTube

    Announcements are beginning to pour out while VidCon is happening. YouTube: The number of creators earning five figures a year is up by 35 percent and the number of creators earning six figures is up by 40 percent. As in previous years, the vast majority of the revenue is coming from our advertising partners. We’ll…

  • Don’t die before reading this

    Anthony Bourdain, in 1999, writing for The New Yorker: I’ve been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands. A few…

  • The Dagobah cave in realtime

    Todd Vaziri: Ever since I was a kid, I wondered what the scene might have looked like in real time, and how the scene, without slow-motion, would play differently to the audience. So I created it. I don’t write enough about Star Wars on my blog. For that I’m sorry. But this was too fun…

  • Microsoft buys GitHub

    Satya Nadella: More than 28 million developers already collaborate on GitHub, and it is home to more than 85 million code repositories used by people in nearly every country. From the largest corporations to the smallest startups, GitHub is the destination for developers to learn, share and work together to create software. It’s a destination…

  • Wishing Micro.blog’s web site was a PWA so I could use it on Android.

  • Join me for MeToday Week on Flickr from May 7 – 13, 2018

    Since Flickr’s acquisition to SmugMug I’ve been thinking about how best to jump back in over there. Back in the old days we posted things called MeTodays (now called selfies) and they were quite a thing. So I think I’ll start there again. Join me for one week of posting MeToday’s to Flickr’s MeToday Group.…

  • Rob Shecter on switching from iPhone to Pixel 2

    Robb Shecter: Notifications are far better than what I’m used to. They’re are so good, it’s maybe the killer feature for me This may be more of an observation of Android than of the Pixel 2. But I can say that my experience has been similar to Robb’s. I really, really like my Pixel 2 XL…

  • On the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug

    Thomas Hawk: As someone who joined Flickr back in 2003 pre-Yahoo and has been on the site pretty much daily since then, I thought I’d share my own thoughts on what this acquisition might mean for Flickr users and the larger Flickr community. No one has perspective on Flickr like Thomas. Go read his entire…

  • A new brand identity for The Watercolor Gallery

    I’m excited to start a brand-new series here on my site — The Grand Brand Design Challenge. I’m equally excited to be starting this series with a personal project I’ve been working on since 2010, The Watercolor Gallery. Read more about The Grand Brand Design Challenge on its own page. I’ve only taken the time…