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  • What I saw this week #39: April 21, 2017

    I missed last week. I have no excuse. Waxy.org – I already mentioned this but Andy Baio didn’t just return to blogging – he blew in with Hurricane force winds. Kottke.org – Speaking of .org blogs, Jason Kottke’s online property is being managed this week by Tim Carmody and he’s pulling an interesting yarn regarding the…

  • Observations on Mastodon

    I’ve been fiddling with Mastodon (to the tune of over 500 toots as of this writing). I’ve also been reading up on the history of the service a lot over the last few weeks. Here are some general observations that I’ve made along with a few helpful links. Mastodon isn’t a single service. It is an…

  • Avoid being great at Twitter

    Seth Godin: You can be good at Twitter in about five minutes a day. Spending ten minutes doesn’t make you twice as good… in fact, there’s probably little measurable improvement. To be great at Twitter might take five hours of daily effort. At over 48,000 tweets I do not need any more Twitter practice. Lately…

  • What I saw this week #38: April 7, 2017

    Don’t forget, you can see all posts in this series by skimming through the what-i-saw tag. Now, onto this week’s links. Video: Puffer fish artist – Absolutely incredible stuff from such a small little fish. Andy Baio is back – Not only is he blogging again but Upcoming has re-launched. Stripe Atlas – The program is…

  • Observations on the computer-mediated reality landscape

    The future won’t look this stupid. I promise. For the past several months I’ve been doing research on computer-mediated reality (CMR) – that is, when what’s real is somehow changed, interrupted, distorted, or otherwise effected by a wearable computer. This "ability" isn’t new and it is a nuanced superset of many different types including mixed reality…

  • Jeff Mitchell hikes South Branch Trail

    Jeff Mitchell, who has inspired me to hike in several locations due to his blog and books, somewhat recently hiked the South Branch trail of Lackawanna State Park. He writes: What a place to hike on a hot summer day, I thought.  It was noticeably cooler in this deep, shaded glen along the creek.  We…

  • Attending NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017

    Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017. It was a panel discussion regarding how agencies use WordPress with Jack Reager of Black Out Design (our gracious host, thanks Jack and team), Liam Dempsey and Lauren Pittenger of LBDesign in the Philadelphia-area, and your’s truly of Condron Media. As these types of events…

  • What should a conference look like in 2017?

    Karla Porter: I find myself searching for the value of spending a boatload of money and travel time to attend conferences. Not just for myself, but for you too. After all, that could be vacation time and money. If you read my blog you already know that I see value in attending events. I write about it…

  • How do you get work?

    Aspiring freelancers always ask this question. Lara Schenck answers: I tell people I’m looking for work. Then, while I wait for referrals, I do a bunch of stuff for free. That includes talking at meetups, doing free workshops, and writing blog posts. Finally, I cross my fingers and have faith that it will come when…

  • What I saw this week #34: February 24, 2017

    Video: Ratchet Face – From a longer performance by Tom Thum who you may remember from this TEDx presentation. Amazing stuff. Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson on JRE – Joe Rogan had Tyson on his podcast. Two hours of nerding out and Rogan keeps up fairly well. Developer Tea – I stumbled across this podcast this…

  • Arguments aren’t parameters

    Eevee on the names of things in programming languages: Part of the problem here is that we’re not actually doing computer science. We’re doing programming, with a wide variety (hundreds!) of imperfect languages with different combinations of features and restrictions. There are only so many words to go around, so the same names get used…

  • The crescent of Venus

    Harold Jenkins: From February through March 2017 Venus will put on quite a show in the west after sunset. Unmistakably bright, its crescent will be getting thinner while the disc of the planet itself is increasing in size – meaning the planet will maintain its brightness, even though its appearance through binoculars, telescopes, and high-zoom…

  • Multiple photos and videos in a single post on Instagram

    Instagram: With this update, you no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember. Now, you can combine up to 10 photos and videos in one post and swipe through to see them all. Fantastic update and finally one that is different than most, if not…

  • The music for Stagehand

    I linked to this post in #32 but, just in case you missed it, I’m linking to it properly because I believe it deserves it. Cabel Sasser, on creating the intro song for Stagehand: There was no way I was gonna be able to put a “live” version of the song together by myself. I’m basically musically…

  • Information water torture

    Emily Lakdawalla, on taking a writing sabbatical: I feel less and less satisfied doing rushed news-update-style reporting, and am more interested in spending more time to explain science or engineering in depth, in articles that will be useful over time, not just this week. (I am really enjoying writing the book, when I can find…

  • What I saw this week #32: February 13, 2017

    I missed publishing this on Friday so I’m publishing it today. Roper Game Prototype – Mary Rose Cook showing off again. Maja Kuczyńska wind freestyle – Humans shouldn’t be able to move like this. VSauce – I scour YouTube daily for new subscriptions. I’m always amazed that I can stumble across a previously unknown channel…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • Josh Ginter on Instagram pressure

    Josh Ginter re: my Instagram pressure post: I tried to fix this by unfollowing just about everyone I know personally and following as many talented photographers as I could find. The result of that decision: enormous inspiration to get out of the house and travel, but also to a confidence-shattering reflection on my own photos.…

  • Scranton’s first Homebrew Website Club

    Next Wednesday I’ll be hosting the first Scranton-based Homebrew Website Club at Condron Media‘s headquarters on Penn Avenue. There are other locations HWC will be happening on that day too. If you have your own site and I you care to work on it in anyway at all please do stop by. Homebrew Website Club is not…

  • Observations about flying a DJI Phantom 4 Pro

    Maria Langer, professional helicopter pilot, blogger and Twitter friend, got her DJI Mavic Pro on nearly the same day as I got my DJI Phantom 4 Pro. She’s taken the time to write down her thoughts on the experience and so I thought I’d quote her post since she and I agree on our first…

  • What I saw this week #30: January 27, 2016

    Flexbugs – Described as "A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them." Video: Hovering a helicopter is hard – I’ve been going back through Smarter Everyday’s archive. An inverted aquarium – Mindblown fish. Tips for new drone owners – I re-read my own piece since I just picked up a Phantom 4 Pro.…

  • The slow web and POSSE

    David Mead: This year all of my posts, replies, and retweets on Twitter will be coming from this blog and not using the Twitter app (#OwnYourData). That probably means doing it at the end of the day. I’m hoping that will make them more considered (something we may all want to be in the coming…

  • How I create my weekly link posts

    With my What I saw this week series of posts hitting #29 this week I thought I’d take a second to share how these posts do on my site, how I create them, how I choose what I will link to outside of these posts. These posts are some of my most popular week-to-week. My…

  • What I saw this week #29: January 20, 2017

    Be sure to peruse the archive of this series of posts. Best selfie ever? – Definitely in the running. Joe Robinet – I’ve been digging Joe’s stuff on YouTube. Behind-the-scenes of Rogue One – Photos by Alex Benetel. Zuckerberg’s team – A team of a dozen people help Mark Zuckerberg capture his day for his Facebook…

  • App.net shutting down

    Dalton Caldwell: We envisioned a pool of differentiated, fast-growing third-party applications would sustain the numbers needed to make the business work. Our initial developer adoption exceeded expectations, but that initial excitement didn’t ultimately translate into a big enough pool of customers for those developers. I’ve been a paying subscriber to App.net for the entire life of the platform (that is, until…

  • What I saw this week #28: January 13, 2017

    Video: What Comes Next is the Future – A documentary-style look back at the evolution of the web, and its underlying technologies that make it up, using interviews with those who have crafted and curated those technologies. Advanced Symbols in Sketch – A great tutorial by Matt D. Smith. Atom Dash – Via Lauren Pittenger…

  • PodSearch

    _DavidSmith has a new side project called PodSearch. He explains: The concept was simple. Take a few of my favorite podcasts and run them through automated speech-to-text and make the result searchable. It works. I’m still waiting for Google to add real contextual search to video and audio. They’ve got images working well. And Pinterest…

  • Independence is a long play

    Jason Kottke re: Medium’s announcement and why he chose not to move Kottke.org to Medium: New businesses are unstable…that’s just the way it is. In Silicon Valley (and in other startup-rich areas), these unstable businesses have lots of someone else’s money to throw around — which makes them appear more stable in the short term…

  • Dan Kimbrough on several trends for 2017

    Dan Kimbrough touches on several trends he thinks will continue in 2017 such as this bit on AR/VR: 2017 will see AR & VR make great strides to becoming how we experience and interact with the world around us. I agree we’ll see great strides in this area. I’m especially bullish on AR. But I…

  • What I saw this week #26: December 30, 2016

    As we end the year I just wanted to say that I hope those of you that are reading and following the links in these posts find them useful. I’ve been referring to the archive a lot lately to send friends links to things. I try to keep the list light, fun, useful, and all…

  • My blog’s traffic has increased month-over-month since May of this year. December has already passed November. I hope to continue my streak in January. Thanks for all the clicks!

  • Aaron Parecki tackles 100 Days of Indieweb

    Aaron Parecki: Inspired by the "100 Day Project", I’m setting out on a goal to accomplish 100 days of visible improvements to my IndieWeb projects. The challenge is to ship something visible and post about it for 100 days. Some of the improvements may be super tiny, some of them might be big. I’m super…

  • What I saw this week #24: December 16, 2016

    It was a busy week. You can catch up on the blog. But here are a few additional things that jumped out at me. New emoji in iOS 10.2 – Some very decent additions. Bartender – A small Mac utility that tidies up your menu bar. Animated Eleven – An animated Stranger Things? Yes please.…

  • The Future of Cities

    I forgot to link to Oscar Boyson’s video in this week’s What I saw this week post. Sorry about that. So now he gets his very own post. Oscar Boyson on Ev’s blog: Jane Jacobs said that “cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by…

  • People are switching from Macs to Surface

    Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro – especially among professionals – is leading more and more people to…

  • What I saw this week #23: December 7, 2016

    Since this is what-i-saw #23 let’s all watch the top 50 plays by Michael Jordan. The Modest Man Income Reports – Ever wonder what it looks like to run a blog for money? Brock from The Modest Man shares all of the numbers. Great insight. Web advent calendars – Two I’m following this month are…

  • E15: Bots, Windows 10 Surface Book review, Twitter Head of Product

    Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I’ve made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter’s new Head of Product hire. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3

  • A visual history of Waking Ideas

    Danny shows off a visual history of his personal site. As we change, so too our personal web sites.

  • Google’s AMP is a gilded cage

    Terence Eden: If, like me, you made the mistake of trying out AMP on your website – you’re in a tricky position if you try to remove it. Google doesn’t like anything leaving its clutches. I appreciate nothing about AMP. In fact, I don’t click any links that use it in protest. /via Jeremy Keith.

  • Fix the internet

    Vicky Boykis: We are a LONG, long ways away from the destruction of the internet as a giant billboard. It takes time to turn a huge skyscraper into an gutted shell of a building, and it will take just as much time to turn our current internet from a loud, obnoxious, toxic mall, back into…

  • What I saw this week #21: November 25, 2016

    Light week as I spent most of my week away from the computer. curlbuilder – A simple tool to create curl commands. Bowie by Nick Runge – A small plug for my other site. On being verified – Maria Langer writes about being verified on Twitter. Instagram updates – A few new ways to share…

  • E14: Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, streaming video solutions, Nintendo

    On Sunday Danny and I discussed learning Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, a bit about video streaming services and the value they bring, and also a bit about Nintendo. Here are some links from this episode. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e14.mp3 Links: Video Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts another Windows 10 keyboard shortcut video Download MP3

  • VR is not ready in 2016

    Danny Nicolas: I hope someone is hard at work making an ubiquitous snow-crash-esq VR experience that compels everyone to rush to the stores to buy VR rigs, but 2016 was not the year where VR became the big thing. It might be the next big thing, but not this year. I’ve tested a bunch of VR…

  • A tablet and a notebook in one

    John Gruber: To me, an iPad in notebook mode — connected to a keyboard cover — is so much less nice than a real notebook. And the difference is more stark when compared to a great notebook, like these MacBook Pros. There are advantages to the tablet form factor, but no tablet will ever be…