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  • Attending TecBridge’s Entrepreneurship Institute

    On Friday I was able to pop into TecBridge’s Entrepreneurship Institute at Marywood University. It is an event designed to pull back the veil of starting, funding, branding, and generally running a company. When I arrived the panel for early stage funding was going on and the questions and answers seemed to be going pretty…

  • E13: Switching to Windows 10 and the Surface Book, and pre-orders

    Danny and I have a Saturday morning conversation about my purchase of the new Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base and switching from macOS to Windows 10. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e13.mp3 Links: Simplenote OneDrive and iCloud exFAT Surface Book and Surface Studio Thanks to Danny for the early wakeup. I edited this MP3 and published this post on Windows…

  • What I saw this week #19: November 11, 2016

    Andy Baio’s Waxy – Redesigned. Long live the blog. Developers Read 1 Star Reviews – From the Úll 2016 conference. Data Studio by Google – A tool to help you add some visualizations to your data. The Old Reader – I didn’t know this was still up and running until Danny mentioned it in E12.…

  • Stop worrying, hit publish

    Jen Simmons, on her blog: So I have nothing much to say in this post. Or more honestly, I have so freaking much to say, I don’t know where to start. So I’m going to start here. I just need to break the silence. And get into a habit of posting. So I’m posting this.…

  • Saving cognitive load: Notes

    In my line of work (mostly programming) it can be incredibly difficult to keep all of the details of what is going on in my brain. In fact, it is impossible. To save cognitive load I employ a rigorous note taking strategy that frees up my working memory and allows me to focus on singular…

  • E12: The Mac, RSS feeds, Shopping, and Stranger Things

    We hit our stride in this bit. Danny and I have a Sunday-evening chat about how Apple could move away from the Mac and survive, RSS feed habits, shopping for clothes (naturally) and Stranger Things. Site Danny references is Woodpile Report. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e12.mp3 Download MP3

  • Tweeting for 10 years

    Last week Jeremy Keith reminded me, yet again, of an anniversary I share with him. That is, we’ve now both been tweeting for 10 years. Here is my first tweet. Jeremy beat me by 6 days and only 5,000 tweets. Can you believe that back then only 5,000 tweets were sent in 6 days? These…

  • What I saw this week #18: November 4, 2016

    My blog scheduled was knocked off tilt this week so this post is two days later than usual. It will be back on schedule this week. Cinemagraph GIFs – Take a still from a movie and animate just a small portion of it. I’ve seen these floating around for a few years but just now…

  • E11: Browsers, Surfaces, MacBook Pros, and Tesla roof

    Danny and I have an early Sunday morning conversation about our browsers of choice (he likes Vivaldi), Microsoft and Apple’s announcements this week and the Tesla roof. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e11.mp3 Download MP3

  • Touch Bar

    I’ve been tweeting like crazy about the new MacBook Pros and how I’ve found the most recent updates underwhelming. But I couldn’t come up with a great way to describe how I felt about Touch Bar in a way that I wanted in my blog archives. Until I read this. Michael Tsai: I’m not crazy about…

  • FADE INTO A WORDPRESS LOGO

    INTERIOR, COFFEE SHOP, HOUSTON, TEXAS Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, wearing a WordPress tshirt, brainstorms over a latte. MULLENWEG, internal dialogue: "How can I get WordPress in front of the Wix customer base for free?" … MULLENWEG: *opens WordPress on his Mac* …. MULLENWEG: Publishes: "The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint" to his WordPress-powered blog.…

  • What I saw this week #17: October 27, 2016

    This week it feels like I saw tons of great things but when I checked my list in Simplenote for this post it wasn’t as full as I thought it would be. So I need to do a better job next week of keeping track of all the great things I’ve seen. One Letter Removed…

  • What am I building here?

    If you’re reading this you likely do something every single day that you haven’t put a name to. You publish. And, it is very likely, that you publish different things in several different places with just a little overlap. You might publish: quippy remarks about a live event on Twitter filtered photos, that presumably look a…

  • Thirty days of images

    Each morning, at around 9am Eastern, a new image is published to my blog. I schedule these posts each weekend (I even built a WordPress plugin to help me) and they publish automatically without any other interference from me. I’ve just hit 30 consecutive days of this schedule and I’d like to keep it up in…

  • E10: Email services, business travel, food, and life journaling

    Danny and I have a wandering Saturday afternoon discussion about email services, business travel, some food, and life journaling in the modern age. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e10.mp3 Download MP3

  • Hey, umm, Siri?

    I was happy this week to see that the topic of how far behind Siri is came up on many tech blogs. It is a topic I’ve thought, but not wrote, a lot about. In 2012 Siri was ahead on ability, but behind on speed. Earlier in 2016, prior to WWDC, I wrote a WWDC…

  • You’ve been granted h-entry

    This morning I took a few minutes to add microformats to the HTML of my blog. I had done so in the past when my site was using a completely different theme and hadn’t taken the time to add them back in. Shame on me. I should have done it much sooner since it took less…

  • What I saw this week #14: October 7, 2016

    Nice blend of things things this week. An interview with Aaron Hicklin – I enjoyed this interview and the idea behind the bookstore that is curated into collections by creatives people like actors and directors. Neat idea. Photos from Rosetta – Rosetta smashed into its host comet this week and Flickr holds the photos it…

  • A date picker to schedule posts in WordPress

    On Sunday mornings I make some coffee, sit down at my computer, and choose 7 images to publish to my blog throughout the week. After I’ve chosen and edited the images I schedule them in WordPress to be published each morning at around 9:00am. I can then go about my week knowing that each day there…

  • Eleven and six and twenty

    Thanks to Jeremy for remarking how he forgot his blog’s 15th anniversary (congrats Jeremy!) it reminded me to check and, well, I missed my blog’s anniversary by nearly the same number of days as he did. On Saturday October 1 this blog, my personal blog on my own domain name but not my first ever personal blog,…

  • What I saw this week #13: September 30, 2016

    I’m resurrecting an old series of posts that I used to publish here called "What I saw this week". In this series I’d publish a single post per week with some of the things I came across that week that I thought were interesting. It allowed me to link to interesting things without posting too…

  • 10MacApps over 10 years later

    Ten and a half years ago I was asked by Zach Hale to jot down my 10 favorite Mac apps and then ask a few others to do the same. Wow, ten and a half years ago. Pre iPhone. Now, with the Mac seemingly a second-class citizen both in hardware upgrades and app popularity, now…

  • A few updates to my site

    Late last week and over the weekend I’ve made a few subtle updates to my site. I saw that this weekend was Indie Web Camp in Brighton and while I can’t travel a few thousand miles to hack on my blog I can sit at my desk and do a bit of hacking. The main things…

  • Hiking the Dunmore Pine Barrens

    Yesterday fellow UAV pilot Jonathan Edwards and I hiked to the "top of the world" at the Dunmore Pine Barrens to get some exercise, see the sights, and fly a little. I decided to hike this area because of local hiker, writer and blogger Jeff Mitchell’s blog post wherein he details the hike. He provides…

  • Disappearing apps and services

    Alexei Baboulevitch (archagon) in a comment on Hacker News: These indie apps are often marketed as beautiful, wholesome alternatives to grimy corporate or open source software, but how could I possibly rely on these products for essential tasks like note-taking if they’re just going to disappear out from under me in a few years? The…

  • The Evernote slide continues

    Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was seemingly happening. I’d be willing to bet that is about to accelerate. Back then, I wrote: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the people that…

  • Microsoft open sources .NET Core

    Richard Lander on the .NET Blog: We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications. They said they would, and…

  • How many hats can you wear?

    Maria Langer, on her blog, on owning and operating her own small business: I am the owner of a small business, Flying M Air, LLC. I do just about everything for the company except maintain the aircraft: schedule flights, preflight the aircraft, fly, take payment from passengers, manage the drug testing program, work with the FAA,…

  • On rebranding

    Over on our company blog we published our recipe for rebranding a company. Here’s a snippet on how our outsider view is an advantage: Our suggestions and feedback come with no internal bias, no politics, no fear of losing our jobs, and certainly no fear of sounding stupid. We’re experts at dumb ideas. Out of…

  • What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10

    Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of over 4,000 objects, memories, and facial expressions that Photos for iOS and OS X will be able to mine all on its own…

  • Three microphones

    I began posting to my own site in earnest on March 6th of this year. I wrote: So, starting tonight that is what I’m going to try again to do with a goal of sticking with it in perpetuity. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be posting to Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, but that everything…

  • Signature style

    Great piece from Lea Alcantara on her company blog on how originality and style have fallen to practicality and everything looking the same in web design: The result usually ends up being less creative or original due to drowning with these constraints. It’s understandable. It might even be laudable. I’m still soaking all of it…

  • WWDC murdered my wish list

    In a good way. Yesterday I scrawled a few comments during the WWDC Keynote, and did 1 second reviews of the announcements on Snapchat, but I thought I’d jot down the tally of things I had hoped for against what was actually announced. First, however, let me just say that the amount of work Apple showcased yesterday…

  • Random subtle updates to Apple software

    Apple could not possibly cover every update to iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS in their Keynote. So as the nerds have been picking through the trash in and around San Francisco they’ve been able to dig up several subtle changes that are worth noting. Here are a few of them that I’ve found via Twitter…

  • App Store Subscriptions

    Yesterday the news hit of Apple’s changes to App Store policies and features including allowing developers to leverage Subscriptions for their applications so that they can better make a living making great apps. This, from John Gruber’s coverage at Daring Fireball: Now, subscription-based pricing will be an option for _any_sort of app, including productivity apps and games.…

  • Observations from the first two years of kayaking

    I’ve been kayaking for two years and one month. My first post about kayaking is a sprawling post about my first two paddles but one that I’m really happy I wrote and published. In it I show exactly the types of things a new paddler worries about; falling in, being cold, getting in and out…

  • My #FollowFriday recommendations

    Today I decided to go through the list of accounts that I follow on Twitter and cherry-pick those I think others should consider following and why. I’ve tweeted all of the suggestions but I also wanted to catalog them here on my blog. @jensimmons – Jen is writing tons of CSS tests so you don’t have to.…

  • Wirelessly transfer files from a GoPro using any computer without software

    Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to subscribe to my blog. (Skip to the bottom of this post if you just want to know how to connect to your GoPro using an internet browser.) As I mentioned my GoPro Hero3+ Silver Edition has been giving me issues lately. It started 6 months ago as…

  • Is Medium embracing the open web?

    Julien Genestoux, founder of Superfeedr, on his company’s blog regarding his company being acquired by Medium and how Medium is supporting open protocols already: At Superfeedr, we’ve promoted the open web by embracing open formats and protocols, such as RSS, Atom, XMPP and PubSubHubbub. Over the years, we’ve also learned that these protocols are only…

  • Stop tracking referral spam with Google Analytics

    Nice tip from Scott Buscemi on the Luminary Web Strategies blog: Have you ever logged into Google Analytics and noticed a huge, unexpected spike in traffic to your site? Maybe your last blog post was shared by a huge influencer on Twitter — or maybe you’re the victim of referral spam. One simple click. Be…

  • How I converted from Custom Post Types to Post Formats

    It wasn’t too ugly. But it wasn’t exactly a cool swim either. I thought I would jot down why and how I moved from using a Custom Post Type for each type of post that I publish here — status, photo, audio, and normal post — to Post Formats. First, why move to Post Formats from Custom Post…

  • A custom skin for MyFantasyLeague

    Kyle Ruane on why he created a custom skin for MyFantasyLeague: There are things on that page that defy explanation—nested tables driving layout, 8px text, inline styles on everything, five different ‘main’ navigation elements. One big dumpster fire. And this is actually one of the better views in terms of usability. The power of the open web. If…

  • How I create a combo feed using WordPress

    When my site was on Barley I had something we called a "combo feed". A combo feed combined all content types (what we called custom post types) into my main RSS feed. This allowed someone to subscribe to a single feed and get all of the blog posts, statuses, photos, and audio bits that I publish.…

  • Owning my words and photos and audio bits

    Jeremy Keith wrote on his blog about owning his words, or, being willing to publish his words (snarky or otherwise) on his own site under his own name. I recommend you read his entire post. But this bit stood out: I wish I could articulate how much better it feels to only use Twitter (or…

  • We know better now

    Manton Reece, on his blog, on podcasting lock-in, the open web, silos, and more: While the open web still exists, we really dropped the ball protecting and strengthening it. Fewer people’s first choice for publishing is to start a web site hosted at their own domain. Like the destruction of Pennsylvania Station, sometimes you only…

  • The Unicode Consortium is responsible for more than emoji

    Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, [on their blog](The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web. An essential part of our mission is to…

  • IFTTT recipes

    Just took some time to clean up my IFTTT recipes for posting statuses, photos, audio bits, and blog posts to both Twitter and Facebook. I may need to rejigger the bits a few more times to get it right.

  • Mornings

    For about 10 years now I haven’t set an alarm unless I had a plane or bus to catch. My belief is that if my body needs to sleep it will and if it doesn’t it won’t. For the most part this has worked out just fine for me. I’m not someone who needs to…

  • GitHub is now more affordable

    GitHub: We couldn’t be more excited to announce that all of our paid plans on GitHub.com now include unlimited private repositories. GitHub will always be free for public and open source projects, but starting today there are just two ways to pay for GitHub.com. $7/m for personal accounts, $9/m per user for organizations (only $25/m…

  • Dawn and Shadow Time

    One thing I’m forever fascinated by is how the local landscape affects sunlight, weather patterns, wind speed, etc. Meteorology with a view from the ground, if you will. Isn’t it fascinating that where I live, in a very small stream valley, above a larger river valley, between two small mountains, has a wholly different temperature,…