Search results for: “blog”

  • I interviewed Gregg Pollack for the Viddler blog

    Hot off the presses; I interviewed Gregg Pollack over on the Viddler blog. Gregg is from EnvyLabs, the Rails 3 Screencasts, Rails for Zombies and now Code School. All of these projects are powered by Viddler.

  • Backing up Tumblr blogs to Dropbox

    [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] With Tumblr’s recent downtime I thought it’d be very important to back up The Watercolor Gallery to my computer. I also thought it’d be good to back it up to my Dropbox account. It turns out this is very easy. Simply use the Tumblr Backup application (currently only available for Mac OS…

  • The better days of blogging

    My friend Andrew’s mother Rita recently broke her ankle while hiking. Andrew wrote about it on his blog. The post is both touching and honest. It reminds me of the better days of blogging when people wrote journal entries rather than gadget reviews. When people wrote about how much their day sucked rather than how…

  • The Twitter blog takes one step forward and two steps back

    The Twitter blog has a brand new design and it looks pretty slick. However, it no longer shows trackbacks and/or comments for each blog post effectively losing a few years worth of data. Boo.

  • Yes, Panic has a blog.

    In July of this year I conducted an interview with the co-founders of Panic about transparency in software development which was published in September. Prior to that interview in a short, off-the-cuff, via email, discussion with Steven he mentioned that they had just been putting together a plan for 2010 to help "lift the veil"…

  • Reblog from Google Reader

    The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.

  • Missing the old days of blogging

    Michael Heilemann recently had an idea for a comment system based on Twitter @replies. Not a new idea, to be sure, as there are several rather well-documented solutions for this floating around out there. But that isn’t the bit I’m interested in with his post. I’m interested in the bit where he says he misses…

  • Dispatches from the Island – the Weblog of Jorge Garcia

    For a while now I’ve been enjoying Jorge Garcia’s blog which he calls Dispatches from the Island. You may know Jorge from LOST. He plays Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Side note: Hurley is by far my most-favorite character on LOST. Charlie Pace was always a close-second and when we lost him in Season 3 I always…

  • Where The Wild Things Are – blog

    Turns out Spike Jonze, the guy directing Where The Wild Things Are, has been keeping a bit of a blog about the making of the film.

  • A blog by any other name

    This personal blog of mine has been around for a long time. It started in 1996 but it wasn’t called cdevroe.com then. Over the years it has, for better or worse, transformed more than a few times. It has changed names, domains, services, software, designs, and purposes. Today it changes again. I’ve decided that my…

  • Regarding blog comments, again

    I’m behind in my reading and even further behind in my writing. Which is why I’m just now finally writing about something I’ve wanted to since earlier this week even though the original post was written in late February. Ugh. Alex Payne, one of the many talented people behind Twitter, recently wrote on his blog…

  • Roger Ebert, now a blogger

    Roger Ebert is hitting a stride on his blog. He began blogging not too long ago. Well, in the world of blogging it wasn’t that long ago. It isn’t like he hasn’t been writing for longer than I’ve been breathing – he just hasn’t been blogging as long as I have. So take that Roger!…

  • Bourdain’s Mexico blog post and photo journal, now online

    Just prior to each episode Anthony Bourdain and his No Reservations crew publish a blog post and a photo journal. The Season 5 premier is no different. One thing I didn’t realize about this season premier is that the guide for this episode, pictured in the green shirt, is the same chef that took over…

  • The Ansel Adams Gallery Blog

    Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog.  Still very fresh, this blog is cataloging some of the activities of the studio, its members, and fans of Ansel Adams. I am of…

  • Ma.gnolia Blog: On Our New Front Doors

    Ma.gnolia, my favorite social bookmarking service, recently switched from merely supporting OpenID to actually restricting all new user signups to use the authentication platform. This received a lot of attention – most good – while Matt Mullenweg (and others I’m sure) chimed in to say that this method shouldn’t be viewed as a good strategy…

  • Rion.nu a photoblog by Rion Nakaya

    Albert Yee suggested some time ago that I subscribe to this photolog and I haven’t regretted it since. Source: Rion.nu a photoblog by Rion Nakaya.

  • Recollecting BlogPhiladelphia

    If I had a dime for everytime someone asked me why I lived in Pennsylvania, instead of somewhere not so "behind the times" like Silicon Valley, I’d probably have a free cup of coffee. But this past week’s BlogPhiladelphia unconference flies in the face of the misnomer that Pennsylvania is indeed "behind the times". The…

  • BlogPhiladelphia – Day 2

    10:00am – Breakfast was again served in the main ballroom. Bagels, orange juice, coffee, cranberry juice, etc. Good stuff. Who is sponsoring the breakfasts? Thanks to them for doing so (if you know, put it in the comments). This morning kicked off with Alex Hillman, of Independents Hall, and Doug Bellenger, of PhindMe.mobi talking about…

  • BlogPhiladelphia – Day 1

    9:00am – Free breakfast always tastes better doesn’t it? I’m sitting at the front most table at BlogPhiladelphia in the Grand Ballroom at the Radisson-Warwick Plaza hotel. Call me the teacher’s pet, but I wanted a good seat. You can watch my twitter and my flickr for updates throughout the day as well. Update: Dave…

  • BlogPhiladelphia – Day 0

    10:00am – I’m going to be "live blogging" the BlogPhiladelphia experience starting today and into Friday. Unlike my previous live blogging attempts I am going to split this experience up by day. Tomorrow is day one of BlogPhiladelphia so today must be day zero! I’m aiming to leave for Philadelphia around 4pm, get a haircut,…

  • Live blogging the iPhone launch

    5:30am – Good morning! I’m going to live blog my entire day. Eliza, my friend Matt, and I are heading to the King of Prussia mall’s own Apple Store to meet up with Rob to get in line for our iPhones. I hope to leave by 6:30am. 10:08am – Probably 40th in line at the…

  • Philadelphia Weblogger Meetup – March 17th

    Mike Stickel, Chris Fehnel, Matt Regula, Timmy Dunn and I on South Street after the last Meetup. This Saturday (March 17th from 2:00pm till about 5pm) I’ll be attending the Philadelphia Webloggers Meetup at Ten Stone Bar & Restaurant. Will you be there? It looks like Tony Green and I will be having a conversation…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • The multiple ways that I \”blog\”

    This may seem like a weird topic but it has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for a few days so I thought I’d ask everyone. I’m currently "blogging" four very different ways and I was wondering if anyone else was too. My personal weblog is the first way that I…

  • Fatblogging about the diet

    Jason Calacanis is "fat blogging". Congrats Jason on the new effort to shed a few pounds. I’m excited to see efforts like the diet in so many shapes and forms out there. There are a ton of people joining the fat blogging movement, even Kevin Smith (who started his diet thing just before Jason did).…

  • Philadelphia Weblogger Meetup – February 17th

    Though this event is split into two parts, the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup and the Philadelphia Webloggers Meetup to me it is all just about blogging and so I sign up for both. Chris at Ten Stone Bar – April 15, 2006 This Saturday (February 17th from 2:30pm till about 4pm) I’ll be attending the Philadelphia…

  • Eliza gets a blog, again

    My wife has had a blog in the past. For reasons I still don’t understand, she thinks that she has "nothing to add to the conversation" or that no one cares. So she ended up ditching her last blog. For me, blogging isn’t about other people caring since I could care less about what people…

  • Blog design solutions

    Just a quick note: Blog Design Solutions is available for preorder, and will be released February 20th. Buy this book or…. just buy the book you don’t want to know why.

  • I work for a Weblog Network

    I never thought I’d say that. In second grade when the teacher came around to me and asked “What do you wanna be when you grow up?” – I can guarantee my answer was not “A CTO from a Weblog Network”. In fact, I can’t even tell you what my answer was when I was…

  • I plan on using this blog for something useful, but I just haven’t nailed that down yet

    Being that I already run a successful blog, I am not sure what I will use this account for. But I’ve been wanting to have a place for “just me”. And this might become that place. Now if I could just find a way to edit the templates…

  • Takuya Matsuyama on avoiding burnout in the AI era

    Takuya Matsuyama, developer of InkDrop, who I’ve been following for a few years wrote about maintaining mental health in the AI era for software developers. He also walked through Japan, enjoying the trees, while reading this blog post. A few pull quotes: It’s easy to fall into the trap of trying too hard to keep…

  • Jim Neilsen on LLM instructions

    Great point from Jim Neilsen re: the instructions found deep inside a model or agent’s instructions, which we may not prefer yet live with if we don’t know to override them: It’s like a Trojan Horse of craft: guidelines you might never agree to explicitly are guiding LLM outputs, which means you are agreeing to…

  • We released Hubbub Pro 2.29.0 today. We acquired this WordPress plugin just over 2 years ago and we’ve added tons of features and improvements that are helping publishers grow their websites, their mailing lists, and ultimately their revenue. Still so much more to do.

  • Greg Knauss on the emotional toll of agentic coding

    Greg Knauss: Is the code any good? I don’t know. Who cares? Nobody looks at it anyway. AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for quality to factor significantly into that equation, I’ve got some bad news about the last 40 years of professional software development for you. Be…

  • Nikunj Kothari on “Token Anxiety”

    Nikunj Kothari on the anxiety created by agentic workflows: The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month’s workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now.…

  • A Fence by Jasper Tandy

    Jasper Tandy shares A Fence: There’s no reason to take this, or to share it. […] I’m always drawn to piles of things. I don’t know why. I’ve driven past this fence in this field all week and thought it’d make a photo that I’d like, but it was only yesterday afternoon when there was…

  • SpaceX buys xAI

    I knew this was coming and I am still unable to fully process it. The scale of what is going on right now is too much to hold in my gelatinous human mind. I’m only writing about it on my blog because it will likely be the biggest tech news of the year? Maybe? It…

  • More friction, less reach

    What should I post here? What should I post there? I’m struggling to find a balance that I like. My deepest self says post everything here, right on my own personal website. As broken and beautiful as it is (I’m constantly fiddling lately, sorry). But if I do that should I take the time to…

  • Chris Glass: “Alright, that’s enough of that”

    Chris Glass, on his cat blog: I’ve turned off comments and other minor features to improve site performance here because I think AI bots are hogging things. The scourge of internet traffic currently are data scraping bots slurping up the web. I don’t know why there are so many, why the requests are so often,…

  • My 2026 goal is to be bored more often

    What do you do with your time? I think the modern world has afforded us all more time than we know what to do with and we’re squandering it. I know this isn’t true for everyone, and certainly not true of people everywhere, but many of us live in a time of abundance and we’re…

  • Whither Latent Co.?

    Naz Hamid, writing on his personal blog, about forming a small company called Latent Co.: Driven by the creative tooling we’ve cut our teeth on and drawing on our product and imaging experience, we’re making a product for Mac. His partners are Ryan Carver and Julio Pablo Zambrano. I’ve exchanged many a message with Carver…

  • Andre Franca on the small web

    Andre Franca: The small web persists not because it’s winning any battle against platform dominance, but because some things are worth doing regardless of scale. These independent voices, scattered across their own domains, linked through blogrolls and RSS feeds and word of mouth, create a version of the internet that still feels human. This is…

  • Manuel Moreale: “the web is alive”

    Manuel Moreale, encouraging us all to follow all the links in his seminal series People & Blogs… This series lives on my blog but has nothing to do with me. It exists to connect you, the human who’s reading this, with all the other wonderful humans that are still out there, spending their time making…

  • Hesitant thoughts on LLMs

    I’ve wanted to write a follow-up to my April 2023 post How I’m using ChatGPT as an accelerator for several months. I want to share how I’m using AI today, what I think about it, and what I think we’ll see in the future. But I will admit I hesitated because people I respect and…

  • Merlin Rebrović on personal websites

    Merlin Rebrović on personal websites being like tending a garden: Sometimes I put in more time and effort, sometimes I neglect it for a bit, depending on the season and other pressures on my life. However, I always come back to it because it’s a space that is occasionally helpful or entertaining to others but…