Tag: danny-nicolas
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Jake Dahn returns to blogging
Jake Dahn, who co-authored a blog called Waking Ideas with Danny Nicolas over 10 years ago: I’ll write some thoughts in another post about why I’m getting back into blogging. But for now I wanted to say thanks to Danny and Colin who both inspired me to take the leap and to start hitting publish.…
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E16: The Dark Crystal, Netflix, Amazon and more
Danny and I sat down on Saturday afternoon to chat about a few things. Below are a few links relevant to our conversation. /media/audio/e16.mp3 Links The Dark Crystal on Netflix trailer Netflix spending $6B on content Amazon spending over $3B Google I/O Keynote Microsoft Build Keynote | Day 2 Download MP3
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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. /media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3
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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.
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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. /media/audio/e14.mp3 Links: Video Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts another Windows 10 keyboard shortcut video Download MP3
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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…
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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. /media/audio/e12.mp3 Download MP3
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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…
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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. /media/audio/e11.mp3 Download MP3
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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…
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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…
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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. /media/audio/e10.mp3 Download MP3
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E9: Follow up, Blog comments, and personal blogging
Danny and I enjoyed listening to ourselves talk so much that we did it again this week. Our conversation is mainly about blog comments and personal blogging. Riveting stuff. Listen to all of it. /media/audio/e9.mp3 Download MP3
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E8: Tesla, Twitter, Blogging
Extra special, and most likely reoccurring, guest Danny Nicolas (@djloche) and I have a conversation about Tesla, Twitter, Blogging and a bunch of other things. /media/audio/e8.mp3 Download MP3
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Flickr Premium?
Danny Nicolas has been keeping up with my Flickr commentary of late about how Flickr should create a more affordable, less feature-rich account type and he has a few things to add: I feel as if most people currently paying for Flickr Pro don’t take advantage of all the features offered. I might even go…
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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…
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Shooting Danny
Date taken: December 1, 2007 Dan, shooting some of these photos. Taken with iPhone.