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Social media in 2018: Facebook – where we unwittingly share fake articles Snapchat – where we privately video chat w/ squeaky voices Twitter – where we retweet our dislike of "other people" Instagram 🎉 – where we share our best photos, work, motivations, recipes Wonder why IG is winning? 🤔
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Today I did some maintenance on my domain name, registrar, hosting provider, and file structure for my site. I still have a few things I’d like to do in preparation for my personal blogging goals in 2018. I think it will be a banner blogging year for me.
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I think I will get used to this Pixel 2 XL camera. Very satisfied.
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After a little more than a day with Android the thing I miss most is Tweetbot. The Twitter apps are terrible. I now understand why many people don’t see the value of a microblogging social network. Tweetbot is likely the only reason I can still use Twitter.
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After over 10 years on iOS I’ve switched to Android on the Pixel 2 XL. So far an excellent experience.
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Seriously considering a move to the Pixel. But what would I do with my Apple Watch? And how does one live without Tweetbot?
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I’m considering the reprising of my "best of the year lists" for this year. Just need to find the time. Here are the lists from 2008 and 2009.
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Doesn’t look like iOS 11.2 turned on Apple Pay Cash after all. At least, not on my phone yet.
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Second time I’ve felt an earthquake in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Just making a note here so I remember.
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Wednesday that feels like Friday. Wefriday. Fwinesday. Fridnesday.
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The last time I shared Micro.blog invite codes they went very quickly. Here are 5. First come, first served. mb-ed28cc, mb-d0f852, mb-dbb439, mb-9b86e4, mb-c0629e.
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The number of liquids, ointments, gels, and creams I purposefully rub onto my body on a daily basis has increased exponentially with age.
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Finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. So much to glean.
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First week of the NBA season has been pretty dramatic. I like it.
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Finished Contact by Carl Sagan in audio book narrated by Jodie Foster. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was excellent. I love the movie but it makes me wish for the π part in the book to have been in the movie.
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I had gotten out of the habit of watching YouTube videos on my TV. Believe it or not, the Apple Watch has reinvigorated this habit since I can control it from my wrist. Didn’t think of that.
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Just watched Space X’s presentation about the BFR. What an incredible presentation! The timeline seems impossible but I’ve given up doubting Musk a long, long time ago.
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My second day with the Apple Watch Series 3 was a full-day of use, travel, driving directions, notifications, activity monitoring, and Siri and I ended the day with 78% battery life.
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I used my Apple Watch Series 3 extensively all day. Just plugged it in for the night with 48% battery remaining. This works.
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Many are sweating over a notch on a phone while Space X is making trips to Earth’s orbit routine.
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Reading Ready Player One, Downtown Scranton – July 2017 Easily my favorite book this year. Eliza just finished it too. I may want to read it again before the movie comes out.
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Sunsets over the Pacific have their own special feel.
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The “I’d like to suggest an edit to one of your blog posts with this link” scammers can just forward their requests to my trash bin.
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Your customers will never care what programming language you used.
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It appears that the WordPress for iOS beta text editor has some character encoding issues. Other than that, I like it.
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Published Build 11 of my iOS app to TestFlight this morning. Some great improvements in this build. Now to fly the UAV a little.
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You never get to "start over". You only get to try again. There is a big difference.
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After reading and listening to so many favorable reviews I’m installing the iOS 11 public beta on my iPad.
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I’m testing out the Micro.blog iOS app. Looks nice.
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I’ve been using Apple Music today. There is a bit of a learning curve but it is far, far better than when I tried it when it was released.
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If you were 39,000,000 miles away from earth and the earth was covered in white clouds it would look like what Venus looks like right now.
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I had the opportunity to do some programming over the last few days. Feels good.
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Arrival comes out on Bluray today. Very excited to see this film again.
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macOS has made setting up a new computer a one-step process for most people and a three-or-four-step process for developers. Incredibly easy.
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I’m looking forward to tonight’s first Homebrew Website Club in Scranton. Details here: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-02-08-homebrew-website-club
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Facebook Marketplace is Mos Eisley.
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Abstraction can assist automation. Keep going up until you hit the ceiling. Then retool your way back down. (Vague? Yes.)
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Local entrepreneurs, here are the dates for this year’s @tecBRIDGE1 Business Plan Competition http://www.nepbpc.com/innovation-challenge/httpwww-nepbpc-cominnovation-challenge2017-bpc-event-dates/
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Looking forward to flying today. I’ll be sharing my flights via Instagram Stories starting in less than an hour.
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Instagram Stories > Instagram
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My skin is becoming translucent. Time to plan an escape south.
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Auto mechanics should serve motor oil in their lobbies. It’d be much better than the "coffee" they serve.
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Duolingo’s email reminders should be in the language you’re learning, no?
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In 20 years that which we call AI today will be considered an egregious misnomer. We are comparatively in the melainotype phase of what AI will become.
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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!
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I wish Instagram and Twitter would make up already. It’s been years. Maybe @kcoleman can facilitate that.
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You have to be a Norwegian Strong Man competitor to open a packet of DayQuil.
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Not too hard to slink into the Sunday vibe with a fresh coat of snow on the ground. Coffee and biscuit morning.
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I’m working on a serious update to The Watercolor Gallery. It is coming along nicely and I hope the community will dig the update.
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We are firmly into wool sock weather this morning.