Jeffrey Zeldman:
If we keep throwing only young, mostly white, mostly upper middle class people at the engine that makes our digital world go, we’ll keep getting camera and reminder and hookup apps—things that make an already privileged life even smoother—and we’ll keep producing features that sound like a good idea to everyone in the room, until they unexpectedly stab someone in the heart.
Matt Mullenweg:
In a region that prides itself on disruption and working from first principles, San Francisco’s scaling problem is pretty humorous if you look at it from the outside: otherwise smart and inventive founders continue to set up offices and try to hire or move people in the most overheated environment since there were carphones in Cadillac Allantes.
I’ve been playing around with my X100T lately, and snapped this from my backyard the other night. After a quick spin through Flare, it looked pretty good for a wallpaper. Here’s the image (the full resolution version doesn’t have the compression banding/artifacts):
Go ahead and download this high resolution version and take it for a spin for yourself.
I’ve long felt mechanical watches are the only way to go, as they require no batteries and are therefore ideal because they keep working as long as you wear them — no finding dead batteries when you go to don the watch. A ‘win-win’ if you will. (more…)
Tom Bihn interviewed my wife and me about parenthood and all the craziness that surrounds it.
I’ve written lists about X things that I learned in X years before, but those seem rather boring these days. I’ve not marked every birthday I’ve had on this site, but I felt like this was a good one to mark. Mostly because I’m finally at a numerical age which I like. ‘Thirty two’ rolls nicely off the tongue and that pleases me greatly.
This is a list of the best, or my favorite at least, websites of 2014.
Dave Pell:
But it doesn’t matter who you are. Something as seemingly minor as an errant or offensive tweet can ruin you. And once it ruins you, it keeps ruining you. The Internet is like a high school cafeteria. Except this cafeteria has billions of students. Meme Girls are the new Mean Girls.
I had the chance to try this app out before it was released and I have to say it is pretty fun. It’s not one of those apps where it is exciting fun, but challenging fun is far more accurate. I got lost in it a few times.
Interesting article exploring the cognitive benefits of writing by hand. I've actually been experimenting with hand notes again in a quasi-sketchnote fashion. I can't say if it's any better, but it's much less distracting for those on the other end of a video call when they don't hear my keyboard.
John Carey was kind enough to let me have a guest desktop over on his site. That’s one thing off my bucket list right there — very honored.
Many responses I have received about my recent post over app analytics has been surrounding the use of web analytics on this site. Simply put: I’ve never liked them, but have found them necessary.
I do find them different than app analytics. As you come here to consume what I have written, not to pen your own works. My problem is when I want to pen my own work, and someone wants to put analytics on that app I use to do my own work. I don’t like that.
Further, it’s pretty easy to block the analytics on this site. However, I have taken the liberty of pairing it down to only Mint, which is housed on my server.
We all have those people in our lives which seem impossible to buy for. I have a great many of them, so here’s some go to items (here’s hoping they don’t read this, ha) I am using this year.
The Photive 6-port USB Charger: I love mine. I personally go with the 6-port model over the 5-port for two reasons. First the 6-port gives you double the wattage for charging, which will be helpful if you want to charge more iPads at full clip. Second, the 6-port model doesn’t have silly labels on the USB ports.
Cord management things: CableDrop, GearTie (love these), Cablebox.
Kokedama thing. Good people, and a great product.
Now I know book, and version 2.
Now, have a good day.
Such a fantastic app.
Selling my X-E2, and Fuji 35mm f/1.4, and 27mm f/2.8 lenses. It’s all up for grabs, let me know if you are interested. Here are the details:
Each item comes with original box. U.S. only, sorry everyone else. Email me if you are interested, I am happy to provide pictures, etc.
If you’ve missed me on a podcast, I joined Shawn Blanc on his to talk cameras and photography. How to shoot the holidays, and what to buy.
Interesting new app from Readdle called PDF Office. This sits alongside PDF Expert 5. I haven’t had much time with the app, but two things that are very interesting to me:
I’ll have a review of it once I’ve played with it more.
Marc Hemeon:
Polite gestures are easy to do and make a real difference in the happiness of others.
Nice list, mostly just be aware of what’s going on. Let people in when they try to jam way ahead on merges, just realize that you really don’t care. I love letting people cut in lines if they are buying way less than I am.
Smart video from Dave Wiskus on what your idea is worth.
