I wanted to like This is 40 more than I did. I’d heard positive reviews from friends and heard Judd Apatow give a great interview on Jesse’s Bullseye (embeded below). The thing I heard in many reviews was how this comedy struck a common thread with people turning 40, and as a guy that is …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Best tech of 2012
I wrote up my favorite technology bits of 2012 over at Medium (Medium itself should have made my list, it’s quickly becoming my favorite place to write longer pieces).
No Social Networking in ‘The Social Network’
[The Social Network‘s] great, but there’s an interesting omission: None of the main characters is shown using Facebook to improve their social lives in any meaningful way. via workbench.cadenhead.org Interesting observation from Rogers Cadenhead. Oh, and I wrote something about my relationship with Twitter vs. Facebook on Medium a couple weeks ago.
Listening to podcasts piecemeal: huffduffer & Instacast
For the past few years, there’s been a site called huffduffer (started by Jeremy Keith) that lets you link to bits of audio you find online and it shows you popular items across the service. I’ve always thought of it as Instapaper or delicious for audio, but I never found myself considering it a useful …
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Lightning Adapters in the Elevation Dock
Remember my last post where I was talking about 3D printing? After writing it, I contacted my friend Michael Buffington, who recently won a Makerbot at the XOXO conference. I showed him a few basic lightning adapter designs on Thingaverse, which he printed, but then we realized in testing them out they all had drawbacks. …
3d Printing and the speed of progress
This is fascinating, someone has made a 3d printed insert for the Elevation Dock to hold a new lightning cable. In August, I received a few Elevation Docks after funding it earlier this year, and I loved using it each day as my phone finally had a nice bedside charger. Since I replaced my iPhone …
Ten months with a Nest
With the recent news of a new version of the smart thermostat Nest coming out, I figured I should finally write up what it has been like living with the first version of the product since last November, when mine arrived. Overall, it's been a great little tool, smart in lots of smart ways and …
Keystroke links: Using Coda 2 to write blog posts
Up until recently, my favorite text editor was TextMate, and I not only used it to write code for websites, I also used to write blog posts in it. It had this hard-to-find feature that would let you highlight a word, and turn it into a link that lead to whatever was in your …
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XOXO!
I spent last weekend at the XOXO festival in Portland, Oregon. I’ve been close friends with Andy Baio, one of the organizers for about a decade and he’s talked about doing a conference for the past couple years so it was pretty amazing to see those conversations about ideas turn into reality over four glorious …
Satellite Eyes = awesome
The app Satellite Eyes is a great little addition to any traveler's mac laptop. It automatically figures out your location then fetches map tiles of where you are located at that moment, and makes them your desktop background. It offers several options of mapping, either full satellite photos, terrain maps, simplified black and white line …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 