After watching this, driving around town seems so … old-fashioned.
Category: General Tech
The MacSparky Photos Video Field Guide⇢
David Sparks has put together a 2.5 hour screencast dissecting and explaining Apple’s new Photos app. I’ve been skimming it this morning and already have learned some things. It’s a well-spent $9.99 for you or a Mac user in your life.
Release Notes Conference⇢
A new conference coming in October:
You need more than technical chops to succeed as an independent developer. You need business sense as well. So this October, join some of the most experienced entrepreneurs and leaders in our community as they gather to talk about the business of iOS and Mac development.
Myke is speaking and we’ll both be there for the whole thing. I’m really looking forward to this.
Field Notes: Two Rivers⇢
The current batch of Field Notes is one of my favorites in a long time. I can’t wait to finish out the Pitch Black that is in my pocket and crack one of these open.
Jeep Chief⇢
I know it’s just a concept, but this Jeep is doing something warm and tingly to my insides.
The original butterfly keyboard⇢
Apple may boast about their new keyboard design, but this ThinkPad is something else.
Live long and prosper⇢
Leonard Nimoy passed away today at 83. His last tweet was beautiful.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015
On Rescue Forensics⇢
Kim-Mai Cutler at TechCrunch, writing about my buddy Ryan Dalton and his startup that helps law enforcement find victims of sex trafficking:
Basically, Rescue Forensics builds search software that helps law enforcement officials collect and document online evidence that could be used to prosecute traffickers in court. The company itself doesn’t make any judgments about what might constitute illegal trafficking behavior. That’s up to investigators to determine, as there are adult women who want to do sex work and aren’t being trafficked.
How to Kickstarter⇢
Dan Provost:
To date, we (Tom and Dan, aka Studio Neat) have launched and successfully funded five Kickstarter projects, raising nearly half a million dollars in total. We were one of the first product design projects on the site, with the Glif way back in 2010, and we’ve continued to use the platform to launch new products, most recently just a few months ago. It’s pretty clear to us that Kickstarter is not a bubble, nor a flash in the pan, but a sustainable platform that is here to stay. As such, we wanted to unload all of the knowledge we have accrued in running those five projects in one mega-post, with the hope of it being helpful to future and/or aspiring Kickstarters.
Foremost⇢
One of the privileges of doing so much work on the Internet is getting to know people from all over the world.
In 2012, I went to Macworld for the first time, flying for free thanks to Matt Alexander, who was working for an airline at the time. He set up with some friends and families vouchers after seeing me tweet about the cost of traveling to San Francisco being too much to handle at the time.
How to add Bigfoot.js to your Squarespace site
Bigfoot.js is the little Javascript nuggets that makes for fancy footnote popovers 1 that have popped up on several sites recently.
Bigfoot is pretty simple. It’s just a Javascript file and some CSS, called from head. It allows for all sorts of flexibility both functionally and cosmetically. It works great on devices of all sizes and makes reading a long article much easier, as you don’t get bumped to the bottom of the article and back up to the top just to read a witty comment. 2
On paper notebooks in a digital world
Since the summer of 2011, I’ve carried a notebook with me.
It started as a way to journal on the go, but that was replaced by Day One pretty quickly. My use of paper notebooks evolved into a low-friction capture system for notes during phone calls, meetings and brainstorming sessions.
For a while, I stored them in a big Ziploc bag, but that didn’t scale for long. It was hard to go back and find notes later, and as work got busy, I was burning through notebooks pretty quickly. Before long, I had a stack of filled notebooks hanging around.