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Linked: “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”
September 15, 2017
2 min read
via The Atlantic: Social-networking sites like Facebook promise to connect us to friends. But the portrait of iGen…
Technology: A Brief Reaction to Apple’s September 2017 Event
September 14, 2017
8 min read
I’m going to briefly start by saying Apple’s decision to dedicate the theatre after Steve and in his…
Linked: “We Fight for the Users”
September 14, 2017
1 min read
via DreamHost: The request from the DOJ demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses —…
Linked: “Amazon jacked up Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor”
September 13, 2017
1 min read
via Fox Business: “They showed the product at $15.42 and then exed it out to put ‘$9.99 for…
Linked: “Neil Hunt on Netflix and the Story of Netflix Streaming”
September 12, 2017
1 min read
via Internet History Podcast: another excellent history thankfully transcribed for posterity.
Linked: “Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward”
September 11, 2017
1 min read
via The Intercept: An account owned by Conaway’s wife made two purchases of UnitedHealth stock, worth as much…
Linked: “The case for (and against) the MacBook Air”
September 8, 2017
1 min read
via Six Colors: So is the MacBook Air the right computer to buy a student? I’m going to…
Linked: “Flash & The Future of Interactive Content”
September 7, 2017
1 min read
via Adobe Blog: Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash Finally. Flash was instrumental in a time when the…
Linked: “A Conversation with Maggie Haberman”
September 6, 2017
1 min read
via The New Yorker: A couple of days before the Trump interview, I spoke with Haberman for The…
Linked: “Apple Kills Off iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle”
September 5, 2017
1 min read
via Daring Fireball: I’m sure there are still tens of millions of these iPods in use, and will…
Linked: “Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain”
September 4, 2017
1 min read
via Arslan.io: So here I am. I’ve moved all my Medium posts to WordPress.com (and selected the plan…
★ Beer Tastings: John from Toronto Stays Over
September 2, 2017
1 min read
John comes to VT twice a year to grab his Collected Works Beers. We had a few really…
★ Beer Tastings: Leighton Visits and we Have some beers!
September 2, 2017
1 min read
Anytime Leighton comes in from England, we have to get together and here are a few beers we…
★ Beer Haul: Summer 2017 Belgian Trip
September 2, 2017
1 min read
Kurt from Belgium in A Box sent us 5 boxes of beer. Heather and I pretty much split…
★ Beer Haul: Summer 2017
September 2, 2017
1 min read
Great Summer, lots of travel, home improvements and life events that ultimately restricted how much I could spend…
Linked: “Hedging Sonic the Hedgehog”
September 1, 2017
1 min read
via 500ish (A medium blog): So, again unlike Super Mario Run, Sega has opted to let users download…
Linked: “Facebook fights fake news with links to other angles”
August 31, 2017
1 min read
via TechCrunch: If users see drastically different angles when they compare a story to its Related Articles, they…
Linked: “You are not safe”
August 30, 2017
1 min read
via Halt & Catch Fire, Copied by a Reddit User: User: RyanRay Date: 12/18/86 YOU ARE NOT SAFE…
Linked: “Foursquare’s redesigned Swarm app is a journal for capturing your travels”
August 29, 2017
1 min read
via The Verge: Crowley and crew want Swarm to be a diary of your day-to-day life that can…