I’m looking forward to the new book about Steve Jobs, coming in a few weeks. The Isaacson book was a disappointment, and this one seems (by reports) to do a much better job of capturing the man and the complexity of his story. As Tim Cook says in an interview with Fast Company: II thought…
I’m fascinated by Noble Brewer, a startup I discovered today at Launch Festival 2015. As they say, We interview dozens of homebrewers to find the very best to feature in Noble Brewer. Once we’ve selected our homebrewers, we work with a professional brewery to produce our homebrewers award winning recipes. Then when the beer’s ready,…
On the eve of an important ruling vote at the FCC, Brad Feld has written a great piece on the subject. As he says: There has been an enormous amount of bombastic rhetoric in the past few months about the issue that has recently become especially politicized in the same way the debate about SOPA/PIPA…
My new server at Digital Ocean is up and running. Ubuntu 14.04, with Nginx (LEMP stack). Why Move? It had been a while since I bothered much with my website. My interest in IndieWeb got me refocused on some interesting technical details and provided the extra push to get me moving. A big decision came when…
I have moved my site (several of them, actually) to a new server. Unfortunately, my old host doesn’t yet support SNI, and I was up for annual renewal and just decided to make the leap to a different provider. It’s also an opportunity for me to duplicate my environment on my web server and on…
Apple has released the Public Beta of Mac OS X Yosemite, and I’m getting a lot of questions about whether one should jump in. My advice is to wait. Most of the non-developer user features I find really great in Yosemite are in the integration with iOS, all of which requires iOS 8, which you…
Things a Little Bird Told Me, Confessions of the Creative Mind I’m enjoying this one. It’s a quick and easy read, but if you’re paying attention, there are many ideas worth pondering. The nuggets of wisdom are dusted around on the amusing stories, so don’t miss them. Like when Biz is relating some stories about…
Since joining the IndieWeb Camp a couple weeks ago, I’ve had a great time learning more and getting things setup and working on my own sites. It’s still not all where I want it, but I thought I’d do a little update. The idea behind IndieWeb is that you own your own presence on the…
Great first day at IndieWeb Camp. Learned a lot and met some great folks. More later, including some photos… Here’s a fun one… Evil Tantek