Category: Links of Interest

  • Is it harder to do web stuff now?

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    DHH writes: But as The Great Divide points out, regression is lurking, because the industry is making it too hard to work directly with the web. The towering demands inherent in certain ways of working with JavaScript are rightfully scaring some designers off from implementing their ideas at all. That’s a travesty. I know as…

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  • Dan Moren’s writing income

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    Dan: Yep, that’s my income breakdown from 2018. I’m not going to break out dollar figures here, as that’s just something I’m not comfortable with right now, but to put this overall chart in context, my gross income does not reach six figures. In part this gives me hope for my writing because I’m really…

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  • Is a Book Summary Really Reading?

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    From Jamie: I’ve been thinking about abridgments lately because of an ad that keeps popping up on Facebook. It’s for a service called Blinkist. The service claims it allows you to “fit reading into your life.” It does this by providing short (15 minute or so) key takeaways of popular nonfiction books. I took a…

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  • You Can’t Buy Time

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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=35sp4S2w9ZI%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv%26%2395%3Bload%26%2395%3Bpolicy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Great video shared on Signal V. Noise. Monday I shared what went well and what was bad about my 2018. One of my conclusions is that I’m way to busy, in that I feel rushed so much of the time. This isn’t a good thing. I say this in the midst of a week…

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  • Joe is cutting Slack

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    Joe Casabona: This might sound crazy to people in my space, as Slack has become the de-facto standard for communication for the lot of us. But it’s also a HUGE distraction. So Joe took these “drastic” steps: Log out of most Slack teams. There’s maybe 4 I feel I should be logged into. Turn off…

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  • So you want to write

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    Or really, do anything well Kris Gage has a thought when someone asks him what the secret is: And right as I start to wonder if they Might Be On To Something Here, I go check their post history, and half the time I see that they rarely write. So I then I point out…

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  • A Good Look at our changing ideas of dad

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    From daddilife: In 2018, among a slew of statistics about the changing realities of fatherhood, it was revealed that dads spend three times more time with their children than their grandfathers did. And Research finds that dads are just as likely as mums to say that parenting is extremely important to their identity. Dads are…

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  • iOS Podcasting with Ferrite Recording Studio

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    If you’ve been looking for an awesome recording and editing app for podcasting, then you can end your search with Ferrite. Note, I didn’t even qualify it as an iOS app, because it’s just awesome all around. Much better and faster than what I was using on my Mac. I covered it in more detail…

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  • Joe has an all access pass

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    It’s only $399 and includes a bunch of stuff. If you’re looking to get better at: Podcasting Creating Online Courses Gutenberg Beaver Builder PHP Then you should grab this all access pass while it’s around. Also, Joe is awesome and a fellow iPad first person so….he’s extra awesome.

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  • Not the only one doing iPad Web Development

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    Eric in Laravel News: The idea of working entirely from an iPad has always appealed to me. The portability, the battery life, and of course the touch screen makes it an excellent device. The downside is that everything is sandboxed. You can only run programs from the App Store which makes doing crazy things like…

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