Month: July 2018

📅 RSVP to Just Build the @#$%&!!! Thing — Rapid Prototyping at the Supplyframe DesignLab

RSVPed Attending Just Build the @#$%&!!! Thing -- Rapid Prototyping at the Supplyframe DesignLab

Friday, August 3, 2018
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

The DesignLab is a facility in Old Town Pasadena, created by Supplyframe to be a place where the most complex of hardware products can be developed in a focused way. Every product takes a unique path on the journey from napkin sketch to a satisfied customer, but universally each path requires testing, mistakes and iteration. The speed at which that occurs is the competitive advantage every entrepreneur needs when creating the perfect product for their identified market.

This talk will discuss the capabilities of the DesignLab and the way testing, mistakes and iteration have evolved the lab itself. For those who are thinking about developing product, or have people in their network that are looking to do so, we'll also detail the how product developers get access to the DesignLab through the Residency Program.

Improve comments admin UI to filter out likes and Swarm replies

Logged an itch Improve comments admin UI to filter out likes and Swarm replies
I’d been considering figuring this out before given the high incidence of likes on my posts, particularly from POSSE copies, but now that I’ve fixed checkins on my site, Swarm is also sending a lot of small replies, which while nice, are adding a lot of noise to my comments dashboard.

Perhaps I can figure out a way to use query parameters to filter out some of the like webmentions and replies from Swarm so that I’m not really building anything new?

Sometimes you make a major step forward and it creates new UI problems. We’ll get there eventually.

🎧 This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham from TWiT.tv
Privacy Spats and Flying Cars
  • Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
  • Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
  • Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
  • Larry Page's flying car takes off
  • Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
  • Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
  • WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
  • Facebook still wants your nude pictures
Tips and Picks
  • Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
  • Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
  • Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app

🎧 Episode 15: @mnmltek | Micro Monday

Listened to Episode 15: @mnmltek by Micro MondayMicro Monday from monday.micro.blog

This week, Jean interviews the host of the the mnmltek microcast, Chris Powell.

Chris’s passion is sharing tech knowledge and other help for humans. In addition to the microcast, Chris blogs, podcasts, and writes a newsletter. “If you’re not sharing your thoughts, opinions, or what’s inside of you, you need to know that your voice matters.”

I’ll have to take a look at Chris‘ podcast. I wonder if he’s been to any of the Bellingham Homebrew Website Club meetups or perhaps the IWC in 2017?

I’m also interested to hear more about his technology career in higher education. Perhaps he might be interested in joining some of us in IndieWeb for Education?

🎧 Episode 14: @jw | Micro Monday

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Jim Withington, joins us on Micro Monday. Jim is currently a web developer in Portland who describes himself as someone who likes getting excited about things and blogging about them. We talk about the XOXO Conference in Portland, about the unexpected delight of photoblogging with Micro.blog, and whether Micro.dog should be a thing.

🎧 Episode 16: @vanessa | Micro Monday

Listened to Episode 16: @vanessa by Micro MondayMicro Monday from monday.micro.blog

Vanessa Hamshere is a musician, a crafter, a photographer, and one of the “fountain pens, paper, and planners gang.” We talk about how online communities evolve and thrive, and how a good mix of technical expertise and interests helps everyone.

It’s nice to have a group of people from across the world with different interests. I love random conversations.

Vanessa gives Colin Walker and I an overly kind little shout out during the episode. I suspect she either knows more than she lets on or she’s got a ton of tenacity, because she has a very lovely site. Lately I noticed that she’s even begun delving into microsub clients and Indiepaper, which I have barely begun to scratch the surface of, so perhaps I’ll have to pick her brain a bit in return.

🎧 Episode 17: @eli | Micro Monday

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Eli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid Micro.blogger.

Eli’s wiki is truly a hidden gem.

🎧 Micro Monday Extra: @verso at Chicago-O’Hare airport, talking about Macstock | Micro Monday

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In this special extra edition of the Micro Monday Microcast, Kelly Guimont and Jean have enough time before their plane home to Portland to talk about the fantastic experience they had at the 2018 Macstock Expo and Conference, and to start making plans for the 2019 event.

📺 Using WordPress to Build Your Website? | YouTube

Watched Using Wordpress to Build Your Website? from YouTube

If you're using Wordpress to build your clients' websites, you're using the wrong tool. Try Duda instead. It's the website platform that's designed to help agencies build websites at scale.

Your marketing might suck if you’ve got to attack your competition like this…