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CBS to launch Star Trek series in 2017 for a fee

CBS announced today that a totally new Star Trek series is being planned for launch in 2017. The most interesting part of the news release is that you'll have to buy CBS' streaming service for $5.99/month to gain access to it. It's a

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Quite possibly the worst candy ever

Happy Hauntings!

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IBM buying Weather Underground

IBM announced earlier this week that they're buying the Weather Channel's business to business, mobile, and cloud-based properties. One of these is my favorite place to find weather forecasts - Weather Underground. I've been a user of Weather Underground and also uploading my house&

wordoftheday

Fancy-sounding word of the day: Neologism

neologism |nēˈäləˌjizəm| noun * a newly coined word or expression. * the coining or use of new words.

apple

This feature is temporarily unavailable

While updating a few apps today, the Apple App Store is giving me this super helpful error message. I hadn't realized updating/installing apps was a feature!

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Extending your Apple Watch with WiFi

WiFi on Apple Watch!? It's not completely obvious but the Apple Watch supports WiFi networks starting in Watch OS 2.0. How does one configure WiFi to work with the Watch? It's not terribly obvious so I threw this guide together. My Situation My Apple Watch

mobile

Power of Mobile Apps

I've been noodling some ideas lately and I sort of rediscovered an idea I remembered I had from the past. Most mobile app interactions are 20-30 seconds in length (at most!). It makes a lot of sense to design an experience around these types/lengths of interactions. Some

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The Compression of 400 Teammates

I work for Automattic, a 100% distributed company. We rely upon meetups with our teammates to power the social aspect of our jobs and to work on short-duration high-velocity projects. Every year we also partake in a Grand Meetup where everyone gets together in one place to work and socialize.

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iOS 9 Good Morning & Afternoon Weirdness

I had a user write in to get some help clarifying a behavior with the Migraine Diary app I wrote on iOS 9. The user explained that every morning she turns on her phone and Migraine Diary shows on the screen and when she opens it, it tells her Good

One Year and 1000 Miles

It has been a great bicycling season this year! Last year I logged 641 miles and today I just broke 1,000 miles.I wasn't necessarily trying for the distance but rather keeping it part of my regular schedule to not make it feel like exercise or something

iphone

iPhone 6 Plus Screen Backlight Issue

I've noticed an issue I've been having with my iPhone 6 Plus a couple weeks ago. After the phone has been in my pocket for an indeterminate amount of time, I would randomly be unable to light the screen back up. The phone would come out

philosophy

Culture vs. Culture

Today I was musing about company culture. Most tech job postings these days mention "our culture" and tend to interview for you to be a culture fit. Sometimes I really wonder if they're confusing culture vs. culture: culture |ˈkəlCHər| 1. The arts and other manifestations of

ADHD

The Fear of Missing Out

Working for a 100% distributed company presents a number of benefits as well as challenges. One of those challenges is the fear of missing out or FoMO. It is a real thing. The Fear of Missing Out is the emotional stress we can experience when we feel like things that

pets

My House is a Dog Bed Container

I made the realization today that my house is merely a container for dog beds. At least 11 designated areas (designated by the dogs) are pictured here. I think there are more beds than pieces of furniture in the house.

philosophy

Missing my DSLR Camera

I love photography. My love for taking photos is an ebb and flow. I'm not sure what exactly affects the arbitrary direction of those currents other than the nature of my brain. I still take a fair number of photos but sadly they're only with my

Swift

UIKit Dynamics - Turning on Debug Mode

In iOS 9 Apple has introduced a number of new shiny things for UIKit Dynamics. One of them is UIFieldBehavior which describes magnetic, electrical and spring fields of influence. Fields are hard to debug (even in real life!) so Apple decided to provide a debug mode on UIDynamicAnimator. The trick

ADHD

Biggest Lie To Your ADHD Self

Most of my journey the past couple of years with coping with attention problems is increasing my self-awareness. I am my own obstacle and I must hack my own consciousness to work the way I need it to. It's easy to slip into old habits and totally forget

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Limiting Data While Tethering on a Mac

Using Too Much Data Being a remote worker, I tend to work at home a lot. I also like to roam around to coffee shops and coworking spots on occasion in addition to traveling to meet up with my coworkers. This means I tend to tether quite often and use

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The Downside to Treadmill Desks

Just Published The New York Times just published an article on their Well Blog entitled "The Downside of Treadmill Desks". It's an interesting read. The article mentions a study performed by two groups at the Brigham Young University in Utah and published to the PLoS One

Apple Watch

Is your Apple Watch Digital Crown sticking?

I noticed a couple days ago that the Digital Crown on my Apple Watch wasn't turning quite as easily as it had when I got it. Of course I immediately thought it was a defect since it visually looked clean. Turns out it was needing a bit of

Apple Watch

Apple Watch Sport Ion-X Glass Easily Scratched

I committed an act of such shame that I have a hard time even talking about. Okay it wasn't that horrible and I knew this was going to happen eventually - just not on day two. I scratched the display of my Apple Watch Sport edition. I thought

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Demoing a fix or feature is better with music

I am implementing a new feature for WordPress for iOS in the site stats and needed to demo the implementation for my coworkers. By accident I recorded my computer audio and gave the demo accompanying music. I liked this so when I recorded the next change I did it again.

How do you tie your shoes?

A coworker of mine posted this video today about what that extra pair of holes is for on your running shoes: That reminded me of this site. My mind was completely blown when I saw just how many ways you can tie your shoes. Ian's Shoelace Site

ADHD

My Signal-to-Noise Ratio

I've mentioned before on this site and other places that I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and that I've been doing a lot to manage it. I didn't really connect the dots until I started working remote for Automattic almost two years ago.