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Goodbye LiveJournal, hello WordPress!
After reading about some shady things LJ has been doing (the worst of which is disabling HTTPS everywhere - very sketchy!) I've decided to move on to WordPress. You can find my new blog at
gregstoll.wordpress.com
where I've imported all of my LJ posts. (after writing a handy script to do so :-) )
It's exciting, but sad! My first post was ( Read more... ) -
My 2016 in review
Well, globally 2016 was pretty terrible, between Trump getting elected, all the celebrity deaths (Carrie Fisher, Prince, David Bowie, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Muhammed Ali, Alan Rickman, John Glenn, Ron Glass, and many more...), and Brexit.
But personally it was a pretty good year. Here are some highlights:
- After announcing that we were ( Read more... ) -
Airport Guides is now available for Android!
I'm happy to announce that Airport Guides (now with terminal maps for over 90 airports worldwide) is now available as a free app for Android! (the Windows 10 version is still available, too!)
Now that Xamarin is included for free with Visual Studio, I thought it would be fun to try it out. Xamarin lets you make apps for Windows/Android/iOS by ( Read more... ) -
merry Christmas linked list: squashing trolls, Prince, Google Translate
- What GitHub did to kill its trolls - see, it is possible to deal with trolls! You just need the will to do so...
- Prince’s Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories - these are pretty good. If you haven't seen it, his part in the performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is pretty amazing (and here' ( Read more... ) -
friday linked list: Democracy isn't losing much support, Daft Punk + Strongbad, normalizing Trump
- That viral graph about millennials’ declining support for democracy? It’s very misleading. - wow, I saw the original article and it was incredibly misleading, like How to Lie With Statistics bad. Boo!
- Random Access Fhqwhgads - if you like Strongbad (and especially if you also like Daft Punk!) stop what you're doing and take a listen! So good ( Read more... ) -
friday linked list: Moana, depressing Trump links, space race
- The controversy behind Disney's groundbreaking new princess (Moana) - the "controversy" here is that one woman thinks that Moana is fat (she is not - look at the pictures!) and:I think it tells girls that they don’t have to be fit. I think it’s setting up girls for unhealthy lives in the future and also for disappointing romantic lives.
which is ( Read more... ) -
happy Thanksgiving linked list: charter schools, prisons, grover on Twitter, robot armies
- It seems like there's evidence that some charter schools can work. (although the ballot measure described in the article was defeated by a wide margin...)
- If Prisoners Ran Prisons: Five Texas inmates say what they’d do differently - good idea, and ones pulled out in the article all seem pretty reasonable to me!
- Grover from Sesame Street ( Read more... )
