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New comment by creinhardt in "Apple reports second quarter results"

creinhardt — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:36:56 +0000

I was floored to find out recently that the web interface for iCloud (iCloud.com) has no way to edit a spreadsheet in-browser. I thought for sure they’d have browser based Numbers at this point, but nope! I think if they haven’t done this yet it ain’t gonna happen.

New comment by creinhardt in "How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)"

creinhardt — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:44:36 +0000

Thanks, I loved this article, time to re-read it again!

For anyone who wants to know more about the early history of undersea cables, I also enjoyed ‘A Thread Across the Ocean’ by John Steele Gordon.

New comment by creinhardt in "Pebble Production: February Update"

creinhardt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:36:47 +0000

Basically! Is heart rate recorded to a Pebble specific app, or can it be synced with things like Apple Health?

I guess the one other feature I like of the Apple Watch is the rings/daily fitness goals functionality. I'll have to look into the Pebble more to see if that's possible. I also like the background monitoring features the Watch has (hypertension, etc.), but I'm assuming that's a little too much for the Pebble.

New comment by creinhardt in "Pebble Production: February Update"

creinhardt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:15:11 +0000

I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.

New comment by creinhardt in "Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls"

creinhardt — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:38:13 +0000

Isn’t this basically Apple News? It would be great if you could select your local news source, and it funneled part of your subscription their way.

New comment by creinhardt in "Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls"

creinhardt — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:35:13 +0000

Having worked in this space from the publisher side for a bit, I can tell you that many paywall vendors tried the micro transaction approach, and the friction level was just too high for it to ever catch on at the scale needed to sustain a business. Definitely too much for a local newspaper or tv station site, the juice was never worth the squeeze.

New comment by creinhardt in "Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks"

creinhardt — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:19:13 +0000

Yeah, you could also say "Most men die between 30 and 90".

New comment by creinhardt in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

creinhardt — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:24:29 +0000

Is WPEngine actually the biggest Wordpress host? I'd have bet that GoDaddy had more, or maybe even BlueHost/HostGator/EIG.

New comment by creinhardt in "WP Engine is not WordPress"

creinhardt — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:34:42 +0000

I maintain that the Wordpress.com confusion has done more harm than good for Wordpress as a platform over the years. I really wish Automattic had chosen any other branding.

New comment by creinhardt in "3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous"

creinhardt — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:26:54 +0000

Dang, hadn't thought about Shogo since playing a demo a loooong time ago. Thanks for triggering a good memory!

New comment by creinhardt in "Netlify CMS to Become Decap CMS"

creinhardt — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 21:58:58 +0000

I'm glad it's not completely dead too! It'll be interesting to see if Static JS CMS continues to gain steam, or if folks continue with Decap.

I've always found the rush to the headless CMS to be a bit baffling, and strongly developer focused while forgetting most users. How are folks actually writing the content, are they just writing markdown by hand? I understand decoupling management of content from presentation, but the lack of options for editing was always confusing to me. Glad that now we'll have at least two good fully open source options.

New comment by creinhardt in "awesome-static-generators - A curated list of static web site generators"

creinhardt — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:45:12 +0000

This is a great list! Hadn’t heard of cms.js before, looks interesting.

I wonder what the dividing line between ‘blog’ and ‘framework’ was? I was surprised to see 11ty and Jekyll under blog, instead of down with Gatsby and Hugo under Framework.

New comment by creinhardt in "What are you doing, WordPress.com?"

creinhardt — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:57:15 +0000

Have you tried Hugo with NetlifyCMS? I've been pretty happy with that combo on a few small sites I run. Here's a starter: https://github.com/netlify-templates/one-click-hugo-cms

New comment by creinhardt in "Google Analytics 4"

creinhardt — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:53:13 +0000

That’s fair! I do think you could trigger events for that kind of thing in Universal Analytics though. Seemed to have plenty of affordances for use in apps as well. I still question whether going for a ‘clean break’ is the best idea. Obviously products have to improve, but I’m surprised to see them imperil their massive user base this way.

New comment by creinhardt in "Google Analytics 4"

creinhardt — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:26:54 +0000

Yes, Google finally realized that everyone hated looking at 'pageviews', but loves looking for an event called 'page_view'. Much easier to understand!

Honestly though, for a huge segment of their users this hides/obscures the number one metric they look for. I understand that with SPA"s and stuff things are much more event driven, but they're absolutely going to lose some users over this.

New comment by creinhardt in "Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?"

creinhardt — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:59:32 +0000

I'd be interested to see if there's any data out there showing that Gutenberg contributed to an increase in Wordpress adoption (both the open source version and selling WordPress.com as a service). My hunch is that people aren't coming to the platform because of the block editor, but the rest of the eco-system. Gutenberg still isn't as user friendly as Squarespace or Wix, and it's different enough from how OG Wordpress operates that most power users don't like it either. I think a more friendly editor was the obvious next step, so it's not misguided, but something about how it was implemented doesn't seem to click with a lot of users.

New comment by creinhardt in "Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses"

creinhardt — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:32:45 +0000

Still involves a bit of selling, but isn't that basically UpWork's model?

New comment by creinhardt in "Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph"

creinhardt — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:06:00 +0000

Thank you for the list! For anyone interested, apparently Forestry is going to eventually be sunset in favor of Tina, but seems to be built by the same team: https://twitter.com/forestryio/status/1386274017187975168

NetlifyCMS has worked well for me, but I think Tina is what i'm going to try next. It's a good time for headless CMS options, so many to choose from!

New comment by creinhardt in "A Prototype Original iPod"

creinhardt — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 05:49:40 +0000

Said elsewhere in this thread, but firewire/IEEE1394 wasn't hard to find in a PC/laptop, it was Windows support at all for the iPod that changed things. Once Apple shipped the Windows version of iTunes they were off and running.

New comment by creinhardt in "When Americans picnicked in cemeteries"

creinhardt — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:00:27 +0000

I like it, sometimes, maybe, death could be a celebration of life?