By Steven Aquino
The fine folks at Macworld were gracious enough to let me write a piece for them, which they published this morning. In “Now You See It”, I discuss how Retina displays set to maximum brightness help me get the most out of my iOS devices, especially the iPhone.
I’m very proud of this piece; I think it turned out exceptionally well.
I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but just now getting around to it.
For the last couple months, I’ve been regularly contributing to the blog over at Enhanced Vision. Enhanced Vision is a SoCal-based company that develops and markets assistive technology for the visually impaired. Their Director of Marketing got in touch with me shortly after my article in The Magazine ran, and asked if I’d be interested in becoming a contributing writer for them. So far, I’ve written three short posts, wherein I talk about how I cope with being visually impaired. It’s been a fun experience so far, and I’m grateful to EV for allowing me the opportunity to work with them.
Just a quick note that I’ve updated the site’s Search engine to use DuckDuckGo instead of the default WordPress one. For the uninitiated, DDG is a search engine, akin to Google and Bing, that’s gained increased popularity amongst the nerd set. I’ve been using it more and more lately as an alternative to Google Search, and the results have been quite good. Other blogs such as Daring Fireball and 512 Pixels use DDG and it seems to work well, so I thought I’d bring it to mine.
As usual, if you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Following in the footsteps of Jim Dalrymple and Stephen Hackett with their respective sites, I’ve moved Steven’s Blog’s RSS feed off of Feedburner. Thanks to a tip from Jim, I’m now using URI.LV to publish the site’s feed.
The old feed should automatically redirect, but just in case, here’s the new URL:
With this change, the site no longer relies on any Google-run services.
If you have questions or have issues, feel free to hit me up via email and/or Twitter. Also, as a reminder, the @stevensblog_org Twitter account tweets all headlines from the site.
Issue 9 of The Magazine is out tonight, featuring articles by David Erik Nelson, Serenity Caldwell, Daniel Rutter, Jon Seff, and me. In my piece, I wrote about iOS’s impact on people with disabilities (myself included). I’m hoping I open up the eyes of a lot of people.
If you haven’t already, now’s a great time to subscribe. A great reason to use Newsstand.
Yours truly has launched a second website on Tumblr. To wit:
Just a quick note that I’ve updated the Connect page tonight to include a link to my profile on App.net. I’ve been cross-posting links to posts here on the site for a while now, so I figured I may as well add the ADN info as another means of contacting me. Use it as you will.
If you aren’t familiar with App.net, you can learn about it here.
I’ve been toying with the idea of adding true Daring Fireball-style “linked list items” to the site for awhile now.
Currently, my setup mirrors what Stephen Hackett used at 512 Pixels:
To make sure it is easy as possible to pass traffic to the people I’m linking to, my “linked list items” usually follow this pattern:
Link to source
Block quote
My commentary
There’s nothing in here that’s any different than how other people do it, except that the headline for the piece links to itself.
Readers should notice a few changes to the look of the site.
The biggest change is that the front page eschews the previous method of displaying post excerpts, instead showing the full content of posts. I love this because I never liked how things looked with truncated content, especially when posting a “Quote of the Day”. I think this gives the site a much cleaner look, and doesn’t make it seem like I’m purposely digging for page views. What’s more, the new layout allows for clearer distinction between “linked list” posts and longer articles. (Keep in mind: you can access a post’s permalink by clicking its title.) The best part, for me, is that implementing this change was a breeze thanks to this plugin. This saved me from having to dick around with the site’s .php files.1
In an effort to further showcase my writing, I’ve decided to add a Best Of page to the site.
Selecting articles for the page was tough, as I think I’ve written several noteworthy pieces. That said, readers will find the proverbial creme de la creme – that is, the pieces that I’m most proud of. I kinda view this page as a “living document” so to speak, meaning that I’ll update it from time to time with more content as I see fit.
Hope everyone gets some value from the new page.
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