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Oct 15, 2024: The Cost of Vinyl According to TechRadar, vinyl record sales dropped 33.3% between 2023 and 2024. Before I dive into the substance of this, the reporting outlet must …
Oct 14, 2024: Earlier this year, Olympian Ben Blankenship ran the Rabid Raccoon 100 mile ultra here in Western Pennsylvania. This documentary highlights his …
Oct 14, 2024: These girls played their hearts out this weekend to take home the U13 championship at the WAGS (Women & Girls in Soccer) Memorial Tournament in …
Oct 12, 2024: Did you know that every REI has a survey marker out front? I am in Virginia for my daughter’s soccer tournament & today I stopped by the Bailey’s …
Oct 11, 2024: Death to the algorithm.
Oct 9, 2024: At XOXO a few weeks ago, Erin Kissane proposed that we – people of the internet – come together to brute-force a fix for the broken social …
Oct 9, 2024: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground Running trails in Western Pennsylvania in the Fall can be glorious. Crisp temperatures, bright sun and fall colors combine to create ideal running …
Oct 8, 2024: Interesting take from Marty Cagan on the topic of Product: Art or Science: There can be real art and beauty in the engineering, real art and beauty …
Oct 7, 2024: I bought my first pair of Birkenstocks and have been wearing them non-stop the past few weeks. What took me so long to get on board? I am finding them …
Oct 4, 2024: Andrew Schmelyun gets his daily news from an ’80s era dot matrix printer. Awesome.
Oct 3, 2024: Choice Cuts for Bandcamp Friday Heads up! Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, where Bandcamp waives it’s fees and passes those funds on directly to artists and labels. Here are a …
Oct 3, 2024: Molly White puts a name to the practice of syndicating posts from a personal/owned domain to external social media platforms: The short-term solution …
Sep 29, 2024: Bright Eyes cancel their remaining 2024 tour dates. Pitchfork reporting a statement from the band: Over the past week, Conor has undergone multiple …
Sep 29, 2024: Buddy enjoying a lazy & rainy Sunday morning. Contrary to popular belief, he is extremely well-read.
Sep 27, 2024: I’m lucky to work on a product team that builds solutions in close partnership with our users. David Allison (engineering lead on our team) …
Sep 26, 2024: As an avid cyclist, how can I be this bad at marking all the reCAPTCHA squares that contain bicycles?
Sep 25, 2024: In my continued effort to eradicate algorithmic recommendations from my life, I am exploring alternatives to Spotify for music & podcast …
Sep 25, 2024: Finished reading: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 📚 This book scratched the right itch for me at precisely the right time. It affirms my choice to walk …
Sep 24, 2024: The ultrarunning community is usually super chill & we are typically very supportive of others as they crush epic runs. This report of Camille …
Sep 23, 2024: I was digging through an old hard drive today looking for something and I stumbled upon this pic from the night Jilly and I got engaged in 2003. …
Sep 23, 2024: Facing tremors, insomnia and pain, Pittsburgh-based artist John Peña searched for answers — and came to blame the noxious air in his neighborhood. …
Sep 23, 2024: The Outdoor Inclusion Coalition is hosting it’s first annual BIPOC Climbing Festival. Taking place November 8-10 in New River Gorge National …
Sep 21, 2024: Current status.
Sep 20, 2024: Welcome to town, Pittsburgh Riveters! It’s great that we are adding a pre-professional women’s soccer team to our city’s incredible …
Sep 20, 2024: I am not a huge baseball fan (my Pirates are forever cellar dwellers), but what Shohei Ohtani did last night was something for the ages. Cresting …
Sep 19, 2024: Can we all agree public libraries are awesome? Whenever I walk into a library, I feel a profound sense of calm. This photo essay by Brian Sholis …
Sep 17, 2024: Tomlinisms hit different when the Steelers are sitting atop the AFC North. Coach Tomlin responding to a question about motivational tactics used in a …
Sep 17, 2024: I think fall is absolutely the best season for trail running here in western Pennsylvania. This morning I ran party pace on the orange loop in North …
Sep 16, 2024: William Peterson breaks the Long Trail FKT and becomes the first person to complete all 272 miles in less than 4 days: On the morning of September 1, …
Sep 15, 2024: I got out for a nice little sunrise city rip this morning. The weather has been absolutely perfect here for getting out on the bike lately. This is …
Sep 14, 2024: American Goth (2024)
Sep 14, 2024: The climbing gym is rocking vintage PJ Harvey on the overhead this morning and I am here for it.
Sep 12, 2024: I missed the aurora last time around. Looks like tonight will be another chance to see it for people in 17 states and most of Canada. Sharing in case …
Sep 12, 2024: For the love, not the likes A couple months ago, my GPS watch stopped syncing with Strava. For whatever reason at the time, I was unable to restore the connection. I was also not …
Sep 11, 2024: Modern Retail blaming the Starbucks mobile app strategy for the increasingly poor, mosh pit-like customer order pickup experience: Orders are coming …
Sep 10, 2024: New kicks day! After 1,200 road miles on my Topo Phantom 3’s, I just picked up a pair of Topo Magnifly 5’s. The Phantoms probably could have gone …
Sep 10, 2024: A study performed by Amazon for the Australian government finds humans outperform AI in every way when summarizing information. In fact, the study …
Sep 10, 2024: Absolutely primo bike commute today. Crisp air and full sun. Almost bailed on work and kept peddling.
Sep 9, 2024: RIP Sam Ash Music. After a hundred years in business, the east coast music retailer is going out of business. This view into one of their liquidating …
Sep 9, 2024: As other retailers divest from curbside order fulfillment, Target continues to go all-in by deepening its ties into mobile ecosystems like Apple …
Sep 8, 2024: Craig Berry on the political economy of the Oasis reunion and working class nostalgia: This is folk music, at its best and truest. Stood in a field …
Sep 7, 2024: Looks like Russell Wilson will miss the Pittsburgh Steelers' season opener, which means it will be the Justin Fields show against the Falcons. …
Sep 7, 2024: While we originally didn’t think we were going to make it, Jilly and I were able to see The Lemonheads last night at Mr. Smalls. What a strange show. …
Sep 6, 2024: If You Love It, Set It Free It’s release day for my team at REI. We’ve been working tirelessly for the past few months to build a tool that makes pricing product in our stores …
Sep 6, 2024: Testing something out. Can some of y’all shoot a quick reply to this post?
Sep 4, 2024: The City of Pittsburgh has published it’s generative AI usage standards. (via Public Source)
Sep 4, 2024: On Marshmallow Longtermism Cory Doctorow – writing for Locus Mag and using the Stanford marshmallow experiment as an allegory – tears down the inherent flaws of the …
Sep 2, 2024: We took advantage of the spectacular weather in Western Pennsylvania today and made a day trip to Ohiopyle, a cool little adventure town located about …
Sep 2, 2024: Green Day was absolutely fantastic last night. They played 37 songs (Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety, along with some other bangers) and …
Aug 30, 2024: Dang, the Bluesky product teams have been crushing it. They just dropped some very good anti-toxicity features like detaching quote posts, hiding …
Aug 30, 2024: Mouthful of Trail We have some pretty technical trails here in Western Pennsylvania and I’m usually reliable for a good fall every few months. In my mind, it goes …
Aug 30, 2024: I really like Brad Stulberg’s six pillars to stay grounded in a crazy world: Adopt a mindset of tragic optimism Create daily and weekly anchors …
Aug 30, 2024: There was a significant step forward for the Fediverse yesterday with the launch of sub.club, a payments platform for the social web. After a brief …
Aug 29, 2024: A public request to my REI colleagues regarding our next work retreat: Please don’t leave me behind to summit a 14’er solo, only to get lost and …
Aug 29, 2024: Uh oh. The Grand Canyon has had a water main break that is impacting overnight stays this Labor Day weekend: The Arizona park’s Transcanyon Water …
Aug 29, 2024: Someone is cruising Pittsburgh’s downtown and North Side neighborhoods to tag fresh piles of dog excrement with political paraphernalia and the …
Aug 28, 2024: Heads up, Pittsburgh. The Gobblerito returns on September 16th. Gobble gobble, yinz.
Aug 28, 2024: The Standard asks, “Why does Gen Z have such bad concert etiquette?” I dunno. What did boomers think of mosh pits in the 90’s? What …
Aug 27, 2024: Working from my daughter’s orthodontist’s office. Here Comes Your Man comes on over the waiting room speakers. All the Gen X parent heads …
Aug 27, 2024: The New Slang Jason Fried making an analogy that companies are like complex languages where new executives sometimes struggle to gain proficiency: A casual browse …
Aug 26, 2024: Death to the Algorithm As someone who was born on the blurry border between Generation X and the Millennial generation, I remember a time before the internet and I fondly …
Aug 26, 2024: I’ve been in retail technology for a long time, and this is the first time I’ve heard the term Summerween: For many retailers, the weeks …
Aug 25, 2024: I love this photo taken by Cover Three Athletics of my son (playing center, #63 in white) from last Friday’s WPIAL Week 0 matchup between Shaler Area …
Aug 24, 2024: How will Project 2025 impact the things you care about? 25and.me is an innovative website that lets you select areas of interest. Then it breaks down …
Aug 24, 2024: It was an absolute glorious morning to be in the woods trail running. I had the red trail mostly to myself, except for a few mountain bikers. 📍North …
Aug 23, 2024: Friday night lights! The first game of Elliott’s senior year season is in the books and they came home with the win. Shaler Titans 20, Butler …
Aug 23, 2024: Sylvan Esso has remixed The Postal Service classic The District Sleeps Tonight. It’s a glitchy slice of heaven that does honor to the original, …
Aug 23, 2024: Today’s Indie Media Circus track at XOXO looks🔥. Of particular interest to me is the discussion between Jason Kottke and Craig Mod, two …
Aug 22, 2024: The new CEO of Starbucks will be supercommuting three times per week via private jet from his home in Southern California to company headquarters in …
Aug 21, 2024: Implications and Insights of the Modern Product Leader I’ve been a subscriber to Implications, a monthly Substack newsletter written by Scott Belsky, for some time now. The issues I’ve read so …
Aug 21, 2024: Legendary punk photographer Jim Saah will give a talk tomorrow (8/22) at The Government Center in Pittsburgh. The talk will be followed by a …
Aug 21, 2024: Just got back from my morning run. As I was cooling down and stretching in my driveway, my neighbor yells from across the street, “What’s …
Aug 21, 2024: Slow going this morning. The Obamas had me amped up until after midnight as they closed out night two of the #DNC with some hopeful energy. Hope is …
Aug 20, 2024: This #DNC roll call is lit.
Aug 20, 2024: One of the greatest rewards we get as product managers is seeing the thing we’ve built create joy in the lives of those who use the product. I …
Aug 20, 2024: A crisp, cool, fall-like bike commute this morning. Thankful to not be sweating profusely when I got there. Bring on Fall!
Aug 19, 2024: Jason Isbell is performing at the DNC tonight! Super cool. Will he play Cumberland Gap or King of Oklahoma?
Aug 19, 2024: Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle Inc. is selling off their GetGo banner, a move impacting 270 locations and more than 3,000 employees: …
Aug 19, 2024: North Shore, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aug 19, 2024: Alpine Connections: Kilian is bagging 4,000m peaks in the Alps: Kilian Jornet began his adventure in Bernina, in eastern Switzerland. From there, he …
Aug 19, 2024: Hear No Evil: Jesse Welles, slimdan, Font, Glass Beams As summer winds down, here are a few artists & records that have been in my heavy rotation lately. Jesse Welles is like an angry Josiah & the …