Software

Alas, poor Dark Sky! I knew it well.

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(Last updated 3:17 pm CST February 19th, 2026)If you’re an iPhone user who downloaded and installed iOS 16 after its release on Monday, take some time from learning to configure those nifty customizable lock screens and tap on the included Weather app. On the surface, it looks a lot like the updated version introduced in iOS 15 – but below the surface is where the action is. Tap any one of the cards on the main display – hourly or 10 day forecasts, humidity, air quality, UV index, wind, precipitaton and more – and you’ll get a screen with lots … Read more

Building a freelance infrastructure with Authory & Spark [Updated]

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(Last updated 3:17 pm CDT October 14th, 2022)Even though I’m kinda retired, I’m still doing some freelance writing. That’s what my resurrected Houston Chronicle column is, and I’ll also be writing occasional, standalone pieces for the paper. Since most of my writing has been for publications, I never spent much time building up an infrastructure for freelancing. Now, I’m fixing that, and I’ve come across a couple of products that help with that. The first is Authory, a paid service that generates a portfolio by pulling your content from all the places it lives on the web and organizing it … Read more