Geof Crowl

About
I’m a software designer currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. I like to make nice apps and websites. Sometimes I share things of interest here. Subscribe to the RSS feed with my open source reader.

I have been focusing on photography and sell my photo prints or zines in my spare time.
On The Web

Instagram, Threads, Strava, GitHub, LinkedIn, email

Projects
Air Lookout, Simple Pacer, Super Simple RSS
Suggested Reading
Salt Lake City Canyon Info For Bikes
Introducing Air Lookout 2
Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
Air Lookout 1.4: All The Complications
Kawasaki KLR 650 Rebuild Compilation

Saturday, Feb. 18th 2017

Every Best Cinematography Winner. Ever. #

It would be interesting to chronologically (or reverse chronologically) watch all the of the Best Cinematography Oscar winners over a period of time. Watching the medium change, evolve and become what it is today would be fascinating.

Even watching this youtube compilation, it's very interesting to see how much the technology of cinema changes in the last twenty years.

Thursday, Feb. 16th 2017

WWDC 2017 #

I'm excited that they moved it to San Jose. The logistics and extra costs associated with it just being in San Francisco was always cost prohibitive for me.

The irony is, now that I have more time after going freelance I have more time for ideas (many that include the iOS or Mac App store), except that I no longer have reliable discretionary income. It's going to be a big expense regardless. I hope this year I can figure it out.

Tuesday, Feb. 14th 2017

DC Rainmaker: Apple Watch 2 Run Pacing is Dismal #

While I was initially pretty excited when I got my original Apple Watch, it quickly became apparent that it would not be accurate enough for me to use in any running races.

Unfortunately, looking at this video, it doesn't look like things have changed with the Apple Watch 2. If Apple (and Nike for that matter) want to be serious about running this will need to be drastically improved. Taking over a minute for "live" pacing to update makes it unusable.

Getting my marathon PR at St. George required absolute trust in the data my Garmin Fenix 3 was displaying. I would not have been able to get a 3:49:59 running with a watch as inaccurate as the Apple Watch 2 is in the video above.

Related: the night before the Apple Watch 2 was released, I wrote down some thoughts on the Apple Watch and the Garmin Fenix 3.

Tuesday, Feb. 14th 2017

Gary Robbin's 10 Trail Running Essentials #

Sage advice from an incredibly well established ultra-runner. It makes me realize that my pack for more remote trail runs might be more deficient than I thought.

Wednesday, Feb. 8th 2017

New Typeface from Hoefler & Co: Ringside #

Another gorgeous typeface from a company that continues to put out great work.

Designed for diversity instead of homogeneity, Ringside brings to the modern superfamily some of the charming individuality of the potluck sans serif.

Hoefler & Co's description positions Ringside as a body copy typeface similar in tone and nature to Knockout.

Personally, I'm excited for any excuse to use this typeface (I'm still looking for the perfect project to use Mallory). My first-hand experience with Hoefler & Co's cloud.typography service was fantastic. The service delivers Gotham Rounded to the YouMap marketing site that was designed and developed while I was at Rally.

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