Year: 2021
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2021 in review: blog and projects
I thought it would be fun to review what has happened this past year on my blog, what I had set out to do, and what I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping that by writing this post it will give me some clarity on what I may want to try to do in 2022. January In very…
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My 2021 blogging stats
Number of posts per month: Total: 420 See 2020. I posted more to my blog in 2021 than 2020. As I said in my review post, I need to sit down and give a hard think to what my goals for 2022 will be, but I do hope they include sharing more here on my…
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Please send wintertime hot tub energy usage tips. I feel like a crypto miner over here. 🥵
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Pure – A minimal theme for Micro.blog
Chris Hannah: I’ve named it Pure, and that’s mainly because I wanted very minimal styling, and to have it be a pure version of a theme. For the benefit of it acting as a “starter” theme for people that want to maybe want to start tweaking a theme but don’t want to start from scratch. But also for…
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Back in the darkroom. Archiving negatives from the 40s from my grandparents and making prints and postcards.
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I have an old MacBook that I’d like to repurpose. It is pretty old so I’m thinking a Linux server or file server. Any suggestions?
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90-days ago or so I postulated that Meta would fire Instagram’s CEO. That hasn’t happened, yet. So I was wrong.
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Last night, in the darkroom.
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What I saw somewhat recently #89: December 17, 2021
Penelope says gm. Also, just some quick things that don’t have any specific links that you may want to search on Duck.com; Steph Curry’s 3-point record, the James Webb Telescope, the analysis of the tornadoes that hit the mid-west last weekend. Until next time.
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For those wondering, I’m keeping a log of the services I’ve exploded so far. I’m thinking of pushing it a bit further than I intended (more on this in the near future).
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A few quick 35mm film snaps from October’s trip to Virginia.
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Just pushed an update to all Cypress for WordPress owners for social icon support for Flickr, GitHub, Mastodon, TikTok, and YouTube. For December, use dec21 at checkout for 50% off.
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There should be a system wide preference to turn off scroll jacking.
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Video: Making paper negatives with a bedroom camera obscura
A video on YouTube walking through a project I did in March-April 2020.
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Weekend posts are the best because I get to see people’s little side hobbies.
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Add hl=languagecode to any Instagram URL to load a language. Example: My profile in Dutch.
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Mastodon.social seems super slow this morning. Is this really because Jack stepped down as Twitter CEO? Or coincidental?
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Video: Sandbridge Beach Houses
Spend 30-odd minutes with me going through each photo from the Sandbridge Beach House series. This was fun to do, I might do more of them. Also available on Instagram. If you like it, jump over to YouTube and hit the like and subscribe button.
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Sponsorship of The Watercolor Gallery is now booked through January. After 10+ years of curating the gallery I’m glad I started sponsorship this year. If you’d like to support the gallery monetarily you can sponsor or donate.
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I miss spaghetti code. Frameworks, structure, unit testing, documentation… so boring!
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Did some work on The Watercolor Gallery today with new features, spruced up some old paintings, updated the about page, added a donate page, and a bunch more.
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I’m thinking of attempting to recruit a bunch of photographers for #FlickrFebruary where we only post to Flickr and no where else all month. Thoughts?
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Yesterday I published an interview with the NFT artist and watercolorist AnimaToey from Bangkok, Thailand over on The Watercolor Gallery.
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I published a new photo series Sandbridge Beachhouses into my portfolio (and on Flickr, IG, Tweet). Click the image to see more of them.
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No Time To Die was just OK.
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Digital Ocean’s free static site hosting is a very quick and easy way to deploy small JavaScript-only apps.
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Penelope update, November 2021.
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I wonder which Micro.blog member lives closest to me?
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If you’re reading this and are a Digital Ocean guru, I’d love your help. I have 3 droplets and 1 app and I’d love to see if I have them configured properly, make sure they are up-to-date, etc.
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Deleting data from Google Photos is criminally difficult.
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I’m going to try to wait a few months before updating to macOS Monterey. Especially after reading reports like this. Last year I was able to wait until February.
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I’ll be live on Instagram tonight with a friend in Oregon. We will be scanning negatives, developing film, etc. Join us at 7pm eastern.
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Datafilm – Log your film photo EXIF data
Today I stumbled across Datafilm, a free iOS app for film photographers to log their photo EXIF data on the go, via Japan Camera Hunter’s blog. The app is being made by Vincent Tantardini. Datafilm describes itself this way: Datafilm is the note app designed for film photographers, focused on simplicity, ease of use and…
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Micro.blog adds Flickr support
Manton Reece: This is for people who have a Flickr account that has gone unused, but who know there’s value on Flickr if only it was easier to remember to use it. Nice simple feature. I’m sure many will dig it. Glad to see Flickr being added to anything these days. All Flickr fans should…
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Where I was for a week.
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I’ve turned off cross-posting to Twitter from my blog. I found it caused me to hit ‘publish’ less often.
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Anyone else on Big Sur have to force quit Finder once a week to get Airdrop from Finder work again? Just me?
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Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20
Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith’s blog. Jeremy Keith: Many’s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social networks. I’m glad that I’ve managed to avoid that fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on…
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What I saw somewhat recently #87: October 8, 2021
Southern BBQ Almost a month since my last list. I’ve been busy. The photo above is a homemade southern BBQ I made last weekend. Smoked brisket, collards, Mac and cheese, cornbread, pickles and onions. All made by Eliza and I. Now, onto the links: I have a backlog the length of a DNA strand. I’ll…
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Photographing 40-foot Falls in Archbald, PA just after Hurricane Ida
40-foot falls is a waterfall I had no idea existed until just this year despite living in this area of Northeastern Pennsylvania for the majority of my life. I heard about it from a YouTube video by Dale Keklock, a local historian of sorts that is painstakingly documenting the now moribund coal industry in our…
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A few 2020 lockdown panoselfies. #panoselfie
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I predict Adam Mosseri’s resignation within 90 days. He’s constantly saying things that make him the story rather than Instagram. I doubt Zuckerberg will put up with that for too long.
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Is anyone giving consideration to using iCloud+ Mail to replace Gmail for Domains? I am.
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Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list
Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This…
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App idea: Instagram but for photos.
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Gut reaction to today’s Apple Event: Solid, reasonable updates but nothing amazing? Perhaps I have to dig deeper. I’m sure a lot of work went into the improvements.
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What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021
I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I’ve added several portraits including Max, Anthony, Zombie, and Bill. My goal is far more portraits moving forward. I’d love your feedback on them! You can…