Status – Colin Devroe

I started rewriting my photo moving script in AppleScript but ran into an odd permissions issue roadblock that I can’t seem to search my way out of it.

“If you’re too punk rock you’ll never get anything consistent and if you’re too technical all your pictures are boring.” – Nick Brandreath on LFPP #41.

Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Planning out a print for our new bathroom. It will be the first photo in this set of the Studebaker photos. It will require me to put to use all of the skills I’ve learned in the darkroom so far since this film expired in 1982.

It was nice to hear my voice on Episode 30 of All Through a Lens. Thanks to Vania and Eric for playing it!

Thanks to Matthew Cassinelli for linking to my Simplenote Shortcut in his Shortcuts newsletter #11.

I really need to start blowing through some film. Ironically I also need to buy a bunch before the prices go up in January.

This Monument 2 private photo storage device has me intrigued.

Speaking of unlocking, just got the latest 1Password update with Apple Watch unlocking. YES!

The presence of my unlocked watch can unlock my computer but the presence of my unlocked phone and/or unlocked computer cannot unlock my watch?

Apple Arcade recommendations?

After damage to Arecibo in August, which I mentioned, and follow up cables snapping and damaging the telescope beyond repair – it is closing forever. I really hope someone steps up.

The older you get the easier it is to see the wisdom in Mister Rogers having indoor and outdoor shoes and sweaters.

Get 25% off Flickr Pro by using code BREAKINGUP25 at checkout. Flickr made this code for those switching from Google Photos. I’ll have more to say about the Google Photos news soon.

A reminder for myself as much as anyone else; stop worrying about what your photographs look like and worry more about what is in them.

Made more than a few updates to this new theme. One example is updating some of the ways podcast episode posts are laid out. Lots more to come as I have time.

I think it’s great how Joe Van Cleave is typing his blog posts on a typewriter and sharing it. He also builds his own cameras.

There are specific days that I know, anecdotally, that my blog is getting a fair amount of traffic. And on those days I wish I had stats. But then I remember all of the benefits to having zero stats and I’m OK not knowing.

I’m giving HazeOver a trial and I really like it so far on Catalina. From what I’ve seen and read about Big Sur this utility is much more needed there. My current setting is 18%.

It is nice that you can subscribe to Exposure’s Publications via RSS. I’m now subscribed to their Adventure pub.

Nice overview of Flickr’s somewhat recently updated Explore algorithm. Best feature? Not a single yoga pant booty shot to be found.

I see some tweets complaining that Twitter is ripping off other social platforms. Stories are a medium that Snapchat pioneered. They are a medium the same way photos, audio, or text are, and they can be brought to any platform now. Twitter has them all.

WordPress.com is offering 20% of all plans. So, if you’re thinking of spinning up a site for yourself now may be a good time. Use offer code: FLASH20NOV

Micro.blog is also a good choice.

It is this time of year that I become more aware of, and have more ire for, Earth’s tilt. But hey, at least we don’t have to deal with Neptune’s crazy 97º tilt. Imagine that!

Giving Apple One a try. If I didn’t need Microsoft Office (which comes with a fair bit of One Drive space) I could see buying all Apple storage in the future.

I would like to get an email for every comment, trackback, pingback, and webmention my blog receives. For some reason I haven’t been able to get WordPress to do this and so I miss some.

I’m deleting 100,000+ photos on Google Photos by hand. My method is to search for a month (say, March 2019) and then select all (select first photo, shift click last photo) and hit the Trash can. GP was my tertiary cloud backup anyway.

Last night’s darkroom session was a success. Made a few prints I’m happy with and had a good beer. Was able to review the dried prints over coffee this morning.

Sampled several Gutenberg block plugins and none have what I’m looking for. A highly customizable list of recent posts that support Post Formats (which I use a lot). I may have to open a text editor.

This sticker is on one of the doors in our building at work. Very likely hanging here since Apple gave them out. Will we see this logo again today?

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