Colin
Devroe

Lazy dinner.

Finally updated to macOS 10.12.6. Debating the upgrade to High Sierra this weekend.

For those that were having issues getting to my site earlier please try again. I had to update my DNS settings this morning. Bad timing.

It looks like I'll be needing to get off of Google Drive/Photos for my personal account. They simply won't provide any support. And I don't know why I would pay monthly for a service that won't give any support at all.

My Feedbin trial has expired. I didn't see any reason to use it over Feedly. If I'm missing anything, please let me know.

Every time I abbreviate Micro.blog as M.b I hear Regina George yell "Stop trying to make fetch happen!"

Forgot to post that I finished Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets to Being Productive in Life and Business ⭐⭐⭐ , Vertical: The Follow-up to Sideways ⭐ (didn't finish), and Intensity by Dean Koontz ⭐⭐⭐⭐. 📚

Finished writing and editing (using paper!) my Google Pixel 2 XL and Android review. I just need to shoot a photo or two and I'll publish it.

Gentle reminder to back up everything as often as you can. And don't trust automation. Follow-up on it from time-to-time to be sure you have everything. This includes your computer, your mobile devices, music and photo libraries, web sites, uploads to those sites, etc.

Pretty upset with Dreamhost today. The Watercolor Gallery has been nearly unreachable all day today.

I have no desire to own a HomePod. I think Siri would drive me bananas.

Spent much of the day reading. 📚

If you're on Micro.blog and into art, watercolor, and inspiring interviews and videos, you can follow @h2ocolor on Micro.blog. Also, of course, Twitter and Facebook. Oh, and RSS.

Super, super happy to have broken the 17-month hiatus of The Watercolor Gallery site with this featured portrait set of the cast of Hidden Figures by the crazy talented Stella Blu. Expect a lot more about The Watercolor Gallery in the coming weeks and months.

Cannot recommend.

Space X just did a static fire of Falcon Heavy. Fast-forward to 16 minutes.

Podcatchers should be more interoperable like CMSs, feed readers, browsers already are. Tough to move from one to another. Perhaps we need a JSON Feed-like spec to be written to allow for this?

I've decided to use all of my skills on a single project. This means making the hard decision to cut all other projects I have going currently and mentally put them in the garbage can. It won't be easy, but I think it will be worth it. Stay tuned.

Very happy for Eliza and all Eagles fans.

Had an incredible day yesterday visiting the Berwick Brewing Company, O'Donnell Winery, and Three Dogs Vino. It was nice to visit some new-for-us places in our area. Worth the drive.

I usually don't post to my blog on the weekends. But I want that Micro.blog 30-day pin.

Paid for a haircut today for the first time in at least 10 years.

Today's lunch. Plus YouTube. Always YouTube.

I'd be totally OK seeing a 📸 icon on Micro.blog's Discover page that is a collection of all images posted.

I'm using the iPad a little less since getting the Pixel 2 XL. I have a draft of my review written - look for it early next week.

Tomorrow morning at 10am EDT I'll be publishing an interview with Manton Reece @manton about many things Micro.blog. Be sure to tune in then.

Brilliant. Nintendogs: Labo.

A few weeks in and I'm just starting to utilize the convenient, always visible, back button on Android. Super useful and reachable.

I made a few nips and tucks to my image layout. Much nicer index. More like an Instagram or Flickr profile now.

Wishing I could try out Evergreen's latest build but I'm not on High Sierra yet. Maybe I'll set aside a day this weekend to upgrade.

If Tapbots made a Tweetbot clone for Micro.blog, like they did for App.net, I'd pay $20.00 again for it easy.

Finally opened a support thread in Google's Photos forum. I still have tens of thousands of photos missing in Google Photos and my storage meter only shows 55GB used when it should read over 400GB used. I hope Google answers.

After a few unintentional weeks off from reading books I dived back into one last night. Felt good. I'd like to read 24 books this year. I think I read about 16 last year. 📚

Social media in 2018:

• Facebook - where we unwittingly share fake articles
• Snapchat - where we privately video chat w/ squeaky voices
• Twitter - where we retweet our dislike of "other people"
• Instagram 🎉 - where we share our best photos, work, motivations, recipes

Wonder why IG is winning? 🤔

Something I missed in this post is that the Google Play Store has an entire section for these (and many other) apps. So the list is longer than what is just in that blog post.

New profile pic?

🎶 New Jack White.

Progressive's "vlogging" ad is pretty on point. Well done.

I'm reading many reports about Google Photos and missing images. I uploaded 300GB+ there last week, now it says I only have 55GB uploaded. Something is up. Anyone else?

Nice overview and review of the Google Pixel line from YouTube channel TechMeOut. (I'd use her name but I cannot find it anywhere. I'm guessing that is on purpose.)

Prediction, lots of switchers this year. From iOS to Android. From macOS to Windows 10 w/ WSL.

Not because Apple is doing anything bad, necessarily, but because Google and Microsoft (and others) have caught up on hardware/software. Tighter race, w more options than ever.

CES is this week. So expect to see a lot of products that you'll never own. This mobile-phone powered laptop looks interesting. For my thinking on this direction read this.

I still haven't updated to macOS High Sierra and I have no plans to. In fact, I've disabled my notifications for the upgrade.

DJI should rescue GoPro. GoPro has a world-recognized brand, perhaps even larger than DJIs, and they could easily leverage that as well as many of GoPro's patents in their products. There is still a market for many of GoPro's products.

I will need a month-long retreat to write the review of the Google Pixel 2 XL, Android 8.1, and all of the apps and services in that ecosystem the way I'd like to. So I'll just have to settle for what I can get done in the time I do have.

Slept in until 8:30a. This is rare but very welcome.

Some documentaries could have been better as 10-minute YouTube videos.

JT's new joint is 🔥

Made a few small changes to the Summit subsite.

Micro.blog needs a native Android app pronto.

Today: two proposals, 8 social videos, some code, app submission for review, designing a new API, began gathering data for a short film, a brand-new video concept, type setting, and created a bunch of web site content. All of these were for different clients.

I love software updates.

Culled many feeds from my Feedly list. Probably going to yank a few more before venturing out to find new inspiration. I want nothing but doers, makers, creators, artisans, artists in 2018.