Month: May 2020

  • The last few mornings I’ve been toying with making a web UI for my photo script (and extending it into a full photo library management tool). I’ve hit a roadblock working with files using a web app. Not sure I want to write a Mac app this summer. I’m disappointed. Perhaps I’ll pick the best…

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  • This Obsidian app is really very good. It may replace Simplenote for me.

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  • The 16-inch MacBook Pro is very fast.

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  • I too miss the old days of blogging but they are never coming back

    TTTThis: When you search for blogs now on you see things like ‘Top 100 Blogs.’ ‘How to Make a Successful Blog.’ ‘Most Powerful 50 Blogs.’ But what you really want is 10,000 unsuccessful blogs. Much of the linked piece is likely to be taken as hyperbole but it is mostly true-ish. It is true that…

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  • Chris Coleman has a blog

    Chris Coleman: Eventually I ran out of steam, life changed a bit, and the vacuum that this site filled in my day was filled by other things. I was 23 when I started this site. I’m 41 now. A lot has happened in 18 years, but somehow it doesn’t feel like a long time has…

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  • Unmark version 2020.1 has officially rolled into master today. This is a huge milestone with tons of new features and improvements. It has been running on Unmark.it for months and purrs like a kitten. Unmark is still my favorite app I use every single day.

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  • I’d like to shoot a photo for an album cover.

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  • Jeremy asks what our favorite photo is. Very hard question. But I’d have to choose Disfarmer #41383.

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  • Nick Carver is giving away 2 seats to his online light metering for film photography course for those that may not be able to afford it.

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  • Exposed root – April 2020

    Exposed root – April 2020 If you walk through the same forest for months and months – you begin to notice the details you’d normally miss. Also on Flickr, Instagram.

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  • I hope my comprehensive crash reports that I’m sending to Twitter a few times per day are helpful for their team. See example.

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  • Micro.blog for Teams

    Manton Reece: Today we’re launching a new feature on Micro.blog: support for multi-user blogs, so your whole team can write posts on a shared blog. We think it’s going to be great for small companies, families, and schools, with everything from shared photo blogs to podcasts. This is a big update. You may remember that…

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  • Flowers – May 2020

    Flowers – May 2020 The above image is a digital positive created from a paper negative. It was handcut from Ilford photo paper, shot, developed by me last night. I also used it as the subject for my first contact print. You can read the behind-the-scenes story here on my blog. Also More also on…

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  • My first contact print

    Above is my first ever contact print. A contact print is when you lay a negative (film, paper, tin, glass) onto photo-sensitive paper and shine light onto it to expose the paper. You then develop that paper into a positive print (or what you’d think of as a normal photo). This is a milestone in…

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  • I also backed up my site locally – including media and database – something I do not do often enough.

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  • Me, laying down, waiting in line for tickets to Star Wars in May 1999. Image Credit: Times Tribune Archives

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