Author: Colin Devroe
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What I saw somewhat recently #95: June 16, 2022
It has been over a month since I posted a list of a links. I’ve been very busy lately. In some ways that’s good, in other ways not so good. But, do you know what is always good? Links!
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Spring 2022: I’m super busy at the day job, six active customers for the side gig, a freelance project that could start any day, a ton of personal projects that I’d love to spend time on, our garden!, and a (much needed) short vacation coming up.
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Spoiler: Jurassic World 3 has CGI dinosaurs in it.
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Merlot lettuce from the garden.
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I’m considering the switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. It looks like I found an iOS Shortcut to move my Saved Places (from a Google Takeout JSON), though it is going to take a considerable amount of time to do it.
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Thinking of shooting some digital photos.
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It saddens me when I find a great personal blog that has been abandoned only to find that the person has moved all their publishing onto a social media platform. Go back to your blog! Syndicate your posts!
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What is a script? What is a program?
Chris Coyier: I don’t think there is any computer science concept that distinguishes the terms scripts, templates, and programs in any real sense. Like Chris, I too find it difficult to put place some of my coding projects into a category. I write a lot of code to run on the command line. Some of…
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A garden is the best anxiety med.
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Developing a few rolls of color and black and white film in the darkroom. Good way to spend a rainy day.
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History Book – an app by Zhenyi Tan
Zhenyi Tan, announcing History Book: History Book automatically saves the content of your browsing history for searching. And it does it in a privacy-friendly way. Instant buy.
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The predatory communities of crypto
Molly White: Crypto, when it comes down to it, relies on greater fools. As assets without any intrinsic value, the way to make money from crypto is to find a greater fool who will buy your assets from you at a higher price. Molly White (who I’ve linked to before) has been on a crusade against…
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I am “I was going to make a TikTok video but couldn’t figure out how” years old.
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Introducing the YouTube Channel RSS feed Bookmarklet
In 2020 Thomas Brand wrote a blog post about finding a YouTube’s channel RSS feed by appending the channel’s “Channel ID” onto a feed URL. Thomas Brand: In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am…
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Stupid tagline ideas:
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I have written code that has saved my employer thousands of human hours and countless dollars. I wasn’t hired as a programmer. You don’t have to be a programmer to write code. Everyone should consider learning to code.
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Yesterday.
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What I saw somewhat recently #94: May 12, 2022
The weather this week is just 👌 I’ve come to realize that the links I share here in this series are but a very small fraction of the incredible things I find while navigating mankind’s collective of digital content. My best guesstimate would be that I post maybe 5% of what I come across that…
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I’ve added Stupid to my portfolio. I’ll be updating it as I release new featured artists designs. I’ll be writing a blog post about its inception, development, and release soon. If you have any questions, please let me know!
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I’m beginning to think Tom Brady doesn’t know what retiring means.
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I would like to connect with more people that make stuff. Software, art, gadgets, blankets, music, it doesn’t matter. Please recommend RSS feeds, Twitter, Mastodon, Flickr, YouTube, anything.
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Instagram is the most popular thumbnail image network ever.
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Tulips bloomed a few weeks later this year. We are going to move these to a new spot for next year.
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Nyasha Green on the issues within the WordPress community
Nyasha Green recently published a post that covers a few issues she’s seeing within the WordPress community and offers solutions on how to fix those issues. One issue she calls out is that the community relies on free labor: Paying people for their labor is simply not what the spirit of the WordPress community stands…
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safari.requestMIDIAccess()
Jeremy Keith recently wrote about Bugblogging: Bugblogging doesn’t need to involve a solution. Just documenting a bug is a good thing to do. I wonder what Germanic compound word Jeremy would come up with to describe blogging about a web API that your favorite browser doesn’t support? Safari does not support navigator.requestMIDIAccess. I dug around…
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RSS.
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🔙🟩 Stupid 121 1/1/2
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Working on a digital art project I started in December of 2021. Sometimes these things take time.
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Watching Avatar.
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Stupid only has 2 image files. Everything else is SVG. I’d like to make it zero.
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Stupid has no server-side component. It does not store any data on the server. And, it has no tracking or analytics. I have no idea how many people are playing. And I like that.
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Just added Tom Hanks to the portfolio.
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A short Twitter wish list
OK, so Elon bought Twitter (subject to regulatory approval, of course). We can’t change what we can’t control. While I do not think it a great idea to have Elon be the sole owner of Twitter, is it any worse than Jack Dorsey or Ev Williams or anyone else for that matter? I suppose time…
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What I saw somewhat recently #93: April 23, 2022
Started some seedlings I’ve been spending a decent amount of time on a free word game (coming soon) and the redesign of my website. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t collected a cacophony of links for y’all.
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Podcast: New Canon 90D, Back button focusing, and a sleeping porcupine – April 2022
This post has moved here. Tags: photowalking-podcast,tags,canon90d,deer,digital-photography,photography,porcupine,vulture,wildlife-photography
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I have lots of content to clean up, but the beta version of my site’s redesign is now live.
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Everyone that runs a Discord server… ban @everyone mentions.
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Rather than live stream the redesign of my site, I’m going to update the comments on this post regularly as I make progress. This will likely take several weeks. So check back often.
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Waxy.org turns 20
I celebrated right along with Andy when Waxy.org turned 10 and I’m still here cheering him on as Waxy.org turns 20. Andy Baio: Ten years ago, I wrote a roundup of my favorite posts from my first decade of blogging, and I thought I’d do the same thing for 2012-2021. If you missed them the first time…
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A sleeping porcupine.
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Learning back button focus. 🤯
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Repost: Andreas Jennische on commenting on Micro.blog
👉 Andreas Jennische @ndreas: Remember micro.blog is better the more you comment on other peoples posts.
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DuckDuckGo for Mac in private beta
DuckDuckGo: So today we’re excited to announce the beta launch of DuckDuckGo for Mac, with DuckDuckGo for Windows coming soon. Like our mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an all-in-one privacy solution for everyday browsing with no complicated settings, just a seamless private experience. Plus, we’re excited to share some new features we think you’ll…
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Reminder, try Apple’s Hide My Email
Mike Lapidakis: Last summer, Apple announced that as part of their iCloud+ service expansion, a new feature named Hide My Email was launching. The feature received little fanfare and was mainly swept up in the plethora of other news from WWDC. After using it for nearly a year, I think we’ve done it a bit of a disservice. Even…
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I’m having such a hard time buying a new digital camera. I don’t know why.
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I’ll say it again. Blogs are the best. I’ll go one step further, personal websites are the best. Self expression in web form.
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I wish WordPress had an easier way to repost things like most platforms do. I’m pretty jealous of Tumblr’s reblog feature. I used to painstakingly repost things. But, I’d like to do a bit more.
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Don’t sleep on Tumblr. If you haven’t tried the app in a while it is worth a look. Lots of great content.
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I might have a new coding project to release in about a week. I’ll want you all to try it. 😊