Author: Colin Devroe
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Cutting my own hair. Hard to believe I’ve been doing this for over a decade.
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I no longer need to choose between shooting black and white or color.
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Finally added Stripe as the default option to purchase things on my site (such as Cypress). PayPal is still an option. Apple Pay and Google Pay coming soon.
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What I saw somewhat recently #93: March 24, 2022
The tulips are on their way. I’ve been very busy at work lately. Going through a software conversion there that will keep me busy well into summer. And, of course, Stripe Transfer is doing well. Here are some links, I hope you enjoy them. That’s it for this one.
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Christopher Parsons’ genius photography Shortcut
Christopher Parsons: The Shortcut is pretty simple: when I run it, it maximizes the brightness of my iOS device and opens the Glass app. If you download the Shortcut it’s pretty easy to modify it to instead open a different application (e.g., Instagram, 500px, Flickr, etc). It’s definitely improved my experiences using the app and…
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Fun Wordle method: Tell a bunch of friends to start with the same word. Levels the playing field and is a true competition for the day.
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How long does it take to transfer a Stripe account?
I updated Stripe Transfer’s website with new testimonials and a downloadable PDF that provides a rough timeline for transferring accounts on Stripe. When customers are in a time crunch, they generally ask you two questions; how long will this take? how much does it cost? We offer free estimates for Stripe Transfer since we cannot…
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My next live stream and YouTube video will be on my culm dunes photo series. Should be fun.
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The video essay boom
Terry Nguyen, for Vox: One can even argue that we are witnessing the video essay’s golden era. Run times are longer than ever, while more and more creators are producing long-form videos. The growth of “creator economy” crowdfunding tools, especially during the pandemic, has allowed video essayists to take longer breaks between uploads while retaining their production quality.…
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Video: Film photo series review The Skateboarders 2021
Last night’s Twitch stream is now available on YouTube w/ chapters.
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Reminder: I’ll be live streaming a photo presentation at 6 eastern on Twitch. I expect it to be very boring. So stop by!
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At least 6 deer bedded in the backyard night before last. Greener days are ahead my woodland friends.
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Join me on Twitch this Sunday, March 13 at 6PM Eastern for a live stream discussion of my photo series The Skateboarders.
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Julia Evans on tiny personal programs
Julia Evans: So here are a few examples of small personal programming projects I’ve done. I’m not going to talk about “learning projects” where my goal was to learn something specific because I’ve already written a billion blog posts about that. I’ve written countless tidbits of code to solve personal problems. Some of them end…
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The Mac Studio looks like a fantastic product at every level. Great name, super powerful, great design, great price. And the display! If I wasn’t a laptop person, I’d be buying both right now.
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66°F today. A teaser trailer for spring.
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What I saw somewhat recently #92: March 3, 2022
I had a much longer list of links that I was going to share but I slowly pruned that list down to just a few. I’ve been very focused on gobbling up as much photography as I can lately. As spring breaks I’m very much looking forward to getting back out and shooting once again.
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Ice skating commit log.
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Noah hates printers too.
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Discord and Slack are yet another silo. By all means have chats, but bring some of the content out to your blog!
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Top 3 reasons to transfer Stripe subscriptions from one account to another
After transferring tens of thousands of subscriptions in my side gig, StripeTransfer.com – which is a service that helps individuals and businesses transfer their Stripe subscriptions from one Stripe account to another – I’ve come across three main reasons this service is needed. While there have been other reasons I’ve been asked to migrate or…
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Tumblr turns on ad-free tier
Tumblr: As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love (yes, including mobile) without the interruption of ads. Scroll away. $4.99 a month If I was a daily Tumblr user, or if I powered…
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Printers are terrible.
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This weekend I cooked a smoked barbecue dinner, painted, read, worked in the darkroom, shopped w/ Eliza, got in the hot tub, ice skated, etc. Guess what I didn’t do? Look at any social media. Over 60 days now. Feels good.
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Audio: Starting and finishing
Recorded on February 18, 2022 Join me as I scan some photos and chat about starting things and finishing things. Are you dealing with the same thing? Write a comment! (Audio clip unfound. I’ll try to restore this file in the future.)
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🔒 SSL is back on cdevroe.com – I put that off way too long.
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Scripted a quick security cam process on the Ubuntu laptop for outdoor cameras I plan to setup. Takes a photo every few seconds from multiple cameras. Now to find some POE IP cameras.
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Both Cypress and Red Oak are now available as Micro.blog plugins. I’m planning on updating both to work with WordPress 5.9’s new site editing feature in the near future.
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I’m still experimenting with Ubuntu via a virtual machine. Unlike macOS, core OS updates are very quick to install. It is refreshing. I think I’m ready to install it on an old laptop and, maybe, use it for a week for fun.
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Pocket Casts must have had a bad sync because all of my old subscriptions just popped back up. NO. GET OUT OF HERE POCKET CASTS!
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What I saw somewhat recently #91: February 9, 2022
This week I feel like I’m at war with my photo library. I’m attempting to move files around, verify back ups, and generally do a clean up – and at every step I feel like the photo library is winning. I continue to wish this were easier. Onto the links! Until next time. Oh! Before…
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Tom MacWright on blogging
Tom MacWright: There just aren’t as many active blogs as there were in the past. I think this has amplified the benefits of blogging: you can make more of an impact and create more of an identity with a blog than you can with Twitter or any siloed social network. I was just having this…
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Block Protocol – A specification for web blocks
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with blockchain. Joel Spolsky writing about Block Protocol: As a result of the non-standardization of blocks, our end-users suffer. If someone is using my blog engine, they can only use those blocks that I had time to implement. Those blocks may be pretty basic or incomplete. Users might…
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Photos for Mac tip: To delete auto-generated date folders in the source list drag them all into each other until they are all in one folder then delete that folder.
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All this hubbub around Spotify and podcasts reminded me to try out their app to see if they’ve improved since last year. They haven’t. It is still a terrible app to watch/listen to podcasts.
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Never play Wordle before coffee.
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I’m planning to write about how leaving social media has benefitted me, what I’ve done with that time, and further steps I’d like to take.
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I’m looking forward to using the updated Apple Music app in macOS 12.2. I’ll likely update today.
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I’ve decided not to buy the current crypto dip. I just don’t care about speculation anymore. I now own almost zero crypto, which I hope will help me to stay objective in my opinion of it.
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Star Wars Visions was a lot of fun.
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Feels good to be slowly adding some new RSS feeds to NetNewswire.
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cdevroe.com weighs in at approximately 5.3GB. Or, almost 1GB greater than March of last year.
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Moxie Marlinspike on Web3
Moxie Marlinspike*, ex-CEO of Signal, on Web3: I decided to explore some of what has been happening in that space more thoroughly to see what I may be missing. To explore Web3 he built a “distributed app” that tracked NFT derivatives and also minted an NFT that turned into a poop emoji once you added…
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Robin Sloan on Web3
I’ve been meaning to link to Robin Sloan’s “counterweight to the growing hype” of Web3 for many weeks and forgotten. I think it pairs nicely with my link to Molly White’s Web3 hype damper. Robin’s piece does more than simply attempt to squash the excitement of someone curious about Web3. It is a fair and…
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Web3 is going just great
Readers of my blog may already be familiar with my thoughts on crypto and NFTs. To reiterate, in short; I’m bullish on blockchain, so-so on Bitcoin, looking closely at Ethereum, and skeptical about the longterm benefits of NFTs (though I think they could be a useful technology). If I had to summarize my opinion on…
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I double checked my OneDrive photo library back up and realized it was missing about 10,000 files. So I’m redoing that entire backup from scratch.
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Tomorrow marks three weeks off of social media. It has been fantastic. I plan on writing a post about the journey so far after a full month. If you have any questions, let me know.
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I linked to photographer Luisa Dorr on January 6th, Kottke did on January 7th. Just sayin’.
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What I saw somewhat recently #90: January 6, 2022
At a recent distillery tasting Wow, 90 of these. I hope at or before 100 I go back through them all and pull forward some of my favorites. I hope most of these links still exist! You may see less of these types of posts since I’ve left social media behind and I think I’ll…