Author: Colin Devroe
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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…
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Cypress for Micro.blog has received a bug fix release (thanks Manton). If you’re using the theme you may want to make sure you’re using the latest version. More fixes coming for Cypress.
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Made some postcards in the darkroom. Sent this one to a fellow film photographer and friend in Oregon.
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Finished reading The Beatles: Unseen Archives. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great to see the timeline and old photographs.
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2021 in review: blog and projects
I thought it would be fun to review what has happened this past year on my blog, what I had set out to do, and what I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping that by writing this post it will give me some clarity on what I may want to try to do in 2022. January In very…
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My 2021 blogging stats
Number of posts per month: Total: 420 See 2020. I posted more to my blog in 2021 than 2020. As I said in my review post, I need to sit down and give a hard think to what my goals for 2022 will be, but I do hope they include sharing more here on my…
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Please send wintertime hot tub energy usage tips. I feel like a crypto miner over here. 🥵
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Pure – A minimal theme for Micro.blog
Chris Hannah: I’ve named it Pure, and that’s mainly because I wanted very minimal styling, and to have it be a pure version of a theme. For the benefit of it acting as a “starter” theme for people that want to maybe want to start tweaking a theme but don’t want to start from scratch. But also for…
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Back in the darkroom. Archiving negatives from the 40s from my grandparents and making prints and postcards.
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I have an old MacBook that I’d like to repurpose. It is pretty old so I’m thinking a Linux server or file server. Any suggestions?
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90-days ago or so I postulated that Meta would fire Instagram’s CEO. That hasn’t happened, yet. So I was wrong.
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Last night, in the darkroom.
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What I saw somewhat recently #89: December 17, 2021
Penelope says gm. Also, just some quick things that don’t have any specific links that you may want to search on Duck.com; Steph Curry’s 3-point record, the James Webb Telescope, the analysis of the tornadoes that hit the mid-west last weekend. Until next time.
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For those wondering, I’m keeping a log of the services I’ve exploded so far. I’m thinking of pushing it a bit further than I intended (more on this in the near future).
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A few quick 35mm film snaps from October’s trip to Virginia.
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Just pushed an update to all Cypress for WordPress owners for social icon support for Flickr, GitHub, Mastodon, TikTok, and YouTube. For December, use dec21 at checkout for 50% off.
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There should be a system wide preference to turn off scroll jacking.
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Video: Making paper negatives with a bedroom camera obscura
A video on YouTube walking through a project I did in March-April 2020.
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Weekend posts are the best because I get to see people’s little side hobbies.
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Add hl=languagecode to any Instagram URL to load a language. Example: My profile in Dutch.
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Mastodon.social seems super slow this morning. Is this really because Jack stepped down as Twitter CEO? Or coincidental?
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Video: Sandbridge Beach Houses
Spend 30-odd minutes with me going through each photo from the Sandbridge Beach House series. This was fun to do, I might do more of them. Also available on Instagram. If you like it, jump over to YouTube and hit the like and subscribe button.
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Sponsorship of The Watercolor Gallery is now booked through January. After 10+ years of curating the gallery I’m glad I started sponsorship this year. If you’d like to support the gallery monetarily you can sponsor or donate.
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I miss spaghetti code. Frameworks, structure, unit testing, documentation… so boring!
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Did some work on The Watercolor Gallery today with new features, spruced up some old paintings, updated the about page, added a donate page, and a bunch more.
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I’m thinking of attempting to recruit a bunch of photographers for #FlickrFebruary where we only post to Flickr and no where else all month. Thoughts?
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Yesterday I published an interview with the NFT artist and watercolorist AnimaToey from Bangkok, Thailand over on The Watercolor Gallery.
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I published a new photo series Sandbridge Beachhouses into my portfolio (and on Flickr, IG, Tweet). Click the image to see more of them.
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No Time To Die was just OK.
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Digital Ocean’s free static site hosting is a very quick and easy way to deploy small JavaScript-only apps.