Author: Colin Devroe
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Penelope update, November 2021.
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I wonder which Micro.blog member lives closest to me?
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If you’re reading this and are a Digital Ocean guru, I’d love your help. I have 3 droplets and 1 app and I’d love to see if I have them configured properly, make sure they are up-to-date, etc.
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Deleting data from Google Photos is criminally difficult.
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I’m going to try to wait a few months before updating to macOS Monterey. Especially after reading reports like this. Last year I was able to wait until February.
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I’ll be live on Instagram tonight with a friend in Oregon. We will be scanning negatives, developing film, etc. Join us at 7pm eastern.
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Datafilm – Log your film photo EXIF data
Today I stumbled across Datafilm, a free iOS app for film photographers to log their photo EXIF data on the go, via Japan Camera Hunter’s blog. The app is being made by Vincent Tantardini. Datafilm describes itself this way: Datafilm is the note app designed for film photographers, focused on simplicity, ease of use and…
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Micro.blog adds Flickr support
Manton Reece: This is for people who have a Flickr account that has gone unused, but who know there’s value on Flickr if only it was easier to remember to use it. Nice simple feature. I’m sure many will dig it. Glad to see Flickr being added to anything these days. All Flickr fans should…
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Where I was for a week.
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I’ve turned off cross-posting to Twitter from my blog. I found it caused me to hit ‘publish’ less often.
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Anyone else on Big Sur have to force quit Finder once a week to get Airdrop from Finder work again? Just me?
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Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20
Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith’s blog. Jeremy Keith: Many’s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social networks. I’m glad that I’ve managed to avoid that fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on…
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What I saw somewhat recently #87: October 8, 2021
Southern BBQ Almost a month since my last list. I’ve been busy. The photo above is a homemade southern BBQ I made last weekend. Smoked brisket, collards, Mac and cheese, cornbread, pickles and onions. All made by Eliza and I. Now, onto the links: I have a backlog the length of a DNA strand. I’ll…
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Photographing 40-foot Falls in Archbald, PA just after Hurricane Ida
40-foot falls is a waterfall I had no idea existed until just this year despite living in this area of Northeastern Pennsylvania for the majority of my life. I heard about it from a YouTube video by Dale Keklock, a local historian of sorts that is painstakingly documenting the now moribund coal industry in our…
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A few 2020 lockdown panoselfies. #panoselfie
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I predict Adam Mosseri’s resignation within 90 days. He’s constantly saying things that make him the story rather than Instagram. I doubt Zuckerberg will put up with that for too long.
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Is anyone giving consideration to using iCloud+ Mail to replace Gmail for Domains? I am.
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Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list
Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This…
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App idea: Instagram but for photos.
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Gut reaction to today’s Apple Event: Solid, reasonable updates but nothing amazing? Perhaps I have to dig deeper. I’m sure a lot of work went into the improvements.
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What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021
I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I’ve added several portraits including Max, Anthony, Zombie, and Bill. My goal is far more portraits moving forward. I’d love your feedback on them! You can…
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Dave Rupert on blog post hits
Dave Rupert: Two posts that I thought would be bangers got nearly zero reach. The inverse law of blogging strikes again! The Surprise Chain is a post I quite literally worked on for over six years, but it got under a thousand hits. CSS Modules-in-CSS Module Scripts did a little better but I’m not cashing any blogging…
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I’ve added two new portfolio pieces to my site; Max and Anthony. More to come. You can see them on Instagram as well. Here are some photos from last night’s session in the darkroom.
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Taking a few days off from the web. 👋
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Glass observations
Glass, a new photo sharing app, has been making the rounds this week since it launched to the public, via an invite only roll out, and has had a fair bit of press and photographer fain fare. I gave away a few invites myself. First, a bit of background material you may want to peruse…
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Nicky Case on RSS
Nicky Case: RSS works on a “don’t call me, I’ll call you” policy. I like that line. Readers of this blog need not be reminded of the value of RSS (nor of my love of it). But I thought Nicky’s post on RSS was worthy of a link anyway.
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An updated list of film photography blogs by Jim Grey
Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films, getting out and shooting, and looking at the resulting photographs. Lots of us share our adventures on our blogs. He removed my blog…
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Watching Micro Camp videos.
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AirPods Pro observations
My wife recently gifted me a pair of AirPods Pro for our 22nd Anniversary which is coming up in a few days. She loves her AirPods. She has repeatedly said “these are my favorite Apple product ever” and she’s owned many products made by Apple including iPhones, Apple Watches, laptops, and iPads — all great…
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Just re-upped our 1Password family plan for another year. A no-brainer. 1Password is so good.
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Dug up a rather large, three-tiered Yellowjacket nest this morning before leaving for work.
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Good murder mystery movies, fire them at me.
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What I saw somewhat recently #85: August 5, 2021
Penelope in a basket This week was full of family visitors and new kittens. Oh, and of course links!
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Oh crap. I have an idea.
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I would like to take fall and winter off from my day job to work on my software projects.
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The Pixel 6 seems pretty nice. I doubt Google’s SOC will compare to Apple’s SOC but I do think it is a meaningful update to the Pixel line.
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OK, Apple. I have a very brief window where I might be able to expense a new 16″ M1 MacBook Pro. I’m totally happy with my current 16″ MBP but I wouldn’t mind far better battery life.
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I do not like scroll jacking. Very seldom is it even “cool” when you see it. Most of the time it is simply hard to know how many times I have to scroll in order to see the next few words.
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Was stung by a Yellowjacket yesterday. Why are wasps so mean?
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What I saw somewhat recently #84: July 23, 2021
Mine water bubbles up from the earth Long week this week. Perhaps a long month. The above photo is about a mile upstream on the creek that edges our property where frigid mine water spills out. It is both cool and clear and runs all year long. Enjoy this week’s links.
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No link list today, unfortunately. It has been a crazy day and I just don’t have the mental power to be in front of the computer any more today. 👋
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Great Finals performance by the Bucks. But NBA foul calling is a mess.
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Duck.com email
Duck.com: Get a free, personal @duck.com email address. Emails sent to it will forward to your regular inbox, with creepy email trackers removed. What a great way to use that domain name!
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MeetingBuddy by Tyler Hall
Tyler Hall: A few weeks ago I built a niche little app idea dubbed MeetingBuddy. You choose a target app from a pre-defined list (or pick any app on your Mac) and a time interval and MeetingBuddy starts screenshotting that app’s windows. Each recording session goes into its own folder where all of the screenshots…
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My 2020 blogging stats
Yes, I’m writing this post in July of 2021. I don’t know what to tell you. Number of posts per month: Total number of posts: 353 A rather large portion were titleless status updates. I started off with a bang on January 1 by announcing my full return to the Mac. And here I am,…
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Bourdain’s voice
I still miss Anthony Bourdain very much. See this and this. I was somewhat excited to learn that a documentary about him was being made. The only thing that kept me from full-on excitement was that I still haven’t been able to bring myself to rewatch all of his episodes. And I’ve been wanting to…