Author: Colin Devroe
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Published my first ever environmental portraits. This is the style of photography I hope to do a lot more of. I made these images for an interview on The Watercolor Gallery which just went live today.
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What I saw somewhat recently #81: June 17, 2021
Saved this garter from the lawn mower A busy spring is coming to a close. A pool, garden beds, lawn care, work, side work, art, the gallery, photography and so much more going on all at once. But somehow it felt very balanced. I’m happy about that. Scratching every itch. This week I have a…
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Duck.com is exploding
You should switch to Duck.com. I’ve recommended this to you before. Why are you still using Google? Just last September I mentioned they were at 67M requests per day. They are about to tip over 100M per day. And, they just got a nice shot in the arm to continue this growth. I still think…
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Drone pilots, be mindful
Joanna Thompson, writing for Audubon: On the morning of May 13, Peter Knapp stepped onto an ominously quiet California beach. The night before, he’d noted a horde of boisterous Elegant Terns just starting to incubate their eggs in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, 30 miles south of Los Angeles. But the roughly 3,000 birds were…
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Built 3 garden beds this weekend. We were able to move what we started in the mini-greenhouse into the ground. So far, this is what we have going. Tomatoes – 3 types Carrots Squash Green and Red peppers Cabbage Lettuce Red onion White onion Green beans Bunch of herbs Asparagus Strawberries Garlic Raspberries Oh, and…
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Thoughts on WWDC 2021
A few thoughts on WWDC 2021. Overall, I believe this was a solid WWDC. So much so, that I think I’ll hop on the beta train when we get to the second or third public beta release.
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Introducing StripeTransfer.com
Over the last few years I’ve been able to help several companies transfer Stripe Subscriptions from one Stripe Account to another. Some of them were simply moving from one geography to another while others were acquisitions to or from the United States. Recently, the number of inquires I’ve had for this service from my hire…
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It used to be you went to trailers.apple.com to see what movies were coming soon. These days I have no idea what movies are available on which service. The TV app (not to be confused with Apple TV) helps but not enough.
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I wish I controlled Micro.blog Discover.
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My current opinion of crypto
If you believe crypto is the future, or if you believe it is a pyramid scheme, please read this entire post so that you understand my current opinion on crypto. I hope I articulate it well enough. Also, I want to state at the outset, almost every blog post or tweet about crypto ends up…
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EASYLinks by Chris J. Davis
Chris J. Davis: My first WordPress plugin in years is out now, testing the waters with premium plugins. Kids have to eat people. Check out EASYLinks. Check out EASYLinks here. Remember when I said I created a simple page for my links a la link tree? That is what EASYLinks is. He supports WordPress right…
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What I saw somewhat recently #79: June 3, 2021
Margarita painting session? Yes. I work 4-day work weeks. So with the holiday being Monday everything was compressed into 3 days. I’m not complaining. However, it has meant that my internet travels were lessened some.
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A new pixel art avatar by Jeremy Brown
This, is my new avatar. It replaces this one. It was created by Jeremy Brown, a friend whom I’ve mentioned several times here on the blog, most notably for his Wallace.dog comic. I asked him to use a photo that I’ve used in the past as an avatar and create a pixel art version of…
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Any morning I’m able to break out the 645 is a good morning.
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What I saw somewhat recently #78: May 27, 2021
I missed last week due to being very busy at work.
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Cloudfare seeks to end the madness that is CAPTCHA
Cloudfare: Today, we are launching an experiment to end this madness. We want to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. Their approach is interesting, though won’t be widespread until…
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Most of the time I have no issues with OneDrive. It is just in the background working. But now and then I do wish it didn’t fail so silently. I’d much rather it pop up and yell that it isn’t working properly.
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Cory Doctorow writes about 20 years of blogging
Here are a few bits from Cory Doctorow’s Medium post on blogging: The genius of the blog was not in the note-taking, it was in the publishing. The act of making your log-file public requires a rigor that keeping personal notes does not. Writing for a notional audience — particularly an audience of strangers — demands…
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Yesterday was fun.
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Everyone’s Twitter bio should probably have the word investor in it by now. The word’s meaning (and perhaps weight) have changed a lot over the last 10 years.
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Trial Micro.blog for podcasting
Manton Reece: To celebrate the launch of version 1.1, we’re enabling podcast hosting for all paid Micro.blog accounts for the next 2 weeks. You can publish a podcast episode to your blog via Wavelength, or upload an MP3 directly on the web. We take care of generating a podcast feed and all the other details.…
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Jim Nielsen brings back Readlists
Jim Nielsen: After about five years of constant inner complaining—“ugh, I wish Readlists was still around“—I finally asked myself: “well then why don’t you recreate it?” This is exactly the same reason why Unmark exists. Nothing works like Unmark. If it didn’t exist I don’t know what I would use. So it exists purely because I (and…
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Gave The Watercolor Gallery website a spit shine.
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Robin Rendle on blog post titles
Robin Rendle: I love it when blog post titles are indecipherable to search engines. There are exceptions, like when you want to document a technical thing and so you should have a blog post title describe that but the majority of the time I feel like blog post titles should sound like the chapters of…
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Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021 All frames made yesterday at around 7am in the garden.
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Tip for NetNewsWire
Here is a tip for subscribing to new blogs in the middle of a NetNewsWire session. If you are like me (and, lord I hope for your sake you aren’t) then you are stickler for your unread count and you read nearly every single post in NetNewsWire. Because of this anxiety-inducing anal retentiveness I generally…
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What I saw somewhat recently #76: May 6, 2021
Enjoy this week’s links. A nice mix this week. See you next Thursday.
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Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet
Recently there was a discussion on Micro.blog about having a bookmarklet that made it simple to post a link to a page you were viewing. And while there are solutions and workarounds, I didn’t see that there was a standard bookmarklet to do this. So now there is. The Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet does two simple…
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Email: Are you the right person to contact about posting to your website? Me: You’d be better off contacting Albert Einstein.
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OSXPhotos – Query Photos.app with Python
Rhet Turnbull on Github describes OSXPhotos this way: Python app to export pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata. I’m planning to use this to pull the Faces metadata out of Photos.app and use machine tags to add…
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I just published an all-new artist interview with Matthew Cogswell in Los Angeles over on The Watercolor Gallery. Amazing talent.
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Reasons to like wasps
Chris Glass: This wasp dropped from the air and on to my desk — moving carefully, slowly. First of all, there are zero reasons to like wasps. Zero. They should go extinct. We should only allow friendly little bees on this fine planet. Except this wasp, maybe. Follow Chris’ link to see the reasons to…
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What I saw somewhat recently #75: April 29, 2021
Our tulips are opening up Now that I’ve reached 75 of these posts I want to spruce them up a little. I’m going to start posting every single Thursday and I’d like to add a mobile photograph I’ve taken that week. I also plan on going back through all of the posts and making a…
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Thanks to everyone that has purchased or donated to my projects lately. I have development chemicals, paper, and a viewfinder I need to buy soon so these donations help.
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Today there are updates for both Red Oak and Cypress for Micro.blog! Red Oak gets the ability to choose different colors and Cypress gets Dark Mode! Both options available in config.json. These updates should roll out today.
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For a few brief moments this weekend I was able to pull out my two favorite pieces of kit. I’m really hoping I can take a lot more photos on film over the next few months as things open up a little.
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What Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram did to blogging — Spotify and Apple Podcasts are attempting to do to Podcasts. Make it dead simple but put it in a silo and position themselves between the creator from the customer.
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Red Oak for WordPress is turning out pretty great. Looking forward to getting it out there next week. Red Oak for Micro.blog will be getting bug fixes soon too. Did you know it was already live?
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They should try putting an M1 chip in Apple Music.
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I made progress on Red Oak for WordPress. Looking like release next week. On Micro.blog it should appear in the Design settings very soon for people to test out. Please report any issues you have. I’m sure there will be some.