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…
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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…
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #80: June 10, 2021
Our roses are opening up Lora Webb Nichols archive – Extraordinary work from a photographer very early on in photographic history. Looking at the images you'd think they were taken decades later….
Thoughts on WWDC 2021
A few thoughts on WWDC 2021. FaceTime updates – They look great. But Zoom has such a lead on all platforms I only see FT making a dent in casual voice conversations….
Introducing Good Migrations (formerly StripeTransfer.com)
Update December 2025: Eliza and I have now helped hundreds of companies migrate their Stripe accounts. We've got a new name for this service called Good Migrations. Over the last few years…
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…
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…
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…
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….
What I saw somewhat recently #78: May 27, 2021
We installed a pool this past weekend I missed last week due to being very busy at work. Bryan Schutmaat – Some great stuff in his portfolio. Vandal – A Chrome and…
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…
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…
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #77: May 13, 2021
Me, using a typewriter. Photo by Eliza. Ogi – A search engine that attempts to exclude commercially driven results. Stumbled – StumbleUpon reborn. Random URLs. Just hit next. Paleobiology Database Navigator -…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021 All frames made yesterday at around 7am in the garden.
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #76: May 6, 2021
Male Goldfinches visit our backyard feeder Enjoy this week's links. Gareth Wild parks in every spot – This is a level of nerdy that I aspire to. Romain Laurent – I dig…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #74: April 22, 2021
Wormhole – Send up to 10GB files, E2EE. Swipey Image Grids – Very cool use of SVG and practical application from Cassie Evans. Wednesdays in Marblehead – What a great photo project….
Photopea – A free browser-based Photoshop
Ivan Kutskir, the one-person team behind Photopea: My friends and my family did not know about Photopea during the first four years of development. I was spending a lot of time building…
Dwayne Harris’ typical day
Dwayne Harris': Now I “work” at pretty much any time: weekdays, weekends, afternoons, late at night, whenever. But at times that work best for me, in the priority/order I think makes sense,…
But she’s a girl on Johnny.Decimal
But she's a girl…: Things were scattered all over the place, randomly distributed among badly-named folders, and often duplicated. It took my several days of chipping away at it in spare moments…
Introducing HTML Family Tree
Today I'm introducing a new project on my Projects page; HTML Family Tree – A simple page to show and navigate a family tree. I spent a lot of time this winter…