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Penelope says gm. Phone-sized Faraday Bags – Matt Blaze tests some ways to block every signal coming out of your phone. Techie stuff. World Chess Championship Game 6 – I play chess with friends from time-to-time. I've researched opening moves, middle games, and end games. So my experience is just enough to fully appreciate Magnus Carlsen's skill -…
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).
Me, in 2015: As many of you reading this likely know, I do this all the time. Probably once every two or three months. I delete everything on Twitter and Feedly and start new. It has led me to finding more and more great people, places, and things than just about anything else I’ve done online. I highly recommend…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ySwOuYiWs A video on YouTube walking through a project I did in March-April 2020.
https://youtu.be/HzR71GdA\_a8 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.
Rainbow trout fry The above photo is a small Rainbow Trout fry that I pulled from the creek in my yard. It looks like it may have had a run-in with a Heron, Mink, Raccoon or some other predator. Let's get to some random links that I managed to set aside for y'all. Feeds Mage – Link up…
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 user experience. Keep…
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 be looking for…
Yesterday I randomly wondered what the status of Twitter's Bluesky project was – a project that promises to create a protocol for federating the microblogging platform in the same way that SMTP/IMAP does for email. So I poked around. The Twitter account seems all but dormant. So then I logged into their Discord guild (Discord being the en…
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 my own domain….
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: Day to Night – An amazing photo series by Stephen Wilkes. Close Encounters Diorama…
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 area – everything…
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 sort of thing…
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 also see them…
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 checks. I thought…
Last week we took a road trip for a few days away for our anniversary. During that time I wanted to disconnect from social media, news, etc. as much as possible. My goal was to stop my muscle memory from opening the apps I tend to open every single day. I found an iOS setting that I thought…
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.
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 before reading my…
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 from the list….
Bluesky: We're focusing on re-building the social web by connecting disconnected silos and returning control of the social experience to users. Our mission is to develop and drive the adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation. A Twitter-backed organization to decentralize social media. It has been a slow start but the group had published a research…
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 products in their…
Penelope in a basket This week was full of family visitors and new kittens. Oh, and of course links! Little Canada – A man spends $24m on building miniature version of places in Canada. Sure, why not? Mill – Beautiful branding work by Helen Tong. Jack White Art & Design – Prolific artist across all mediums, Jack White…
WSJ: The Wall Street Journal created dozens of automated accounts that watched hundreds of thousands of videos to reveal how the social network knows you so well All popular social media platforms are willing to do everything they possibly can to exploit people's deepest feelings. Facebook is likely the worst actor insomuch as they are the largest and…
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. JPEG XL – Looks like a promising…