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Anton Sten’s typical day
Anton Sten: 8.30 – 9.00 PM – Answer Slack / Figma / Notion comments that come in so they’ll have a chance to respond again ahead of my day tomorrow. I’ll keep this time to a minimum. Anton works with a bit of a time shift with his team so this is really smart. He’s setting […]
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Dave Rupert’s typical day
Dave Rupert: Also, in a week or so I’ll be in my new backyard office workspace. This will hopefully shift my productivity windows a bit and enforce a proper lunch routine where I leave the physical office to eat in the main house. The distance will also probably temper late night gaming. I see that […]
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Martin Wolf’s typical day
Martin Wolf: 7:00am — Hobby time. I paint Warhammer miniatures. Fascinating to see people’s hobbies sprinkled into these. I also like that this series of posts is beginning to run away with itself where people are chiming in that haven’t been tagged by anyone. If you’re sitting there reading this post, right now, please write one!
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Matthias Ott’s typical day
Matthias Ott: I envy people like Sara Soueidan or Dan Mall who get up really early to do creative, meaningful work in the calmer morning hours before the busyness of the day kicks off. And although I’ve always been a night owl, I am currently starting to enjoy going to bed and getting up a […]
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Audio: Mistakes have been made (special episode of the podcast)
Recorded January 27, 2021. In this special episode of Photowalking with Colin I cover some recent mistakes I’ve made with film and in the darkroom. It seems we (the collective we) mainly share our victories online. I wanted to be sure to share the losses as well. Auto generated transcript Welcome to another edition of […]
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Lucy Bellwood on blogging
Lucy Bellwood: Some of it is using an RSS reader to change the cadence and depth of my consumption—pulling away from the quick-hit likes of social media in favor of a space where I can run my thoughts to their logical conclusion (and then sit on them long enough to consider whether or not they’re […]
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Om Malik compares the iPhone to the Kodak Brownie
Om Malik: Prior to the Brownie, a photo trip to capture a far-flung environment was an expedition that often involved porters, mules, and explosions. The adventurous photographer would need to carry heavy gear, lots of toxic chemicals, and the patience to deal with an inexact process. Contrast that with the Brownie: a box measuring roughly […]
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I’m releasing some code projects
When I first started hacking away at a computer (sometime just after the first Jurassic Park film was released in theaters), and ultimately hacking away on the web, people would release small projects for others to use. Single-use scripts, small applications, design files for a specific niche, and proofs-of-concept that you could download and use […]
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Cassie Evans’ typical day
Cassie Evans’ typical day: One thing that doesn’t change is that I try to approach my days gently. I listen to how I’m feeling and adjust my plans to fit around that. I also try to find a highlight each day to focus on. Super interesting approach. I need to give this more thought. More typical […]
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Chris McLeod’s typical day
Chris McLeod: Like most people I suspect I have days where I don’t feel like I’ve actually achieved anything, and others where I’m amazed by how much it seems I’ve made it through. I find the trick is to just keep going steady. Those really productive days are usually the culmination of work you pushed […]
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I shouldn’t share my film negative scans at all. I should only scan prints I’ve made in the darkroom. That’s the true photo.
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Spotify is (was?) the best place to listen to music. It is, unequivocally, the worst place to listen to podcasts. They’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars and their experience is the worst. I hope they are working on something great.
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Rob Weychert’s typical day
Rob Weychart, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: I keep my personal and professional web browsing segregated to different browsers, and I use a plugin to block Twitter, news, and other productivity draining sites during work hours. I used to do something similar. I think I had an app that blocked blacklisted URLs. But […]
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Sara Soueidan’s typical day
Sara Soueidan, who was tagged by Dan, whom I tagged: I think of day and time management in terms of blocks. Or, chunks of time, so to speak. I divide my day into “activity blocks” that are then distributed to occupy different time slots across the day. Her post is a must-read even if you haven’t been following along […]
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Mike Carbone’s typical day
Mike Carbone, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 10:30am: Wake up OK, straight out of the gate this young lad is showing off. He continues… 4pm-6pm: Lift and work. This is something new I’ve been trying and it’s been going really well! I bring my laptop to the basement, blast some music, pump out some sets and write […]
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Courthouse Square, Honesdale, PA – January 2021
Courthouse Square, Honesdale, PA – January 2021 A commercial use license is now available for these photos. On Friday I drove to Honesdale to pick up some takeout food (Honesdale has some good food) and had a few minutes to kill. So I walked around the square with my Canon Rebel G filled with Ilford’s […]
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Dan Mall’s typical day
Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 7:30pm–8:30pm: Optional work wrap-up time if there’s anything urgent from the day. I envy that he has that evening time-slot to be productive. I find that my evenings are far less productive after I get into wind-down mode. I wouldn’t mind adding an hour or so of productivity to the end […]
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Jeremy Keith’s typical day
Jeremy Keith, whom I tagged: Y’know, in the Before Times I think this would’ve been trickier. What with travelling and speaking, I didn’t really have a “typical” day …and I liked it that way. Now, thanks to The Situation, my days are all pretty similar. Waking up at 8:30 seems like such a luxury! I […]
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Noah Read’s typical day
Noah Read: Most of the fall was absorbed with house-hunting, purchasing, finding new renters for our previous home, prepping for the move, moving, and unpacking. This has taken any spare moment and more than all my spare energy and attention to make happen. In July, as Eliza and I soldiered on towards our new home’s […]
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Chris Coyier’s typical day
Chris Coyier: That long of a workday means that I can be very flexible without feeling behind. If I need to run any sort of errand, I do. If I need to stay home a morning, I do. If I need to come home “early”, I do. And I can do that without feeling like […]
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Film cameras in TV and movies
Mike Eckman: If you’re like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. I’ve been known to pause to figure out the camera from time-to-time. I often remark that I wish there was a list of TV shows and movies that feature analog cameras. […]
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Julia Evans on Docker Compose
Julia Evans: I’m very happy about this because previous to trying Docker Compose I spent two days getting frustrated with trying to set up a dev environment with other tools and Docker Compose was a lot easier and simpler. And then I told my sister about my docker-compose experiences and she was like “I KNOW, […]
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My typical day
Here is a general overview of a typical day for me. Routine makes me happy but it also lends to my productivity. The more each day is the same the more I can accomplish. I’m sharing it because I would like to see other people post their typical days – as mundane as they may […]
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Shift Nudge
Matt D. Smith (@mds), explains what Shift Nudge is: Shift Nudge is the systematic process to learn the visual skills of interface design, even if you don’t have a design background. Perfect for those wanting to enter or advance in the field. Let’s say you’re sitting there reading this and you’re a coder that wishes […]
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The most important blog
Seth Godin: Even if no one but you reads it. The blog you write each day is the blog you need the most. It’s a compass and a mirror, a chance to put a stake in the ground and refine your thoughts. And the most important post? The one you’ll write tomorrow. His post is […]
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Black Women Photographers
Laura Beltrán Villamizar, writing for NPR, describing the website Black Women Photographers: Her site, Black Women Photographers, is a forum where members can celebrate each other’s work. It’s also a platform both to elevate the work of Black women in the photo and documentary industry as well as to help financially support photographers whose livelihoods have […]
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For those wondering, everything is going great in the darkroom.
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Firebase is awfully nice. Wow. Side note: I had an idea rolling around in my head for 13 years that I’ve wanted to try and I was able to make a prototype of it in just a few hours.
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Simon Collison on personal websites
Simon Collison: You tend your domain like you steadily improve your home, and it can take years of false starts and incremental commits. Don’t think of it as urgent work, or — heaven forbid — a “side-hustle”. Don’t I know it. Well, well over twenty years on. Still loving it.
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Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020
Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020 Just prior to lockdown, we were able to listen to this lovely chap play some music at Lucky Hare Brewing in upstate New York. I rescanned this 35mm negative to get a better quality version than my first scan. Shot on Kodak Ultramax 400 using the Canon […]
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Panther’s Falls 2 – December 2020
Panther’s Falls 2 – December 2020 I’m pretty happy with how this exposure, and the previous one, came out. This one was handheld, f/11, about 1/60s, on HP5+. I have a fairly steady hand but 1/60s is about my limit personally. If you want to see much larger versions of these digital scans you can […]
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Understanding ProRAW
With iOS 14.3 and the new iPhone, Apple has introduced an updated RAW image file format spec that extends on the already robust editing capabilities of RAW. They call it ProRAW. Ben Sandofsky, of Halide, goes long on explaining how digital image sensors work, what RAW is, and how Apple has extended that spec and […]
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Matthias Ott on having a personal web site
Matthias Ott on CSS-Tricks: Personal websites still deliver on that promise. Nowhere else do you have that much freedom to create and share your work and to tell your personal story. It is your chance to show what you stand for, to be different, and to be specific. Your site lets you be uniquely you […]
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Apple Maps continues to improve
Justin O’Beirne is still at it, and at more detail than ever: This is the tenth time that Apple has expanded its new map since its public launch twenty-six months ago in September 2018. I appreciate the amount of work O’Beirne puts into these updates. Over the weekend Eliza and I tried Apple Maps to find a […]
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Should I update to Big Sur 11.1?
In early November I wrote that I’d be delaying my update to Big Sur. Specifically, I wrote: I’ll be waiting for at least two releases before I update. Well, 11.1 came out today. Depending on how you count, it is sort of the third release of Big Sur. There was 11.0, 11.0.1, and now 11.1. […]
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Chrome is bad
From Loren Brichter comes Chrome is bad: So it turns out that Google Chrome was making everything on my computer slow even when it wasn’t running, because it installs something called Keystone which is basically malware. I made a website because this shouldn’t happen. I’m currently using Safari every single day. It is lightning fast […]
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Jack Baty’s bad film experience
Jack Baty, 11 years ago: I ran out of film while on a deserted island. I set the ISO incorrectly on my OM-1, overexposing the roll by 2 stops. I opened the bottom of the Leica M7 before rewinding the roll. I had only a 28mm prime lens with me when what I needed was […]
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Panther’s Falls – December 2020
Panther’s Falls – December 2020 As a kid I’d walk to these falls every chance I got. I had many bear encounters, caught tons of snakes (even though my mother forbade it), and swam a bunch. It was nice to visit them after nearly a few decades of being away. I shot this on Saturday […]
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Lost 30 frames of film due to the camera not advancing the film. C’est la vie.
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A diagram of my current photo storage footprint. Not the process, just the storage. I’m hoping to detail the process in a future post.
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Looking forward to participating in an upcoming 127 Day.
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The story of the Studebaker darkroom print
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you may have seen that I was in the darkroom this weekend. In March 2020, I purchased this Ansco Speedex from a local hip shop On&On. Around that same time a family member gifted me some expired Kodak Tri-X that he’s had frozen since 1982. A few […]
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What I saw somewhat recently #72: December 3, 2020
I haven’t made one of these lists in a little while, opting instead to publishing far more status updates to my site that include links. I go back and forth in my head all the time which I prefer.
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I password protected a few notes in Apple’s Notes app and didn’t store the password in 1Password and now I have no idea what that password is.
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I started rewriting my photo moving script in AppleScript but ran into an odd permissions issue roadblock that I can’t seem to search my way out of it.
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My answer to my own askATP question (again)
A little over a year ago I sent in a question to the crew at ATP and subsequently I blogged my own answer to that question. This past week I sent in another question and they’ve kindly answered it (time stamp: 1:57:16) so I thought I would answer my own question again. My question was […]
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Help! What should I do?
So I’d like to earn a few extra reoccurring dollars for my habit using one of my skills. But I’m having a bit of an internal dilemma as to what that should be given that I have such a limited amount of time between my day job and my volunteering. Here are a few ideas […]
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M.G. Siegler on The Mandalorian
M.G. on Ev’s blog: The Mandalorian feels like the true successor to the original Star Wars trilogy. I agree with M.G. While I liked The Force Awakens and Solo, the other two I could do without though I’m glad they exist.
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