Ethan Marcotte’s typical day
Ethan Marcotte, the always brilliant responsive web design guy: My day starts in earnest around 9AM, or as close to it as I can get. I’ll open up both email and Slack…
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github1s
github1s: Just add 1s after github and press Enter in the browser address bar for any repository you want to read. This is super cool. Take any repository on GitHub and add 1s to the domain name and…
As Seen in an Alleyway by Katie Yang
Katie Yang: My name is Katie and I shoot film (mostly expired, mostly in alleyways and cute cafes). This is where I chronicle my favorite places, favorite people and daily life in Taipei, Taiwan. A great blog to subscribe to. I like…
Link priority
I have linked to what must be millions of things. I share a lot of links from here on my blog. I have linked to hundreds of artists from The Watercolor Gallery….
Skittish
Andy Baio: Today, I’m announcing Skittish, a playful virtual space for online events. Skittish brings people together into a game-like interactive 3D environment that’s designed from the ground up for socially-driven events, big…
Blogging for me
I've covered this topic many times from many different perspectives. I publish on my blog mostly for myself and for the added benefit that someone else will find the information useful. Recently…
Hidde de Vries’ typical day
Hidde de Vries: Sometimes there’s a book I can’t stop reading or a guest in one of the late night talk shows that I don’t want to miss. I go to bed…
Michelle Barker’s typical day
Michelle Barker: If you’re reading this I probably stayed up way too late to finish it. I get insomnia if I code too late, so I try to stop around 22:30 to give myself…
Mitch’s typical day
Mitch, in his typical day post, regarding his 6:15am Twitter habit: This probably isn’t a great morning habit but four years of endless crises have pretty much drilled into me to take…
Photos Takeout
Photos Takeout (no doubt a play on the name of Google's own Takeout data service): Export photos and videos from Photos on Mac in yearwise, album-wise or moment/date-wise folders. Save them in…
Why I still use RSS – Marc
Some blogger named Marc: I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS. I can't argue with this. Also, this bit: However it wasn't until I began working…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The best of 2020 as told by me
I didn't want to get too deep into 2021 before I compiled my best of list for 2020. I usually begin to compile this list somewhere near the beginning of December and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…