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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 they can figure…
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 a comprehensive account…
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 – PBDB Navigator for short. Look around your area, you might have some fossil rich areas nearby. I'd like to personally add a dot or two. Notes…
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. If you want…
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 a few other…
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021 All frames made yesterday at around 7am in the garden.
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 a book: cool…
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 both the non-motion and motion work. My interview with Matthew Cogswell – Worth a mention as his work inspired me to get cracking again. You Suck…
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 do not subscribe…
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 things. If you're…
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 keywords to the…
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 "best of" list….
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 like wasps.
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. IKEA ScrapsBook – What do you do with your leftovers? IKEA created a recipe book for your food scraps. DPReview dives deep on Adobe Super Resolution…
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 it, without making any money or learning new skills. So nothing to be proud of, but the project was fun and I enjoyed working on it….
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, doing things I actually want to spend my time doing. I’m happy so far. Good for you Dwayne. Side note: I appreciate Dwayne's well thought out…
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 scanning old slides from my grandparents. As I did so I began to see a lot of unfamiliar faces. Many of these unfamiliar faces were related…
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 to get it all organised, but I feel immensely better for it. She's doing better than I am. I gave it a try after I said…
Mark Jardine: I’ve noticed that when I successfully create something simple, I want to make more things as opposed to failing at something complicated. Since January I've been spending little bits of time here and there on my projects. Back then I stated it was to join in the fun of releasing small things, rather than waiting to…
If you can believe it, this is my first WIS post from in 2021. I've been keeping a small backlog of links that I've wanted to share but mostly I've shared links here as separate posts. I think once I get to #75 I'd like to do a retrospective and pull forward all of my favorite links from…
Jordan McChesney, writing for PetaPixel: Then, around June of 2020, something changed. I decided to focus less on what my fellow photographers thought, and decided to focus more of my attention on myself. Since then, I’ve spent more time adding products to my shops, including images that I’d previously considered as ‘not portfolio material’. To my surprise, a…
Jerome Carter: Film is expensive, and I readily admit that it is a self-indulgent exploration for no purpose other than the sheer existential joy it brings. That sounds about right.
It took me just a few days to convert the Cypress WordPress theme for use on Micro.blog. Since the layout, design, and styling for most elements was already done – the main work was learning Micro.blog's theming model and moving the code bits around. I thought it would be a good opportunity to jot down some observations since…
James Gurney, in a reasoned post explaining NFTs to his rather large art-focused audience: Does it make sense for every artist to leap into NFTs right now? I don't think it make sense for me—not yet anyway, until there's a better solution to the environmental issues. I'm beginning to appreciate people who don't have quick, one-side-or-the-other, opinions on NFTs….