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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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Apple Arcade recommendations?
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Using Spotlight and Shortcuts to create daily notes in Simplenote
While trialing Obsidian I became fond of a core plugin it had called Daily notes. Activating the plugin adds a button in the interface that creates a new note with a name based on today’s date. It makes keeping a daily log extremely easy. Since I primarily use Simplenote I wanted the same thing on […]
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It is nice that you can subscribe to Exposure’s Publications via RSS. I’m now subscribed to their Adventure pub.
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It is this time of year that I become more aware of, and have more ire for, Earth’s tilt. But hey, at least we don’t have to deal with Neptune’s crazy 97º tilt. Imagine that!
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A new theme for my site
Update December 10, 2020: I tried. And I’ve now reverted. For the last several years I’ve been using a customized version of the Davis theme by Anders Norén. I started using the theme right out of the box and slowly customized it to my needs as I had time to do so. And for that […]
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Unmark chosen for GitHub’s Archive Program
Unmark, the open source bookmarking app that you can use for free on our hosted service or grab your own copy on GitHub, was selected to be included in GitHub’s Archive Program. GitHub describes this program’s purpose “The mission of the GitHub Archive Program is to preserve open source software for future generations.” This happened […]
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Delay updating to Big Sur
macOS Big Sur will be released to the public tomorrow. As I did with iOS 14 this year, I’ll be waiting for at least two releases before I update. Josh Centers for TidBITS: We recommend delaying upgrades for your production Macs. We’ve heard similar stories from many beta testers and TidBITS readers: Big Sur is […]
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Jack Baty on being burnt out of film photography
Jack Baty: The trouble, I’m finding, is that I don’t really like the results I’m getting. I’ve shot maybe 20 rolls of film this year and a couple dozen large format negatives. Not a ton, but I’ve gone through them and there are only a handful that I really like, and most of those I […]
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Learning SwiftUI is tough because it is still early days
Back in early October I quipped that I was opening Xcode to start a new project. I have no qualms in telling you that the project was going to be a Mac app for Unmark. I was going to build the app for a variety of reasons but the main one was to learn SwiftUI. […]
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We need to do more about light pollution
Paul M. Sutter for Universe Today: For years we’ve assumed that streetlights are the main culprit behind light pollution, but a recent study has shown that streetlights contribute no more than 20% of all the pollution, and if we want to solve this vexing astronomical problem, we have to think harder. Tuscon, Arizona did a […]
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But she’s a girl on Obsidian
But she’s a girl…: I wanted something that operated on plain-text files kept in a local folder, and that also had a graph view: that was the feature in org-roam that really made the difference between me just writing notes and seeing how they fitted together and building ideas out of them. Obsidian has both of […]
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Worst iOS feature by far; you open an app and you’re no longer where you left off. 13 years in this should be fixed.
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Om Malik: Why bother with film?
Om: One aspect of film that I have personally found appealing is the restrictions it imposes. Film photography is about constraints. It limits the frames at your disposal. It limits the capability of the sensor (aka the film.) And in most cases, it limits the choice of lens and equipment. Such constraints tend to ultimately […]
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What I’m looking for in a note taking app: works exactly like Simplenote, except it saves Markdown files to disk. Does this really not exist?
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I have an overwhelming number of personal technology tasks that I’d like to tackle that I’m not motivated to do any of them.
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Chris Coleman on The Mandalorian Season 2
Chris Coleman, my longtime Star Wars sensei: I have some quick thoughts on The Mandalorian Season 2 that I need to get out of my brain before Chapter 9 is released in a few hours. Caution: There may be spoilers ahead. I’ve already watched Chapter 9 twice. The number of throwbacks to og Star Wars […]
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My iPhone updated itself to 14.1 last night on its own. I have never had automatic updates on. That is very weird.
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Annihilation – Scranton, July 2020
Shot on 35mm Kodak Color 400 with Olympus Stylus Annihilation – Scranton, July 2020 This ivy is going to find its way in.
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Andy Baio interviews the owner of the house on Blue Lick Road
Andy Baio: But a larger question remained: what’s the deal with this place? Whoever owned it, they were too organized to be hoarders. The home appeared to double as the office and warehouse for an internet reseller business, but who sells a house crammed floor-to-ceiling with retail goods? With all of the mud slinging and doom scrolling […]
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Sketch on native Mac apps
Sketch: Native apps bring so many benefits — from personalization and performance to familiarity and flexibility. And while we’re always working hard to make Cloud an amazing space to collaborate, we still believe the Mac is the perfect place to let your ideas and imagination flourish. Lovely little blog post. Couldn’t agree more. I feel […]
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I keep having coffee cravings at night.
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Brain Pickings turns 14
Maria Popova: The challenge has never been more colossal than this past year — the most trying I have lived through, by orders of magnitude. Depression has lowered its leaden cloudscape over me again and again since I was fifteen, but no other year has lidded life more ominously, as the staggering collective grief we […]
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Obsidian didn’t stick, for me
Back in May I came across Obsidian, a knowledge base app that stores your information in Markdown files. I used it a bit here and there until, in July, I stumbled onto Ton Zijlstra’s post about Obsidian which motivated me to try it in earnest. I was excited to have a note taking app that […]
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What I saw somewhat recently #71: October 22, 2020
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I’m a huge red onion fan.
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Gorgeous pinhole photograph by Michael McNeil in Ireland
Michael McNeil: It’s the first time I’ve used this film, so it was all a bit of an experiment. As usual, I did no research before I went out. I appreciate how he detailed the struggle and sort of out-of-control feel that pinhole photography can be. Regardless, stunning result.
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Video: How Unmark works
Today I recorded a quick few minute walkthrough of how Unmark works. I use Unmark every single day (and have for years) to store links to read, watch, listen, etc. It is a simple app but has some great features and so I thought I was overdue on a quick video to show how it […]
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At a stop light in Scranton, Pennsylvania around 5pm on October 13, 2020. Nothing glamorous today for Micro.blog’s A Day in the Life – just driving to get grocery pick-up.
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No matter what Apple announces today, I hope the iPhone 12 proves to be a solid, reliable computing device for Eliza. Her iPhone Xs has given her a lot of issues over the last few months.
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Clicking the “Create a new Xcode project” button.
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Unmark 2020.3 has just been released. It has been running on the hosted version for a little while but today it rolled out to all of you that run it locally. Enjoy!
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I am “my compost pile makes me exceedingly happy” years old.
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If you own an Epson scanner you may be able to get Silverfast SE (a much more robust and quicker scanning software) for free. Get your serial number and go here.
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