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…
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Attending Venture Idol 2020 via Zoom
Last night I virtually attended Ben Franklin Technology Partner's Venture Idol 2020 via a Zoom Webinar. That's a sentence that I hope I only write in 2020 and not too far beyond….
It is nice that you can subscribe to Exposure's Publications via RSS. I'm now subscribed to their Adventure pub.
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…
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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
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%…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
What I saw somewhat recently #71: October 22, 2020
Photographers whose work I've recently been exposed to: William Eggleston, Consuelo Kanaga, Fan Ho. Peggy Anne Marsh's Camera List – Looking for a camera review? Peggy may very likely have reviewed it….
Do you use the Web Share API?
If you use the Web Share API, Jeremy Keith is looking for more feedback. I’m not expecting anything to happen anytime soon, but it would be really good to gather as much…
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…
Video: How Unmark works
Update (October 2026): Unmark’s hosted service no longer accepts new sign-ups. For my current bookmarking app, see Rinku, its free, open source, local-first successor. Today I recorded a quick few minute walkthrough…
Podcast: Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020
Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020 Recorded in September 2020. Holy cow a new episode! Finally. Sorry for the wait for those that are subscribed to the podcast….
Give Micro.blog 2.0 features a try for free
Manton Reece: For the Micro.blog 2.0 launch week, we’ve enabled the new bookmark archiving and highlights feature for everyone to try out. Personal blogging has gotten a big boost over the last…
We need to disincentivize dangerous photo ops
Dangerous photo ops are all the rage on social media. Countless stories over the last decade or so have hit the news about someone trying to get a selfie on a rock…
Most people live with technology being terrible
Jay Sitter, on people expecting technology to suck and just leaving the issues in place rather than fixing them: I’m in no way making light of these people knowing less than me…
How to move referenced originals in Photos for Mac
Warning!! I've only just hacked this solution together and I don't fully understand the ramifications of my actions yet. If there are any, I will update this post. First, a bit of…
Stephen Hackett on #iOS14Homescreen
Stephen Hackett: Customization and expression has always been part of personal technology, from this, to MySpace, to putting an Apple sticker on your car, to even picking what brand of home computer…
What I saw somewhat recently #70: September 24, 2020
Song Exploder is coming to Netflix – I've been a big fan of Song Exploder for a long time. One of my favorite episodes is Arrival but they are all very good….
Duck.com keeps growing. You should use it.
In 2014 I linked to a post that showed DuckDuckGo's daily search volume at roughly 5 million searches per day. In 2015 they had grown to 12 million per day. I hadn't…