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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 closing day, I…
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 wish I could…
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 of my day.
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 HP5+. When I…
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 publish it before the new year starts – but I didn't get that chance this year. The most difficult part about making this list each year…
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. Now there is….
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 I’ve meaningfully eaten…
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 be. To that…
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, DOCKER COMPOSE IS…
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 they had more…
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 about the most…
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 been affected by…
For those wondering, everything is going great in the darkroom.
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.
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.
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 AE-1 Program.
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 why with ProRAW…
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 always look on…
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 and it can…
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 while on a…
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 a telephoto. I…
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 and I love…
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. Honestly, I had…
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 house and it…