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Microsoft: This new structure would build on the experience TikTok users currently love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections. The operating model for the service would be built to…
Tim Bray: But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. Also, this bit: Since most of us don’t even try to monetize ’em, they’re pretty ad-free and thus a snappy reading experience. I've…
Papyrus SNL – This skit recently came back to memory during a meeting at work. KEKS Lightmeter – I have a few cameras that I need to use my iPhone to meter…
A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra's post about trying out Obsidian. I didn't have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless…
Unfortunately I haven't published one of these lists since April. I enjoy looking back at the archives so I need to post these regularly more-so for me than for you! New Stuff…
Shattered window panes – July 2020 I haven't been shooting very many photos in the last few weeks. Partially because life is very busy and also due to the pandemic. This photo,…
Steve Benjamins, in a post showing how he makes some money via Spotify for streaming his music: Every Monday my music gets a spike in streams on Spotify. You could set a…
I'm old, so I can still call them tweetstorms rather than threads. I just posted a tweetstorm regarding Photos for Mac on Catalina. I posted it there because I'm sort of hoping…
Big updates across all apps and services from Adobe coinciding with their 99u event. Notably, Creative Cloud went from 100GB to 1TB with no additional cost. I wish Apple would do something…
I see some wish lists for Monday's WWDC being published so I thought I'd take a moment and jot down just a few from the top of my head. I decided to…
Adrian Brandon: This series is dedicated to the many black people that were robbed of their lives at the hands of the police. In addition to using markers and pencil, I use…
I was going to wait a little bit longer before writing my review of this new computer, but Michael Tsai recently published some of his thoughts on it and – after writing…
This isn't a tutorial. If you're in need of one and you've somehow stumbled onto my blog of jumbled thoughts on a variety of topics, sorry. You'll need to go back to…
PHP turns 25. I've said that I agree that PHP is pretty bad. However, I still use it regularly, it has allowed me to make some incredible things, and made me a…
Jake Dahn: In many ways it feels like the more “information” I consume, the more burnt out I become. And: Ideas feel different, though. When I consume a new idea, I fall…
Marcus Herrmann: Personal website owners – what do you think about collecting all of the feeds you are producing in one way or the other on a /feeds page? You can put…
TTTThis: When you search for blogs now on you see things like 'Top 100 Blogs.' 'How to Make a Successful Blog.' 'Most Powerful 50 Blogs.' But what you really want is 10,000…
Chris Coleman: Eventually I ran out of steam, life changed a bit, and the vacuum that this site filled in my day was filled by other things. I was 23 when I…
Exposed root – April 2020 If you walk through the same forest for months and months – you begin to notice the details you’d normally miss. Also on Flickr, Instagram.
Manton Reece: Today we’re launching a new feature on Micro.blog: support for multi-user blogs, so your whole team can write posts on a shared blog. We think it’s going to be great…
Flowers – May 2020 The above image is a digital positive created from a paper negative. It was handcut from Ilford photo paper, shot, developed by me last night. I also used…
Contact print Above is my first ever contact print. A contact print is when you lay a negative (film, paper, tin, glass) onto photo-sensitive paper and shine light onto it to expose…
Birds on wires – January 2020 Somehow these images got clogged into my drafts and never published. These pigeons roost above and below a nearby highway bridge. They were enjoying the sunset…
Are you enjoying these links? I know I am. Worlds Largest Puzzle – Seems terribly reasonable that this is priced at only $600. I sent this to my parents half hoping they'd…
Late last week I published an interview with Marco Taro Holmes, one of the original members of Urban Sketchers, on my now 10-year old web site The Watercolor Gallery. It was a…
I'll likely touch on this topic in an upcoming pandemic powered Podcast episode. Albert Dros, 2017: Sometimes the area where you live would not be motivating to photograph because you see these…
A few houseplants – April 2020 On Sunday morning I decided to quickly set up a photo shoot for my current houseplants. Here are just a few that I liked. The others…
Mic & Nics Photographing Mic & Nics – January 2020 Recorded January 15, 2020 You may recognize this building. I wrote about how I practiced my light metering with it. Well, I…
👉 Brent Simmons: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.
A few links to expand (or shrink) your mind. WildEarth Live Safaris – Two 3-hour safaris live broadcast on YouTube daily. I've watched one completely through and plan to watch more of…