Longer-form posts and essays.

Lost 30 frames of film due to the camera not advancing the film. C’est la vie.

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.

Looking forward to participating in an upcoming 127 Day.

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 weeks later, on…

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. November 9 Fireball – I love this site that gathers all of the witness reports, images, and videos (I…

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.

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.

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 about the longevity…

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.

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 I have rattling…

Snap introduces Spotlight inside of Snapchat

Snap: Submit your best video Snaps to Spotlight for the opportunity to earn a share of more than $1 million that we’re distributing to creators every day! Go big or go home I guess. Snap puts a TikTok-like feed right inside of Snapchat and is giving away a million dollars per day to ensure they get the best…

Apple Arcade recommendations?

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 both iOS and…

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. I've written about attending previous Venture Idol's at Ben Franklin TechVentures, the building in which a previous employer of mine was in for years, and how…

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 tilt. Imagine that!

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 in February (I…

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 entire time it…

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 not finished cooking….

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 research study on…

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. My experiences learning…

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 only like because…

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 those plus a…

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 free you from…