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Excellent update to my preferred desktop feed reader, NetNewswire. I especially like "Reader View". Here is how it is described. Some sites only publish extracts of their full articles. Reader View can fetch the full article text and show it to you in NetNewsWire, so you don’t have to go to another app. There is a button to…
VSCO revives Kodachrome – To make a Kodachrome-inspired photo filter VSCO went to some pretty great lengths. #filmloadchallenge – A fun internet challenge thingy that I took part in. Some of the entries are pretty great so far. First underwater portrait – Pretty amazing work by Louis Boutan in 1899. Fall foliage map – Good for planning your…
Sarah Manavis: After numerous frustrated attempts to find a major new release, to like, comment on, or reply to messages and reviews, to add what they’ve read to their “shelf” or to discover new titles, users know they’ll be forced to give up, confronted with the fact that any basic, expected functionality will evade them. Sometimes even checking…
👉 Scott Jehl on Twitter: modern web dev is an extreme overreaction to not liking some php
Architectural decay – July & September 2020 Photos of dilapidated buildings, like these two, can be stared at for hours figuring out their histories. What vehicle had that oil leak? Why the plywood? Does that light work? Isn't anyone missing that dumpster? Both photos were shot on the Olympus Stylus 35mm point-and-shoot on Kodak Color Max 400 and…
Jeremy Keith: So that’s my modest proposal. Extend the list of possible values for the type attribute on the button element to include “share” (or something like that). In supporting browsers, it triggers a very bare-bones handover to the OS (the current URL and the current page title). In non-supporting browsers, it behaves like a button currently behaves….
Camerajunky (whose real name I cannot find, so perhaps this is likely on purpose): Of course there is also the fact that to get from the decisive moment to a print or even to a digital file, there is a lot of work involved. Prepare, shoot, make notes, develop,make notes again, scan, process digitally, catalog, select in multiple…
Back in August I linked to Jim Grey's list of photography blogs. At the time I subscribed to nearly every single one with an RSS feed. He has since updated the list a bit so I urge you to check it out. I've created an OPML file of my photography blog subscriptions which includes most of Jim's list…
Matt Webb finds himself on a bit of a tear on his personal blog: I’ve now been writing new posts for 24 consecutive weeks. Multiple posts a week. How on earth? I just calculated it, and I’ve added the live streak count to the site footer. I wonder how long I can keep it up. He goes on…
I can't remember where I first read or heard about Maine's light pollution ordinances but they are something that has been on my mind for many, many years. Successful designs do not threaten nighttime security, safety and utility, but reduce energy waste, emit less light pollution, and keep skies dark. Somewhat recently, near our now old apartment building,…
Austin Kleon: Every time I start a new post, I never know for sure where it’s going to go. This is what writing and making art is all about: not having something to say, but finding out what you have to say. It’s thinking on the page or the screen or in whatever materials you manipulate. Blogging has…
Don't forget, as of this writing there are 67 other lists like this one. Large Format Photography Podcast Flickr Group – I asked the hosts of the LFPP if they wouldn't mind if I created a Flickr Group for it and they said OK. So I did. How Flamingos eat – Fascinatingly odd. Winamp Skin Museum – Working…
Untappd, the app that helps me track the beers I've had, liked, disliked, etc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I signed up to Untappd in 2014 and used it for a little while but then kept forgetting to. But then, a few years ago, I decided to give it another try. The app had improved dramatically. In fact,…
35mm • Canon AE1-Program • Kodak Color Plus 200 Through the winery window, Keuka Lake, New York – March 2020 A quick snap on film through a winery window. I miss traveling a lot. I think that is why I'm not looking at or posting my own photos as often as I normally would.
Jack Baty: I’m here to tell you that I can not make it work for me. There’s too much overhead in having to decide what to add to a synced collection and when. And where to keep any synced originals? Do I do that in both apps? And so on. I seem to end up with duplicates for…
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. That's the saying, right? What can also happen, though, is that by doing your hobby as work you can suck all of the joy out of that hobby for yourself. I make some money doing photography. But, by and large, my photography is for me….
Eric Meyer: Inspired by Jonnie Hallman, I’ve added a couple of links to the bottom of RSS items here on meyerweb: a link to the commenting form on the post, and a mailto: link to send me an email reply. I prefer that people comment, so that other readers can gain from the reply’s perspective, but not all…
September already. Wild times. Fly through Longwood Gardens – A great drone fly-through of the Conservatory in Longwood Gardens. Roman Emperor Project – Daniel Voshart creates realistic impressions of ancient dudes using a neural net. Celui qui tombe – A fantastic visual and motion art piece. See also. Sounds of the Forest – A map filled with audio…
Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but because of Touch…
Marcus Peddle: Creating portfolio pages is a hassle on WordPress even though there are a number of photography templates. Adding photos is time consuming and I am rarely happy with the layout. Making albums and browsing on Flickr, however, is easy. I can make an album in just a couple of minutes and the layout is automatic and…
Luis Gabriel Santiago Alvarado, aka Gabz: The main reason I keep Instagram is the same reason most people won’t quit Facebook, I have friends and family I want to stay in contact with. Somehow Instagram seems to be the less Facebooky way of doing it, or at least in my head it is. I feel like there are…
Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now, as it clones TikTok, it is jamming those features into Instagram as well. The Snapchat-like features are easy enough to ignore if you don't like them….
Great list this week. See other lists. Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users. James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby's painstaking illustrations. Great work and website. Film Photography Blogs You Should Follow – A growing and great list from Jim Grey. I'll be sharing an OPML file of all of these in…
George R. R. Martin about his time writing in his mountain cabin: My life up here is very boring, it must be said. Truth be told, I hardly can be said to have a life. I have one assistant with me at all times (minions, I call them). The assistants do two-week shifts, and have to stay in…