Kentucky Bourbon Trail – October 2019
Kentucky Bourbon Trail – October 2019 Earlier this month we visited Kentucky (just about 18-months since our last visit) with some friends to explore the Kentucky Bourbon Trail again. It was a…
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Nick Carver on his photographs
Nick Carver, in an interview by Cody Schultz in early 2018: Certain artworks I've seen throughout my life have had a powerful impact on me. When I look at a painting by…
Podcast: State Game Lands – October 2019
State Game Lands – October 2019 To get the story behind these photos, listen to the State Game Lands episode of Photowalking with Colin. Be sure to subscribe! I had an amazing…
Podcast: Flying a drone at sunset – October 2019
Flying a drone at sunset – October 2019 This image is from my Flying a drone at sunset episode of Photowalking with Colin. You can listen to that episode above to get…
Photos from the Off to the pub episode of Photowalking with Colin
I'm unsure of the best way to share the photos for each episode of my podcast. But for now, I'll create a post for each episode that I share photos from. Open…
Podcast: Prompton Lake – October 2019
Prompton Lake – October 2019 I shot these photos while recording the Prompton Lake episode of my new podcast Photowalking with Colin. Be sure to find the podcast wherever you listen to…
Alastair Humphreys on blogging for 18 years
Alastair Humphreys, adventurer, blogger: I wrote my stories as I cycled around the world and updated my website intermittently whenever I found an internet connection stable enough to send a bunch of…
Thoughts on the Microsoft Surface event
I'm pretty excited for Microsoft. I've been excited for what they've been doing as a company, on several fronts, for a few years now. I won't rehash all of the nice things…
Audio: Read the manual (again)
Recorded September 30, 2019 Have you already read the manual for a product you own? After you've used it for a while, I recommend reading it again.
Twitter Lists are having a moment
Twitter recently released an updated UI that allows you to "pin" Lists you've created to your Home timeline view. This makes it possible to swipe between each List quickly. It is a…
This new logo for Sandwich Video was exactly what I needed to see this Friday.
Auto Draft
Just recovered 15GB of disk space after deleting the expired cache that is built by WP Fastest Cache. I'm starting to think this plugin isn't the best one to use.
Cape Cod – September 2019
Cape Cod – September 2019 Eliza, her mother, and I spent the very last few days of Summer in Cape Cod – whale watching, shopping, and barbecuing.
iPadOS comes out tomorrow. It appears to be an incredible update. Here is an excellent video overview from Christopher Lawley.
As I've done in the past this time of year, I'm taking a social media break. I'm aiming for 60 days but it could be more or less based on my mood….
Colin Walker on choosing the best devices
Colin Walker nails how I'm making decisions on what hardware I'm purchasing: I'm largely platform agnostic and have always been able to achieve what I wanted regardless of what device I was…
Audio: Publishing to YouTube
Some random banter about publishing on YouTube. Links: Random 60 on YouTube
Android 10 apps that support Dark Theme
Ben Schoon: The majority of Google apps support this system-wide toggle, but few third-party developers have followed the company’s lead. Here are some non-Google apps that support Android 10’s dark mode toggle….
Things about the iPhone 11 Pro that weren’t mentioned in the Keynote
…or, if they were mentioned, they were mentioned only briefly, but I found them to be intriguing. 2x more height on panoramas (63MP image) water resistance is up to 12ft for 30…
Wishes for today’s Apple Event
In my Pixel 4 wish list I may have overstated my current position on my choosing Android or iOS in my next phone. I wrote: As my time to upgrade my phone…
Audio: Everyone should have a podcast?
I think it is better said; Everyone should be able to have a podcast. Links: How I Built It – by Joe Casabona
PowerToys for Windows 10
Windows PowerToys is back! And, it is open source. Brandon LeBlanc: PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by…
Rickett’s Glen Falls Trail – September 2019
Rickett's Glen Falls Trail – September 2019
Andy Sylvester on making blogging a priority
Andy Sylvester: The other important part of the habit was making it a priority (I tried writing at lunch before, but ran out of time after web surfing, so I changed the…
Supporting OS-level Dark Mode preference using only CSS
My blog's theme is based on Davis by Anders Norén. I've been using it for a while, making small tweaks here and there for my images index and other things. It has…
Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn't that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about…
American Herring Gull, Connecticut – August 2019
American Herring Gull, Connecticut – August 2019
Repost: Adam Tinworth on blogging
👉 Adam Tinworth: In an age where the shortness and speed of content, of hot takes and clickbait, there's still a role for slower, more considered writing. And that's why I carry…
Bad reasons not to blog
There are a lot of bad reasons not to blog. Here are a few of them and why they are bad. Someone already wrote about this. Terrible reason. You didn't write about…
Jake Dahn returns to blogging
Jake Dahn, who co-authored a blog called Waking Ideas with Danny Nicolas over 10 years ago: I’ll write some thoughts in another post about why I’m getting back into blogging. But for…