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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 successfully monetized niche blogs in the past that made enough for a few incomes. I've only tried to monetize my personal blog a few times over…
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 ensure transparency to users as well as appropriate security oversight by governments in these countries. I cannot tell if this is a bad decision or a…
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 light with. I think I'll be ordering one of these. WindowSwap – See the view's of others from all over the world. Gigaleak – What a…
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 from Gary Larson – The Far Side's Larson is at it again. NEOWISE Gallery – Flickr is curating a gallery of images of the comet. Broken…
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 plug alert) to read later. After reading his post I realized he is attracted to Obsidian for the same reasons that I was to give it…
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, taken on a nature walk, was shot on the iPhone of an abandoned railroad building from the early 1900s.
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 that a few Apple people are still lingering on the WWDC hashtag. Here are my tweets: I have the second-best computer you sell, and facial recognition…
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 watch to it— it’s that consistent: What makes Monday so special? Well every Monday Spotify sends out a new Discover Weekly playlist. Discover Weekly is an…
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 jut let my mind riff for a while to see what it would come up with. Allow default app choosing on iOS – This one will…
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 like that. Here is a list of the updates to their photography apps. I really like this Versions feature in Lightroom – I just wish it…
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 time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in. 1 year of life = 1 minute of color. Touching project. /via Andy…
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 a post in response to his experiences I realized it was turning into a bit of a review – so now this post is a review….
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 into a natural optimism where I can’t help but be motivated to remix the idea into something new. Please read his entire post for the context…
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 ton of money over those 25 years. /via Michael Tsai.
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 Google and try again (though, really, you should be using Duck.com). I recently upgraded to a 16-inch MacBook Pro (review forthcoming) and had the opportunity to…
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 your blog feed there, but also RSS generated from your Twitter account (via RSS Box), Mastodon updates, or even the starred items of the feeds you…
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 started this site. I’m 41 now. A lot has happened in 18 years, but somehow it doesn’t feel like a long time has passed. Also, hot…
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 unsuccessful blogs. Much of the linked piece is likely to be taken as hyperbole but it is mostly true-ish. It is true that it is harder…
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 for small companies, families, and schools, with everything from shared photo blogs to podcasts. This is a big update. You may remember that I try to…
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 the paper. You then develop that paper into a positive print (or what you'd think of as a normal photo). This is a milestone in my…
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 it as the subject for my first contact print. You can read the behind-the-scenes story here on my blog. Also More also on Instagram.
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 buy it. Flower Garden without People – Dutch tulips, with no one to look at them. Excellent photographs from the aforementioned Albert Dros. C/2020 F8 (SWAN)…
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 when I captured these images.