Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is…
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Cloudfare seeks to end the madness that is CAPTCHA
Cloudfare: Today, we are launching an experiment to end this madness. We want to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch…
Most of the time I have no issues with OneDrive. It is just in the background working. But now and then I do wish it didn’t fail so silently. I’d much rather it pop up and yell that it isn’t working properly.
Cory Doctorow writes about 20 years of blogging
Here are a few bits from Cory Doctorow's Medium post on blogging: The genius of the blog was not in the note-taking, it was in the publishing. The act of making your log-file…
Yesterday was fun.
Everyone’s Twitter bio should probably have the word investor in it by now. The word’s meaning (and perhaps weight) have changed a lot over the last 10 years.
What I saw somewhat recently #77: May 13, 2021
Me, using a typewriter. Photo by Eliza. Ogi – A search engine that attempts to exclude commercially driven results. Stumbled – StumbleUpon reborn. Random URLs. Just hit next. Paleobiology Database Navigator -…
Trial Micro.blog for podcasting
Manton Reece: To celebrate the launch of version 1.1, we’re enabling podcast hosting for all paid Micro.blog accounts for the next 2 weeks. You can publish a podcast episode to your blog…
Jim Nielsen brings back Readlists
Jim Nielsen: After about five years of constant inner complaining—“ugh, I wish Readlists was still around“—I finally asked myself: “well then why don’t you recreate it?” This is exactly the same reason why Unmark…
Gave The Watercolor Gallery website a spit shine.
Robin Rendle on blog post titles
Robin Rendle: I love it when blog post titles are indecipherable to search engines. There are exceptions, like when you want to document a technical thing and so you should have a…
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021 All frames made yesterday at around 7am in the garden.
Tip for NetNewsWire
Here is a tip for subscribing to new blogs in the middle of a NetNewsWire session. If you are like me (and, lord I hope for your sake you aren't) then you…
What I saw somewhat recently #76: May 6, 2021
Male Goldfinches visit our backyard feeder Enjoy this week's links. Gareth Wild parks in every spot – This is a level of nerdy that I aspire to. Romain Laurent – I dig…
Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet
Recently there was a discussion on Micro.blog about having a bookmarklet that made it simple to post a link to a page you were viewing. And while there are solutions and workarounds,…
Email: Are you the right person to contact about posting to your website?
Me: You’d be better off contacting Albert Einstein.
OSXPhotos – Query Photos.app with Python
Rhet Turnbull on Github describes OSXPhotos this way: Python app to export pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos…
I just published an all-new artist interview with Matthew Cogswell in Los Angeles over on The Watercolor Gallery. Amazing talent.
Reasons to like wasps
Chris Glass: This wasp dropped from the air and on to my desk — moving carefully, slowly. First of all, there are zero reasons to like wasps. Zero. They should go extinct….
What I saw somewhat recently #75: April 29, 2021
Our tulips are opening up Now that I've reached 75 of these posts I want to spruce them up a little. I'm going to start posting every single Thursday and I'd like…
Thanks to everyone that has purchased or donated to my projects lately. I have development chemicals, paper, and a viewfinder I need to buy soon so these donations help.
Today there are updates for both Red Oak and Cypress for Micro.blog! Red Oak gets the ability to choose different colors and Cypress gets Dark Mode! Both options available in config.json. These updates should roll out today.
For a few brief moments this weekend I was able to pull out my two favorite pieces of kit. I’m really hoping I can take a lot more photos on film over the next few months as things open up a little.
What Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram did to blogging — Spotify and Apple Podcasts are attempting to do to Podcasts.
Make it dead simple but put it in a silo and position themselves between the creator from the customer.
What I saw somewhat recently #74: April 22, 2021
Wormhole – Send up to 10GB files, E2EE. Swipey Image Grids – Very cool use of SVG and practical application from Cassie Evans. Wednesdays in Marblehead – What a great photo project….
Red Oak for WordPress is turning out pretty great. Looking forward to getting it out there next week. Red Oak for Micro.blog will be getting bug fixes soon too. Did you know it was already live?
They should try putting an M1 chip in Apple Music.
I made progress on Red Oak for WordPress. Looking like release next week. On Micro.blog it should appear in the Design settings very soon for people to test out. Please report any issues you have. I’m sure there will be some.
Photopea – A free browser-based Photoshop
Ivan Kutskir, the one-person team behind Photopea: My friends and my family did not know about Photopea during the first four years of development. I was spending a lot of time building…
Thanks to everyone that sent in bugs with Red Oak for Micro.blog. I’ve pushed several updates that address all of the known bugs for now. I’m sure there will be more but may not be able to fully test it until people install it.