I’ve updated to Big Sur. I’ve been running for a little while. It is very good. It is also stable. And I like the refreshed UI.
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Our kitchen garbage can has a robot in it. It is a terrible robot and it is terrible at its job. Some things simply do not need robots in them.
Mitch’s typical day
Mitch, in his typical day post, regarding his 6:15am Twitter habit: This probably isn’t a great morning habit but four years of endless crises have pretty much drilled into me to take…
Photos Takeout
Photos Takeout (no doubt a play on the name of Google's own Takeout data service): Export photos and videos from Photos on Mac in yearwise, album-wise or moment/date-wise folders. Save them in…
Why I still use RSS – Marc
Some blogger named Marc: I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS. I can't argue with this. Also, this bit: However it wasn't until I began working…
We must be nearing 20″ of snow so far and it is still coming fast.
Uninstalling Twitter has been a boon to my productivity. It has also already impacted my ability to focus. I started a book!
Anton Sten’s typical day
Anton Sten: 8.30 – 9.00 PM – Answer Slack / Figma / Notion comments that come in so they’ll have a chance to respond again ahead of my day tomorrow. I’ll keep this…
Dave Rupert’s typical day
Dave Rupert: Also, in a week or so I’ll be in my new backyard office workspace. This will hopefully shift my productivity windows a bit and enforce a proper lunch routine where…
Martin Wolf’s typical day
Martin Wolf: 7:00am — Hobby time. I paint Warhammer miniatures. Fascinating to see people's hobbies sprinkled into these. I also like that this series of posts is beginning to run away with itself where people…
Matthias Ott’s typical day
Matthias Ott: I envy people like Sara Soueidan or Dan Mall who get up really early to do creative, meaningful work in the calmer morning hours before the busyness of the day…
Audio: Mistakes have been made (special episode of the podcast)
Recorded January 27, 2021. In this special episode of Photowalking with Colin I cover some recent mistakes I've made with film and in the darkroom. It seems we (the collective we) mainly…
Lucy Bellwood on blogging
Lucy Bellwood: Some of it is using an RSS reader to change the cadence and depth of my consumption—pulling away from the quick-hit likes of social media in favor of a space…
Om Malik compares the iPhone to the Kodak Brownie
Om Malik: Prior to the Brownie, a photo trip to capture a far-flung environment was an expedition that often involved porters, mules, and explosions. The adventurous photographer would need to carry heavy…
I’m releasing some code projects
When I first started hacking away at a computer (sometime just after the first Jurassic Park film was released in theaters), and ultimately hacking away on the web, people would release small…
Cassie Evans’ typical day
Cassie Evans' typical day: One thing that doesn't change is that I try to approach my days gently. I listen to how I'm feeling and adjust my plans to fit around that. I…
Chris McLeod’s typical day
Chris McLeod: Like most people I suspect I have days where I don't feel like I've actually achieved anything, and others where I'm amazed by how much it seems I've made it…
I shouldn’t share my film negative scans at all. I should only scan prints I’ve made in the darkroom. That’s the true photo.
Spotify is (was?) the best place to listen to music. It is, unequivocally, the worst place to listen to podcasts. They’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars and their experience is the worst. I hope they are working on something great.
Rob Weychert’s typical day
Rob Weychart, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: I keep my personal and professional web browsing segregated to different browsers, and I use a plugin to block Twitter, news, and other…
Sara Soueidan’s typical day
Sara Soueidan, who was tagged by Dan, whom I tagged: I think of day and time management in terms of blocks. Or, chunks of time, so to speak. I divide my day into “activity blocks” that…
Mike Carbone’s typical day
Mike Carbone, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 10:30am: Wake up OK, straight out of the gate this young lad is showing off. He continues… 4pm-6pm: Lift and work. This is something new I've…
The best of 2020 as told by me
I didn't want to get too deep into 2021 before I compiled my best of list for 2020. I usually begin to compile this list somewhere near the beginning of December and…
Courthouse Square, Honesdale, PA – January 2021
Courthouse Square, Honesdale, PA – January 2021 A commercial use license is now available for these photos. On Friday I drove to Honesdale to pick up some takeout food (Honesdale has some…
Dan Mall’s typical day
Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 7:30pm–8:30pm: Optional work wrap-up time if there’s anything urgent from the day. I envy that he has that evening time-slot to be productive. I find that my evenings…
Jeremy Keith’s typical day
Jeremy Keith, whom I tagged: Y’know, in the Before Times I think this would’ve been trickier. What with travelling and speaking, I didn’t really have a “typical” day …and I liked it…
Noah Read’s typical day
Noah Read: Most of the fall was absorbed with house-hunting, purchasing, finding new renters for our previous home, prepping for the move, moving, and unpacking. This has taken any spare moment and…
Chris Coyier’s typical day
Chris Coyier: That long of a workday means that I can be very flexible without feeling behind. If I need to run any sort of errand, I do. If I need to…
Film cameras in TV and movies
Mike Eckman: If you’re like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. I've been known to pause to figure out…
Julia Evans on Docker Compose
Julia Evans: I’m very happy about this because previous to trying Docker Compose I spent two days getting frustrated with trying to set up a dev environment with other tools and Docker…