Unmark chosen for GitHub’s Archive Program
Unmark, the open source bookmarking app that you can use for free on our hosted service or grab your own copy on GitHub, was selected to be included in GitHub's Archive Program….
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Delay updating to Big Sur
macOS Big Sur will be released to the public tomorrow. As I did with iOS 14 this year, I'll be waiting for at least two releases before I update. Josh Centers for…
Jack Baty on being burnt out of film photography
Jack Baty: The trouble, I'm finding, is that I don't really like the results I'm getting. I've shot maybe 20 rolls of film this year and a couple dozen large format negatives….
Learning SwiftUI is tough because it is still early days
Back in early October I quipped that I was opening Xcode to start a new project. I have no qualms in telling you that the project was going to be a Mac…
We need to do more about light pollution
Paul M. Sutter for Universe Today: For years we’ve assumed that streetlights are the main culprit behind light pollution, but a recent study has shown that streetlights contribute no more than 20%…
But she’s a girl on Obsidian
But she's a girl…: I wanted something that operated on plain-text files kept in a local folder, and that also had a graph view: that was the feature in org-roam that really made…
Worst iOS feature by far; you open an app and you’re no longer where you left off. 13 years in this should be fixed.
Om Malik: Why bother with film?
Om: One aspect of film that I have personally found appealing is the restrictions it imposes. Film photography is about constraints. It limits the frames at your disposal. It limits the capability…
What I’m looking for in a note taking app: works exactly like Simplenote, except it saves Markdown files to disk. Does this really not exist?
I have an overwhelming number of personal technology tasks that I’d like to tackle that I’m not motivated to do any of them.
Chris Coleman on The Mandalorian Season 2
Chris Coleman, my longtime Star Wars sensei: I have some quick thoughts on The Mandalorian Season 2 that I need to get out of my brain before Chapter 9 is released in…
My iPhone updated itself to 14.1 last night on its own. I have never had automatic updates on. That is very weird.
Annihilation – Scranton, July 2020
Shot on 35mm Kodak Color 400 with Olympus Stylus Annihilation – Scranton, July 2020 This ivy is going to find its way in.
Andy Baio interviews the owner of the house on Blue Lick Road
Andy Baio: But a larger question remained: what’s the deal with this place? Whoever owned it, they were too organized to be hoarders. The home appeared to double as the office and warehouse for…
Sketch on native Mac apps
Sketch: Native apps bring so many benefits — from personalization and performance to familiarity and flexibility. And while we’re always working hard to make Cloud an amazing space to collaborate, we still…
I keep having coffee cravings at night.
Brain Pickings turns 14
Maria Popova: The challenge has never been more colossal than this past year — the most trying I have lived through, by orders of magnitude. Depression has lowered its leaden cloudscape over…
Obsidian didn’t stick, for me
Back in May I came across Obsidian, a knowledge base app that stores your information in Markdown files. I used it a bit here and there until, in July, I stumbled onto…
What I saw somewhat recently #71: October 22, 2020
Photographers whose work I've recently been exposed to: William Eggleston, Consuelo Kanaga, Fan Ho. Peggy Anne Marsh's Camera List – Looking for a camera review? Peggy may very likely have reviewed it….
Do you use the Web Share API?
If you use the Web Share API, Jeremy Keith is looking for more feedback. I’m not expecting anything to happen anytime soon, but it would be really good to gather as much…
I’m a huge red onion fan.
Gorgeous pinhole photograph by Michael McNeil in Ireland
Michael McNeil: It's the first time I've used this film, so it was all a bit of an experiment. As usual, I did no research before I went out. I appreciate how…
Video: How Unmark works
Update (October 2026): Unmark’s hosted service no longer accepts new sign-ups. For my current bookmarking app, see Rinku, its free, open source, local-first successor. Today I recorded a quick few minute walkthrough…
At a stop light in Scranton, Pennsylvania around 5pm on October 13, 2020. Nothing glamorous today for Micro.blog’s A Day in the Life – just driving to get grocery pick-up.
No matter what Apple announces today, I hope the iPhone 12 proves to be a solid, reliable computing device for Eliza. Her iPhone Xs has given her a lot of issues over the last few months.
Clicking the “Create a new Xcode project” button.
I am “my compost pile makes me exceedingly happy” years old.
If you own an Epson scanner you may be able to get Silverfast SE (a much more robust and quicker scanning software) for free. Get your serial number and go here.
Podcast: Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020
Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020 Recorded in September 2020. Holy cow a new episode! Finally. Sorry for the wait for those that are subscribed to the podcast….