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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.

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Manton’s photos

Manton Reece is posting photos to his site now too. Regarding not doing so prior: I need to change that. I do like the Instagram app, though, so I’m going to keep using it. I’ll just copy the photos over to my site as well, and I’ll use Workflow on iOS to help automate it. I too like…

A few wishes for Photos for OS X

I’ve just crested 40,000 photos in my Photos for OS X library with about 20,000 more to import from Picturelife. After using the app for a few days I have a few things I’d love to see in future updates. Speed – My 60-some-odd-thousand photos is far from abnormal. I would think that Photos for OS X should be…

Untitled

Added a new content type called statuses to my site. It should be interesting to see where this goes.

Fits and starts and homesteading

I annoy myself. I want to post content to my own personal site and not through closed social networks — because I want to keep control of everything I create forever. But the networks are so easy to use and work everywhere and more people read them than read this site. Over the years I’ve said that I…

First paddle of 2016

The call of the wild is strong. I’ve been working from home this week as we’ve decided to close our shared office space in Scranton. Nice weather pulls me outdoors. When I’m working downtown, and the weather is above freezing, I am pulled towards going for a short jaunt to shoot photos of local buildings. But when I’m…

NEPA WordPress Meetup February 2016

Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for February 2016. The weather got a bit crazy yesterday and so the organizers, Phil & Joe, decided to take the meetup online rather than at Coalwork. So that’s what we did. We chatted using Google Hangouts and answered questions presented to us via Slack. It seemed to work pretty well….