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  • Add hl=languagecode to any Instagram URL to load a language. Example: My profile in Dutch.

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  • Mastodon.social seems super slow this morning. Is this really because Jack stepped down as Twitter CEO? Or coincidental?

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  • Video: Sandbridge Beach Houses

    Spend 30-odd minutes with me going through each photo from the Sandbridge Beach House series. This was fun to do, I might do more of them. Also available on Instagram. If you like it, jump over to YouTube and hit the like and subscribe button.

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #88: November 24, 2021

    The above photo is a small Rainbow Trout fry that I pulled from the creek in my yard. It looks like it may have had a run-in with a Heron, Mink, Raccoon or some other predator. Let’s get to some random links that I managed to set aside for y’all. OK, that is good enough […]

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  • Sponsorship of The Watercolor Gallery is now booked through January. After 10+ years of curating the gallery I’m glad I started sponsorship this year. If you’d like to support the gallery monetarily you can sponsor or donate.

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  • I miss spaghetti code. Frameworks, structure, unit testing, documentation… so boring!

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  • Did some work on The Watercolor Gallery today with new features, spruced up some old paintings, updated the about page, added a donate page, and a bunch more.

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  • I’m thinking of attempting to recruit a bunch of photographers for #FlickrFebruary where we only post to Flickr and no where else all month. Thoughts?

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  • Yesterday I published an interview with the NFT artist and watercolorist AnimaToey from Bangkok, Thailand over on The Watercolor Gallery.

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  • I published a new photo series Sandbridge Beachhouses into my portfolio (and on Flickr, IG, Tweet). Click the image to see more of them.

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  • No Time To Die was just OK.

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  • Digital Ocean’s free static site hosting is a very quick and easy way to deploy small JavaScript-only apps.

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  • Penelope update, November 2021.

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  • I wonder which Micro.blog member lives closest to me?

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  • If you’re reading this and are a Digital Ocean guru, I’d love your help. I have 3 droplets and 1 app and I’d love to see if I have them configured properly, make sure they are up-to-date, etc.

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  • Deleting data from Google Photos is criminally difficult.

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  • I’m going to try to wait a few months before updating to macOS Monterey. Especially after reading reports like this. Last year I was able to wait until February.

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  • I’ll be live on Instagram tonight with a friend in Oregon. We will be scanning negatives, developing film, etc. Join us at 7pm eastern.

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  • Datafilm – Log your film photo EXIF data

    Today I stumbled across Datafilm, a free iOS app for film photographers to log their photo EXIF data on the go, via Japan Camera Hunter’s blog. The app is being made by Vincent Tantardini. Datafilm describes itself this way: Datafilm is the note app designed for film photographers, focused on simplicity, ease of use and […]

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  • Micro.blog adds Flickr support

    Manton Reece: This is for people who have a Flickr account that has gone unused, but who know there’s value on Flickr if only it was easier to remember to use it. Nice simple feature. I’m sure many will dig it. Glad to see Flickr being added to anything these days. All Flickr fans should […]

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  • Where I was for a week.

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  • Twitter’s project Bluesky seems stuck in the mud

    Yesterday I randomly wondered what the status of Twitter’s Bluesky project was – a project that promises to create a protocol for federating the microblogging platform in the same way that SMTP/IMAP does for email. So I poked around. The Twitter account seems all but dormant. So then I logged into their Discord guild (Discord […]

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  • I’ve turned off cross-posting to Twitter from my blog. I found it caused me to hit ‘publish’ less often.

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  • Anyone else on Big Sur have to force quit Finder once a week to get Airdrop from Finder work again? Just me?

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  • Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20

    Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith’s blog. Jeremy Keith: Many’s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social networks. I’m glad that I’ve managed to avoid that fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on […]

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #87: October 8, 2021

    Southern BBQ Almost a month since my last list. I’ve been busy. The photo above is a homemade southern BBQ I made last weekend. Smoked brisket, collards, Mac and cheese, cornbread, pickles and onions. All made by Eliza and I. Now, onto the links: I have a backlog the length of a DNA strand. I’ll […]

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  • Photographing 40-foot Falls in Archbald, PA just after Hurricane Ida

    40-foot falls is a waterfall I had no idea existed until just this year despite living in this area of Northeastern Pennsylvania for the majority of my life. I heard about it from a YouTube video by Dale Keklock, a local historian of sorts that is painstakingly documenting the now moribund coal industry in our […]

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  • A few 2020 lockdown panoselfies. #panoselfie

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  • I predict Adam Mosseri’s resignation within 90 days. He’s constantly saying things that make him the story rather than Instagram. I doubt Zuckerberg will put up with that for too long.

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  • Is anyone giving consideration to using iCloud+ Mail to replace Gmail for Domains? I am.

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  • Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list

    Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This […]

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  • App idea: Instagram but for photos.

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  • Gut reaction to today’s Apple Event: Solid, reasonable updates but nothing amazing? Perhaps I have to dig deeper. I’m sure a lot of work went into the improvements.

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021

    I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I’ve added several portraits including Max, Anthony, Zombie, and Bill. My goal is far more portraits moving forward. I’d love your feedback on them! You can […]

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  • Dave Rupert on blog post hits

    Dave Rupert: Two posts that I thought would be bangers got nearly zero reach. The inverse law of blogging strikes again! The Surprise Chain is a post I quite literally worked on for over six years, but it got under a thousand hits. CSS Modules-in-CSS Module Scripts did a little better but I’m not cashing any blogging […]

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  • I’ve added two new portfolio pieces to my site; Max and Anthony. More to come. You can see them on Instagram as well. Here are some photos from last night’s session in the darkroom.

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  • How I turned off social media apps on my iPhone

    Last week we took a road trip for a few days away for our anniversary. During that time I wanted to disconnect from social media, news, etc. as much as possible. My goal was to stop my muscle memory from opening the apps I tend to open every single day. I found an iOS setting […]

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  • Taking a few days off from the web. 👋

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  • Glass observations

    Glass, a new photo sharing app, has been making the rounds this week since it launched to the public, via an invite only roll out, and has had a fair bit of press and photographer fain fare. I gave away a few invites myself. First, a bit of background material you may want to peruse […]

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  • Nicky Case on RSS

    Nicky Case: RSS works on a “don’t call me, I’ll call you” policy. I like that line. Readers of this blog need not be reminded of the value of RSS (nor of my love of it). But I thought Nicky’s post on RSS was worthy of a link anyway.

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  • Bluesky

    Bluesky: We’re focusing on re-building the social web by connecting disconnected silos and returning control of the social experience to users. Our mission is to develop and drive the adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation. A Twitter-backed organization to decentralize social media. It has been a slow start but the group had […]

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  • An updated list of film photography blogs by Jim Grey

    Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films, getting out and shooting, and looking at the resulting photographs. Lots of us share our adventures on our blogs. He removed my blog […]

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  • Watching Micro Camp videos.

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  • AirPods Pro observations

    My wife recently gifted me a pair of AirPods Pro for our 22nd Anniversary which is coming up in a few days. She loves her AirPods. She has repeatedly said “these are my favorite Apple product ever” and she’s owned many products made by Apple including iPhones, Apple Watches, laptops, and iPads — all great […]

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  • Just re-upped our 1Password family plan for another year. A no-brainer. 1Password is so good.

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  • Dug up a rather large, three-tiered Yellowjacket nest this morning before leaving for work.

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  • Good murder mystery movies, fire them at me.

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #85: August 5, 2021

    Penelope in a basket This week was full of family visitors and new kittens. Oh, and of course links!

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  • Oh crap. I have an idea.

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  • I would like to take fall and winter off from my day job to work on my software projects.

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