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Recorded on February 18, 2022 Join me as I scan some photos and chat about starting things and finishing things. Are you dealing with the same thing? Write a comment! (Audio clip unfound. I'll try to restore this file in the future.)
Penelope, January 2022 This week I feel like I'm at war with my photo library. I'm attempting to move files around, verify back ups, and generally do a clean up – and at every step I feel like the photo library is winning. I continue to wish this were easier. Onto the links! MapOut – This app looks…
Tom MacWright: There just aren’t as many active blogs as there were in the past. I think this has amplified the benefits of blogging: you can make more of an impact and create more of an identity with a blog than you can with Twitter or any siloed social network. I was just having this discussion with someone….
No, this doesn't have anything to do with blockchain. Joel Spolsky writing about Block Protocol: As a result of the non-standardization of blocks, our end-users suffer. If someone is using my blog engine, they can only use those blocks that I had time to implement. Those blocks may be pretty basic or incomplete. Users might want to use…
All this hubbub around Spotify and podcasts reminded me to try out their app to see if they've improved since last year. They haven't. It is still a terrible app to watch/listen to podcasts.
For context, you may want to read my post from early January I am quitting social media. There were two main actions I took when I decided to pull the plug on social media. First, I unsubscribed from all accounts in every platform. RSS feeds deleted. Twitter follows razed. Instagram follows flushed. YouTube subscriptions obliterated. All without any…
Never play Wordle before coffee.
I’m planning to write about how leaving social media has benefitted me, what I’ve done with that time, and further steps I’d like to take.
I'm looking forward to using the updated Apple Music app in macOS 12.2. I'll likely update today.
I've decided not to buy the current crypto dip. I just don't care about speculation anymore. I now own almost zero crypto, which I hope will help me to stay objective in my opinion of it.
Star Wars Visions was a lot of fun.
Feels good to be slowly adding some new RSS feeds to NetNewswire.
cdevroe.com weighs in at approximately 5.3GB. Or, almost 1GB greater than March of last year.
I've been meaning to link to Robin Sloan's "counterweight to the growing hype" of Web3 for many weeks and forgotten. I think it pairs nicely with my link to Molly White's Web3 hype damper. Robin's piece does more than simply attempt to squash the excitement of someone curious about Web3. It is a fair and balanced argument, showing…
Moxie Marlinspike*, ex-CEO of Signal, on Web3: I decided to explore some of what has been happening in that space more thoroughly to see what I may be missing. To explore Web3 he built a "distributed app" that tracked NFT derivatives and also minted an NFT that turned into a poop emoji once you added it to your…
Readers of my blog may already be familiar with my thoughts on crypto and NFTs. To reiterate, in short; I'm bullish on blockchain, so-so on Bitcoin, looking closely at Ethereum, and skeptical about the longterm benefits of NFTs (though I think they could be a useful technology). If I had to summarize my opinion on the space in…
I double checked my OneDrive photo library back up and realized it was missing about 10,000 files. So I'm redoing that entire backup from scratch.
Tomorrow marks three weeks off of social media. It has been fantastic. I plan on writing a post about the journey so far after a full month. If you have any questions, let me know.
I linked to photographer Luisa Dorr on January 6th, Kottke did on January 7th. Just sayin'.
At a recent distillery tasting Wow, 90 of these. I hope at or before 100 I go back through them all and pull forward some of my favorites. I hope most of these links still exist! Craig Pindell – I've been enjoying photos and the pages on his site. Unflinching Grace – A documentary about three women photojournalists….
P. I. Moore in continuance of my quitting social media post writes: This couldn’t resonate with me more. Through having my own plans and ambitions going forward to better both myself and my writing, the strive to regain control of what I let into my own mind—and draw from my focus—will be under vast scrutiny.
Mostly. And, for a year. Or more. What started out as a routine flushing of my social media accounts, something I’ve done on more than one occasion in the past, has now turned into a strong desire to leave social media behind for good. And so I'm doing just that. My main reasons for waiting to cut off…
Cypress for Micro.blog has received a bug fix release (thanks Manton). If you're using the theme you may want to make sure you're using the latest version. More fixes coming for Cypress.
Made some postcards in the darkroom. Sent this one to a fellow film photographer and friend in Oregon.