Notes

Short posts, links, photos, and working notes.

Quick updates, links, reposts, photos, and small things I learn while working.

Topics: TIL, links, reposts, Signboard

This morning I had a hard time finding a dead simple Apache setup using Docker Compose and a volume linked to my local filesystem. So I created one. In case you need it. May future searchers find it.

Some updates to Cypress for Micro.blog on the way including archive page, some search styling, and pagination thanks to @endonend.

I have but a single 8×10 print available currently; the Studebaker – which is a print I have hanging in my house. Starting April 5 I’m going to limit each print I offer to a run of 5 or 10 prints. Then I plan on never offering them again.

Intel cannot compete with Apple. No matter how hard they go at them in their marketing, they do not stand a chance.

The more I write down my photo library management workflow the more I realize I may need professional psychiatric help. Is there a particular discipline of psychiatry for this?

“If you’re a designer, photographer, or artist using WordPress and are on the hunt for a clean, beautiful theme to showcase your work, take a look at Cypress, a premium theme by my friend Colin Devroe.” — @mikehaynes

Prepping photos for display and sale on my site is a lot of work. But I’m getting better at it. I’m even including a few secret tidbits with the sale. Its getting fun! Just put up a new set!

I have two invites to Clubhouse, if anyone hasn’t had the chance to try it and would like to. Send me an email with your phone number if you’d like to try it out.

The final show stopping bug in Cypress has been fixed. So now I’ll back away from it for a little while, give it a second look, and wait for feedback from the beta testers. But the current build is a release candidate. I should have it available to purchase on my site tonight or tomorrow. I’ll start it at an introductory price for a week or two.

Trudged through greater than knee-high snow on a hike this weekend. Wiped me out! Could it be that I’m getting older? Nah, I blame quarantine.

A bleak snowy landscape under a cloudy sky.

I think Super Follow and Communities both make total sense for Twitter. They need to make money on things other than ads.

The new hotness over the last year has been to move out of cities and into more rural areas. I’ve lived here all my life and really enjoy the lifestyle it affords. So, welcome city folk. Make yourself at home. And relax.

I’m close to needing a beta tester or two for my next project release. Can you help? You’ll need; a WordPress install. It is a theme made for people with visual portfolios (photographers, painters, designers, etc.). If that is you? Please reach out.

A camera system that I hope to use for the next 40 years arrived yesterday. The Mamiya 645.

Left: Pro TL, Right: 1000s

As the snow melts and freezes and melts and freezes the deer have a tough time digging for food. So each February that I am able, I like to put out some corn for them. We now have four regular visitors at about 3am.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

My iPhone updated itself to 14.1 last night on its own. I have never had automatic updates on. That is very weird.

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.