Apr 24, 2024 Snap Chicago snaps part 2: A few Tri-X photos from walking around downtown Chicago in mid-March. The worm-like aberrations seen on the images is because I didn't pay close enough attention to temperature while I developed this roll. Live and learn. See also part 1.
Mar 19, 2024 Snap Chicago snaps part 1: A few iPhone captures from last week's trip to Chicago with the NerdPress team to sponsor the Tastemaker Conference. Hubbub had its own booth while NerdPress had a large lounge with an impressive view. A fantastic work trip. Lake Michigan…
Mar 6, 2024 Note I'm trying Safari for the rest of this week in place of Arc. I'm not revolting against them, I just feel as though our values are no longer aligned. They've shifted from trying to build a really great web browser (which they've already done,…
Feb 21, 2024 Snap A few snaps with my phone while browsing a few local antique shops and garden center last weekend.
Feb 8, 2024 Note I'm excited to finally share a portrait I made of S. Robert Powell Ph.D., the President of the Carbondale Historical Society, back in April 2023. I'm donating the prints and images to the society for their archives. Washing prints
Feb 6, 2024 Snap Last year my mother-in-law gifted Eliza and I with a train ride to Jim Thorpe for our anniversary. I managed to snap a few color film photos along the way.
Feb 5, 2024 Note If you're seeing this post that means that my website is once again powered by WordPress. Yay! The site doesn't look so nice on mobile devices, the feed is broken in a few ways, and I need to get the database load under control……
Nov 23, 2023 Note When my blog goes quiet you know I'm very busy. I'm looking forward to announcing some personal news in early December. This morning I've made what is likely to be my final update to my personal website until 2024 (I added my projects to…
Nov 9, 2023 Note I discovered a small bug with GUID in my RSS feed that likely existed for an entire year. Of course I fixed it. But that also means if you're subscribed you very likely received all of my posts in your feed reader again. My…
Nov 9, 2023 Note Yesterday, by pure chance, I met local photographer Rolfe Ross – whose work I've followed on Flickr for many years. It turns out his photos were being exhibited in the same venue as Eugene Lucas, whose photos I was there to see. I took…
Nov 8, 2023 Note If you're reading this that means that Tuff, my now 1-year old static site generator that I've been rewriting from scratch for about a month, works. I'm going to write a detailed post about this rewrite but for now – if you see anything…
Oct 29, 2023 Note This evening I fixed a few longstanding CSS issues on my website. Many more to go. Back in April I built my own light box thingy for my portfolio images. Example. I'd like something more comprehensive, but I want to keep it light weight….
Sep 21, 2023 Note I haven't shared new photographic work in a while. I've been struggling to find the time – even though it is easily my favorite hobby. To help unclog my creative pipes, I'm slowly releasing unfinished work. Here is a new photo series, Where I…
Jul 17, 2023 Note Stripe Transfer continues to grow slowly. The latter half of this year I hope to grow it a bit more. As a start I've turned on Google Adwords and also wrote a post about migrations subscriptions from Chargebee to Stripe over on Medium.
Jul 12, 2023 Note For the first year we'll be in a phase with visionOS where designers will be updating their interfaces to be translucent, dynamic rounded rects. Personally, I am looking forward to when they break out of the windowed world we've all been living in for…
Apr 3, 2023 Note Over the weekend I finished Looking At Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski. Szarkowski is, as of this moment, my favorite photographic writer and curator.
Mar 24, 2023 Note Yesterday I finished reading Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford and Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. I'd recommend both. Chiang is great. I think I need to read more by him.
Feb 9, 2023 Note Tuff, my static site builder, can build a simple directory for me to view my entire photo library. It creates views for each year and month and also checks various backups – both local and cloud – to make sure the files are properly…
Feb 7, 2023 Note I'm refactoring Tuff – my static site builder – to support multiple websites so I've been posting more on Mastodon than here the last week or so. That should change now as Tuff is able build 3 very different websites. Lots more to do…
Feb 1, 2023 Note Recently finished reading Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Copious detail. Fast read if not for the length. Author a bit gushy.
Jan 26, 2023 Note I'm continuing to whittle away at my to do list for Tuff – my static site builder. Every few days I'm able to check off a task. Lots of small improvements add up over time.
Jan 25, 2023 Note I'm putting the finishing touches on a presentation of my portrait The Engineer that I'll be recording for my YouTube channel. I'm hoping to record better audio without spending too much money. Each presentation I make I want to improve.
Jan 19, 2023 Note We had a possible fireball explosion tens of thousands of feet above us in Pennsylvania. Shook our house pretty good at 10:49am Eastern. Now I'm looking for how to properly document it with NASA. I figured this worthy of jotting down on the weblog.
Jan 18, 2023 Note Zero inside knowledge here; but my guess is an Apple Event in February announcing Apple VR dev kits that cost $3,000 that come with a headset + Mac mini. With the device shipping at least 6-9 months later for less than that.
Jan 10, 2023 Note After a 3 week break from blogging and social media (more like 2 weeks completely, 1 week just reading and replying), I'm ready to jump back in. I have lots of plans for 2023 for my website and personal projects.
Jan 2, 2023 Snap I spent January 1 in the darkroom making prints from a 35mm roll of Tri-X that I finished over the last few months.
