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  • My answer to my own askATP question (again)

    A little over a year ago I sent in a question to the crew at ATP and subsequently I blogged my own answer to that question. This past week I sent in another question and they’ve kindly answered it (time stamp: 1:57:16) so I thought I would answer my own question again. My question was…

  • M.G. Siegler on The Mandalorian

    M.G. on Ev’s blog: The Mandalorian feels like the true successor to the original Star Wars trilogy. I agree with M.G. While I liked The Force Awakens and Solo, the other two I could do without though I’m glad they exist.

  • Attending Venture Idol 2020 via Zoom

    Last night I virtually attended Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s Venture Idol 2020 via a Zoom Webinar. That’s a sentence that I hope I only write in 2020 and not too far beyond. I’ve written about attending previous Venture Idol’s at Ben Franklin TechVentures, the building in which a previous employer of mine was in for…

  • Sketch on native Mac apps

    Sketch: Native apps bring so many benefits — from personalization and performance to familiarity and flexibility. And while we’re always working hard to make Cloud an amazing space to collaborate, we still believe the Mac is the perfect place to let your ideas and imagination flourish. Lovely little blog post. Couldn’t agree more. I feel…

  • Andy Baio interviews the owner of the house on Blue Lick Road

    Andy Baio: But a larger question remained: what’s the deal with this place? Whoever owned it, they were too organized to be hoarders. The home appeared to double as the office and warehouse for an internet reseller business, but who sells a house crammed floor-to-ceiling with retail goods? With all of the mud slinging and doom scrolling…

  • What I saw somewhat recently #71: October 22, 2020

  • Obsidian didn’t stick, for me

    Back in May I came across Obsidian, a knowledge base app that stores your information in Markdown files. I used it a bit here and there until, in July, I stumbled onto Ton Zijlstra’s post about Obsidian which motivated me to try it in earnest. I was excited to have a note taking app that…

  • Gorgeous pinhole photograph by Michael McNeil in Ireland

    Michael McNeil: It’s the first time I’ve used this film, so it was all a bit of an experiment.  As usual, I did no research before I went out. I appreciate how he detailed the struggle and sort of out-of-control feel that pinhole photography can be. Regardless, stunning result.

  • 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.

  • Watching @adactio‘s screencast demo of a Huffduffer feature was a rollercoaster of emotions. He removed me, added me, removed me! I hope he added me! Good reminder to use Huffduffer again.

  • Most people live with technology being terrible

    Jay Sitter, on people expecting technology to suck and just leaving the issues in place rather than fixing them: I’m in no way making light of these people knowing less than me about technology. They’re smart people who just didn’t spend their teenage years installing RAM and hard drives in their basement. I bring it up because…

  • What I saw somewhat recently #70: September 24, 2020

  • Camerajunky on being crazy enough to shoot film

    Camerajunky (whose real name I cannot find, so perhaps this is likely on purpose): Of course there is also the fact that to get from the decisive moment to a print or even to a digital file, there is a lot of work involved. Prepare, shoot, make notes, develop,make notes again, scan, process digitally, catalog,…

  • Untappd hits 10

    Untappd, the app that helps me track the beers I’ve had, liked, disliked, etc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I signed up to Untappd in 2014 and used it for a little while but then kept forgetting to. But then, a few years ago, I decided to give it another try. The app had improved…

  • Jack Baty gives up on Lightroom

    Jack Baty: I’m here to tell you that I can not make it work for me. There’s too much overhead in having to decide what to add to a synced collection and when. And where to keep any synced originals? Do I do that in both apps? And so on. I seem to end up…

  • Photography isn’t my job

    Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s the saying, right? What can also happen, though, is that by doing your hobby as work you can suck all of the joy out of that hobby for yourself. I make some money doing photography. But, by and large, my photography…

  • Reply links in RSS feed

    Eric Meyer: Inspired by Jonnie Hallman, I’ve added a couple of links to the bottom of RSS items here on meyerweb: a link to the commenting form on the post, and a mailto: link to send me an email reply.  I prefer that people comment, so that other readers can gain from the reply’s perspective,…

  • Sunlit seems like an excellent way for me to quickly post status updates that include photos to my blog from my phone. Something I wish I could do a lot more often than I do but WordPress simply isn’t good at it. Excellent! Well done Manton.

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • 16\” MacBook Pro runs faster when closed?

    Peter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen – 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. I would have never even thought to try this. I keep my lid open, not to use the second screen, but…

  • Marcus Peddle on Flickr

    Marcus Peddle: Creating portfolio pages is a hassle on WordPress even though there are a number of photography templates. Adding photos is time consuming and I am rarely happy with the layout. Making albums and browsing on Flickr, however, is easy. I can make an album in just a couple of minutes and the layout…

  • I do not like Reels

    Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now, as it clones TikTok, it is jamming those features into Instagram as well. The Snapchat-like features are easy enough to ignore if you…

  • What I saw somewhat recently #66: August 18, 2020

    Great list this week. See other lists. I wish somehow these lists were exhaustive and complete but they simply aren’t. There are so many great things I stumble across day-to-day and file away to get to. And I get to some of them. And I remember some of them. And these are those items.

  • George R. R. Martin’s mountain cabin

    George R. R. Martin about his time writing in his mountain cabin: My life up here is very boring, it must be said.  Truth be told, I hardly can be said to have a life.   I have one assistant with me at all times (minions, I call them).  The assistants do two-week shifts, and have…

  • Damage at Arecibo Observatory

    Arecibo Observatory: One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on the telescope’s reflector dish. Operations at the UCF-managed observatory are stopped until repairs can be made. Y’all know I’m a big fan of…

  • Marcus Peddle on using film or digital

    Marcus Peddle, remarking on making Jim Grey’s aforementioned list of film photography blogs: I’m honoured, but slightly embarrassed because most of my photography these days is digital. Still, a photo is a photo, right? I hope you won’t be disappointed by the paucity of film photographs if you came to this website by following the…

  • Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok

    Microsoft: This new structure would build on the experience TikTok users currently love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections. The operating model for the service would be built to ensure transparency to users as well as appropriate security oversight by governments in these countries. I cannot tell if this is a bad…

  • Decentralizing all of my data

    A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra’s post about trying out Obsidian. I didn’t have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless plug alert) to read later. After reading his post I realized he is attracted to Obsidian for the same reasons that I was…

  • Steve Benjamins on Spotify

    Steve Benjamins, in a post showing how he makes some money via Spotify for streaming his music: Every Monday my music gets a spike in streams on Spotify. You could set a watch to it— it’s that consistent: What makes Monday so special? Well every Monday Spotify sends out a new Discover Weekly playlist. Discover…

  • I’m looking for recommendations on personal homesteading blogs. Something like @dejus‘ @yellowcottage. If you know of any, please let me know about them.

  • Adobe’s Photography app updates

    Big updates across all apps and services from Adobe coinciding with their 99u event. Notably, Creative Cloud went from 100GB to 1TB with no additional cost. I wish Apple would do something like that. Here is a list of the updates to their photography apps. I really like this Versions feature in Lightroom – I…

  • The 16-inch MacBook Pro

    I was going to wait a little bit longer before writing my review of this new computer, but Michael Tsai recently published some of his thoughts on it and – after writing a post in response to his experiences I realized it was turning into a bit of a review – so now this post…

  • PHP turns 25

    PHP turns 25. I’ve said that I agree that PHP is pretty bad. However, I still use it regularly, it has allowed me to make some incredible things, and made me a ton of money over those 25 years. /via Michael Tsai.

  • Why I used Migration Assistant to move to my new Mac

    This isn’t a tutorial. If you’re in need of one and you’ve somehow stumbled onto my blog of jumbled thoughts on a variety of topics, sorry. You’ll need to go back to Google and try again (though, really, you should be using Duck.com). I recently upgraded to a 16-inch MacBook Pro (review forthcoming) and had…

  • Over the weekend, Emulsive published my guest post in their 5 frames series. Subscribers to my blog will recognize the photos.

  • Make RSS more visible

    Marcus Herrmann: Personal website owners – what do you think about collecting all of the feeds you are producing in one way or the other on a /feeds page? You can put your blog feed there, but also RSS generated from your Twitter account (via RSS Box), Mastodon updates, or even the starred items of…

  • Flowers – May 2020

    Flowers – May 2020 The above image is a digital positive created from a paper negative. It was handcut from Ilford photo paper, shot, developed by me last night. I also used it as the subject for my first contact print. You can read the behind-the-scenes story here on my blog. Also More also on…

  • Photographing the same location over and over

    I’ll likely touch on this topic in an upcoming pandemic powered Podcast episode. Albert Dros, 2017: Sometimes the area where you live would not be motivating to photograph because you see these things everyday. However, when I started photography I began to see the world (and my home area) in a different way. I started…

  • An interview with artist Marc Taro Holmes

    Late last week I published an interview with Marco Taro Holmes, one of the original members of Urban Sketchers, on my now 10-year old web site The Watercolor Gallery. It was a pleasure to interview Marc and a lot of his answers epitomize the reason I built The Watercolor Gallery in 2010 – to inspire…

  • Repost: Brent Simmons on what happens after a pandemic

    👉 Brent Simmons: I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.

  • Over the river – March 2020

    Taken with Ansco Speedex on expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Over the river – March 2020 I love how this tree hangs over the river. I’ve photographed it many times and assume I will many times more. This particular image is a re-scan of a negative. I learned a slightly different way to scan and edit…

  • Instagram’s TOS

    Allen Murabayashi, CEO of PhotoShelter, regarding Instagram’s TOS: The language is typical of many photo sharing sites (including PhotoShelter), so in that sense it’s unremarkable. The company needs the ability to redisplay images, and wants to be able to have, for example, an image appear in the app, within an Instagram Story, and on the…

  • Creating a bedroom camera obscura and making a paper negative

    I’d been wanting to make my own camera for several months. Something simple like a shoe box pinhole camera. But then quarantine happened and I stumbled across Brendan Barry’s YouTube video about turning a room in your house into a camera obscura – and making a paper negative and positive print. I thought with the…

  • Indoor Voices

    Remember when I opined that blogging may see a surge with all of this quarantine stuff? Indoor Voices – a new blog (on blogspot!) from over 80 quarantined writers. Kottke covers it far better than I can here. A few weeks ago, writer Kyle Chayka Tweeted “I predict a great Blogging Renaissance,” to which also…

  • Cameron Moll \”returns\” to his site

    Cameron Moll: BUT. But, my dear friends. After years of neglect, what a rush of joy seeing this site breathing again! What a privilege to be back in the author’s seat! Why did I ever leave in the first place? Oh that’s right, I been busy with life. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps the blogosphere…