Asides
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Some updates to Cypress for Micro.blog on the way including archive page, some search styling, and pagination thanks to @endonend.
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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.
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I’ve added commercial use licenses for the Wayne County Courthouse photos I created in January. They’ve been re-edited and made larger using Adobe’s Super Resolution feature. If you bought these files you could make your own prints.
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Intel cannot compete with Apple. No matter how hard they go at them in their marketing, they do not stand a chance.
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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?
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“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
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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!
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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I think Super Follow and Communities both make total sense for Twitter. They need to make money on things other than ads.
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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.
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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.
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A camera system that I hope to use for the next 40 years arrived yesterday. The Mamiya 645. Left: Pro TL, Right: 1000s
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We must be nearing 20″ of snow so far and it is still coming fast.
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Uninstalling Twitter has been a boon to my productivity. It has also already impacted my ability to focus. I started a book!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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My iPhone updated itself to 14.1 last night on its own. I have never had automatic updates on. That is very weird.
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I keep having coffee cravings at night.
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I’m a huge red onion fan.
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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.
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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.
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Clicking the “Create a new Xcode project” button.
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Unmark 2020.3 has just been released. It has been running on the hosted version for a little while but today it rolled out to all of you that run it locally. Enjoy!
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I am “my compost pile makes me exceedingly happy” years old.
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If you own an Epson scanner you may be able to get Silverfast SE (a much more robust and quicker scanning software) for free. Get your serial number and go here.
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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.
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Me: Lay down for a late-afternoon nap out in the backyard. Apple Watch, a few minutes into the nap: Time to stand!
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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.
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First lawn mow at new house. ✅
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When I first read that Slack was taking Microsoft to court I thought it’d be too much of a distraction for Slack. Reading Stewart’s tweets makes me think they had no choice.
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I think we may look back at many of the brand identities that Pentagram has redesigned lately as misfires. If you’re going to remove all personality from a mark it needs to end up being iconic. They are hitting somewhere in the middle in my opinion.
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If someone could please make ear hair fashionable you’d be saving me some of my precious morning time.
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I feel like most people, including those that rail against Facebook, don’t have the stones to quit Instagram.
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Quicktime on macOS bug: Hover to display controls. Roll off on left, right, or bottom of window, controls disappear. Roll off on the top of window and controls remain.
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I’m looking for recommendations on personal homesteading blogs. Something like @dejus‘ @yellowcottage. If you know of any, please let me know about them.
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My wish list for this year’s WWDC was pretty well accommodated today. Once we are a few releases into the public betas we’ll know what we’ll really get come the fall.
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I’m still importing photos and this morning I will pass 100,000 photos added to the Photos for Mac Library (as referenced files). Still lots more to import. So far the performance of Photos seems to be holding up. I can’t tag any photos right now – the interface “jumps” – but I can bounce around…
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Over the weekend, Emulsive published my guest post in their 5 frames series. Subscribers to my blog will recognize the photos.
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The last few mornings I’ve been toying with making a web UI for my photo script (and extending it into a full photo library management tool). I’ve hit a roadblock working with files using a web app. Not sure I want to write a Mac app this summer. I’m disappointed. Perhaps I’ll pick the best…
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This Obsidian app is really very good. It may replace Simplenote for me.
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The 16-inch MacBook Pro is very fast.
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Unmark version 2020.1 has officially rolled into master today. This is a huge milestone with tons of new features and improvements. It has been running on Unmark.it for months and purrs like a kitten. Unmark is still my favorite app I use every single day.