Asides
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I also backed up my site locally – including media and database – something I do not do often enough.
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Me, laying down, waiting in line for tickets to Star Wars in May 1999. Image Credit: Times Tribune Archives
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Jeremy’s post on Star Wars has me thinking; now that the Skywalker story is “finished”, I wish they never made the prequels or films 7, 8, 9. I’d like the original trilogy to stand on its own, keep Rogue One and Solo, and have a new trilogy based on Rey without any ties back to…
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Magic Leap blaming COVID-19 for why it has to lay off 1,000 people is just a terrible bit of messaging. They have raised nearly $3B. And they can’t raise any more right now. And the FB deal fell through. So they have no choice regardless of this pandemic.
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The horrific and avoidable loss of life notwithstanding I believe many will wish quarantine life to continue when things begin to open up once again. I know I may be among them.
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Programming is a super power.
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I’ve crossed a big milestone with my photography during quarantine. I’ve moved on from the how, and am now focused on the why.
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As I mentioned, I created a PHP script that I can run on my Mac to move thousands of files into new directories based on their created date. It extremely fast compared to my previous solution. If anyone would like to improve it, please do!
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Writing PHP for the first time in well over a year. I need to move thousands of photographs on the Mac and automatically sort them into folders by their created date. In the past I used complex apps to do this. Turns out a few lines of code is all I need.
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I had no idea Kenny Rogers was a large format film photographer. Even in the Hall of Fame for it. Gorgeous work. Talented man.
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This is a great use of YouTube. Vintage film cameras in exotic locations just looking pretty. Not even taking photos.
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Cleaning up my blog subscriptions (in NNW). Adding some new ones (please send recommendations). Getting ready for a new push into blogging, mostly about photography, and getting some new podcast episodes out. Thinking of scaling back on Twitter and IG.
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I have a lot to share here. A lot! Please stay subscribed. When I come up for air I’ll catch up.
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Shot, developed, and scanned film. Achievement unlocked.
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Went to Georgia. It snowed. Can’t escape February!
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I’m reading a lot of praise for Apple’s updated map information but in my experience, even as recently as today, their information is woefully incomplete. It isn’t even close to Google’s offering.
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I’m a better photographer today than I was 1 year ago. I’m also a worse photographer today than I will be 1 year from now.
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Managed to expose a few frames of film while getting 12,000 steps this morning.
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The photos in Flickr’s Best of 2019 are incredible. Especially that one of the Pacu Jawi by Andrew JK Tan.
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I’m rebuilding my entire photo library management workflow now that I’m back on the Mac. It is taxing.
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Bought a cable release for a dollar at a thrift store and put it to use last night. It is going to come in very handy.
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Business meetings always seem to go a bit better with delicious lattes.
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Selfie.
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I have a backlog of podcast episodes that will be coming soon. So please stay subscribed. Also, tons of film photos in the coming months. It is going to be an exciting 2020.
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Brought back my Hire Me page for 2020. If you’re working on anything interesting, get in touch!
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It’s 2020 and I’m back on the Mac! 😍
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Star Wars – Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker 👍👍
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Unmark 2.0 is now running the hosted site. Tags with autocomplete! Don’t forget, it is free to sign up and use indefinitely. Just pay to support the project and unlock bookmark search, import/export, etc.
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There hasn’t been a new episode of the podcast in a little while. This is because the subject I’m attempting to photograph is not cooperating with my schedule. But more are coming!
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Looks like my site’s stats plugin stopped working sometime at the end of last month. I’m debating my need to even have it. I do like to know if my site was mentioned or linked to though.
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Finished reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fast-paced read. Would make a great fun movie.
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I almost lost the majority of today’s work. Walked away for a bit. Came back and restored it in two clicks. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done this over my career. Especially with programming challenges. Walking away is a pro tip.
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Speaking of podcasts, I’m really enjoying BirdNote – a very short daily podcast about birds full of great bird sounds.
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After further study, what I photographed was an American Mink and not a Fisher. I’ll have to provide an update.
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Two recent modern frustrations: Open an app I had open previously, it opens to its default view rather than where I was. Hit the back button in my browser, the page is no longer the same as it was when I was there. This is a regression of how things used to be.
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To someone that may not know the context, “Google Open Sources Cardboard” must be a head-scratching headline.
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Following my watching of the Elsa Dorfman doc, I watched Seeing Daylight, which is about Dorothy Bohm. So much inspiration to be found in bodies of work rather than singular images.
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Watched The B-Side, Errol Morris’ doc about Elsa Dorfman and her excellent Polaroid portraits on Netflix. Be sure to see her website.
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I have several blog posts that get thousands of pageviews per week for years running. For the first time, my podcast page is in the top spot. Thanks to all those that have subscribed. More episodes coming. And improved audio too.
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My podcast has propagated to Overcast – which is likely many iOS users podcatcher of choice. It is interesting how many different ways to consume a podcast there are now and how you sort of have to support them all.
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My podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts! I updated the list of places you can subscribe. More to come this week.
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Today’s Microsoft Surface event was fantastic. I have lots and lots of thoughts but I’ll wait until they refresh their site with more information.
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Aquaman 👎👎
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Great ad for Hipcamp. The video is already 4 years old but I only just saw it this morning.
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Just figured out that Libby, the app I use to get books/audiobooks free from our local library, syncs across devices. So I’ll be able to keep my current reading pace a bit easier now.
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Pruned my Twitter Lists this morning. I like to shake the box periodically. I want to be sure I do not create an echo chamber for myself. I do the same for RSS feed subscriptions.
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Finished my first ever Sherlock Holmes book — The Hound of Baskervilles. A fun read. The attention to detail is hilarious. I will likely read another in a few months. Recommendations welcome. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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I haven’t been blogging as much. Spending a lot of free time fishing. And that is totally OK.
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Midway through a biography of Leonardo Da Vinci and I’m convinced if he were alive today he wouldn’t have a GitHub account. All local private repos. All unfinished. All brilliant.
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Whenever a beta is released for a major piece of my software stack I’m tempted to update. I factor in what I’m working on and whether or not it would effect my productivity. If it would, I don’t update. If not, I roll with it and report bugs as I can.