School Days - Seeing all the kids going back to school sparked good memories for me - louplummer.lol/school-da… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - FlowVision - Image Viewer - After seeing the developer of FlowVison, a free image viewer for macOS, post about his new app on Reddit, I downloaded it and have been using it for the past week. The app has a Finder style interface similar to what you see when … | Continue reading
The Story Behind My 100 Strangers Project - Over 100 days I published a collection of street portraits taken in six different cities where I interviewed each subject. - louplummer.lol/100-stran… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kan … | Continue reading
The Quest Guy, an IndyWeb MVP - The many web sites and adventures of an IndyWeb stalwart and all-around good guy, blogger and quester, R. Scott Jones - linkage.lol/the-quest… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Our Community - My surprised delight to find myself in the midst of creators and thinkers and being accepted and welcomed on the IndyWeb - louplummer.lol/our-commu… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - for the last time. John, watching his friend lose to a Budweiser drinking chess hustler on the Raleigh sidewalk was the final subject in my project. I’ll be posting a link to a gallery of all 100 portraits later on today. Thanks for all your feedba … | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Folder Peek FTW - Folder Peek by heroic Indy Developer Sindre Sorhus is the GOAT of menu bar access apps. I liked XMenu from Devon Technologies, but Folder Peek has more features and is just as rock solid in performance. Folder Peek lets you put folders full … | Continue reading
Tomorrow is the day that I will post the 100th Stranger in my street portrait series. For the first time in almost 10 years I will have an online gallery where all the photos can be viewed together. I appreciate all the positive feedback I’ve gotten. It made me feel like a photog … | Continue reading
You Died of Dysentery - The origins and surprising history of the Oregon Trail computer game - linkage.lol/you-died-… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Can anyone suggest a good Lemmy server? Trying to avoid right-wingers and crypto-bros. Looking for something tech oriented. | Continue reading
I Just Gotta Be Me - The reasons why having a wide-open autobiographical style of blogging works for me. - louplummer.lol/i-just-go… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From My 100 Strangers Project - Ricardo and his five-year old twins (yes, there are two of them in the photo) were downtown on a rainy winter afternoon looking for some hot chocolate at the local coffee shop. Sounded like a good idea to me, so I joined them. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - App Tamer from St. Claire Software - St. Claire software makes an app that can help control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power available for you frontmost application. App Tamer comes preconfigured to automatica … | Continue reading
I think Apple can either take a commission on all commerce they want on the App Store or they can be the exclusive place to get software for you iPhone and iPad, but they cannot be both. - Matt Birchler on Bitchtree | Continue reading
Mastodon Tools - Three tools for finding new people to follow on Mastodon and for analyzing your account activity. - linkage.lol/mastodon-… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Traveling Man - My past and future travel plans and all the reasons I’ve had to explore - louplummer.lol/traveling… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Mike said he was on the way back to his downtown office after a 30-mile ride out in the country. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional - Back in the days when Apple still made hardware servers and an operating system to go with them (at $1K a copy) we used to have to deal with hundreds of user home directories in my line of w … | Continue reading
Awesome Self Hosted - Links to dozens of self-hosting solutions to replace SaaSS providers - linkage.lol/awesome-s… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
A Man Shopping - My relationship with shopping from the mallrat days of the 80s through the Amazon age - louplummer.lol/a-man-sho… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Elise was selling art, mostly pencil drawings and watercolors, at a street fair in Raleigh. She said businesses had been pretty good, but she was hot and tired and ready to go home. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac - SilentKnight from The Eclectic Light Company is a free utility to check the security settings of your Mac. it will let you know of any uninstalled security upadtea you may be missing and offer to download an … | Continue reading
“Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles No celebrating the grind life, celebrating all the workers who actually make stuff, the under-appreciated bedrock of society. | Continue reading
A Great Search Engine for the Indy Web - Submit Your Site - Searchmysite.net is a niche search engine for the Indy Web that contains ad free user submitted content - linkage.lol/a-great-s… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Tattoos Tell a Story - The story of my three tattoos, all gotten under very different circumstances - louplummer.lol/tattoos-t… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Time for an update to my /now page with info on a great book by Scottish writer James Rebanks, a TV show about ancient Rome, links to all of this week’s blog posts, an alternative to streaming music and all of the pages I bookmarked this week. | Continue reading
List of sandwiches - Wikipedia How Going to the Movies Is Changing, in Charts - WSJ Charted: Alcohol Preferences Around the World (visualcapitalist.com) 12 of the world’s most fascinating abandoned buildings (bbc.com) Find Your Next Favorite Book - The New York Times (nytimes.com … | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - Shayonna and her sisters were handing out flyers for a fundraiser to benefit a foundation that helps people in need in their community. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App - Paletro, by appmakes.io, is a $6.99 utility that gives you a command palette in any app. Large, multifunction apps with many commands like VScode, Sublime Text or Obsidian can have dozens of menu commands and good … | Continue reading
A group of instructors from the Special Operations language school at Ft. Liberty play cricket at my neighborhood elementary school on weekends. They very graciously let me watch and take photos. | Continue reading
One of my favorite quotes of all time - “I will not stay silent so that you can stay comfortable.” - Mary Engelbreit | Continue reading
Who Doesn’t Love Pizza - The Origin of Pizza, The Varieties of Pizza, Top Pizza Joints in the US, The World’s Best Pizza - linkage.lol/who-doesn… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
The Norman Rockwell Painting That Changed the Internet For Me - The story of a Norman Rockwell painting of a civil rights murder case that went viral after I posted it in 2017. - louplummer.lol/murder-in… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Harold wasn’t the friendliest guy I ever photographed, but he’d just gotten off work and was on the way to the subway, so I cut him slack. He did affirm that he “works on Wall Street,” something I suppose a lot of bankers aspire to, |
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Today on App Addict - Quick Note Taking – Type - Type is a menu bar app designed with one purpose in mind, to capture time-stamped notes in plain text or Markdown format quickly and to get out of your way. It’s fast and more versatile than using the fn+Q Apple Quick Note feature … | Continue reading
Amateur Guide to Some BearBlog Extra Features - An explanation and code blocks for the customization I’ve done on BearBlog - louplummer.lol/amateur-g… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
One of my favorite mood lifters is making gratitude lists: home grown tomatoes, the first day it feels like fall, the cool side of the pillow, a good waitress, Bob Dylan, new socks, audiobooks, texts from my kids, days my knees don’t hurt, a good cuppa, a decade and a half of sob … | Continue reading
Totally Academic, Not Prurient, Look at the Internet and the Adult Industry - A look at the technological and economic impact of the adult web industry - linkage.lol/academic-… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
The Guilt Industrial Complex - An examination of guilt as a motivator and a hinderance in a healthy life - louplummer.lol/guilt-ind… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Dike, a Nigerian immigrant earning a tough living as a pedicab driver in NYC was nonplussed by the police efforts to get him to move from his location near the entrance to the Central Park Zoo. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Meteorologist - Free and Open-Source Menu Bar Weather - Keeping track of current weather conditions and forecasts is a breeze (no pun intended) with the free and powerful menu bar app. Meteorologist, a free and open source utility available on Sourceforge. I … | Continue reading
To all who watched - thanks for taking one for the team! | Continue reading
There are many successful people who live with mental illness and have good jobs and happy lives. More have recovered from depression, anxiety and other short-term illnesses. It concerns me that we are target vulnerable people as scapegoats for our lack of gun control. Fix the re … | Continue reading
I Am From - A poem from my sister about her roots and mine, beautifully put - louplummer.lol/i-am-from… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Moonshine - Moonshine is still made and sold where I live and our history is rife with stories about famous moonshiners. - linkage.lol/moonshine… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Self Educated - Represent! - After a middling experience in public education, I managed to use books and the Internet to forge a career in technology - louplummer.lol/self-educ… #Blaugust2024 ![man’s hands on a book]amerpie.lol/uploads/2…) | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Mr. Ed had his very simple shoeshine stand (a folding chair) set up outside of a subway stop on lower Broadway. Larry, the tired businessman shown, said that he stops by for a tune up every few days. | Continue reading