Hey, you. Are you an expert in vanilla JavaScript? Electron? Building apps with JavaScript and Electron? I could use your help. I’d be happy to pay you for an hour of your Zoom time. Reach out please! | Continue reading
I was gifted a Nikon FG with a few lenses and fun Speedlight SB-15 from a friend. It was gifted him by his parents when he graduated high school. This is my favorite way to get a new camera – when it comes from a friend with a story. I put it through its paces […] | Continue reading
As of today I’ve deactivated the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. I just can’t get it to work the way that I want to. It is a complex problem, I don’t envy the team working on it. And they are doing a great job so far. I hope development on it continues. I don’t know the […] | Continue reading
The world of computer keyboards is… a little confusing. I have a Keychron K2 75% (non-backlight, brown switches) that I picked up a few years ago. I really like it. In fact I bought two of them – one for the office and one for home. But now I just work at home. So, I […] | Continue reading
TIL on macOS > System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Widgets > Widget style > Monochrome. I have a few widgets on my desktop and I don’t like that they switch between monochrome and color when the desktop is in focus. This is a nice setting that I wish I had looked for earlier. | Continue reading
Went glamping. Hammock naps. Bike rides. Cool crisp nights. Puppy time. | Continue reading
Molly White recently wrote about how publications are moving to publishing newsletters because their search traffic is dwindling. One downside to us readers is that managing a bunch of newsletter subscriptions creates a lot of clog in our inboxes. She then goes on to detail how s … | Continue reading
I sometimes feel that I have so much to do that I don’t know where to start. This is when I remind myself; make a list, start at the top. It works every time. | Continue reading
I love my favorite toots page which shows toots that I favorited on Mastodon recently. It is a nice showcase of people doing awesome things and sharing them on Mastodon. But it was broken for a while. I only looked into the issue very briefly months ago and I wasn’t able to deter … | Continue reading
It is starting to look like I’ll be pushing off updating to Apple’s “26” family of OSes this fall. Not just because of the obvious waffling on the Liquid Glass UI that I’m seeing in the betas, but also because it really seems like they are lost as a company. Perhaps it is time to … | Continue reading
Switcheroo, the default browser that I use everyday, just had a new release over the weekend thanks to Zhenyi Tan. The 1.2.0 update includes a new profile picker UI (seen below) and a new “switch tab to profile” feature making it easier to move tabs between Safari profiles. Switc … | Continue reading
Florian Ziegler: I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been watching or doing, so at the end of the month, it feels like too much work to try to remember everything and then [ … | Continue reading
Zhenyi Tan: Technotes is a Safari extension that adds user-contributed notes to the Apple documentation website. The notes can include sample code, warnings about common pitfalls, and other useful stuff. The Safari extension being for all sane, well reasoned individuals. There ar … | Continue reading
Tracy Durnell thinks self-web mentions need to be displayed slightly differently on WordPress. Consider upvoting the GitHub issue if you agree. | Continue reading
Eliza and I have been thinking about buying some e-bikes for a long time. We live in a mountainous area and a traditional bike is fun, definitely a good workout, but also limits the number of times and places we’d bike. Having the e-bikes broadens our horizons quite a lot. Most u … | Continue reading
I’m using the Simply Static WordPress plugin to generate the files for two of my websites. It is a nice plugin with some good features and I gladly pay for it. One of the websites is just over 5,000 files. To me, this seems like an average-sized website. SS takes nearly 15 minute … | Continue reading
I find myself in need of new Apple TVs, AirPods, and AirTags. But I have the feeling that Apple is on the cusp of releasing new versions of all three. I must be patient! | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale, who is purposefully taking in far less information during the month of June, mentions this about the silent periods that he used to fill in with podcasts: First couple of days I could see my brain wanting to fill the silence with something but that was mostly out … | Continue reading
I’ve been running macOS in “Increase contrast” mode for nearly a year. Yesterday’s WWDC keynote, which debuted the Liquid Glass design across all of Apple’s OSes, reminded me to look at my settings again. Toggling that off again is an entirely new experience using macOS. It is li … | Continue reading
Craig Mod, writing for Literary Hub: When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music … | Continue reading
Chris Glass: I’d love to see the next version of macOS introduce some basic gestural controls that can be used when a camera is present. I’m talking easy stuff like scrolling, zooming, navigation… I’m sure they can throw on some visionOS gestures to boot. Click-through to his sit … | Continue reading
V.H. Belvadi: What we need is a notes app that looks and behaves like a rich text editor but saves in Markdown. And by this I do not mean the clunky ‘source editor mode’ or whatever Obsidian calls it, where the Markdown formatting characters appear and disappear constantly displa … | Continue reading
So, this happened. 😄 🐶 I hadn’t posted about our new family member Kona Barkley because several in the blogging community have lost their special pets recently. For the past two months, Eliza and I have been chasing this little guy around, cleaning up after him, t … | Continue reading
I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDc. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems. | Continue reading
Purchased a few new-to-me audio goodies over on Bandcamp including Somebody by Stefan Bohacek and FLOW by Mr Jennings. | Continue reading
Purchased Under Tangled Silence by Djrum at Simon Collison’s suggestion. I suggest you consider doing the same (that is, follow Simon’s advice on all music). | Continue reading
Jeremy Keith, in his interview on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series: I never write down those things bouncing around in my head. I know I probably should. But then if I’m going to take the time to write down an idea for a blog post, I might as well write the blog post itself … | Continue reading
TIL that when people said they read a book they sometimes mean they listened to a book. Ok, it wasn’t today that I learned this but I am hearing it a lot more often. | Continue reading
After over 8 years my Logitech MX Master 2S had a button jam. It was a fantastic mouse and I’m very happy with the life it had. So I immediately purchased the 3S which is better in a number of ways; USB-C, better buttons, better wheel. The Logi Options+ application, which Logitec … | Continue reading
Andy Adams: For some reason, years ago, we all agreed to spend most of our online time looking at photography on a canvas smaller than a cocktail napkin. It’s awful when you think about it: Thoughtful appreciation is the whole point of looking at photographs. And most of us canno … | Continue reading
My thanks to Steve Burge for inviting me on to The PublishPress Podcast. In this episode we chat about NerdPress, blogging, Hubbub, Hubbub’s Save This feature, social media, and the importance for publishers to own their own audience. Honorable mentions are Flipboard and Mastodon … | Continue reading
Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison’s explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it seems. But I just want to quickly recommend; do not hire anyone (a person or an agency) that thinks vibe codin … | Continue reading
A few times over the last several decades I’ve unsubscribed from every social media account, RSS feed, newsletter, YouTube channel, etc. and started with a clean slate. My goal was, as I wrote about in 2012 on this blog, to break out of my echo chamber and hopefully expand my thi … | Continue reading
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth’s tilt is such that as it revolves around the nearest star the portion on which I live (the northern hemisphere) is getting ever so slightl … | Continue reading
Gus Mueller argues that Apple needs to support developers running LLMs locally on the Mac, rather than simply try to catch up on their own. There isn’t one specific quote that I can pull out of Gus’ post that makes his point so do go and read his post. But he also said: So I […] | Continue reading
My personal OneDrive has seemingly gone off the rails. It reported that I had deleted thousands of files when I hadn’t. I’m also seeing many duplicated files for no known reason. Stranger still, my 2021 blog post about resetting OneDrive was my most popular post last week. Coinci … | Continue reading
It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I’m not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than average. I can’t remember the last time I pined for spring this badly. But, just yesterday, as temperatures finally hit … | Continue reading
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn't RSS enough? | Continue reading
It used to be, that I was the first person in line to download new software. I’d sign up for beta access, email developers for early looks at what they were working on, or even install beta software on my daily devices. But as time went on, I valued my productivity more than havi … | Continue reading
As you all know, I’m a big fan of a the Pomodoro Technique. Recently, while catching up on my backlog of Jack Cheng’s excellent Sunday series, I came across a snippet in Sunday #434 regarding an interview Cheng did with author Linda Sue Park. In that interview, she mentions whitt … | Continue reading
(The following is a very quick mind dump. Unedited. Raw.) I prefer black and white over color film for most of my photographic work. I do shoot color film. I mostly like to capture personal memories on color film while reserving black and white for my more serious, thought out ph … | Continue reading
Naz Hamid writes about how we should all keep social networks in their place; as methods of distribution rather than longterm means of connection or publication. He also contrasts that to how we could be thinking of our websites: “If you care about your creativity, and what you m … | Continue reading
Cedric Raguenaud argues that.. “When we label our photographic pursuits as “work,” we unconsciously impose constraints and expectations that belong in the professional world. Suddenly, we feel pressured to maintain visibility, chase originality, and demonstrate creativity, not fo … | Continue reading
My default web browser is set to Switcheroo – a custom-made macOS app by Zhenyi Tan (with some feedback and guidance from me). Whenever I click on a link a modal of sorts appears letting me choose which Safari profile I’d like to load the link within. Here is what that looks like … | Continue reading