Drew Bell: Lately, though, I’ve often found myself halfway through a poorly-considered post before realizing I was devoting reading time to a hack job. We’ve developed a sense of the signifiers of thoughtfully-assembled web sites in the last decade, but these days it’s all a wash of 21px #333 Georgia. I do appreciate nice, readable typography, but dammit can’t we have fun any more? When choosing a template for jack.

I could not love this more. Can we get all of the news sites to do this? http://lite.cnn.io/en

I learned today that Meijer, the last nearby option for C-41 processing, is no longer doing C-41 processing. This means I’m left to my own devices. Thankfully, that device is a JOBO CPE-2 with lift. Processing color film isn’t difficult, so I dug the JOBO out of the basement and mixed up a fresh batch of chemicals. I’ll be processing my own color film from now on.

Sherri Spelic, reacting to a tweet by George Siemens: I, for one, came because I was looking for others who could help me grow. I was in the market for good writing and good people and I found them. The longer I stayed and the more I engaged, good people found me. Good writing – I mean, strong, critical, robust and also sensitive writing walked right up to me and said, “Hi!

Would you all please just start a blog? I don’t care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or don’t. Implement Webmentions or don’t. Allow comments or don’t. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or don’t. Publish long posts or short, it doesn’t matter. Just please write stuff and publish it and provide an RSS/Atom/JSON feed so I can easily keep up with it. It’s pretty easy.

People make fun of me for having too many blogs. I don’t blame them. I just like to try things. I love a Saturday morning with nothing going on other than installing some new app and running with it. It’s fun! The trouble begins when I say to myself, “That’s it, this is where I’m writing from now on!” Of course that never lasts, and I look flighty and a little foolish.

I always begin by following the advice I first read on the XP portion of Ward Cunningham’s wiki, and that is, “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work” Good intentions give way to analysis which gives way to changing my mind about what every word in that quote actually means. So here I am with another blog. It’s WordPress, and it’s using a very basic theme, and there’s only been a tiny bit of customization done.

Manton Reece: The solution isn’t fewer link blogs, but more of them. By taking microblogging back from Twitter, we create a natural place for traditional blogs to grow. Indie microblogging is the gateway drug for long-form content. I’d love for this to be true, but I wonder if it is. If short-form blogging was the gateway drug to long-form blogging, wouldn’t Twitter have already lead the way? I’m rooting for the Indieweb, but not sure we’ll ever be able to pull ourselves out of the situation we’ve created.

It is rather nice just typing stuff in a box and clicking the “Post” button.

I love that static websites can just sit somewhere behind a simple web server and always just work. They’re fast and secure. However, I’m beginning to think that for certain sites, blogs for example, the joy of easy hosting loses out to the pain of publishing. I know, “But it’s just a folder full of text files!” I get it, baty.net is currently a folder full of about 3000 markdown files.

Leica M6, 35mm Summicron ASPH, XP2" Leica M6, 35mm Summicron ASPH, XP2 This is one of my favorite photos of Jessica. I took it using my newly-bought first Leica (an M6 TTL). That camera made me want to take pictures. I also love that Jess is using the rangefinder I replaced with the Leica, a Canonet QL17.

I got to watch my daughter’s Weimaraner, Sage, over the weekend. He rarely stops moving, so it can be tricky getting a shot or two in focus. This one is my favorite from the roll. Nikon F3, Nikkor 100mm f/2.5. Tri-X @1200 in Diafine.