A page from one of my grandfather's photo albums Consider this my semi-regular reminder to caption your photos. Even though Google Photos can figure out what is in photos, it can’t (yet) know why or what it means. Take a few minutes and add a caption to at least some of your photos. And while you’re at it, print a few of them. Your grandkids will thank you.

After deploying my blog via Netlify I noticed some pieces were missing. Turns out I needed to tell Netlify which version of Hugo to use during the build. Adding the following to the netlify.toml file was all it took. 1 2 [context.production.environment] HUGO_VERSION = "0.23"

Doc Searls: Fortunately, browsers support add-ons and extensions, so we installed our own ad and tracking blockers. In doing so we acted as free and independent beings, just as we do in the everyday world with our clothing, our shelter and our cars.

Josie (2017). Canon EOS-1v. Portra 400. Self-processed. I don’t shoot a lot of color film, but I put a roll of Portra through the 1v today and processed it in the JOBO using six-month old C-41 chemicals. Seemed to work well enough.

Another reason I only reluctantly use Instagram. That’s a poor excuse for an API.

Glass Flowers (2017). Nikon F3. Tri-X. These were very colorful, but you’ll have to take my word for it.

Paul Biggar: “So I just need to split my simple CRUD app into 12 microservices, each with their own APIs which call each others’ APIs but handle failure resiliently, put them into Docker containers, launch a fleet of 8 machines which are Docker hosts running CoreOS, ‘orchestrate’ them using a small Kubernetes cluster running etcd, figure out the ‘open questions’ of networking and storage, and then I continuously deliver multiple redundant copies of each microservice to my fleet.

In an interview on The Verge about his recent Delicious acquisition, Maciej Cegłowski says: If you could have Flickr back the way it used to be and run competently, everybody would be on there right now. I think it would be wonderful if the old Flickr crew could get the site back and run it the way they wanted to. Oh my, that would make me so happy.

Rob Milanowski: I was spending more time on meta work instead of real work As someone who frequently switches task managers, I can relate to this. The problem is that switching task managers is just another form of meta work. It’s meta-meta work. I’ve rationalized changing task managers in more ways than there are task managers. It’s always some feature or other that I need and the current tool doesn’t have.

I tried moving away from Org Mode four days ago. Doing so required finding replacements for the following: Email client Task manager Code/text editor Note-taking app Outliner Publishing tool (PDF) Git client Daybook/Journal I have favorite apps for all of the above, and I love using them, but it means that I end up with my “stuff” spread all over the place. I get hung up deciding where to write things down.

I’ve been running Shaun Inman’s Mint since 2005 and it’s always been more than enough to let me know that almost no one visits my site. I like Mint. Shaun stopped supporting Mint some time last year, but I thought I’d just keep running it indefinitely. Unfortunately, after a recent server update, it stopped working. Rather than trying to figure out what went wrong I decided I’d find a replacement.

The best horror-musical-comedy-mermaid movie you’ll see this year! “The Lure” was nuts, in the best possible way. I loved it. Can I have more like this, please?