John Gruber: …whenever it comes down to it, it always feels easier to me to just wait until I’m at a Mac and create it there. Me too, John. I’ll spend hours tweaking scripts and gadgets on my Mac, but on iOS I feel that if I need to resort to using Workflow I’ve failed. Yes, it’s irrational.

I love email. In spite of its faults, email is the most reliable way to communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s been this way for decades. It works. Email is also a pain in the ass. Email puts anyone at all in charge of my todo list. Clients forward me 30-message email threads with only “Thoughts?”. Spam. Reply-all nonsense. You know the list. We’ve been bitching about email for years. People keep trying to “fix” it or replace it.

Dimension Of Miracles by Robert Scheckley was a fun Science Fiction romp from 1968. It felt very much like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” but predates it by many years. I thought it was funny, smart, and clever. The audio book is read by John Hodgman, who did a fine job.

My grandfather’s photo albums are stacked in my basement. There are 24 of them. My plan has been to scan, caption, and upload everthing. It’s been slow going, but I’m picking away at it. I’ve been trying to decide where and how to post the images. Should I use Wordpress, or Flickr, or Facebook, or SmugMug, or what? While deciding, I exported the albums from Lightroom to static galleries and dropped them on my VPS with a bare-bones index page.

One of the things preventing “normal” people from using a static CMS is that there’s not a comfortable way to for them to edit and preview content. I myself prefer editing markdown in a local text editor. Most people don’t work well that way. This post is being written in my browser using Netlify CMS. When saving, it’ll create a new markdown file in the Github repo and Netlify will automatically re-build the site and push it to the Netlify CDN.

Ever since my favorite music streaming service, Rdio, was shut down, I’ve been forced to find a replacement. The contenders were Spotify and Apple Music. I’ve never loved Spotify, and iTunes is a mess. I subscribed to both services to see which I prefer. Today I canceled Apple Music and will continue using Spotify. I’d like to tell you that I have a thoroughly-considered list of reasons, but I don’t. I went with Spotify because that’s what the others on my family plan prefer.

I followed a link to a Podcast because it was about Todoist and included thoughts by Merlin Mann. Merlin was involved with the initial development of OmniFocus and has been a GTD/productivity nut forever so his opinion is valuable to me. Eager to hear his take on Todoist, I started listening to the podcast. They got to the part about Todoist, but it took nearly forty minutes! Good lord, why does every podcast take so long getting to the damn point?

After becoming somewhat attached to notifications on my Apple Watch, I missed them when wearing my automatic watch. In order to make my beloved analog watch a little smarter, I bought a Chronos. The Chronos attaches to the back of any watch and adds “smart” features like step counting and notifications. This sounded like a great idea. What I found was that using the Chronos made my dumb watch dumber.

Good news everyone! We’ve released a full set of documentation for Workflow, clocking in at 43,467 words. Enjoy! 🤖 https://t.co/dEMvHmzXyC — Workflow (@WorkflowHQ) March 11, 2017 “Powerful automation made simple” (and in only slightly more than 43,000 words!) I poke fun, but it reminded me that I’m still working toward a less complicated life. As cool as Workflow is, I’m better off resisting its charms, lest I fall down yet another rabbit hole while trying to “improve my process”.

The Bowery is my second bag from ONA. I wanted something small that I could carry everywhere and the Bowery fits the bill. I carry a Leica M, the Fuji X-Pro2, a couple rolls of film, spare battery, and a notebook. I like everything about it. I’m told it looks a lot like a purse but that’s fine with me. UPDATE July 26, 2019. I’ve had this bag for a while now, and the one thing I dislike is that it doesn’t have a handle.

Tim Layton: Whether you are a traditionalist like myself or a hybrid photographer, The Darkroom Underground publishes a balance of technical and creative articles in every issue along with featured photographers and some of their best artwork I’ve subscribed. Film-focused photography resources are becoming less rare. This is a good thing.

Kodak: Consumer and Film Division (CFD) revenues for the fourth quarter were $45 million, down from $63 million in Q4 of 2015. Operational EBITDA declined from $14 million to negative $2 million. For the year, revenues for CFD were $216 million, down 18 percent from $265 million, driven primarily by a $32 million expected decline in consumer inkjet revenues. Operational EBITDA for the division was down $36 million for the year, driven by the reduction in consumer inkjet as well as investments supporting the KODAK Super 8 Camera and future camera platforms.