Amazon’s S3 service has always baffled me. I’ve set up a few static sites using the service but never felt comfortable with it. While poking around today I found this… Apparently, it sets everything up in a new bucket automatically. I may try creating a site and see how it goes.

As I get older I’m less inclined to want to manage my own servers, but I’ve been enamored with Gitlab lately, so I decided to try installing my own copy of Gitlab CE. It turned out to be easy enough. I used a pre-configured Digital Ocean droplet. I then installed an SSL cert from Let’s Encrypt, imported a few of my repos and I was off and running. I have not yet tried adding any Runners or other CI tools but so far it’s pretty painless.

Dick Gordon Dorothy Ronald Nov. 16, 1941 the Sunday Ronald was Baptized. This photo was taken 75 years ago today. My dad was baptized that day. I know this because my grandfather took the time to write a caption on every photograph he made. I also caption every photo. You should too. Generations of people will appreciate that you spent the extra few minutes to preserve history for them.

The first 30 seconds or so of “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys is fantastic. The whole song is great, but man that intro. Listen on Spotify

Vise (2016). 4x5 Speed Graphic. HP5+ in R5 Monobath There’s something wrong with my process or my equipment. I took this photo of a bench vise today using the Speed Graphic. It was lit using the Foldio, shot on HP5+ and processed in R5 Monobath from New55 I metered carefully, but it still ended up underexposed. What’s worse, is that the right one-third of the image is darker than the rest, and slightly discolored.

I have taken to carrying three notebooks. Here’s how (or better, when) I use them. Before it happens I use a Hobonichi Techo Planner for scheduling and planning. It’s loaded with calendars and dated pages. The Hobonichi is a wonderful, easy-to-carry planner that uses Tomoe River paper; my favorite. I record all event-based information in one. On each day’s page I write a list of things relevant to that day. I sometimes include a small sketch representing the day.

Collin Donnell The strange feeling I have is that I’m not moving because iCloud Drive has gotten better than Dropbox, or even that it’s gotten as good. I’m moving because maybe it’s become sufficient for my needs. I’m purposefully not using what’s clearly the best thing on the market, because I think I’m willing to live without some of it’s features. Hopefully it’ll be good enough. That last bit gets me.

What the fuck have we done?

Tantek Çelik: I remember when I switched to Google for web search over a decade ago because Google was faster and good enough compared to Yahoo! Search. Now DuckDuckGo is faster and good enough compared to Google Search. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for so long that I tend to forget about Google. I don’t miss Google at all.

without bullshit: Slack wrote an open letter to Microsoft, ostensibly welcoming it to the market for workplace collaboration systems. It’s a weird hunk of prose, direct and honest on the surface, but fundamentally insincere. The choice to publish this letter — and to fill it with platitudes — makes me question the judgment of the company. I must say that as much as I love Slack, I found their Letter to Microsoft a little off-putting.

I love that Org Mode version 9.0 has been released, but I’m less happy about it breaking stuff. Working on fixing it now.

I ate this for lunch today. There’s not even any food in there. Disgusting.