Elizabeth Tobey:
Titles (and images) on Medium stories are your first and best chance to entice readers to click through and read your whole piece — so choose wisely.
Too many people heeding advice like this is causing Medium to become significantly less useful as a place to discover interesting writing. My feed, which I try to actively curate, contains mostly things like: “Top 10 Ways to Write a Super-Terrific Listicle!
Sorry, I’ve done it again. Moved the blog back to WordPress, I mean. I’ve gone through this so many times I’m not even going to try explaining myself this time.
Note that the RSS feed’s URL is now /feed/
Just hoping it helps me write more. Let’s see how long I can just leave things be this time.
Apple IIc. Crown Graphic 4×5 This is a working Apple IIc that I keep in my basement for no valid reason other than it’s neat to look at.
I don’t know what happened with this image. Probably a bit over-exposed. Putting a beige subject on a white background wasn’t a great idea either.
Crown Graphic 4×5
f/22 for 1⁄3 second
HP5+ in D76 1:1 for 13 minutes
MacSparky
Between the speed and reliability, I feel more comfortable asking Alexa questions because I’m not worried about whether or not the Echo will stop and think for long seconds before screwing up. That trust means I use it more often.
Mr. Sparks’ experience, ahem, echoes mine.
The Amazon Echo has remained my favorite device over the past six months. It is in my kitchen and I use it many times every day for setting timers, adding reminders, performing conversions, playing music, and telling jokes.
Benjamin Pollacks:
And then Git happened. Git is so amazingly simple to use that APress, a single publisher, needs to have three different books on how to use it. It’s so simple that Atlassian and GitHub both felt a need to write their own online tutorials to try to clarify the main Git tutorial on the actual Git website. It’s so transparent that developers routinely tell me that the easiest way to learn Git is to start with its file formats and work up to the commands.
Late last night I found myself arguing with a guy at the bar about the FBI/Apple hubbub.
I expected to swiftly bury him with an expertly-constructed argument damning the FBI and praising Apple for taking a stand against the continuing erosion of our capital-P Privacy etc. etc.
What happened instead is that I sounded like an anti-government conspiracy theorist with an agenda.
I woke up confused.
Mike Caulfield
This is the Tragedy of the Stream, folks. The conversations of yesterday, which contain so much useful information, are locked into those conversations, frozen in time. To extract the useful information from them becomes an unrewarding and at times impossible endeavor. Few people, if any, stop to refactor, rearrange the resources, gloss or introduce them to outsiders. We don’t go back to old pieces to add links on them to the things we have learned since, or rewrite them for clarity or timelessness.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my 4×5 cameras lately. Most of the images have been made using a Crown Graphic set on a tripod in my basement “studio”. I quoted “studio” because it’s really just a bedsheet hung as a backdrop and a couple of floor lamps for lighting. Not an ideal setup by any stretch but it works for now. I don’t have a way to trigger flashes with the Crown Graphic so I’m using poor-man’s continuous lighting.
I don’t know the first thing about writing makefiles but this seems to work.
I sometimes host using Github Pages and sometimes on my own VPS. I can just change the TARGET macro to
change where the site goes. This might be overkill but I learned a few things so it was worth it.
I’m realizing that I no longer enjoy blog posts that state “This is what I think about such-and-such…”. I prefer posts saying “This is what I like about such-and-such…” or “This is how I do such-and-such…”. I’m not interested in opinion as much as experiences.
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