After some discussion at IWC Berlin and online, I decided to download Sunlit to ease sharing photos. The good news is that it just works, out of the box, to send images to my stream. Once there, I can edit to enable sharing to Mastodon and off they go. I have not yet tried adding my Mastodon account as a second destination, because I want to be at least a little mindful and not post everything everywhere. One tiny criticism: when you add Alt text, the input box obscures the image. That makes it a little harder to describe the contents. Other than that, I'm very happy, and happy to move another step away from IG.
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Create Day IWC Berlin 2025
Both of the tasks I set myself for the second day of IndieWeb Camp Berlin came good, though the easier one was hard because I made it so and the hard one was easy because I spent too much time on the easy one. Confused? So was I.
The tasks I wanted to accomplish were to bri...
Monthly report: October 2025
The highlight was a lowlife spambot attack that I could counter only by putting the site behind CloudFlare, and don't get me wrong, I'm glad I could do that, but I wish I hadn't had to. Also, somehow in that process, while one of the subdomains came through with no further e...
IndieWeb Camp Berlin 2025
After far too long, I was once again able to attend an IndieWeb Camp in real life, and it was another great experience. Old friends and new, old problems and new too. And some great adjunct events.
The most exciting of those was the journey there, specifically the stretch ...
Photographic Fixer
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my photographs, why I take them, why and where I share them, and how to do that from now on.
One trigger has been Instagram’s slow slide into irrelevance. I regularly miss photos from the people I follow, and vice versa, plus if I wan...
Gel on Salt-preserved Lemons
A couple of days ago I tackled some salt-preserved lemons I had made about a year ago, just my terrace-grown lemons and salt. I had failed to notice that the air-trap fell out some time ago and the top layers, where more oxygen was available, had played host to a grey-green ...
I Can See Clearly Now
“It’s a lot like the old days of trying to get a good colour print at home,” was the best I could come up with. “You print one of those test images that came with the printer, with all those different skin colours, and you discover that the pretty pink baby actually has a sl...
The Quartiere Coppedè
Since June, I have had occasion to visit a part of Rome I barely know, way on the other side of town, literally. Coming back on the bus one time I happened to glance up at the buildings and was absolutely amazed. Decorative friezes, fancy brickwork, ornate balustrades and ba...
Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing?
Marieke Hendriksen, of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, told me in a recent conversation that her new junior researcher had “got an allergic reaction and ended up in A&E” as a result of eating too much fermented food. In the past, Marieke added, “beca...
Monthly report: September 2025
I thought I might get this done two days ago, and then yesterday arrived with an onslaught of Russian spambots abusing the comment form. I think that’s fixed, at least enough to recall the glories of September.
Highlights of the months:
Got back into the podcast season
Loc...
Attacked by the Evil Empire
Yesterday arrived with an onslaught of Russian spambots abusing the comment form here, and nothing seemed able to stop them. Cloudflare worked, then it didn’t. Slightly panicked here, I might have slowed the flow by adding a block on 11 IP ranges. And still they seemed to ke...
TIL: sips for Image Manipulation
I’ve been helping the Squeeze update her website to show new work, a lot of which requires me to rightsize the image files she produces as part of her practice. Normally not much of a problem but occasional enormous TIFF files cause all the tools I have to stutter and fail. Fearing I might have to install ImageMagick or similar, I cast around online and found Use sips to quickly, easily—and freely—convert image files. Bingo!
I did one run of a straight TIFF to JPEG conversion and it worked, but the JPEG was still too large. So I actually read sips help and discovered the -Z option to specify a size in pixels for the largest dimension.
sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 80 -Z 1920 "input.tiff" --out "output.jpeg"
Took me down from 251Mb to 862Kb in no time flat. Very good to know.
Printed is not the Point
Naomi Duguid is just one of the writers I enjoy who has succumbed to the lure of Substack. I’ve made my brief pitch to each of them to consider some other place, which generally falls on almost-deaf ears because of the supposed network effects: “the building of visibility an...
Notebooks Need Follow-up
“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
The famed Field Notes tagline is all very well but what if, even having written it down, you fail to remember it? Quasi-disaster ensues, if you’re me. As usual, the culprit is past me not...