I have been using Musikcube (a terminal based music player) for a couple of weeks now, and I really like it! Completely keyboard based navigation and controls (although mouse clicks are supported too). It feels so simple and does not suggest any crap! Just my library of MP3s. I found it after looking for a simple music player for my Ubuntu machine, but I am now using it on the Mac as well.
On the one hand it is frustrating when companies do stupid stuff and force you to look for alternatives, either through insane price hikes or inexcusable political decisions.
But it is a great opportunity to move to open source self-hosted solutions for everything.
Is it more work? Yes.
Will you retain full control over your stack? Most definitely!
Immich recognized this person in ~200 photos. Funny thing is, that it is all over the place and many different people seem to resemble this face. The kids are having fun trying to spot which person in each image Immich thinks looks like a tire. 😅
Oh man, the memories in this photo library! From 2012, fully decked out Canon gear and a heavy backpack. Glad I am not doing this to myself anymore. 😄 (Although the trip was amazing!)
Just read Noel Tock’s Human Made Newsletter1 – they are always at the cutting edge of WP development – on how they are building a WordPress integration that uses the Abilities API and the MCP Adapter to basically optimize a website’s content automatically, without a human in...
🤬 Nothing makes me more mad than a payment dispute for a renewal payment where the customer clearly forgot to cancel their subscription in time. A simple email would have sorted this without the dispute fees!
Glad I have 😎 Claudio, who is always keeping a cool head in these situations (even in the current weather!) and deals with those a**h***s!
I don’t know what it is, but I don’t like taking pictures with a smartphone. Every few years, whenever I get a new phone, I try using the (latest and greatest™) camera to take photos, but I’ve never warmed up to it.
The physical act of framing and taking images with a phone ...
Finally got around to setting up Syncthing to sync files between my Linux machine and my Mac. Not sure why it took me this long. It works like a charm and transfers files almost instantly over my local network. This will make working on both machines so much easier.
I’ve been using Whereabouts for a couple of weeks now, to learn to identify all the countries on the world map. It is pretty fun and I am learning a lot. It also triggered a couple of deep dives into countries I knew nothing about. E.g. Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) and its absolute monarch ruler, who has 11+ wives. Sounds like a standup kinda guy…
I have no idea who this Ken guy is (the only US sport I like to follow sometimes is basketball, couldn’t care less about the rest) and I have no interest in golf whatsoever – but following a photographer around, covering a (seemingly very prestigious) event is right up my alley. I would have loved more depth, but it is still interesting to see the inner workings of how such a big sports event is covered.
I just automatically checked the mailbox at our old house. I’ve been doing this for years while walking past it – slipping my hand into the slot to feel whether anything was in there. Did it without thinking, even though it’s no longer our mailbox. Funny how that works.
Thank you, Marc! Where can I go from here?! 😂
But seriously, it means a lot that my work has this effect. I’m not sure this is replicable at other events. I suspect that the atmosphere you create at beyond tellerrand – and especially the people (speakers and attendees alike)...
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Got another skate session in before the coming rain. The algorithm might not be wrong in that I would actually really love to learn it! I am pretty good on my inline skates… and I didn’t immediately fall down, when I stood on Lumi’s board. 😎 Plus I am definitely not (too) old!
Watched a couple of skateboarding videos with Lumi on YouTube the other day and now I get a lot of “how to start skateboarding when you are old” suggestions. Effin’ algorithm… 😤
Making this note about scheduling dentist appointments after beyond tellerrand, because even though I was in the chair for 2.5 hours, I am still in a good mood! Nothing can faze me right now!
The only time I ever hear the fan going off in my MacBook – M1 Pro, from 2022, still very happy with it – is when importing a huge number of Fuji images into Lightroom. Does not happen with Leica files. 🤷♂️
😍 Thank you so much, Erica, for your kind words! She was one of the “another successful 365 project” giveaway winners. I love, love, love seeing my zines out in the world! Also reminds me that I really enjoy making them – and I need to get back into it. Also: How cool is the “Zines > Screens” tagline by Véronique?! 💯! Love it!
I recently introduced my daugther to Scratch after she mentioned she would like to create her own video game. „This is much more work than I thought!“ 😊
Speaking of lists: My friend Claudio turned to the ripe old age of 40 a couple of days ago and shared some thoughts.
I turned 40 today and felt like writing down a list of things I learned along the way. Some of it might be redundant, some of it is as melodramatic as a “carpe diem” motivational poster, but hey, I enjoyed writing it and you don’t have to read it. So without further ado, here are 40 things […]
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