New episode of the Rooftop Ruby podcast out now!
New episode of the Rooftop Ruby podcast out now!
My redirects from collindonnell.com to collin.blog, including old posts and the RSS feed, seem to be working great.
I also set up a “hire me” page for anyone who needs an iOS or Ruby on Rails app worked on, as well as links to my photo blog and music website, in the header.
I forgot how much I like being able to use MarsEdit to write my blog posts.
Alright. I think I’m ready to have Apple News on my phone again.
Since forever I’ve been blogging at collindonnell.com, but after getting collin.band for my music and then collin.photo for photography, the opportunity to move my main blog to collin.blog was too tempting, even if it’s a very expensive domain. Everything should redirect so old links will work.
Hey, at least I’m known for something. This is my legacy 🫡
I gotta get back to posting more of the relevant content people want about obscure operating systems and programming languages from the 80s.
The hardest part of being a programmer is keeping up with everything that is constantly changing and being updated. I love it, but it’s also pretty relentless.
I’ve been thinking about it, and what I want is a unit that connects to the PC sync port on a camera and logs the time and GPS coordinates when triggered. I’m pretty sure I have the skills to do this with an Arduino, so I’m going to give it a shot.
Tomorrow will be a big coding day. I am going to be so productive and code so many things. I can feel it.
Photo of this great bar I found called the Veteran’s Club in Mt. Shasta, California.
Going back and adding alt-text to all of my photos on my blog. Apparently it’s important for search engines and accessibility, although I question how many people who can’t see would be reading a photo blog?
I’ve been using the app Crown & Flint to track exif/location data when shooting on film. What do other people do? Do you just not worry about this? I’m not sure how much I care about what aperture/shutter speed I was using, but at the very least I want the location. #FilmPhotography
If I keep shooting color and my local labs keep giving me not-great results, I might invest in one of these AGO film processors.
In the meantime, it doesn’t matter too much because the weather sucks now anyway, and I think I’m going to just shoot black and white for a while.
It’s been roughly thirty hours since I dropped off my Leica to get serviced, and I’m so antsy to get it back! I can’t wait to have it fully serviced and ready to use. There was some concern about de-hazing the 50mm, but if I have to replace that lens, it’s not too insane. #filmphotography
I’ve decided I’m done posting about politics on social media and will limit my engagement to when I think it’s actually helpful. We’ll see if it sticks, but I think if I really care that much, there are better uses of my energy.
“So much for the tolerant left.”
Listen. I’m tolerant of people of different races, religions, gender identifies, sexual orientations, or anything that isn’t harmful or denying someone rights.
I never claimed to be tolerant of people with repugnant views or who support those that do.
I made a blog post to collect all of the places you can currently follow me (blogs, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc.), since everyone seems to be moving around right now or using multiple. You can pretty much find me everywhere except for X, the everything app.
What are some of your favorite blogs I should be following? I’m interested in iOS/macOS development, Ruby/Rails, and photography (especially film). Can be yours, too! Just looking for good active blogs. #photography #filmphotography #ruby #rubyonrails #swift #iosdev
Decided to go with Synology C2 for offsite backup from my Synology. It might be a little more expensive than Backblaze or whatever, but the upside is that it has predictable pricing, it’s easy to set up, and you get an online browser for your files. #synology
JPEG XL will probably catch on since Apple is supporting it, but I might be a bit on the bleeding edge since support is a little hit-and-miss. For example, Synology Photos will not upload them. I don’t know what else I’d use with Apple Photos, though. The alternatives are worse.
Really pleased with the Synology so far. Set up was as easy as I could expect, and Time Machine seems to be working perfectly.
Synology is all set up with two 10 TB hard drives for redundancy with Time Machine and my Lightroom library. It was pretty easy, and with the Smart Previews thing turned on in Lightroom, it seems to work as fast as it ever has.
Got my Leica dropped off. Really lucky to not have to ship it to get serviced.
I eventually want to get a digital M, but the idea of spending that kind of money on a camera that will be outdated in a few years is pretty unappealing. Plus I just flat don’t have that kind of money.
I never leave negative Yelp reviews, but this film processing is messed up to a degree that I might. All the frames have scratches and spots on them. I can’t believe I paid for this.