Collin Donnell

It looks like if everything passes the repair persons QA, I should be able to pick up my Leica and lenses on Monday! Now I’m just going to have to start getting up early so I can take photos before it’s dark 😂

Updated my Healthcare dot gov stuff for 2025. Looks like it’s going to up by a little over $100, again, or about a 20% increase. Fantastic. I can’t believe how expensive everything has gotten.

Decided to go ahead and delete my Twitter (the everything app) account outright. I feel indifferent about it.

I am so goddamn tired of my hand hurting.

I wish Apple had just kept making routers.

Does anyone have a router they like with ample Ethernet ports? I have an Eero connected through a switch, and I feel like there might be a better solution for me. I’ll take a mesh network system if available, but since my house is wired for Ethernet now, it might not be necessary.

Crossposting to Bluesky and Mastodon through Micro.blog is a great experience. Replies from Bluesky even show up in Micro.blog so I can respond to them there.

The only thing I hope for is to get that for Mastodon and some indication of where the reply came from.

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.