• iPhonetography

    Coming to your e-reader in the Spring of 2023

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  • Ghosted

    I have had a need to simplify my websites and the expenses that come with them. That changed today. A year ago I transferred this website to a self-hosted instance instead, for simplicity and ease of use but I gave up too much control. Today,…

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  • Publishing On The Go

    My website has being going for over twenty years. In that time, technology has transformed my life and the way I write has gone through some pretty major shifts. What was first typed into a frustratingly slow WordPress installation can now be published from a…

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  • This Week

    It’s been about a solid week since re-using iA Writer exclusively, instead of Ulysses and I’m thrilled to be back. I’ve never stuck with iA Writer except for editing Markdown files but now I am using it exclusively to publish here. I’m thinking I have…

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  • On Contentment

    Lately I’ve been playing ping-pong in my brain about changing platforms. I set myself up on a 14-day trial to host this site on another server and within 14 minutes decided it was too much of a struggle. I’ve spent hours, months and years to…

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  • Personal Publishing Principles

    When’s the last time you went to an actual website to read a real article written by a human, without being slapped in the face by pop-ups, cookie warnings, ads, and lead-generating magnets? It’s past time to get back to the basics of the WWW.…

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  • The Internet Is Broken

    Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but I’ll go ahead and guess about 2010. Making money off of content became more important than the content itself. This is a long…

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  • Analog Notes

    Following up on a previous post, I have too many unused paper journal notebooks in the form of Field Notes©. I need to frequently remind myself to use them, and this post intends to do just that. During the day, I’ll come to a point…

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  • The Ideal Life

    Lately, I’ve been thinking of the optimal lifestyle and how to get the best out of life. How can I better my existence? An ideal lifestyle is one you have to define for yourself. So if I wanted to focus on creativity and photography, I…

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  • Homework

    “Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.” – Lawrence Kasdan This quote could also be used for any hobby endeavor we choose such as photography, crochet, micro electronics, Ham radio, etc. A hobbyist is constantly researching techniques,…

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  • Technical Issues

    If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology – and, you don’t understand your problems. Laurie Anderson Find the best tool for a specific job and stick with it. This is better said than done for me since I enjoy…

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  • Take Charge

    “Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving. And it increasingly comes with more responsibility and risks for guarding our own data and taking charge of distributing our words and images.” EI Skyers This sums up nicely…

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