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Picture of the Week: Profit from the Panic

Updated: See the last section I wanted to take advantage of the flexibility I gave myself with Hugo to have a “Picture of the Week” (PotW) feature on my new site. It took a few iterations to get it to where I liked it, and there are some things about Hugo I learned along the way, but it’s done enough for now. The basic idea is that I want to take advantage of the streamlined upload and metadata workflow I’ve set up between Lightroom and imgup to share photos without a lot of repeating myself when it comes to writing titles, alt text, etc. ...

Make more, fret less.

What we often call “resistance to change” is really resistance to bad or poorly considered change. The word “experiment” turns up a lot in these moments. ...

I appreciate omg.lol and micro.blog for making space for small things. The early web was like that. We can talk down GeoCities sites if we wish, but in GeoCities it was okay to be small and human. We lost that sense of the web as a place that was made up of humans … a perpetual boom shot sweeping across an infinite small town with lights in all the windows. You can fly. You can stop to look at what you will, or move on. If you experience envy over anything you see, it is at least envy over the creativity, or skill, or passion bound up in someone’s little house. ...

After some issues with delivery, my Opal C1 finally arrived. It is a pretty good product, but it exists in an odd nether-region between other fairly well executed webcams that cost less and just repurposing a mirrorless camera. I wouldn’t recommend it to people who don’t think of webcams as something fun to play with. Once I got a tracking number for it, I reinstalled my Fujifilm X-T4 using the new 23mm/f1.4 lens just to have something to index with. My daily driver for a while now has been an Elgato Facecam, which costs $100 less and provides a sharp, consistent picture that requires only a little fiddling during the day as the light coming through the window I face changes. ...

An attempt to reconcile the identity politics of the Combahee River Collective with the materialist left. Probably something to bother everyone in there.

Back in March I started a digital declutter. There are lots of posts about how those things start, but not many about how it’s going. These are some things I have been doing that have helped me feel more focused and intentional.

I’ve got a life-long habit of spinning up virtual people and arguing with them, which is to say a life-long habit of telling stories to myself that aren’t true. It’s tough to break, and I haven’t broken it. But I’ve added a little thing to the loop.

Once you make the shift from being a fixer who has all the answers to a leader who listens like they don’t know the answer, you can build trust with the people you want to help.