: York Labs - Only 1¢ per super glossy upgrade! Along with all my negatives were some mail-in envelopes from York Labs; must have been a favorite of …
: Learning the Trade - Becoming an Aircraft Mechanic This deep dive back into film has started me rooting around in old boxes looking for my old …
: Testing Polaroid Flip Polaroid Frame Testing…
: The Good Stuff - July 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month
: Kodak Snapic Review Kodak Snapic review after two rolls of film.
: New Flight Bag Camera: Kodak Snapic Thanks to @macmanx posting this YouTube video from Becca Farsace about why cheap cameras are better, …
: It Ain't Much - Adobe Stock Sales I’ve been selling my photography on Adobe Stock for many years now, and my sales have slowed …
: Finished reading: Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu 📚 A wonderful short story about a woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks …
: Finished reading: A World Appears by Michael Pollan 📚 What can I say, any book by Michael Pollan is sure to be gold, and this one does not disappoint. If …
: Added Two More Photo Sets I was reading Jasper’s blog and stumbled on his favorite photos. And thought I need to get off my …
: The Good Stuff - June 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month
: I Think You Should Have A Life Manifesto Hear me out. You need one of these.
: Kodak Mini 2 Retro Photo Printer I saw a review for the Kodak Mini 2 Retro and thought, what the hell, let’s try it.
: Stray Thoughts - May 2026 A smattering of stray thoughts I’ve had this month.
: The Good Stuff - May 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month.
: Want to read: Everything Is Photograph by Patricia Albers 📚 Want to read: Everything Is Photograph by Patricia Albers 📚 I don’t usually post about books in the …
: Finished reading: So Late in the Day Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan 📚 Finished reading: So Late in the Day Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan 📚 Beautiful short …
: Finished reading: Go Computer Now! by Ben Zotto 📚 Finished reading: Go Computer Now! by Ben Zotto 📚 Delightful book about the start of the personal …
: Beam Paints - M’Chigeeng First Nation Company on Manitoulin Island My wife is a watercolor artist in her free time and just found a wonderful resource for hematite …
: Stray Pixels - Tribute To My Friend Richard My friend Richard died this morning in his sleep.
: Silent Sunday - Ocean Therapy
: The Good Stuff - April 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month.
: Stray Thoughts - April 2026 A smattering of stray thoughts I’ve had this month. This is brand new for April and will be the …
: Denoise: LightRoom vs DxO PureRAW 5 A quick down-and-dirty comparison between LR and DxO denoise. There is a very clear winner here.
: Currently reading: Go Computer Now! by Ben Zotto 📚 About halfway through, what a great book. Tons …
: Morning Meditation “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, …
: Finished reading: Traversal by Maria Popova 📚 How do you get from Captain Cook’s 1769 voyage to document the transit of Venus to Mary Shelley’s …
: Pentel Arts Multi 8 Pencil Hiro had this pencil in his last Hiro.report. Had to order it right away and get penciling. It’s a …
: Canyon in Twilight - Silent Sunday
: Custom Oura Ring Data Board Poking around, I found out that Oura ring has a robust API, so I wanted to see what Claude Code …
: Testing Webmention florian.photo/2026-04-1…
: Kumari Gold Tea Kumari Gold deserves its own post. This is a reserve tea from The Tea Spot in Boulder, CO.
: The Good Stuff - March 2026 The Good Stuff - March 2026
: Flashback to 2009 Browsing the internet archives, I stumbled upon my blog from 2009. The original cliff538 was built …
: Finished Reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚 Another powerful, beautifully written …
: Finished Reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab 📚 Finished reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab 📚 Do you like vampires? Do you …
: The Good Stuff - February 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month
: TERRAINK: THE CARTOGRAPHIC POSTER ENGINE This is really fun to play with. Build high-detail map posters from OpenStreetMap data with curated …
: CyberPower UPS Internal Battery Replacement CyberPower UPS Internal Battery Replacement - Easy Enough!
: Finished reading: The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚 Another deep dive into complex characters, questioning life, love, and family bonds, all with a …
: 1984 - It Was One Of Those Days August 25th, 1984 - Somebody was in a very bad mood.
: My 1993 Psion Series 3a Palmtop Computer Makes a Comeback Digging through some old boxes, I came across my 33 year old palmtop computer.
: New Book Alert 🚨 Maria Popova - Traversal 📚 Maria Popova has a new book out today Traversal. Synopsis from Kobo: “From the Marginalian creator …
: Paused: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚 Did Not Finish: Paused: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚 Paused for now. Will have to come back later …
: Change They say, The one thing you can count on is change.
: Finished Reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚 This was the first book I’d ever finished, and I immediately started over. Claire Keegan is a master …
: Finished reading: Breakneck by Dan Wang 📚 This fast-paced book offers a compelling exploration of the stark contrasts between China and the …
: The Good Stuff - January 2026 A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month of January 2026.
: Building An Online Micro.blog Editor A custom Micro.blog editor was created using Vercel and Claude Code, enabling easier blog management …
: Claude Code Makes A Cliff538 Status Board Claude Code Makes A Cliff538 Status Board deployed locally on a Mac Mini.
: 📚 Finished Reading: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard A beautifully crafted and haunting novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard immerses readers in the lives of …
: Separate Blog Experiment For Short Notes Up and Running A separate blog for short notes is being considered to keep the main page clean while maintaining a …
: How do you handle your short, title less posts? Just keep them on your main blog? Have a separate …
: NYT George Saunders Interview NYT George Saunders Interview: The interviewer, with a deep appreciation for writers and their skill …
: Finished Reading: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚 Powerful book, makes you think a lot about the human …
: Look at what you find when you clean out the closet in your office.
: Excellent information about Safe Mode for Mac users, including what it is and when to use it. …
: I’ve had it! Every time I take them out to use them… I’m ready to turn in my AirPods and look for …
: The Cliff538 2025 Yearly Review Another Year is in the books here is the Cliff538 2025 Yearly Review
: Working with Hugo and your MicroBlog Locally Working with Hugo and your MicroBlog Locally with Claude Code for Testing and Learning
: Year in books for 2025 Here are the books I finished reading in 2025.
: Finished reading: The Hobbit - Enhanced Edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 Finished reading: The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 What is there to say about …
: Setting Up A Mac Mini Home Server I’ve always wanted one, but I knew I didn’t need one.
: 365Pixels Stat Page I’ve always wanted a stat page on 365Pixels that showed my current streak, posting percentage and …
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 12: Home Home is anywhere/anytime when I’m with …
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 11: Feast Salmon on the grill.
: Merry Christmas Micro.blog, it’s been a wonderful year watching, learning, and getting to know all …
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 10: Travel
: The Internet Baffles Me Sometimes This morning, both my microblog blogs were down for an hour. But my two testing microblog blogs were …
: Cliff Notes: The Good Stuff! A smattering of useful things I’ve come across lately
: Let's Talk Email Let’s Talk Email - Having a Bulletproof Email System. Over the past week or so, I’ve been …
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 9: Baking Holiday Pizza!
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 8: Grinch
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 7: Solstice
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 6: Sparkle
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 5: Beard
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 4: Evergreen Evergreen, Desert Style!
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 3: Firelight
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 2: Cozy Taken at a local zoo a few years ago. …
: 📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 1: Frost
: Finished Reading: 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin 📚 Finished reading: 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin 📚 Good book, well written. Focuses on the bankers and …
: Cliff Notes: Dreams of Analog As a Gen X’er, I grew up in the analog era, and I retain both the right and the skill to return to …
: 🍿 Watched: The New Yorker at 100 A Netflix documentary centered on the New Yorker’s vaunted newsroom, this star-studded documentary …
: Remembering The Family Kitchen Phone Tell me you had a kitchen phone with a super-long, curly cord so you could stretch it into the next …
: Cliff Notes: Q4 Photography Update I’m going to try to update my photography goings-on every few months or so, so I have a good look …
: Love. Hope. Fear. Vulnerability. Strength. Life. Love. Hope. Fear. Vulnerability. Strength. Life. All wrapped up in the most beautiful and perfect …
: AppleTV Flashback to First Gen Model A1218 circa March 2007 AppleTV Flashback to First Gen Model A1218 circa March 2007
: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Space Travel Posters NASA offers an impressive collection of space travel posters and wallpapers.
: Dentist Inspired Blog Update Day Dentist Inspired Blog Update Day
: Finished reading: The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey 📚 Finished reading: The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey 📚 Set in the same world as The Girl With All …
: Finished reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚 Finished reading: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚 I really enjoyed this book. If you …
: Watched: A House of Dynamite 🍿 I really enjoyed this; it meshes very closely with the book “Nuclear …
: Finished reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 📚 Perhaps it’s time for everyone to revisit the …
: 📚 Parable of the Sower Finished Reading: “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler. My review:
: I really enjoyed this documentary. If you even have a small adventurous bone in your body, you’ll …
: Finished reading: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton 📚 I LOVED this book. I was not happy at all that it …
: Finished reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚 If you haven’t read this before, …
: Finished reading: 117 Days Adrift by Maurice Bailey 📚 Great survival story, really enjoyed it.
: Notes from the series "The Eightfold Path". My personal notes from listening to the first episode of the Waking Up app series “The Eightfold …
: Scratch Pad Thoughts Love the life you have, with the stuff you have, and try to improve it a little bit each day. Take …
: From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend Reading for pleasure among Americans has seen a significant decline of 40% over the past two …
: Finished reading: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 📚
: Finished reading: How to Think Like Socrates by Donald J. Robertson 📚
: Finished reading: Never Leave the Dogs Behind by Brianna Madia 📚
: Finished reading: Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia 📚
: 📚 WSJ - 15 Books We Read This Week. Gift Article …
: 📚 In reference to finding great new books to read, here is some help from the Atlantic: Gift Link: …
: Finished reading: Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall 📚 I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Donald Hall …
: Finished reading: A Marriage At Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 📚 Really enjoyed the story, if you like …
: A website called Unbreaking highlights the rapid institutional collapse in the U.S. and emphasizes …
: Photo Challenge Day 24: Bloom 📷 cliff538.com
: Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 20: Gather https://cliff538.com
: Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 19: Equal
: Micro.blog Photo Challenge 📷 day 18 - texture
: 2025 Reads: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚 Good book. Makes you ponder life and your major …
: “That you feel something to be right may have its cause in your never having thought much about …
: Finished reading: Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer 📚
: 1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space Don Pettit brought a …
: Powerful Photography. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2…
: Finished reading: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green 📚 Excelllent book. A book that should be …
: Koofr and pCloud Well, I’m uploading 2TB of photos to Koofr, so far, so good. I’m new to them, and setting everything …
: Custom CSS for your Markdown in DEVONthink - Who Knew! This link comes from MacStories, but it’s too good to not share. If you are a DEVONthink user, this …
: Through a newspaper article, I learned about Hiroshi Yoshimura and his Ambient (Sound Design) music. …
: This always brings back so many memories of sitting by a fire in the dark drinking beer, and someone …
: Is that song truly Yacht Rock or Nyacht? Find out here: www.yachtornyacht.com
: Short Walk in Omaha / The Rest of the Daily Shots | February 26, 2025 iPhone 16 ProMax shot/processed (shot in RAW)
: ElevationLab has a new AirTag Camera Plate that is Arca-compatible. Ordered one to try it out.
: I have Tailscale up and running on the Synology NAS. There is very good step-by-step instruction …
: PSA: Tomorrow is the cutoff to download your Amazon books. How To Do Stuff walks you through step by …
: Consider adding this What is a feed page to your blog to help people who may not know what a RSS …
: I did 1,157 books the old fashioned way, with lots and lots and lots of clicking. Don’t be like me, …
: When Inspiration Turns Dark I love photography—everything about it: carrying a camera around, freezing moments of time, …
: Bringing a Little Joy Into My Day and Weekly Planning There are endless blog posts about the latest to-do apps and systems. My goal is not to proclaim …
: Spent some time “Chatting with my highlights” in Readwise. I really like this feature. I have …
: The Rest of the Daily Shots | February 16, 2025 Ever seen the inside a Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea)? The woody skeleton inside the saguaro …
: Finished reading: How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid 📚 Want to know if this book …
: The Challenge of Reading in the Digital Age What’s unique about the number of books read? Why do we track how many books we read? Why not count …
: ‘Your World Is Burning. Here’s What You Can Actually Do About It.’ 🔗 Joan Westenberg / …
: The Rest of the Daily shots | February 14, 2025 You can see the daily shot at 365Pixels.
: The Rest of the Daily Shots | February 13, 2025 You can see the daily shot at 365Pixels. More experimentation today. Not happy with anything, but …
: The Rest of the Daily Shots | February 12, 2025 You can see the daily shot at 365Pixels. Here are the others from the day I shot and had to choose …
: This is how we used to change a nose tire on the Twin Otter; this technique is probably frowned upon …
: The Rest of the Daily Shots February 10th 2025 Rusty Student Services
: KIWIX - A User Report I’ve seen this posted about Mastodon a lot, and then @amerpie posted about it yesterday, and I …
: It’s Monday, hang on, it’s going to be another long week…
: 🔗 How Your Thinking Changes at 60 | Andy’s Blog Then you turn 60. And something shifts. You stop …
: Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter Want a Sourdough Starter that’s been active …
: Exposed to Light | 02 - Hippo Love by Unknown Photographer: Unknown. Camera: Unknown. Title: Unknown; I’m calling it Hippo Love. Link: Unknown. I …
: The Rest of the Daily Shots from Friday, February 7th 2025 Left Base - Almost Home Power To The People You can see the daily shot here.
: 🙌 Work on Apple TV+’s ‘Severance’ Season 3 Now Underway - MacRumors
: This is not good. 😔 Nome was home for many years… Breaking: Bering Air flight into Nome overdue with …
: Las Vegas for 19 hours, time to head out and get my daily iPhone shot for 365Pixels.
: Short Walk In Tampa #crewlife
: (⭐️3.75/5) - Finished reading: CABIN by Patrick Hutchison. It’s a good book, makes you laugh, and …
: What TV series intros do you watch every time? Does watching the intro to every episode mean something? Netflix, AppleTV, Hulu, etc., allow you to …
: 📝 I need an online course that teaches problem-solving in web design. How do you systematically …
: Exposed To Light | 01 - Ballet Dancers by S. Exposed To Light Get ready for a new post, popping up weekly, monthly, or whenever inspiration …
: Behind the Scenes on Project 365Pixels Tough day behind the lens. Yesterday I was super happy with the pictures and felt good posting. …
: Powerful article that impacted me deeply: A Firsthand Account of What Homelessness in America Is …
: Here is the full update to Reader, a lot of good stuff: Reader Public Beta Update #11 (Chat With …
: PSA: If you rebuild your website from the logs page and your custom CSS is not loading, go to Design …
: Well dang, I just found the “Discover” tab in Micro blog. What a great way to find new people!
: ‘How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows.’ 🔗 Robin Fields / propublica.org
: Can anyone tell me where you get Stat Pages like this ⤵️ that I see on so many Micro blogs?
: This has challenged some of my beliefs about digital reading. I’m torn about my transformation to …
: “Hang In There” Hiking in Colorado, caught this guy struggling to stay on top of a blade of grass. A …
: 🔗 Clash: Power, Greed, and the Fight for a Fair Future (Joan Westenberg / joanwestenberg.com) …
: If you have to overnight somewhere, Cancun works. 😊 #crewlife
: When the processing fee is starting to rival your electricity fee… Next month, I’ll start selling …
: New toys arrived. Looking forward to some speed testing.
: ‘Create an external bootable disk for Apple silicon and Intel Macs’ 🔗 Hoakley / eclecticlight.co
: Digital Sovereignty - Own Your Content Reason Number 429 I used to write/publish photo stories at Exposure.co. It’s a nice website, and it’s a great place to …
: A Trip Home ~ Kings and Sawdust A visual story post over at Exposure from 2015 - A Trip Home ~ Kings and Sawdust
: First New Years Resolution: Bringing Music Back. Just arrived in the mail today after a long journey across the ocean and a much delayed, confused, …
: Do you know if this has been the case for a while or if it’s just due to the popularity boom? …
: Trying out a new HEPA 13 & Carbon Combo Filter from Voxel for the Bambu X1 Carbon 3D Printer. Always …
: The funniest things pop into your head; Do you remember buying nails by the pound… they’d be in a …
: ‘Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature - Blog’ 🔗 Standard EBooks / standardebooks.org Books by …
: In the early 90s, at a Dewline station at -40F on the North Slope of Alaska, A Canadian company …
: I always find these facinating; Mastodon Users: 11,817,591 accounts +324 in the last hour +6,156 in …
: Looking for thoughts, concerns and ideas in relation to deleting yourself off a social service. …
: Whoah, this never happens. Conlextions #490 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Solve Time: 3 minutes, 0 seconds
: Nice winter storm moved through DAL yesterday, my first two flights cancelled this morning, so far …
: Progress! Added a “cliff538 Photography” page with links to photo sets (only one set as of now), But …
: One of my favorite things to do is that little window of time after you finish a book and that …
: Working on my blog: I’m amazed at how much work is involved in having a light & dark theme(I can …
: Does this ever bring back memories! My first one was the Honda 110. Growing up, we rode three-wheelers every day all year long. Over the years, we had the Honda 110, …
: Sad news… I’m a big fan of daily bootable backups and consider them essential. 🔗 It’s Time to Move …
: Where Do You find Books To Read This has been a struggle for me in the past. I often found myself running out of books and searching …
: From Above & Holding The Line These are two of my favorite pictures. I was extremely lucky to be driving down the highway and …
: Ugh! Why can’t I remember to take batteries out of stored electronics, and why do batteries leak? …
: 2024 In Review and 6.2x Around the Earth Reading I'm happy with my reading this year. The number of books is not essential other than reading …