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  • Pay per scroll

    Manuel Moreale ponders what he would pay for if you had to pay per scroll: think about what the web would look like if it was some sort of pay-per-scroll platform. Not a place where virtually everything is free but a place where everything has to be purchased in order to be consumed. This is quite an old post, one that pops up from time to time in my saved quotes.
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    06 Jul 2024
  • Reach For The Blog

    After my post the other day about struggling with what’s going on in my life, I’ve been thinking a lot more about blogging. My mind is still a long way from framing the world in blog posts again, but I’ve realised how important my blog is to me. When the going gets tough and there are challenges to cope with, I always reach for my blog as a refuge. Writing is a well-known method for coping with life’s difficulties, even if you don’t publish what you write.
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    04 Jul 2024
  • The Current Struggle

    I don’t mind admitting it, but at the moment I am really struggling. My life is not easy at the best of times, coping with a child that needs extra care, but now my wife has been taken down by gastroenteritis, and I don’t know how single parents cope. Of course, this isn’t the first time this has happened. My wife seems to catch every issue that’s floating around due to working in education, including COVID before any vaccines and treatments were available.
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    03 Jul 2024
  • Do it how you want to do it

    Jason Kratz replying to my earlier post on Instagram and photography:

    The implication is that somehow it was wrong for them to transition from snapshots of family events, etc. to being more artful in taking photographs to put online. Let’s be clear: there is nothing wrong with this!

    Absolutely, there is nothing wrong with this. Perhaps my point came across wrong.

    I am a street photographer first and foremost and my camera roll is filled with all sorts of random photos. My point was more that people worry to much about getting the right shot than enjoying and capturing the moment. Over posing and worrying about getting the perfect shot to share on Instagram, rather than snapping moments.

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    02 Jul 2024
  • Instagram ruined all your photos

    An interesting post in the Totally Recommend newsletter on the degradation of their camera roll: Ten years ago, my photos weren’t as crisp as they are now, but they did the job of capturing personal stories and connections….these photos are filled with the faces of my friends and family from seemingly unremarkable but unforgettable times together. Over time, my photos begin to transform. The “stupid but sweet” snapshots start to give way to something different.
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    01 Jul 2024
  • Weekly Check In

    In an effort to motivate myself to write more regularly, I’ve decided to consolidate my small updates into one post each week. This may last only a week or it may stick—I’ve started and abandoned so many creative projects that it’s hard to say. But I can try. Photography My increased focus on photography has led to a decline in my writing. While my shots may not be anything extraordinary, I find the practice enjoyable and meditative.
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    01 Jul 2024
  • Inspired Street Photography

    Today was supposed to be a subdued day after our long walk yesterday, but my life just doesn’t work like that. After reading part of the excellent book Find Your Frame by Craig Whitehead, I felt inspired. When I woke up and saw the sun shining early in the morning, I decided to go out instead. Lately, the weather has been terrible here for May and June, but the forecast looked good.
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    02 Jun 2024
  • Skegness With Rubbish Weather

    This must be the period for spontaneity because after last weekends trip to Nottingham, today we just decided to head to the seaside for a couple of hours after work. When I say the lift was rubbish, you better believe it. Someone needs to tell the world that it’s almost June because there was about 20mins sunshine all day. However the place was packed with people enjoying themselves so you can’t complain, just join in.
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    30 May 2024
  • 🔗 The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it’s damaging our health – this is why burnout happens – Baldur Bjarnason

    we’re now shifting towards the model where devs are instead “AI” wranglers. The web dev of the future will be an underpaid generalist who pokes at chatbot output until it runs without error, pokes at a copilot until it generates tests that pass with some coverage, and ships code that nobody understand and can’t be fixed if something goes wrong.

    This is one of the things I fear. That the web will break and no one will know how to fix it.

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    30 May 2024
  • Out Early To Nottingham

    I did something that I never do. Got up early and went to shoot some street photos. There was already a long day lined up but I had a creative itch that I hadn’t been able to scratch for a while, and it needed satisfying. It was a really enjoyable 2 hours in Nottingham in the only two hours sunshine they might have. I can really feel my motivation to shoot street photography coming back and my eye for a good shot improving.
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    25 May 2024
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