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Photo of the year is pretty tough this year. Lots of great photos came out of the x-pro 3. That being said I think this one wins out from my neon photo walk in Austin, TX. Also, first time linking to my photo blog! https://bytes.omg.lol/post/2024-10-16

I've been off Facebook for over a decade, but if I wasn't this sure would be the last straw 🤮 https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-planning-ai-powered-users

• 🐛😅 FINALLY I worked on fixing that "where is my stat report" email bug that has been on and off the past few months. I'm hoping that today everyone got their email reports without issue as the system was in place for the last 24 hours now. In the past it would send emails in one massive batch using one background process. That may have accidentally just "lost" an outgoing email randomly (with no errors). Now it'll do the same background job, but will create new jobs for each site that is ready to send. I could get technical,...

"Between January 4 and January 5, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required." #streaming #free #appleTV 🍜 Apple TV+ announces free streaming weekend for its catalog of originals - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/apple-tv-stream-for-free-weekend/

I do like the Apple flyover screensavers… someone should do something where we fly over different Disney Park attractions. Big Thunder Mountain in Paris would be awesome!

"Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, a broker of peace in the Middle East in his time, and a tireless advocate for global health and human rights, has died, it was announced Sunday." #jimmyCarter #RIP 🍜 Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100 / Jimmy Carter / The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-dead-longest-lived-us-president?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

• 🚀 Added a Nitpick option to set the font size of articles and pages. Options are "Small", "Normal", "Large" and "Extra Large". • 🐛 Fixed an issue with adding the Letterbird header setting on a post page.

• 👾 Added an option to show the header icon or name on your Letterbird contact form (if enabled). Check out their documentation on what it does. Scribbles will add the `data-showheader` attribute to the embed script.

By far my favorite mastodon app is Trunks  If you haven't checked it out, make sure you do!

🎅💀 Already have Christmas hangover but still have one more get together to go

Back to using Scribbles for my blogging and Sublime Feed for my rss reader. Lots of improvements in both since I used them last. Great job @Vincent

🧟 Temporarily have a night shift on Mondays. I am absolutely too old for this these days. Ready for bed.

The end of December means very few new music releases. Time to review all the stuff I've been listening to during 2024 and figure out which will make the favorites list.

"I try to refrain from big-headedness. I don’t need gongs and honours. I only take them for my kids, for the way I abandoned them over the years, rushing off to war." #mcCullin #photojournalism 🍜 Don McCullin: 'I think the rebels will lose control in Syria and it will fall apart' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/22/don-mccullin-rebels-syria-ukraine-war-photographer/

"We're a small team of one developer and one designer, so it can take months to launch big features. It's risky to invest months of our time on features without any feedback from users. Even worse, months of radio-silence can leave customers (that is you!) feeling ignored." #halide 🍜 The Road to Halide Mark III https://www.lux.camera/the-road-to-halide-mark-3/

Store coming soon 👀 http://coinstare.omg.lol