Hi! My name is Josh and this is my blog. I used to share on social media but decided that my fragility was too valuable to subject to algorithims and assholes.

  • Excited to share another chapter of the book today:

    I still distinctly remember the day after getting engaged and Britt’s aunty called with thoughts on which horse-drawn carriage company we should use for our wedding. This was odd to me because in 2012 I had been creating weddings for over two years yet I had not even conceived of the idea that once I asked Britt to marry me that we would then proceed to a wedding.

  • None of the current large language models/artificial intelligences understand the concept of months, or calendar months, or leap years.

    So I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine.

  • Look, AI is great and everything, but I think we're going to be ok

  • What a wonderful time to be alive: malicious-content.zip

  • Photos I made yesterday in Paris

  • I stacked a Lime scooter an hour ago to make this photo of this local tower in Paris so you better like it or share it or comment or something so my aching shin is healed by the algorithms that control our emotional well-being.

  • The not her damn of paris - still under construction

  • The Brisbane Story Bridge of Paris is what they call it

  • Parisian things

  • Fourteen
  • Paris’s final metre

  • Milton Glaser:

    You feel differently towards the world when you make things.

  • Apple Shortcut for recording photography metadata

  • I think this is the great pyramid of France

  • Introducing, an eye full tower.

    Built for the 1889 World’s Fair only to be upstaged 99 years later at 1988 World Expo by the Brisbane Sky Needle.

  • When you order an americano with ‘some cold milk on the side’ in Paris

  • Stumbled into a second-hand-camera/new-Leica store in Paris and accidentally left with a Leica film camera after swiping my credit card. Oops.

  • Play

  • Luna Withers, art critic

  • Paris’s NFT Factory

  • My favourite thing to do in the big cities of the world is to ignore the must-do lists, the must-see places, the hotspots and the icons, and to just walk around and exist in a different big city. Walking down random streets, getting bad coffee at little-known cafes, and finding the unseen parts of a city. The towers, cathedrals, arches and museums are cool and we inevitably end up there. But there’s something really interesting to me about experiencing another people’s normal.

  • The playlist in the French cafe I'm sitting in just went from contemporary hits to one of the songs from Star Wars. Wild taste here.

  • The genesis story of Apple computers

  • 12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

    Aidos was actually the Greek goddess of shame, modesty, respect, and humility. Aidos, as a quality, was that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men and women from wrong. It also encompassed the emotion that a rich person might feel in the presence of the impoverished, that their disparity of wealth, whether a matter of luck or merit, was ultimately undeserved.

  • My review and photos of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport

  • Bluesky lovin

  • If you see my travel photos and think they’d look cool on your walls, I sell fine art prints, framed fine art prints, and canvas wraps in my online store.

    Please buy a print so Luna and Goldie can afford the good croissants in Paris this week ahead, not the cheap ones dad thinks they should have.

  • 44 hours door to door, Kona to Paris. Godspeed, us, with a four and two year old.

  • Ever since Twitter started falling on its face I’ve tried so many contenders, Mastodon, T2, BlueSky, Nostr, and I’ve been on micro.blog for years already and love if there, but Wavelength is the only place I’ve seen community, engagement, joy, and fun.

  • This is a lovely click for today

  • I can still remember my ICQ number 25 years on (49739400) but I can't remember the joke about remembering my ICQ number

  • Why Nick Cave is attending the King’s Coronation:

    I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.

  • The Withers family in the island of Hawaiʻi

  • 🗿

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  • Some feelings of the Big Island of Hawaii, or the Island of Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiʻi Island, or Big Island, or Kona, or Hawaii County, or just Hawaii. I don't really know how to refer to this landmass tbh.

  • Unkept looking bloke who’s loudly mumbling to himself and is scaring the parents at the playground he’s circling because he looks like an addiction that hasn’t showered in a few days, says to me “weird day man, weird day” and gives me a cheeky grin.

    Weird day.

  • If you’ve ever been the first guy to map parts of Australia and New Zealand, to witness the transit of Venus so ya bois in the lab could figure out how far earth is from the sun, or named an Aussie state, then this memorial marks the place some Hawaiians murdered you because they don’t take kindly to colonisers here.

  • Lusting after the new Teenage Engineering microphone

  • Sitting in a Starbucks in Kona just now and a family of four Brits fresh off the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship which just arrived in town. That's the ship that lost a passenger overboard 1400km south of here. Apparently the person's nickname/codename onboard the ship is "Old Mate". I guess this is what it feels like to be a minority.

  • Harry Belafonte finally met Mister Tally Man and had his banana’s tallied.

  • James Tylor and Matt Chun in the ANZAC Myth:

    The Australian government has fabricated a nationalist mythology around the invasion of Gelibolu Yarımadası (Gallipoli), telling a story of heroism and sacrifice.

  • The saddest part about Elon Musk screwing up Twitter and Twitter Blue is that the Internet needs to install a values system where we understand things have a cost and Twitter shouldn’t be free.

    But now paying $8 for Twitter is a meme, not an exercise in human betterment.

  • I’ve been saying crap on the internet and into microphones connected to radio and TV towers for 20 years next year, it’s a miracle that the most scandalous thing I’ve done is MAFS series one.

  • I need help with panoramic images made with my DJI Mavic 3 drone. The camera itself stitches the images together but the stitch is never great. So it saves the 25 individual images, but Photoshop and Lightroom can never deal with them well. What software can help with this?

  • For Polkadot Wedding’s Planning Issue this month I wrote an article on choosing a wedding reading and also how you don’t need one so if you have one, let it have purpose.

  • Well, count me surprised and dumbfounded /s that this weird crap is happening on Spotify.

  • Stumbled across this fascinating story of Little Richard being in Australia in 1957, seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik in the sky and thinking the world was going to end so he takes the stage to preach the gospel at his concert instead of performing so the promoter offered refunds.

  • My first tweet was tweeted 18 months before I even started tweeting

  • I'm working on a new business that is a web service - a mobile/desktop web app with video and audio upload components + email. I've never directly hired devs for this kind of project before. What kind of web dev language and tech should I be asking for in 2023?