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.
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When you're watching Instagram Reels before the Zoom meeting begins and the AI Zoom Meeting Summary takes it as fact
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Pentax has made a portrait-orientation, made for sharing on modern social media, analog film camera in the new Pentax 17.
The Pentax 17 has a 25mm F3.5 lens which works out at 37mm equivalent, and derives its name from the horizontal width of the 17 x 25mm frames it captures. The company says the vertical format makes it similar to images shot by smartphones.
What a time to be alive.
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Jamstack websites terrify me.
I feel technology often takes a backward step as it advances.
I used to make the most powerful small business, single use case, applications in Microsoft Access for businesses. To do the same today is so much harder. It's the same with websites. Jamstack is exponentially more complex than Wordpress and its PHP brethren.
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Our Imaginary Brother Only Watches PBS by Eileen Donovan-Kranz
What happened next made sense only to my mother: She created an eighth child, a three-year-old she named Joe.
Thanks for the link, Scotty.
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In the spirit of Zuckerberg renaming Facebook in honour of what's coming up, please no longer call me Josh. Only refer to me as my new personal brand identity in honour of the next big thing: Sleep.
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Everyone has their different social media celebrities they get excited about meeting. Today I meet mine.
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12 years ago I shared this infographic about the data being transferred around then. Here's the 2024 version on my daily letter.
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Little pleasures in life is your laptop remembering the password and automatically connecting to the wifi at your cheap Rome airport hotel
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Yes, hello, is this Qatar Airways? I’d like to collect my prize money.
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Qatar things
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When I make photos I like I share them, and because of the way the world is today (i.e everyone has a camera, algorithms rule the world, photos don't get as much airtime as videos, plus no-one knows who I am) most people never see my photos, so I upload them to Unsplash and Pexels.
Something I find super interesting is how even on those two sites the per-photo statistics vary so wildly.
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The Sunday night commute to work 📍 Beachcomber Island, Fiji
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Easy like Sunday Melbourne Airport morning
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I like writing, I like reading, I enjoy running a sustainable and fun business, and I like getting email letters on the topic, so I made one called Aisle Authority.
My pitch is that it’s a short daily letter to the best wedding creators in the world.
The stats say that most people scroll on, but I’m hoping maybe one other person who likes reading encouraging daily things about being a wedding creator might like it too - read today’s letter and subscribe.
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In my happy place - plane watching - for a few hours in Melbourne Airport on the way to Fiji for a wedding
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Shalom Auslander:
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turned green and I thought I needed to get my mind settled so I went to a bookstore and all the books were about how to succeed in business, and about how to work even more, and there was a whole section about how to use the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to get ahead in your corporate career, and outside the bookstore people were sleeping on the sidewalk and there was a store where shoes were 30% off and still cost two-hundred dollars and I stopped to write at a coffeeshop where people were arguing about politics and war and fascism and genocide and a woman at the table beside me was talking loudly at the people on her laptop screen, who were talking loudly at her about the client and the presentation and the need for a more aggressive social media marketing plan, and as I drove home the billboards and buses were covered with advertisements for movies, and the people in the advertisements were giants, and they were perfect, and they were revered and admired like Gods and most of them were actually truly awful people who shouldn’t be admired at all and so by the time I got home, I crawled into bed and I closed my eyes and a moment later, I heard a little girl outside my window, and she was crying and shouting and her mother asked her what was wrong and she shouted, at the top of her little lungs, “EVERYTHING TODAY MAKES NO SENSE!” and I thought that must have felt really good, I would love to scream like that right now, I would love nothing more than to scream “EVERYTHING TODAY MAKES NO SENSE!” and how that would make me feel better than sex, better than the best sex better than all the sex in the world, and that’s why I was thinking about sex the other day.
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Free entry!
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What’s weird/nerdy/fun/cool and not on the “must see” lists for Doha, Qatar? I’ve got a full transit day there on Thursday.
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My will: and I hereby bequeath to my children, 739 partially completed buy 10 get one free cards from coffee shops all over the city.
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You know what sucks about using the internet today - whether it's Facebook or Instagram or Threads - is that they're all geared towards virality, these big pieces of content that goes so far.
There's not really any room for me just to bitch and moan about being stranded at Melbourne Airport for five hours this morning when I want to be home.
I guess that's for the better. Who wants to hear about me being stranded to Melbourne Airport?
The thing I miss though is that sharing our mundane life was a fundamental part of the social web 15 years ago and I miss your food photos and flights delay posts.
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48 hours in Bali - a photo dump
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It must be terrible for every other musician and songwriter in the world to know that anything they ever make will be - at very best - second best to Throw Your Arms Around Me.
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One day, some day in the next few years, I probably won’t fly as much as I do, and as my Qantas status fades and staff forget my face, the thing I’ll miss the most after the Qantas staff is the Sydney Qantas First Class Lounge.
It’s just a real joy to slip away to a fancy as heck (and free) restaurant (airport lounge) then get a neck massage before being slammed into a tin can for a long haul flight.
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WWDC 2024 prediction: iOS is dead. Long live aiOS.
aiOS: Think Different.
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Did you know Japan had its own beautiful and amazing method of measuring time before Christians ruined it all?
The Uniqueness of Japanese Time - JapanUp!
H/T Ian Betteridge’s A+ email, Ten Blue Links.
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Kent Nerburn:
Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die. You have committed your life to making money to pay for your past.
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Apart from actually doing the work couples pay me to do, like making their weddings and elopements, some of the proudest professional work I'm doing these days is in Aisle Authority, my daily letter to the world's best wedding creators. If you create weddings for a living like I do, it's the kind of daily business encouragement I wanted to receive but no-one was making, so I wrote one.
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I can’t stop looking out the front door of our new home in the Huon Valley, so now I’ve got to show you. Plus a photo of the door because it’s potentially the cutest way a house has ever been presented at settlement.
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They say that when you have kids you enter your second stage of life. This is me entering my third stage of life.
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, call me crazy, or call me stupid, but I get a feeling that TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, LinkedIn and honestly any algorithm-driven social network isn't the place for deeper thinking, intellect, and non-viral-bs-business ideas. So I'm investing what little business-intelligence capital into my own blog and email. It's called Aisle Authority, I write it every day, and it looks like this. Read it and even subscribe like a madman at aisleauthority.email.
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The aurora australias, the southern lights, were a spectacle to behold last night aroundd Hobart, even with lots of cloud cover.
My first taste was a seeing pulsing of lights from behind the clouds. It was the most surreal thing I’ve seen.
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I can't stop thinking about this Boox Palma
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I could work for a million years, doing the best jobs, making the best things, writing the most eloquent words, delivering the best service, or creating the finest art, and still, I would pale in comparison to the eternal and beautiful legacy left by any mother, especially Britt.
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Do you ever just do something, then regret it, then feel awesome about it? That's how I felt when I got the domain name theinternet.com.au this afternoon
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Brought wedding-ready two pairs of pants and three shirts to Queenstown for three weddings here this week with the full confidence that one of the pairs of pants would serve double duty.
Both ended up in the snow mud, and I think I’ve cracked my ribs.
It’s now 10pm at a laundromat.
This is the exciting life of a travelling adventure elopement celebrant.
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I've realised that I am not equipped enough to manage replies to my actual Mastodon account - @withers@social.lol - and my Micro.Blog account, @hello@joshwithers.blog - so I'm totally migrating my Fediverse life to the omglol kingdom. This is the way.
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This reporting on the mysterious 777 Partners and it's Australian investment in airline, Bonza is a good read and good reporting by Ian Verrender and the ABC.
Virgin Blue executive Tim Jordan, claimed from the outset that he needed 10 aircraft to make the new operation viable. When he called in administrators this week, he had just four.
The large Boeing 737s are arguably the wrong fit for Bonza, flying second and third-tier routes, and appear to have been used as a means to soak up the US backer's fleet and provide it with income.
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Happy Star Wars Day!
I saw Episode 1 at the cinema this week and I’ve got a hot take.
Jar Jar Binks is an important character and the people that hate him, hate him because they see their clumsy selves in Jar Jar and they need to talk to their therapist about it.
Also, adding midi-chlorians to the Star Wars canon was weird. Welcome to my TED Talk.
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Weird week to be running an airline
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The parable of the prodigal traveller:
“For this budget traveller of mine was dead to me and has now returned to life. He was flying Bonza, but now he is found.’”
Jetstar 15:24
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Wedding photography is about to evolve in two ways.
- After a century in the closet, Sepia is about to come into fashion
- The wedding content creator is only a temporary role in the industry, the wedding photography market will splinter, with some wedding photographers moving down market to push the content creators out, and some will move up market, and all will need to reconcile the fact that no-one is hoping their wedding photographs and films take weeks or months to colour grade and process.
An update:
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One day, when I grow up, I'd like an Apple Jonathan please
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I honestly didn't know that public speakers like comedians, Arj Barkers, and wedding celebrants were allowed to have opinions on babies being in the audience.
I hereby request that all babies at weddings I'm officiating in the future would share their snacks with me, or they can leave.
