Alexander Kucera

Diesen Wochenende ist wieder CleanUpDay in Geinsheim. Wäre schön wenn viele mitmachen.

I just read Going old-school with the VFX on ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ - befores & afters. The VFX breakdown while interesting just shows what a waste of money it all is. I mean, how hard is it to spray a bit of water into Eddy Murphy‘s face on set? Instead your blow your money on several artists having to do matchmoving and simulating and compositing for several days.

There is nothing „old school“ about any of it.

This whole new Reeder, old Reeder thing last week has pushed me to rediscover Fiery Feeds. It’s a great RSS reader that has a few intelligent folders that help surface articles in different ways.

I’ve switched to it and haven’t looked back.

Does anyone reading this own the Chase Hughes Ops Manual or the whole OP6 Bundel? I am itching to get it, but am not sure it is worth the hefty price tag. Any reviews out there?

I just downgraded three Kickstarter pledges to digital versions instead of hardcover. As much as I love physical books, I’m saving for a bigger purchase and trying to avoid excess. Sometimes you have to admit you don’t really need something.

I remember now what the app from Realmac Software was called. Socialite. It got canned somewhere around 2012. But it was essentially what Tapestry and the new Reeder are trying to do. Back then I used it extensively. It was way ahead of its time.

Here is some info on it.

I overheard someone today. They confessed to stalking a singer on Instagram. What they meant was clearly that the follow them on Instagram.

Since when has it become a negative to follow someone on their public profile on Instagram?

Stalking is by definition to follow someone against their will and often in secret.

How can you stalk someone on social media when they have a public profile, indicating their willingness to be followed?"

I tried the new Reeder app yesterday for about 20 minutes before deleting it again. It just didn’t fit my needs at all. Or maybe I simply didn’t get it.

The idea of an endless scrolling timeline stresses me out. No unread count. You mean there is no indication of it ever ending? That sounds stress inducing to no end.

With my RSS reader (the now called Reeder Classic), I have a ton of feeds that are very high frequency that I only scan to see if something pops out. I have a folder called favorites that I scan more closely. At the end I mark both the „firehose“ and the favorites as read. The posts disappear and I am at ease that I got the most important bits.

Then I open YouTube take a quick glance at what the homepage suggests. Usually junk. If there is something interesting it goes into my watch later queue. Then I scan my subscriptions. Same deal. Done.

I do this once a days in the morning. Once.

During the day I catch up on my Micro.blog feed, which is easy, becausee I only follow a couple of people compared to several hundreds I followed on Twitter.

I don’t need much morere then this. My past self probably would be all over Tapestry and the new Reeder. In fact, I did use a timeline aggregation app about ten years ago from Realmac Software that is no longer available and whose name I have forgotten. They were way ahead of their time back then. Maybe they should dust it off as well.

Zweite Hälfte des Chorauftritts des Chorona Chors Kostümwechsel.

14 hours left on the Drive Book 4 Kickstarter. Production quality on the first three books was stellar. You can still get books 1-3 when you join in on the Kickstarter campaign.

I tried to use SubTXT. It failed at step one. Creating an outline from a story outline. It justt sat there spinning until I closed the tab and was done with it. Very disappointing.

For those who have played with 3D printing. Would you say it is still worth it to get one or would you rather use an online print service?

I find this whole Fediverse/Mastodon thing really confusing. For example, when trying to follow John Gruber, there are like 6 different accounts he has registered. Each of which seems to have different content. So am I supposed to have ten times the accounts I follow now just because everyone has a dozen different accounts spread over the internet?

Can someone explain the Rings of Power title sequence to me? To me it’s just meaningless particle animations. Do they make any kind of sense to anyone?