Chronological blog index
In the Weeds with DTP
Digging deep into the direct-to-plate technique yields some surprising and unintuitive findings
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Color Muse 2: new version review
Color Muse 2 is an affordable handheld colorimeter that can be used for linearizing digital negatives and positives
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Group order for UV-LED enclosures
This post describes a group order for an aluminum shell UV-LED enclosure
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Color Muse: an inexpensive colorimeter to use for digital negatives
Color Muse is an affordable handheld colorimeter that can be used for linearizing digital negatives and positives
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Step-test measurement options
There are a number of approaches that can be used to measure step charts that are used during the digital negative and positive creation process. This post is an overview of those choices.
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Mac Studio and SoftRAID 6 compatibility
M1 based Macs can have issues with SoftRAID managed disk volumes. A workflow to fix the issue
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Exposure Calculator
Small web form that calculates the correct exposure from a minimum-time for maximum-black test with a Stouffer wedge
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Site redesign: dealing with footnotes
Fourth in the series - making inline footnotes do what I want
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Finding lost Quicken datafile on a Mac
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Site Redesign with Jekyll part 3 - fixing the images
Short description of pure javascript routine to add figure and figure caption tags to Jekyll post images
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Site redesign w/Jekyll part 2 - SASS and fonts
Second in a series of posts on the redesign of my site: picking fonts and inserting SASS styling
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Site redesign w/Jekyll part 1
First of a series of posts on the redesign of the words part of my website with the Jekyll static site generator
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COVID-19 Time-series analysis with Pandas and Python
Using Pandas and Python to estimate infection fatality rate prior to vaccine rollouts
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Release of Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP
Routledge / Focal Press have released Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, a book to which I contributed a chapter
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DTP Quick Start
Brief introduction to using direct-to-plate printing for making photopolymer intaglio plates using the Epson P800 inkjet printer.
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QuickCurve calibration for polymer intaglio
Brief introduction to using QuadtoneProfiler for making photopolymer intaglio plates using Epson printers.
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Release of Polymer Photogravure book
Routledge / Focal Press have released Polymer Photogravure,a new book by Clay Harmon
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Exercising your printer with Automator and crontab
workflow using Mac OSX Automator and crontab to periodically print an image in order to prevent heads from drying up
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Jekyll and collections
generating extensionless urls in Jekyll
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Transmit iOS and EC2
Getting Transmit iOS set up for accessing EC2 instance
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Mac OSX 10.9 Migration Pain
Upgrading mac osx can break some programs. Permissions are the issue.
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Enabling gzip compression on EC2
Brief description of easy configuration for gzip compression on EC2 server
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Adding SSL to an EC2 instance
Brief description of getting inexpensive SSL set up on EC2 webserver for secure https: traffic
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Amazon EC2 server and Statamic
Creating a custom Amazon EC2 instance to run Statamic
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Mac OSX Lion Textedit and Preview Crashes
Fixing permissions issues to prevent app crashing in Mac OSX Lion
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Kitchen sink Markdown styling
More or less complete markdown boilerplate to test CSS coverage
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RAID is not a backup, RAID is not a backup
Why a RAID system is not a backup
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Hiking in the Wind Rivers
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