The upgrade screws many old pro users as it basically eliminates it totally. Pros had unlimited storage, unlimited photo uploads, unlimited video uploads, the ability to have their original images downloaded, the ability to replace a photo, and a statistics chart. And now that was all basically just taken out from under their feet.

That doesn’t appear to be the case, however. Since Flickr has implemented infinite scrolling on the site, it can be a bit hard to reach the footer where they link to their FAQ—it’s there, just tantalizingly out of reach. So here’s a link to the relevant section.

As far as I understand it:

• Flickr members who were Pro before May 20th can stay Pro if their account auto-renews.
• Pro members maintain the unlimited photo/video uploads, unlimited storage, and unlimited bandwidth benefits.
• The upload limits for Pro members are expanded to the limits for the new free accounts.

So, it looks like Pro memberships are grandfathered in, but only if you set your account to auto-renew. There is no longer any indication of membership level (which is fine, the “Pro” badge always seemed a bit unnecessary to me). Given that a yearly Pro membership is ~$25 and the ad-free Flickr account is ~$50, it would seem that any Pros still interested in using Flickr would just auto-renew.

drush pm-disable `drush pm-list --no-core --type=module --pipe`

There was a problem creating field Artist Name: Table field_data_field_[YOUR FIELD NAME] already exists.

Instead of sighing and choosing another name, you can delete the table in the database, and the corresponding field_revision_field_[YOUR FIELD NAME].

In Launchbar, CTRL+CMD+Right Arrow gives you the contextual menu.

Matias has also printed each key with any extended characters—those accessed by pressing various combinations of modifier keys—available through the key. Characters accessed using the Option key are displayed to the right of the regular character and superscripted, while those accessed using Shift+Option are also to the right but slightly higher. This notation makes perfect sense when you see it, and it keeps you from having to hunt for infrequently used but still important symbols and diacritical marks. For example, a quick glance at the keyboard shows you that the infinity symbol (∞) is Option+5, or that the Apple symbol () is Shift+Option+K. I have trouble remembering where various characters are hiding, so I really appreciate the guidance.

For the record, I’m still using the Filco Majestouch model I imported via a Japanese buying service years ago.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

I can do whatever I want with those two forms of input and a keyboard. Mouse for sharper lines, tablet for free-form lines, voila. I guess I could get a smaller monitor, but this one is paid for. I might like to add a USB panini press at some point, or some kind of small toaster oven, perhaps the size of a perfect plate of nachos, for cooking waffles in. A toasted waffle with room-temperature cream cheese and Oregon blueberry jam is not unlike a small, personal cheesecake.

Where is the outrage? Where are the flame wars? Why are there no open letters to Adobe? It’s because people have moved on and it’s actually kind of appalling to see. All that energy wasted. All that ill-placed anger.

I first saw Flash (not Flash Lite) running on a mobile phone around the Summer of 2009. I was still working at Domani, and Adobe had just dropped off a Palm Pre with Adobe Flash beta running on it. We huddled over the tiny screen and loaded up a few of our recent sites. We cheered as the first one slowly loaded. However, the novelty of seeing our work on a mobile device was quickly replaced by the sobering reality: most of the text and interactive elements were too small. Sites didn’t fit properly onscreen. And then the sites crashed, repeatedly.

That was about a year before Steve Jobs and Apple would publish their “Thoughts on Flash”, but I already got the sense that Flash on mobile was going to have a very tough road ahead. So I started dusting off my HTML, JS, and PHP skills. In 2010, a few months before my wife and I decided to move to Philadelphia, I interviewed for a “Director of Flash Technology” job at an agency. I sometimes wonder where I would be if that had panned out.

As for the very vocal outrage, outrage that’s notably absent now: I think a lot of it wasn’t even about Flash on mobile. I think it had more to do to the fact that mobile cast scrutiny on how we were using Flash on the desktop. Having to suddenly pivot away from your comfort zone is scary. So people got defensive, dug in, and created a divide. Suddenly Flash became this symbol of “open” technology, unfairly shut out of Apple’s platform.

The guys who were quiet? They were the ones who realized that Flash was still good for a great many things, but for mobile it was going to be native apps or open web technologies. So they put their heads down and went to work, picking up new skills or brushing up old ones. Meanwhile, some of their colleagues shook their fists at Apple and played the waiting game, promising that each new release on Android would finally bring the “full web experience”. It was late to arrive, and never delivered on the promise. So now comes the inevitable news, and everyone shrugs. The ones who got a head start are busy learning and growing elsewhere; the blowhards have probably just found another symbolic divide to rally their banners around.

J: Sorry, I already broke it off. Never send an amateur to do your job.
Me: You’re not an amateur. You’re just a different sort of professional.
J: Did you just call me a hooker?