The 4 Best Compact Cameras with an APS-C Sensor

Compact cameras are some of the most exciting technological advancements in the medium. They not only allow you to carry the camera everywhere but also help with capturing moments on the go. While some of the most popular compact cameras have 1-inch sensors, there are some that…

Town Square, a cute little chat space for webpage footers

“turn your site into a place people can bump into each other” #

Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas...

Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas back in May.

A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens...

A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens of analog clock hands. Hard to describe…just go take a look.

Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek

On his YouTube channel, Thomas Whichello reads interesting literature aloud, often in the original languages, dialects, or accents, with the goal of making “classic works intelligible and enjoyable to everybody”. One of his most popular videos is his recitation of book 1…

The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...

The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just how little Jeopardy contestants know about Black history, culture, and celebrities. (See also, of course, Black Jeopardy, which drives home a similar point in a different way.)

The Camera That Feels Built for Street Photography – The Fujifilm X-Pro in 2026

Should you buy a Fujifilm X-Pro in 2026? That depends, but for the week I shot exclusively with this camera, I fell in love with street photography all over again.

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Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years

For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka. In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages ag…

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present). “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.”

How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime

Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line, filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in handy not only in making the film but in actually solving the crime at the heart of the story and freeing an innocent man fr…

Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...

Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps and its roots in chattel slavery in the US and in Nazi & Soviet work camps.

Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...

Proposed UI rule of thumb: “If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense.”

How Canon Is Hiding an Even Bigger Surprise for 2026

Canon has some wonderful gear in its portfolio. The company has been introducing wonderful options for photographers who want performance at a good price. It appears that Canon is now keen on launching a lens that will be considered 'world's first.'

Why Your F1.2 Lenses Suck

I remember when I first really started getting into photography in the early 2000s that f1.2 lenses were considered peak photography. Even holding one was something special. They were so hard to use, but the images they made were so intensely beautiful. Back then, the only ones…

The Human-Written Landscape Photography Tutorial You Need

Here is our introductory guide to Shooting Better Landscapes.

Why Can’t Modern Cameras Make Panoramic Portraits?

Back in 2014 and even a bit before then, photographer Ryan Brenizer was making waves across the photo industry with a special method. You see, APS-C cameras were way more common. And full-frame was still pretty expensive for most folks. So he would do something called the Breniz…

Fewsday

One frontier of anthropomorphism In the midst of a dialog with ChatGPT, I just got this: "Doc, I've been thinking about this off and on since your earlier questions…" Is it really thinking? Will it feel insulted or betrayed that I just blogged this?  Olds In the continuing st…

Is Canon About to Screw Up Their Best Lens?

When it comes to choosing a lens, there are multiple options that Canon users can choose from. For instance, the 10-20mm f4, 85mm f1.4L, or 800mm f5.6L, are some examples that continue to be important for various genres of the medium. Per new reports, Canon is now working on one…

Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...

Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The AI-generated voiceover (at ~6:45) gets tripped up saying “what WWE” and basically sings Daisy Bell for more than 10 minutes until someone kicks the server.

If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...

If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the Hollywood Bowl: Music From the Films of Wes Anderson. “Over three nights, musicians including Beck, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, and Mothersbaugh himself perform favorite songs, scores…”

Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...

Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number of Spielberg Faces.

Walter White’s Big Hat

In this modified scene from Breaking Bad, Walter White’s hat grows in proportion to his ego. YT commenter: “He was just brimming with confidence.” Could be time for a BB rewatch. (via @ernie.tedium.co) Tags: Breaking Bad · remix · TV · video

The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map

People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels #

It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests

the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches #

Bubbles.town

a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source #

A history of web browsers on video game consoles

Nintendo and Sony decided not to release browsers for any console since the Wii U and PlayStation 4 (via) #

Fontificator

Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options #

Heikki’s Garden of Flowers

a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now (via) #

Firewood Splitting Simulator

more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys (via) #

This Canon Lens Had Soul

Canon has always been a really fascinating company with how they approach their lenses and even their cameras. While other brands would put a lot of work into making their prime lenses super sharp, Canon put the effort more into their zoom lenses. And when I reviewed the Canon 1…

Playing with Resident

My old friend and colleague Matt Webb has started a company this year called “Inanimate” with another old colleague (Daniel Fogg) – it’s doing lots of interesting things with ai, physical place and things, and multiplayer-ness. Topics that have long been catnip for him.…

“Film posters inadvertently photographed by...

“Film posters inadvertently photographed by [British] postwar town planners.” Includes posters for Help!, Shaft, Dr. No, Planet of the Apes, and many more.

“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...

“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of women are the natural price of running a working class candidate, isn’t the implication that working class men by nature mistreat the women in their lives?”

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth. They already have 10K satellites in orbit and they want to add a million more. 🥴

The Best Viltrox Lens for Street Photography Now Comes for L-Mount

Viltrox previously released one of their best character lenses: the 28mm f4.5 pancake. First, it came for Sony E mount. Then it came to Nikon Z mount. This lens is something really unique in that it boasts a built-in lens cap, autofocus, and a very small size. It also has a fixe…

New Ambient Album From Marconi Union

Marconi Union, which you might remember for creating the most relaxing song in the world, has released a new album: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Vol. 3. You can watch the visual album on YouTube or stream it from a variety of sources. This went straight into my Undersco…

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg, specifically: Shut up about the Roman Empire.”

Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...

Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip phone. “No social media, no browser. Runs 99% of Android apps (without Android). T9-style texting adds mindful friction. Audiophile grade HD Audio.”

3 Must-Have Camera Kits for Young Travel Photographers (Part 2)

Travel photography is an impressive genre of photography. Not only does one get a chance to witness the beauty of different cultures, but also document them on the way. For this reason, we have collated a list of the best cameras and lenses that work the best for travel photogra…