Mark Your Calendar: What to Expect at the 5 Boro Foto Fest

The 5 Boro Foto Fest is coming, and it's worth marking your calendar for if you care about photography as an art form rather than just content in a feed. We built this festival to put art lovers directly in front of real photographers selling real, printed work, no algorithms an…

This Week in the IndieWeb

September 18-25, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, September 23 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Twin Cities Monday, September…

What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too...

What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too large to carry around? “I would like to recommend you to a practice I call Chop That Book Up Into Reasonable Sizes.”

Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser...

Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser trailer for Madden, starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. Boom?

What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with...

What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with some very astounding numbers. If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” And it could last months?

Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s...

Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s upcoming album, While the Flood Rages, which will be available wherever you stream your music on Oct 16.

YASHICA Adds Four New KeyChain Cameras to Its FUNtastic Keychain Lineup

Keychain cameras are now in high demand among many Gen Z photographers. Pocketable, easy to use, and delivering vintage image quality, these models continue to impress people with their adorable design and features. Yashica, which introduced its FUNtastic lineup not too long ago…

Slab Graveyard

This is a fun daily game: Catfishing. You guess the...

This is a fun daily game: Catfishing. You guess the Wikipedia article from its categories.

Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of...

Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of musicians improvisationally play 53 melodic fragments in the key of C. This web app lets you play multiple In C live performances layered on top of each other. In C to the power of In C, if you will.

“The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination...

“The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.”

“The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has introduced a...

“The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has introduced a new black card to help prevent abusive behaviour from parents at youth-team matches.” If, after two warnings, the black card is shown, the match is permanently cancelled.

Canon’s Next Macro Lens Reportedly an RF 90mm STM, Not an L

Canon has some wonderful lenses on the market. Examples such as the 85mm, the 70-200mm, and the 100-400mm have long been favorites among photographers. While there are a plethora of options for landscape, portrait, wedding and sports photographers, Canon has limited lenses for t…

Blitheday

Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf."

Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the...

Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família. $800. It will take as long to build as the actual cathedral — you may not live to see it finished.

The Best Fall Travel Photography Destinations of 2026

One of the best travel photography seasons has been fall. Crowds often reduce, prices of hotels and flights may fall, and the light turns warmer and more dramatic as the season shifts. However, with the state of global travel itself, with wars and an ongoing genocide, which can…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Magnifying glass leaning to the right means Find. Leaning to the left? Zoom #Icons

What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...

What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”

What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...

What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”

QIVIKA Launches AI-Powered Smartphone Telescope For Bird Photographers

Bird photography is a genre that needs additional gear to work with. In this case, a good telescope is a great start for many. Not only does it help spot the bird, but it also helps study its behavior. QIVIKA is one of the few companies that has created a compact optical telesco…

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

The Go Blog Platform-independent SIMD in Go David Chase and Junyang Shao 24 September 2026 Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. SIMD is a native feature of many modern CPUs tha…

Scans of City Textures

Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website, he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as…

Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...

Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures: a handful of painted sherds of the twelfth century BC…”

The summer of ’26

It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter…

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at...

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt...

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, the character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but 8 years later. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, directed by David Fincher.

Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe”...

Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe” of up to 4 steps to turn a starting set of numbers into another set of numbers.