The Canon 5D Mark IV Turns 10 This Year. Is It Still Worth Buying in 2026?

The Canon 5D Mk IV is an excellent camera even in 2026. And if you find it for a good price, we'd recommend picking it up as even the lenses available have dropped in price. Canon has created some of the most wonderful devices in the world. The company made some fantastic full-f…

This Week in the IndieWeb

November 6-13, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #062 Thursday, November 12 at 10:00am Online! Zoom!Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the we…

A Literary Map of the United States

From Big Think and Pop Charts, A Literary Map of America that “highlights the real and imagined settings of hundreds of books”. Frank Jacobs takes a closer look at some of the imaginary places on the map, including Sleepy Hollow, Lake Wobegon, Brokeback Mountain, and F. S…

Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many...

Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many dishes should you sample at a restaurant to find your favorite one? “Once you settle on a dish, the best strategy is to order it on every remaining visit.”

Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily...

Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily hosting video watching parties for your friends, no web server needed.

Evoto Review: The Lightroom Alternative Portrait Photographers May Like

In the Phoblographer's continued coverage of reviewing Lightroom alternatives, we decided to look at Evoto -- even though it heavily leans into AI. Since we called the company out in January of this year for pushing AI generated headshots, they've been working on actually being…

The Surma Boys of Afghanistan

Afghan-American visual artist Daniel Malikyar recently shared some great photos of what he calls “a fashion subculture unlike anything I’ve encountered before” that he found in a remote village in the mountains of Afghanistan. I met a group of boys in a remote vill…

The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava...

The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear has been found. “Back then, rap producers took care in disguising the samples that they chopped up, making them difficult to trace — not just for legal reasons, but as part of the art.”

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3 Creative Nude Photographers And How They Make Their Images

Let's be honest here: the web for a while was always really cautious about nudes of any sort. But thanks to social media, it's everywhere now. What's not everywhere though is true creativity with it. Content Creators often make nude images and then try to get people to subscribe…

Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV...

Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV adaptation of all time. I have soft spots for Station Eleven, Mindhunter, Shogun, The Expanse, Normal People, and, especially, My Brilliant Friend. (Where is Fleishman Is in Trouble??)

Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus

On his site Notes From the Road, Erik Gauger has a wonderful eight-part series on The Citrus Kingdom, a collection of illustrated stories about citrus fruit and Sicily. The key to the citron’s future—a future that links nearly every aspect of Sicily’s cultural, politi…

5 Best Cameras From 2012 That Are Still Worth Buying in 2026

Cameras like the Sony a77, a7r, Canon S100, Fuji X Pro 1, and the Canon G1X are some real standouts even today. The year 2012 saw the introduction of impressive cameras. From mirrorless entries to some good compact cameras, various manufacturers were completing on varied fronts.…

The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time. Includes...

The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time. Includes albums by Death Cab for Cutie, Neko Case, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Liz Phair, and Sonic Youth.

Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one...

Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one person can play at a time, for 60 seconds, while everyone else watches on a livestream.” As of this writing, the game is up to level 179,579, and Jono has died 250,687 times.

Before Kodachrome: How Autochrome Gave Us Color Photography (NSFW)

Before color photography was introduced, photographers would often be seen hand-painting portraits to make them seem life-like. While color is now a part of most modern sensors, the appeal, with time, seems to have been fading away. For this reason, we bring to you a slice of ph…