This Week in the IndieWeb

October 30 through November 6, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, November 4 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00pm Upcoming EventsFrom events.indieweb.org: IndieWebClub BLR…

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How Long Will Your Olympus Camera Really Last?

If you own an Olympus digital camera, you should know that it's bound to last around a decade or perhaps even longer. That's especially the case for the weather resistant models. Olympus has some wonderful cameras. There are some great micro four thirds cameras, such as models s…

They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...

They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tells a story about how [Mars’] crust formed”.

The Match Archive

The Match Archive is creating “the first research-grade, digital archive cataloging American matchbooks as primary sources for graphic design, commercial culture, and social history”. They haven’t launched a website yet (they’re working on it), but they’ve been s…

An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...

An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish study of 1.2 million children) found that the tiny amounts of aluminum in vaccines are not linked to “increased risk of asthma, autism, or autoimmune conditions such as type 1 diabetes”. Of course!

“Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...

“Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and pesticides affecting male fertility? Does a low sperm count mean you’ll struggle to have children? Howtown investigates the science behind male infertility…”

We Have Star Wars at Home

This is cool: Evan Puschak looks at the rush of cheapo knockoff space operas that came out in the wake of Star Wars, a once-in-a-generation film that refashioned the entire movie business. Even the names are kooky: Starcrash, War of the Planets, Battle of the Stars, The Human…

Robert Capa’s Famous Advice, Taken Literally

"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Photographers quote Robert Capa's line constantly, but most take it as a metaphor. It's worth taking literally too.

From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...

From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon as a child in 1986. What age-inappropriate movies did you see as a kid?

A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...

A call for more “mindful underparenting” from psychologist Darby Saxbe. “If you want to raise empathetic, imaginative children who can figure out how to entertain themselves, don’t keep their brains too occupied.” 💯

KDO Search Now Available to Everyone

Ok, after a week of testing, I’ve opened up KDO search to everyone. You can read more about it in my post from last week: For now, the search only looks at posts from 2014 to the present. You can search by keyword, describe what you remember (“the guy who walks in Japan”…

How Capture One is Looking to Replace Lightroom and Photoshop

Capture One has been doing a lot of changes in the backend to improve their product ever since their price increases. And after lots of updates that catered to photojournalists and landscape photographers, the latest official communications about the software are catering to one…

Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....

Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million. “For centuries, this organization has been guided by outdated principles that are antithetical to investor and shareholder concerns, prioritizing incentives like wisdom, mental discipline…”

7 Canon DSLRs Behind Award-Winning Photos

Older DSLRs like the Canon 5Ds R, 7D Mk II, 6D, 1D X, 5D Mark III, 5D Mk IV, 90D are still in the hands of photographers and winning awards. That proves that you don't need the newest gear at all. Canon has created some of the most sought-after devices. The company's DSLR range…

Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...

Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer it away from recreating someone else’s specific [video] game”. (From a few days ago but I just saw it…)

And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...

And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy Letterboxd for a reported price of $330 million.

Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...

Salon, one of the last OG general interest web publications, is shutting down. “When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place.” And: “We have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable.”

Rosa Parks on To Tell the Truth

In 1980, civil rights hero Rosa Parks appeared on To Tell the Truth, a long-running game show. Parks appeared alongside two other women claiming to be Parks and a celebrity panel tried to guess the identity of the true Parks. See also the appearance of a Lincoln assassination…

Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...

Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales breaching one after another. Incredible. Also available on YouTube.

Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...

Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at 200 wpm — it measures mouth movements with radar? Like many things these days, this is very technically interesting but also creepy and dystopian.

Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...

Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis Crowley wrote about it. “Dozens of current and former Foursquare employees have reached out to me to express their frustration with the leadership that led the company to this outcome.”

Why We Raised Membership to $45 a Year (and What It’s Funded So Far)

A few months ago, we raised the price of a Phoblographer membership from $25 a year to $45, and we also retired the old $3.99-a-month option entirely. We don't love raising prices on readers who've supported us for years, so we wanted to actually explain why we did it and what's…

Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow

For a 1992 conceptual art piece called The Hunt, Christian Jankowski survived for a week on goods he shot at the local supermarket with a bow and arrow. To rebel against modern society, to return to nature: in pursuit of these primeval instincts, for one week, Jankowski liv…

Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...

Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for building applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.”

Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...

Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose too much blood. An 80-cent plastic bag is helping solve the problem. “The drape is not an A.I. thing — it’s the absolute opposite: It’s a simple, simple, intervention that can solve our problems.”

A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...

A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively engaged in the enshittification playbook” (many post-acquisition by private equity), including Dr. Martens, Pyrex, Hoka, rag & bone, Ray-Ban, Black+Decker, Hunter Boot, Craftsmen, and more.

Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies

To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. This is the most time-consuming photo edit I’ve EVER done! I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt Tar…