Bamagotchi

Beware thunderous ides! Keep them at bay, Make cute guys. In honor of March December Adventure, and Marchagotchi, I’d like to introduce Bamagotchi! Bamagotchi is a mobile-friendly toy where you can make your own virtual pets by using a HyperTalk-ish language of my own co…

Here’s the New Sigma 85mm f1.2 DG Next to the LUMIX 85mm f1.8

Yesterday, I had the chance to go to a special Sigma Media Pop-Up here in NYC. There, they were showing off the new and upcoming Sigma 85mm f1.2 DG lens. And this made me insanely curious about several things. With that said, I've got a few tidbits of information you may not hav…

KDO: 28 Years Later…

It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. 47,300 posts since March 14, 1998…

The 3 Iconic Canon Cameras That Turn 10 This Year

Canon has launched multiple cameras that cater to photographers of different skill levels. While they are liked by professionals, many young creators tend to adore them just as much. As 2026 rolls in, we are taking a look at the devices introduced a decade ago and how they can b…

Gas Town and Bullet Hell

Warning: a collection of half-formed thoughts about time, screens, AI agents, and a surprisingly relevant Japanese arcade genre. This started with a phrase in Azeem Azhar’s piece about his AI agent workflow: “wall-clock time.” It’s a term of art in programming: the actu…

Photographers Wanted: Newgrain Offers a Better Social Media Platform for Photographers

Newgrain is the latest entrant into this space, with a slight twist: it’s a community built exclusively for analog photographers. After trying out the desktop and app versions, has Newgrain changed my cynical mind about a photographer’s social media utopia?

What Two Features Can Greatly Improve The Nikon Z9 and Z8

Given how Nikon has absolutely transformed these two cameras with each major firmware update, you might be hard-pressed to find what they can do to further improve the Nikon Z9 and Z8. However, there is at least one useful addition they could introduce that could majorly improve…

The Canon R5 Did Something Really Unique. And It’s Gone Now

Canon's pivot to mirrorless cameras was nothing but a step that was long overdue. Despite being somewhat late to the industry, the company managed to introduce models that were revered and loved by many professionals. Examples include the Canon R6 Mk II and the R7. However, as t…

This Week in the IndieWeb

March 6-13, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #048 Thursday, March 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 web. All…

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost episodes of classic Doctor Who have been discovered. Both are from the William Hartnell era and feature the Daleks.

Planets and Bright Stars

The Canon Powershot Camera Everyone Loved May Come Back

Compact cameras have seen quite a surge in recent years. With more people finding compact cameras a better option than investing in a full frame camera, companies such as Canon are trying to fill the obvious gap. While you have models such as Ricoh GR IV and PowerShot V1, it may…

The Great Friendship Flattening . “I amass bits of...

The Great Friendship Flattening. “I amass bits of knowledge about my loved ones — my sister’s boyfriend published a poem; my friend left her job — as a spectator, in the same way that I might learn about an influencer’s favorite books…”

Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real”...

Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real” Anymore. “A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.”

10 Hours of Ambient Freezer Drone

Some genius has taken an audio sample of the hum of a grocery store freezer, cleaned it up, and extended it into a 10-hour video. The freezer’s hum, variously compared to Brian Eno’s music and “an electrical gong bath”, went viral enough to warrant an article in the G…

Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore...

Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore online. “Almost every institution with a significant collection of medieval manuscripts digitizes many of their most significant works and makes them freely accessible online.”

The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be...

The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be 70 percent charged in five minutes and be almost full in 12 minutes, even in temperatures as low as -30° C” and “has a range of up to 800 km” (~500 miles). The US is sooooo far behind here.

The Abominable Adobe Man Steps Down

As I write this article, Phoblographer's Managing Editor Nilofer Khan told me about how her friend just lost her job to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Fueled by insane amounts of hyper-capitalistic goals that are ultimately tearing our planet apart as we're all fighting for resou…

It’s an Open Thread

Since the comments are back open and folks here can now share a little about themselves with each other, I thought I’d open this post up for whatever you guys want to chat about. What are you particularly interested in these days? Working on any fun projects? Got a new hobby?…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Affordances are forgotten. Any control can look like any other control. 1 — button 2 — button 3 — text input 🤯 How are you supposed to tell? Thanks @ilyabirman for the picture. #Codex #VSCode #AI #LLM #Affordance

Has The Last Great Canon DSLR Met Its End?

Canon cameras, especially its DSLRs, continue to hold a special place in people's hearts. The company introduced several exciting models, including 6D, 1 DX, and 7D. However, Canon's 5D series wins hands down in many ways. While 5D's most cameras are no longer in production, it…

Craig Mod is software bonkers . “I’m...

Craig Mod is software bonkers. “I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.”

Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US ....

Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US. “As of Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in 28 states and Washington, D.C., have announced their own legislation to make these systems permissible.”

Yet another graph showing that when you control for...

Yet another graph showing that when you control for quality of life (hours/week worked) and wealth inequality, American exceptionalism disappears.

The 3 Sony Cameras That Aged Well Over a Decade

Sony has been one of the few companies that offered a truly diverse range of cameras over the years. They were the first to introduce mirrorless, and they never shied away from being different. Today, we take a look at the devices turning 10 in 2026 and whether they can still be…