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Go Turns 17

The Go Blog Go Turns 17 Austin Clements, for the Go team 10 November 2026 Today, November 10th, we celebrate the 17th anniversary of Go’s open source release! Over the past year, we released Go 1.26 in February and Go 1.27 in…

The 4 Best Instax Cameras to Buy in 2026

Aspiring photographers and those looking for some fun will love the Fujifilm Instax Mini 99, Instax Wide Evo, Instax Square 2, and the Instax Pal 2. The latter has surely taken the internet by storm. Fujifilm Instax cameras have become some of the most loved analog models. Peopl…

A short history of Lego instructions from 1955 to the...

A short history of Lego instructions from 1955 to the present. “Prior to [1955] the only ‘guidance’ for products containing plastic bricks were drawings on the packaging to serve as inspiration for consumers.”

Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt. They...

Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt. They move about 13 meters a year.

USPS Announces Mythical Creatures Stamps for 2027

The US Postal Service recently released a partial list of the stamps it’s putting out in 2027. One of the sets is Mythical Creatures, featuring five cryptids.1 The legend of Mothman has endured for more than six decades, but of the creatures encountered on these stamps, t…

The $17 Preset Box We Won’t Tell You What’s Inside

Every so often, a reader asks us why we sell a preset pack that doesn't tell you exactly what you're getting. The answer's simple: our Mystery Box for Lightroom and Mystery Box for Capture One are built to be a surprise, and at $17, they're the cheapest way to get a genuinely ne…

How to Build a Police State. “Bukele didn’t declare a...

How to Build a Police State. “Bukele didn’t declare a dictatorship on day one. He built toward it incrementally, each step framed in the language of anti-corruption, public safety or efficiency.”

How Much Wealth Does It Take to be Safe in the United States?

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi’s new book is about wealth inequality in America. Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are (Amazon) follows ten people with ten different incomes, from the bottom 10% to the top 10% and everything in-betwee…

Great title for an article about London’s invasive...

Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis. “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”

100 Big Unanswered Scientific Questions

The NY Times recently asked 100 scientists from across dozens of disciplines: “What is a big unanswered question in your field?” Here are some of their questions that caught my eye: 4. When and where did the cognitive capacities that made language, mathematics and complex…

Inanimate launch event in London, next week

The last time I posted about Inanimate, I mentioned that we’re building devices: WORKS: five limited-edition devices for your AI agent and you. (Five?? Yes five.) We call them Promptable Products. You can make apps for them. You can buy them, if you want to be part o…

An Ode to the Dad Cam: But Not Necessarily the Dad

According to Urban Dictionary, a Dad Cam is essentially a vintage or retro camcorder that they probably used to record every day events in life. I've never been a dad in life, but throughout many points of my adulthood I've been the family documenter taking around various iterat…

Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an...

Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an open world tower defense “game”?

Mosac Review: Designed For Those Sick of Lightroom

Mosac joins other options like Lightcraft and Capture One in working to be an alternative to Adobe Lightroom. Notably it's far more affordable, and ultimately seems like a more stripped down version of Adobe Lightroom -- not Adobe Lightroom Classic. For most serious photographer…

Solar farms and salt ponds

Important Satellite Eyes update! I've added solar farms, salt ponds and mines to the 'Interesting Sights' rotation. I've had this on for a few days to get a feel for it and I think it's turned out pretty nice. I used OpenStreetMap to find the locations, sorted by the la…

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Fujifilm Instax Soft Haze Review: Fuji Made Polaroids

There's something odd about Fujifilm Instax Soft Haze that's taken me a while to figure out: it looks a lot like Polaroid film. In fact, unless you're very well trained to understand the differences in size and the nuances, you'd probably think that it was Polaroid film. I bet t…

Crimson Star

Watch the Sun’s atmosphere pulse and flow in extreme UV. Images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed” by Seán Doran, whose video work is always incredible. It would be great to see this in IMAX or…

The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS...

The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS News report by Charles Kuralt from 1983 about a “champion” shoe salesman.

The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky

I love Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui’s 1997 conceptual art piece The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky but I couldn’t really tell you what it means. Something about the way people are bombarded with advertisements for consumer goods? I also couldn’t help but think of t…

Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book...

Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book about the world’s largest data-center hub in Northern Virginia. “Forests have disappeared. Empty fields have become enormous buildings.”