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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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A Leica Q2 Is Waiting for the Winner of Our Portrait Contest!
We'd like you to join Leica and the Phoblographer in celebrating women everywhere. And just by participating, you can score a brand new Leica Q2. How do you enter? Well, take a picture or share an original picture of a woman who inspires you. Then tell us the story of this woman…
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Engineering – The GitHub Blog (Feed)
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Applying DevSecOps to your software supply chain
This article was originally published on InfoWorld, and is republished here with permission. This is part of our blog series on DevSecOps and software security. Developers often want to do the ‘right’ thing when it comes to security, but they don’t always know what that i…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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The Case of the Missing 2020 Gift Guide
Well, I might as well just say it: I will not be doing a holiday gift guide this year. For a whole bunch of interconnected reasons, mostly pandemic related, it just didn’t seem like a great idea. I usually enjoy putting the list together every year, but I sat down last week to…
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Five Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Warner Bros. is releasing all 17 of their 2021 movies (plus Wonder Woman 1984) simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. Films include Dune, the new Space Jam, The Suicide Squad, and Matrix 4. [medium.com] Great lede from a high school journalism student about a hypothetical fi…
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What If the Earth Got Knocked Out of the Solar System?
The Milky Way galaxy may be home to billions or even trillions of rogue planets (planets that don’t orbit stars). In this video, Kurzgesagt considers how the Earth could go rogue (by following a nearby massive star away from the Sun) and what would happen to our oceans, atmo…
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Aerial Photo of Manhattan, Circa 1931
This is an aerial photo of Manhattan taken circa 1931. You can see all the way from 125th Street in Harlem down to the tip of Manhattan and beyond. That tall spike 25 blocks south of Central Park is the Empire State Building, which was completed in 1931. Also visible in the ph…
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These 5 Popular Lenses Sold Like Hotcakes During November 2020
That new lens smell! It's hard to beat! You, our readers, made the most of the fantastic November sales and purchased many popular lenses. Our readers who shoot with Sony and Fujifilm cameras have been snapping up affordable lenses that all reviewed incredibly well. These popula…
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Five Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Video of the closed Verrazano Bridge oscillating in high winds. Don't miss the musical tune played by the bridge as it flexes – it sounds like a track from the score of Christopher Nolan's next film. [twitter.com] This seems really useful: get your pandemic questions answered…
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The evolving role of operations in DevOps
This is the third blog post in our series of DevOps fundamentals. For a quick intro on what DevOps is, check out part one; for a primer on automation in DevOps, visit part two. As businesses reorganize for DevOps, the responsibilities of teams throughout the software lifecycle…
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How Children Took the Smallpox Vaccine around the World
With the first approved Covid-19 vaccines set to roll out in the US soon, some of the focus has shifted to how the vaccine will be distributed and its equitable allocation. Part of the distribution logistics puzzle is making sure there are enough glass vials to hold and transpor…
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Improving the GHES release process: release candidates
In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability, and resilience. We know how important the stability of our platform is for devel…
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Real Life (Feed)
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Emotional Rescue
We think of media as means for transmitting information, assuming that information's freedom is intrinsically and positively correlated with our own. In reality, media are — and have always been — primarily about affect: they are ways of cocooning ourselves, providing freedo…
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The Anatomy of a Portrait with a Lensbaby Edge 35
I often preach on this site about how sterile every lens is on the market. But Lensbaby optics have a character that should be appreciated. Their standard lenses and their Omni kits are fun. But by far, the most tantalizing product they have is their Edge optics. These are tough…
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Photography Cheat Sheet: The Perfect Exposure Settings for Food Photos
The ultimate goal of food photography is easy to point out; the way to making that happen may be a bit challenging to figure out for beginners. A lot of factors go into it like styling, lighting, backdrops, and of course, camera settings. Your Instagram-worthy snaps may seem goo…
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No Photoshop! We Want to Feature Photographers with In-Camera Skills!
If you're a photographer who has a series and that doesn't use Photoshop, we want to feature you. It's our mission to teach the masses out there that Photography doesn't necessarily mean that you need to Photoshop. And there's a line between being a Photoshop artist and not. May…
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Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
From the NY Times, The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (So Far), including Michael B. Jordan, Saoirse Ronan, Viola Davis, Keanu Reeves, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Would love to see a companion list of 25 obvious omissions. [nytimes.com] Paul Ford interprets the Salesforce pres…
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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like (and How We Know)
For most of us, ancient Egyptian is a highly visual language represented by the familiar hieroglyphs left behind on monuments, papyrus documents, and even sarcophagi. But of course it was a spoken language as well…and linguists even have a good idea of what it sounded like.…
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ribbonfarm (Feed)
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Pascal’s Market
(Part 3 of a series. See Part 1 and Part 2.) Every publisher insists upon its own epistemic solvency. Given the proliferation of competing epistemic reserve banks (i.e., publishers), which ones keep enough truth in reserve to cover their reserve notes (articles)? The need to aud…
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GitHub Availability Report: November 2020
Introduction In November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services. November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32 minutes) The SSL certificate for *.githubassets.com expired, impact…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: When a long-running task is finished, it’s best to remove progressbar altogether, so that user can notice nothing is going on anymore. Second best option is to display progressbar fully filled and display green/blue/accent color checkmark. The worst option is what…
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The Rapidly Falling Cost of Solar Energy Visualized
Check out this graph from Our World in Data of the price of electricity from new power plants. In 2009, solar was the most expensive energy source and in 2019 it’s the cheapest. Electricity from utility-scale solar photovoltaics cost $359 per MWh in 2009. Within just one de…
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Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Revenge bedtime procrastination: "[when] people who don't have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late-night hours". [bbc.com] From @tedgioia: a list of the 100 best albums of 2020. [tedgioia.com] How Your C…
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Science Gave us a Vaccine. Now to Turn That Into Vaccinations…
In an incredible effort, science has provided the world with what looks like an incredibly effective vaccine for Covid-19. For Stat, Helen Braswell writes about the challenges of turning that vaccine into vaccinations. In the US, despite heroic work from individuals and individu…
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5 Popular Cameras Our Readers Purchased During November 2020
Wow, November has been a whirlwind month. There have been huge sales on all of the most popular cameras on the market, and you, our readers, have been busy shopping. At the end of every month, we take a quick look at the most popular cameras among our readers. How do we decide w…
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Detailed Forensic Reconstruction of the Beirut Port Explosions
On August 4, 2020, materials stored in a warehouse in Beirut, Lebanon caught on fire and then exploded multiple times. More than 200 people were killed, 6,500 injured, and around 300,000 residents were left homeless. Using photos and videos shot of the incident as well as othe…
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