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An Ad-Free Phoblographer Is Only $25 a Year. Here’s Why That Matters

A Phoblographer subscription costs $25 a year, or a bit over two dollars a month, and it removes every banner ad from the site. That's the simple pitch. But the bigger reason it matters is what that money actually funds: an independent photography publication that doesn't take d…

Goroutine Leak Profiles

The Go Blog Goroutine Leak Profiles Vlad Saioc 2 September 2026 Go’s concurrency features are powerful and easy to use, but that same ease can sometimes lead even seasoned developers to make mistakes. Fortunately, the Go ecosystem comes…

The Best Fujifilm Travel Photography Kit Used By a Real Photographer

What's In The Bag is a new series where we ask various photographers to share a look at their trusted gear with us. As camera technology has advanced leaps and bounds, the aim of this feature is to highlight what young and seasoned photographers can purchase today. The first per…

How to Make Lighting a Photograph Simple

For several years, I was taught to only photograph images using natural light. But then I took the time and investment into myself to learn how to use flash and strobe. It became even more awesome when I took it off the camera. Yet at the same time, I didn't always like making t…

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I di…

Bug blindness

I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk to don't see anything like this. For a long time, I thought this had something to do with how I use computers…

Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

Jamelle Bouie: The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the Amer…

Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer...

Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer. I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.

2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...

2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.

Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court...

Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”

What’s Missing From the Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra’s 200MP Camera

Reports of the Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra have been grabbing headlines. The upcoming phone is said to carry a 1/1.31-inch, 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP6 sensor, a 6.3-inch display, and softer edges. But this is not a story about the phone. Rather, it is about how the phone camera is n…

How Blackwing Pencils Are Made

The thing about me is if I see a making-of video for pencils, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan. Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short f…

Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small...

Industry Standard Tools. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”

This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On...

This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”

Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*...

Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year. We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)