Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...

Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS?

Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...

Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish. There’s an option to slow the animation down so you can watch it draw the fish line-by-line.

The Street Photography Method That Skips the Viewfinder

Most street photography advice focuses on being invisible. New York photographer Joe Wigfall took a different approach entirely -- he stopped looking through the viewfinder altogether.

How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow

The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, formed of dense feathers, helps amplify sound and funnel it towards his ears. Through half a meter of snow, the soun…

How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...

How many shots are in the average movie? How does it compare to the past? “You might expect the editor to be the most important factor in the number of shots, but in fact, knowing who directed a film accounts for 70% of the variation in its cutting pace.”

Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...

Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs — from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to AI…” Interesting!

Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind

I ran across this post on Instagram by Bobby in Space (who posts about design and the psychology of place) and wanted to pull it onto the actual internet. Here are some snippets of his “5 hills I will die on as someone who studies the psychology of place”. I don’t think th…

Billingham Rucksack 25 Review: Their Best Camera Bag, and One Problem

I remember years ago telling the folks at Billingham that we should make a camera bag together. Specifically from the brand, I want to make a rolltop camera bag. I adore their shoulder bags, but most photographers I know these days either pack super light in those bags or switch…

Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings:...

Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. Maybe this isn’t the best show in the world, but I have been enjoying it. I thought s02 was better than s01 so at least the trajectory is promising.

Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts...

Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts and no server that holds your work. Every document lives in the address of its page… Copy the link and you have copied the document.” Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, calculator, etc.

I Made the William Eggleston Look on LUMIX Cameras

Ever since Reviews Editor Alberto Lima reviewed the Last Dyes from William Eggleston, I've been searching for a way to emulate that look digitally. Specifically, I've been working on that since April 2026 and I'm writing this article in August 2026. I'm not just talking about hi…

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The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole

From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Vi…

It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem...

It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.”

Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...

Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?” Signal president Meredith Whittaker: “Look, I know social media wants this. I know you guys want this little clip. But what the fuck? What the fuck?? Both are bad!”

May Peace Prevail on Earth

Here are some photos I’ve taken during my time in Tokyo so far. I’ve been posting new stuff more or less daily to Instagram. Somehow I’m already about halfway through my stay. Somehow these images both capture and don’t even come…

On the Conflict of Losing a Photo Printer

For several years, my main printer was the Canon Prograf 1000. In fact, I've used it several times in camera reviews to discuss how high ISO output looked. But then we stopped doing that, and the printer wasn't used all that much. Most recently, the print head needed replacement…

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse

The Go Blog Better HTTP/1 connection reuse Nicholas Husin and Damien Neil 14 October 2026 Take a look at the following function: func getStatus(url string) (int, error) { resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { return 0, err…

“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.”...

“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.” Digger is fascinating — I can’t remember another big movie where public opinion has been so divided (it’s either genius or garbage). I saw it with a friend and he loved it so much he went again.

Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...

Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging 30,000 code changes per day, a 12-fold increase from just four months earlier. The volume increased so much that they wrote their own Git alternative.

Whoa, the Lion Nebula!

NASA’s JWST recently snapped this image of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392). Massive stars undergo supernova explosions at the end of their lives, but these kinds of events are few and far in between. Most of the universe’s stars have lower masses, like the one belonging to N…

The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting...

The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out by Lindsay Crouse. “When perseverance turns against us, quitting isn’t just a way out. Often, it’s the first step to something better. A pivot. A break. A chance to go further — or be free.”

Pergear 50mm f1.4 Review: Exploring the Fish Scale Bokeh Look

The Pergear 50mm f1.4 lens promised the look of fish scale bokeh in its images. In practice though, my review is debunking that idea despite the fact that the image quality is still something very wonderful. For what it's worth, Pergear is the maker of one of my favorite 35mm f1…

Jamel Shabazz Has a New Mission

There are two photographers in their 60s and 70s whom I speak with often. One of them has mostly transitioned away from photography and does a ton of video work for brands like Amazon, teaches photography workshops abroad, and spends a lot of time focusing on social media with a…