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Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that...

Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper.

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Interesting that the biggest, most contrast button on this page is not the primary button. The primary button (!) is this construct in the middle that looks like a text input. Thanks Alex Shoykhet for the picture #Affordance #Hierarchy #Verizon

A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in...

A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.”

Biiiiig Stretch

Back when I went on sabbatical in 2022, I told the story of the fiddle leaf fig tree I bought shortly after my ex-wife and I separated and I’d moved into my own apartment. I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and figured a large plant in m…

“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at...

“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)

The Cameras That Tell the Story of 9/11

Every year, the Phoblographer treats 9/11 as a pretty sacred day. In fact, if we don't publish stories about photographers on this date, then we don't publish at all. That decision comes from me. During 9/11, I was 14 years old in religion class at St. Francis Prep in Fresh Mead…

Remembering 9/11

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Stars. Just stars. Walking back from a meeting at school this evening, the kid and I looked up at the sky, as always. But it was … different. What was that behind the high branches of an Oak tree? A star or an — no, it couldn’t be an airplane. T…

VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...

VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.”

The Simpsons Switcheroo

At the beginning of a clip from this podcast episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they did on The Simpsons: It’s a phenomenon that the Simpsons did so beautifully, which is — and we did this with Home…

“ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of...

“Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.

Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by...

Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.

Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by...

Gloria Steinem’s final essay, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”

Is the Fujifilm X-T4 Still Worth Buying in 2026?

Fujifilm's X-series lineup has been significantly contributing to the APS-C cameras. The X-T4 is one such model, which offers a retro body, good image quality, and will probably cost you less than any newer camera from the company. If you are someone who is looking to purchase t…

TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for...

TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in it (for cooling).

Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film...

Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”

Sirui 85mm f1.4 Aurora Review: Beautiful Bokeh at Under $700

The Sirui 85mm f1.4 Aurora lens is what I consider to be the best value 85mm lens for the Leica L-mount. Available also for Sony E, Nikon Z, and Fujifilm X mounts, it's overall a very hard lens to beat. Most importantly, it boasts 15 aperture blades. That's almost as much as the…

Lureday

Buy a new iPhone Duo 18 folding iPhone with max storage (2 TB, which is what I have in my iPhone 16 Pro Max) for the low-low price of just $3199. danah boyd, who I mentioned two posts ago, is probably now the leading authority on the American Census. She just posted American de…

Four Lenses Your LUMIX S9 Needs

Don't consider this article to be a typical listicle or roundup. In fact, it's really just talking more about my experience with four lenses that have made using the LUMIX S9 so great. When the camera launched, there weren't that many small lenses to be paired with it. But as ti…

The Zeiss Lens from 2013 That Keeps Surprising Me

I've written pretty extensively about the Zeiss 135mm f2 APO this year. As I've recently really started to dive into my archives, I've reazlied just how good that lens truly was. In 2026, which is 13 years later, that lens still holds up. Yes, it even looks good today amongst th…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Okay here’s the thing that worries me about animating hovers. On the left, when you move your mouse, the element under it reacts. It’s a menu item saying “Hey, I see your cursor, I am ready!” On the right, it feels like hover is attached to your mouse, and y…