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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Action or state is a tricky problem in UI design. What should be written on a button? Current state of the system or a state that it will switch to when clicked? Why not both? Audible’s Preview button shows state in its icon, but action in its label ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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By 2026 Standards, the 5D Mk II is a Great Camera
Do you vividly remember the last photo shoot you did with a camera that you loved before it died? That's me with the 5D Mk II -- arguably the camera that helped me build this website and this publication into what it is today. I was testing the Phottix Indra 500 strobe and the h…
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Ranking proposals for Interop 2027
The Firefox team are asking us to weigh in on proposals for Interop 2027—what features should browsers be concentrating on implementing or improving. Here are my top five: Web app installation via and navigator.install(). Prompts the user to install a progressive web app.…
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The Tusks Of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Hot on the heels of reading and enjoying The Mountain In The Sea, I picked up Ray Nayler’s next work, this tightly constructed novella. Once again it deals with inter-species communication. This time it’s de-extincted mammoths. Once again, it’s set in the relatively near…
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The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
Back in 2019, I read the book Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith and said: I really enjoyed this evolutionary tale. It’s equal parts biology and philosophy. I will never look at cephalopods quite the same way agai…
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macwright.com (Feed)
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Recently
September was another big month for my life, mostly for me offline. Another good month for bicycle riding, seeing more of the trails on Randalls and Wards Islands. The New York area has taught me a few things about islands and one of them is that they're very fungible. On a map,…
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Is the Sony A6500 Worth Your Time in 2026?
Sony has some wonderful cameras for various genres of photography. The company's APS-C range has been particularly great for young image-makers. The Sony a6500 is a decade old camera which turned heads upon its launch. But will the camera work for photographers today? Let's take…
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From Studio to Street: Our Analog Film Presets Hold Up Anywhere
We already showed what our Analog Film Presets Pack does to a studio portrait, so this time we took the same set of presets outside. Street and candid photography ask for something different from a controlled portrait: the grain and color response need to hold up in changing lig…
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Sony FE 8-14mm F3.5 Fisheye G Review: It’s About Time Sony Made This
There’s something special about a piece of gear that will genuinely make you want to pick it up and go out to make photographs. The Sony FE 8-14mm F3.5 Fisheye G lens is one such piece of gear – so much so, it made me fall in love with my Sony a7III again. Sure, fisheye lens…
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