This Week in the IndieWeb

July 4-11, 2025 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Americas Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, July 9 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00pm NÜRNBERG, Ba…

Our Members Get a Discount on Capture One

Read this website and want to help? In 2025, we’re trying to get to a minimum of 2,000 subscribers! Capture One is discounted for members! The New Phoblographer membership is now based on our website. Yes, we moved away from the app. It was a bittersweet move — but what we��…

A New Canon PowerShot G Series Camera Could Come Soon

At the beginning of this year, Canon revived the PowerShot series, which they had last updated in 2023 with a monocular-style camera, the PowerShot Zoom. The new additions have been designed to help bring compact camera users back to nostalgic days with modern tech. The Canon Po…

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient...

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World. “This is the first of its kind in that it’s a ruler, a founder, somebody so old, and in so good a condition.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Scrappy is a prototype tool for building “little apps for you and...

Scrappy is a prototype tool for building “little apps for you and your friends”. Shades of Robin Sloan’s An app can be a home-cooked meal. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Building a Fire

Mend is a project based in Syracuse, NY that publishes the “creative...

Mend is a project based in Syracuse, NY that publishes the “creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as well as individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Sales Show Compact Cameras Are Back With a Bang

The camera industry has seen different trends over the years. The return of analogue techniques, compact cameras, and disposable devices is an example of this. Right now, there is already a battle between compacts, mirrorless, and DLSRs, with the Camera & Imaging Products Associ…

How APS-C Cameras Are Beating Full Frame: BCN+R Rankings

The camera market has been showcasing a rising trend, with mirrorless and compact camera markets showcasing distinct results. If you want to know how it all is going, then you must look at BCN+R's list of top-selling cameras, with giants such as Canon and Sony battling out for t…

The 4 Most Unexpected Cameras Trending This Week

We have been looking at Google Trends for some time now, and we have noticed how every week, there are certain cameras, including compact cameras, that often blow up some searches in the United States. So, today, we look at a few cameras, which over the past week of writing this…

Top 5 Ways to Use Natural Light for Jaw-Dropping Portraits

Portrait photography is quite exciting. It allows you to not only photograph the likeness of a person but also showcase their personality in one way or another. The genre is also one of the first few ones that many people start their practice with, some gradually moving to pursu…

The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the Oscars. Buster Keaton, King Kong, Errol Flynn, Ben-Hur, Bullitt, Smokey and the Bandit, Top Gun, Speed, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Unstoppable, Mission Impossible, etc. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org ��…

When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee men and women showed up, many of whom were war veterans. Some came with shotguns. Some came with baseball bats.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has selected an artist to make an official poster for the tournament; this site displays all of the posters from 1980 to 2025. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen thousands or even tens of thousands of incredible astronomical images and yet there are always new, mind-blowing things to see. Like this 500,000-km Solar P…

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky...

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky problem needs is a few fresh ideas, and venturing outside one’s immediate field can be rewarding.” I love reading about science/math breakthroughs… 💬 Join the discussion…

This Sony Compact Camera is Competing with Leica in Many Ways

Compact cameras are now important for many photographers. They are easy to carry, a lot more fun to use, and you can shoot a variety of subjects. While Leica has been one of the few camera companies whose compact cameras double in value with time, it now appears that Sony is als…

No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated...

No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated e-bikes often include colorful adhesive ribbons wrapped around the posts, seat tube and headset, spoke covers and LED lights…” How NYC delivery folks trick out their bikes. 💬 Join the discu…

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time...

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years. “The huge embroidery - which is widely believed to have been created in Kent - will go on display at the British Museum in London next year.” 💬 Join the discussion on kott…

A New Genetic Map of Human Disease for the Past 37,000 Years

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 years. It’s a really fascinating read — in part because of how scientific results can defy our expectations. For instance, the researchers expected t…

Sigma’s New Wide Angle Patent Will Excite Low Light Photographers

Sigma has always created large, heavy lenses. In fact, we have even dissected why that has been the case. Yet, the company has been working on new patents, which include an "industry first" lens as well as new telephoto zooms for wildlife photographers. It now seems Sigma is shi…

Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When...

Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When your bar gets TikToked: “The only reason he opened the bar, he said, was so locals and friends like her would come. Now, all he had were customers he couldn’t talk to.” 💬 Join the di…

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY...

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. As Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.”

What If You Replaced the Moon With a Black Hole?

A question from a viewer of XKCD’s What If? series: “What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? And what would a lunar (“holar”?) eclipse look like?” The answer to the first part of the question is: not that much. But the expl…

AI-operated vending machines and business process innovation (sorry)

Hey the song of the summer is autonomous AI and vending machines. And I feel like people are drawing the wrong lesson. It is not oh-ho look the AI can kinda run a shop. The real lesson, which is actionable by businesses today, is about governance. By way of background, ten…