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kottke.org (Feed)
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What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?
Interesting observation by Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) on how a company’s or product’s choice of programming language matters less in the age of agentic programming: On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Program…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Why I’m Teaching Meditation to Photographers (And Why You Need It More Than Another Lens)
This has been a very long time in the making, and I'm very excited to finally make this happen. The Phoblographer is launching workshops for photographers who want to find ways to grow beyond just what all the social media content developers and YouTubers tell you you need. And…
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All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs
This scan isn’t very good (best I could find), but these are all the lightsabers used by Jedi and Sith in the various Star Wars shows and movies. I think this is from a few years ago, so I’m not sure how up to date it is. In the SW universe, making your own saber is a J…
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My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on...
My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Dante’s Inferno. “In Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet Alice Notley, whose Descent of Alette (1996) is one of the great contributions to the literature of katabasis.”
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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#MyTerms at #CPDP2026
CPDP stands for Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection. The theme of this year’s CPDP is “Competing Visions Shared Futures.” The MyTerms future is replacing consent with contract in our online dealings with websites and digital services. Consent is what cookie notices spe…
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How to Make a Living as an Artist
Contemporary pop artist fnnch’s essay on How to Make a Living as an Artist is pretty great. Lots in here that resonates with my experience of turning a creative hobby (KDO) into a business. Most people who enjoy making art should not try to make it their full time job. Wh…
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From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A...
From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A Brief-ish History of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Part I is entitled “Where is Everybody?”
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7Artisans 135mm f1.8 Review: A Gorgeous Lens
There are very few 135mm lenses that I haven't liked. Nikon already has the very good 135mm f1.8 Plena and the Viltrox 135mm f1.8. And today, the brand is getting a third: the 7Artisans 135mm f1.8 -- with autofocus. The incredible thing about this lens is just how closely it foc…
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You Can Make an App for That . “The most important...
You Can Make an App for That. “The most important thing you’ll need is taste. Not objectively good taste, necessarily, so much as a keen sense of your own.”
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Our Mob Boss President
Jamelle Bouie writes that each US president molds the presidency in his own image and Trump has constructed a “government as protection racket and the president as mob boss”.1 So what manner of presidency has Trump devised for himself? You could call it the pecuniary presi…
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Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists :...
Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists: “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently.”
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Resident: vibe coding firmware (our new sandbox library for ESP32 devices)
We’re open sourcing Resident, our library for running AI-authored code on microcontrollers – with no compile step and no firmware flashing. It’s our twist on vibe coding firmware, built for instantly loading new device functionality coded by end users. It’s aimed at de…
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Are Fisheye Lenses Reclaiming Their Place in Photography?
Photography has always been about the narrative, the gaze, the frames, and how it can impact the world. In more recent decades, the medium has had another pillar of importance: gear. With cameras and lenses becoming prominent, there is also a trend of some cameras and lenses doi…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Pro tip: instead of writing down a short sentence in full, make it appear on a marquee for dramatic effect #marquee
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A pep talk in the face of despair . “Things can...
A pep talk in the face of despair. “Things can always get better, but it doesn’t happen via inertia. It happens because a lot of people tried.”
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Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who...
Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live. Among the buildings are a school in Mass., a hospital in Rwanda, a prison in Norway, and a lighthouse in Maine. Intriguing!
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India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...
India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury Breaches 48 Degrees Celsius Mark. “After 10am, Banda becomes deserted. At first, you see one or two people outside. Then, as the day rises, there is only silence.” (48C = 118F)
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Sigma’s New Affordable Telephoto Lenses May Interest Birders
Sigma has introduced some wonderful telephoto lenses for photographers documenting birds and wildlife. Models such as 100-400mm, 150-600mm, and 300-600mm, amongst others. It now appears that the company is working on a new patent that can make things better. Have a look at their…
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9 Things New Documentary Photographers Need to Know
While it may sound precocious to discuss what to do before starting a documentary photo project then jump into its final edit, bare with me. The point is that preparation before you pick up your camera is just as crucial to your photo story as your final presentation, and you sh…
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The Best Film Cameras Under $500
Analog cameras are riding a new wave of interest in 2026. There are many young photographers embracing the age-old technology, and a sense of nostalgia attached to it. With fewer companies introducing new film cameras, we have collated a list that can be of help for young and se…
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The Most Important Thing a Photographer Can Have Today Isn’t Gear
Copyright: do you know anything about it? There's a big lawsuit against OpenAI and about how they've used torrents to get a ton of copyrighted material to train their AI. As time goes on, it's getting more and more fascinating to watch. But I keep wondering why photographers can…
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New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...
New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted, “a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience”.
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Cookie Queens
Cookie Queens is a feature-length documentary film that follows four Girl Scouts as they navigate the big business & big feelings of Girl Scout Cookie season. “Cookie Queens” is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and pain points woven into one of America��…
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Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make It Sports social accounts. “When he sees a sports photograph, he can recall, off the top of his head, a pose, or a style, or even just a figure or a form, from a painting or a sculpture.”
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The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
The Banality of the Video Podcast. “The sets, installed with plentiful mics awaiting speech, are authoritative and yet unintimidating, like a friend’s renovated suburban basement.”
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There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I. The author, Steven Ros…
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Why Photographers Are Paying Premiums for This Leica
When it comes to choosing a luxury camera, everyone knows there are only a few options. One such brand is Leica, which has never shied away from offering what most photographers desire. While there are multiple cameras that have held up their value, this Leica model has seen an…
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Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers”. I’m sorry, what?!
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No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...
No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan forgiveness. No UBI for average Americans. But reparations, treason forgiveness, and UBI for the Jan 6th insurrectionists & criminals who attacked Congress. Got it, got it, got it.
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Is Canon Working on Tilt-Shift Lens Unlike Any Other?
Over the years, Canon has introduced some great lenses for multiple photographers. From landscape to wildlife, photographers have a varied range that they can work with. Amongst various creations, Canon's tilt-shift lenses have been the most promising and loved. It appears that…
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On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a kids’ movie, Alexandra Petri imagines other dystopian source material for family flicks. “Andy Serkis’s Maus: Talking mice? Great. Talking mice and cats? Even better!”
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“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up soon’ and ‘Sorry, life has been hectic’, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.”
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The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked contraption that types “I hope this email finds you well” over and over again. Jacquard loom & player piano vibes.
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The Best Classic Sigma Lenses for Portraits Under $1000
Full frame lenses can be quite expensive. For portrait photographers, there are some lovely options out there, but with third-party lenses, they also come at a budget price. If you are someone who is looking to add a new portrait lens to their gear list, then here are two option…
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Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...
Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from your keyboard experience. “Break all the rules. You’re designing for the audience of one.”
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise. The Pudding analyzed 200,000 similes from popular fiction. “The clichés are obvious, marked by a single tall spike that overshadows the others.”
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