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If you wanted to make a really crude approximation of project management, you could say there are two main styles: waterfall and agile. It’s not as simple as that by any means. And the two aren’t really separate things; agile came about as a response to the failures of wate…

Brightin Star 50mm f1.05 Review: The 1 Reason it Beats the Noct

"I'm not even done with it yet, dude," is what I told my good friend over the weekend who saw the Brightin Star 50mm f1.05 on my camera and immediately was drawn to it. He wanted to borrow it because of all the intrigue that it gave him. In the darkness of a bar that would requi…

TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...

TIL about babysitting co-ops. “The premise is simple: Families in the co-op provide each other with free childcare. A point system…ensures that everyone contributes their fair share. Every half an hour is worth one point…”

The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the b…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: The whole block could’ve been a single dropdown #Apple #Dropdown #AppleStore

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original Disney Adult. “There wouldn’t be a Disney as we know it without this guy, a grown man who has watched Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue more than 90 times.”

TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...

TIL about burping your house, aka lüften (in Germany), aka opening up the windows in your house daily to air it out, even in winter.

Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)

The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s. The prints were created using the photochrom process: The prints look deceptively like color photographs. But when viewed with a magnifying glass the small dots that c…

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The 3 Best Fujifilm Cameras for Landscape Photography

Fujifilm cameras have been pretty fantastic in terms of color, dynamic range, and resolution. The company has introduced a diverse range of models, some of which offer great features even in the APS-C range. Landscape photography is a genre that may seem to need only full frame…

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?

The Era of Peak 40MP Camera Sensors

For several years now, photographers have been not necessarily wanting more megapixels, but better overall image quality. At least, that's what I thought. A while back, OM System told us that they actually have been getting requests for more megapixels. With that said, every cam…

The 3 Best OM System Lenses for Birding

Bird photography is a genre that requires a long-range lens. Sometimes zooms, sometimes primes, many photographers choose between either based on their needs and what their wallet allows. If you have an OM System camera and want lenses that pair well, these options can truly be…

The Best Way to Read the Phoblographer

In 2025, I started to do things that otherwise would seem crazy for a publisher of a niche photography online magazine to do. For starters, this year, the Phoblographer may actually make a printed magazine again. But in addition to that, we didn't sell any ads to the big camera…

LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...

LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous users — their success rate is “far greater” than humans alone can manage.

“ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...

“Imagine what it was like for women in colonial North America. Life was different depending on where you lived, your background, and how much money you had.”

Sigma’s Full-Frame Foveon Sensor is Closer Than You Think

Sigma introduced its Foveon sensor in 2002, which changed the way people think about camera sensors. However, since 2018, the company has decided to launch a full frame Foveon version, and it appears that the launch is far closer than it may seem. Per a new report, Sigma spoke a…

HyperCard Changed Everything

This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard, who said: HyperCard is a software erector set. It lets people put things together wit…

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is your country a notorious bad actor in the Middle East? Has your leader deployed the country’s military domestically against civilians who were protesting peacefully?”

Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet

As part of his show called Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis, currently on display in LA, Takashi Murakami painted his own version of Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son. The painting is paired with Murakami’s copi…

Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...

Remember the “scroll lock” key on your keyboard? What the heck was it for? And why is the same scrolling mechanic showing up in streaming service interfaces?

New Rembrandt Painting Discovered

A painting from 1633 called Vision of Zacharias in the Temple has been newly identified by Rijksmuseum researchers as an authentic Rembrandt van Rijn. It had been decades since the painting was examined — art historians have access to all kinds of new techniques and informa…

Toes Day

Seriously. Read them both. Connect these dots— Jordan Klemperer:  Moltbook's alleged AI civilization is just a massive void of bloated bot traffic. Tim O'Reilly: A Conversation About What I Lack or: Why AI Needs You. Moving on Jeffrey Epstein is a black hole topic: a gravity…

Bolt Hunter Promises To Help You Freeze Lightning In Better Ways

You might have the fastest fingers in your photography circle, but if there's one thing every photographer struggles with capturing, it's photos of lightning. Aiming to simplify this challenge for you is the new Bolt Hunter trigger by photographer Jeff Boyce.

Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?

Per Betteridge’s law of headlines and also the map above, my answer is clearly no. You can try it yourself here…you draw them one at a time and it adds them to the map automagically. I’m going to blame my trackpad use a little, but I’m not sure I would have done much…

Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...

Recent advances in science have revolutionized our understanding of the Maya, e.g. there’s evidence that “more people lived in the classic-era Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire…”

Better News

ABC7NY: A small plane landed (watered?) on the Hudson near Beacon, NY. I heard (saw?) about it from a notification on my laptop that said the story was from WNYC. So I went there. Found nothing. Then I went to Google News and searched for plane+hudson. Wanting to give some linkl…

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This knocked me for six when I read it back in 2022: It’s like a slow-building sucker punch. Like my other favourite book of that year—A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa—it’s hard to classify. I think it’s…

The state of State Of The Browser

I went to State Of The Browser in London on the weekend. It was great! I mean, it’s always great but this year the standard felt really high. All the talks were top quality. I’ve been at events with ticket prices a literal order of magnitude greater but with quality nowhere…

Must-Have Bird Photography Lenses For Fujifilm X Series Shooters

Fujifilm APS-C cameras have been in a league of their own. Not only do they offer compact, retro design, but also nice film simulations that make editing a bit easier. Like the cameras, their X-series lenses offer a nice focal range, including optics designed for long-distance s…

“ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...

“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.”

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Success is hard Thanks Márton for the picture #OneNote #Error

The Elinchrom Transmitter Pro X is an Unexpected Upgrade

It's been a while since we've reviewed anything from Elinchrom. After announcing the Elinchrom One, Three, and Five in the past six years, we were wondering when a new light of some sort would be coming. And today, we're instead getting a new transmitter -- which has me scratchi…

Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Otus ML Review: Don’t Believe the Influencers

A lot has changed in those 13 years since the Otus was first introduced. For starters, f1.4 aperture lenses are far more common and available at various price points, meaning there’s more competition than ever before. After spending a few weeks with Zeiss Otus ML 1.4/50, we se…