How to Actually Read a Histogram

When it comes to digital photography, there are a few things that one has to keep in mind. They not only have to learn about the device, but also the kind of tools it can offer. For most photographers, for example, their LCD is the best option to judge the exposure of the scene…

Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging...

Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging with my friend Matt while he’s here in Tokyo for a trip, which he refers to as his “America is Cooked Tour” as he keeps running across things that are much better here.

Nikon S2 Review: A 70 Year Old Rangefinder That Still Shoots Great

Beautifully engineered mechanical design, with a supremely accurate rangefinder and looks that still turn heads, the Nikon S2 is a camera that can bring you oodles of joy even today. Without any electronics in it whatsoever, it still manages to churn out one great image after an…

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What Apertures Do You Get The Sharpest Images At For Your Camera Sensor?

Most young photographers often run into the same puzzle: how to get sharp images, without making it look too sharp. When you shoot wide open, there is some softness, and when you push past a certain number, it results in fracture. There is a sweet spot of the lens, where it deli…

This Week in the IndieWeb

September 25 through October 2, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #059 Thursday, October 1 at 10:00am Online! Zoom!Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building b…

Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...

Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock. “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild!

OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...

OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.

Arch-specific SIMD in Go

The Go Blog Arch-specific SIMD in Go Junyang Shao and David Chase 23 September 2026 Since Go 1.26, we have supported an experimental amd64 SIMD API. Now in Go 1.27, we support two more architectures: arm64 and wasm. The new APIs can be a…

Lintlinks

If  you don’t, you’re a human AI Test: See if you don’t laugh at something as you scroll down through this. Am I alone in finding it annoying? Does anybody want, or use, the “workspace” that shows up, whether you want it or not, every time you open a Zoom session? Get…

The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century

Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”. The rankings have already been dissected online six ways from Sunday, bu…

Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...

Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make. Cholera remedy recipe calls for “equal parts laudanum, rhubarb, double-strength capsicum, camphor and spirits of nitre”.

Feeling Burnt Out? Put the Phone Down and Pick Up a Print

Scrolling through images on a screen is fast, convenient, and -- for a lot of photographers -- quietly exhausting. There's a slower way to fall back in love with the craft, and it starts with an actual, physical print.

So Many Amazing Control Rooms

From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne…

What we’re building at Inanimate and how to follow along

It has been a busy summer over at Inanimate. Yes that is still a holding page. Bringing up a new consumer electronics company is, uh, kinda intense. So where we’re starting with the whole room computer, ambient intelligence thing is WORKS: five limited-edition devices for…

The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...

The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?” “Why, that’s the Battle of Legitimate Concerns!”

“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...

“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s ‘cool’ until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die…” 🎯

Gen Z is Returning to Film: a Rejection of Optimized Hype and Staged Perfection

We are living in a world where everyone not only has a camera in their pocket, but what was once a sci-fi supercomputer capable of completely altering reality. For Gen Z, the first generation of digital-only natives, it may seem like a quirky trend buying 40+-year-old cameras, b…

Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail

In this video, Patrick Hicks tells the story of the development of the classic educational video game The Oregon Trail and how Prince (you know, the genius musical artist) was one of the first people in the world to play the very first version of the game. The basic story i…

A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...

A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea levels in California “by half a foot or more”. “It’s ‘highly probable’ that California will soon witness its highest sea levels ever recorded.”

The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...

The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go. “Why be financially independent, [editor in chief Sophia Dasser] wondered, if not to publish sharp-edged views of the biggest campus issues?”

The Sony Kit Behind Sitti’s Stunning Street Photography

Street photography showcases the most mundane things in a visually striking way. A large part of this comes down to the photographer's ability to observe moments that often go unnoticed by an untrained eye. One example is Sittichai Maikupandin's surreal visuals of Bangkok, which…