This Week in the IndieWeb

September 19-26, 2025 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: LoopConf - Wordpress Conference Thursday, September 25 LONDON, England: Bishopsgate InstituteThe conference is dedicated to the Wordpress community however one speaker, Ana, will be having a IndieWeb talk. Us…

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Afriad of Tariffs? This Can Save You Money on Camera Gear

Hey pros! Listen up! Our photography insurance program is designed to be there when photographers really need it! We’re giving you more than the competition can in different ways! Here’s a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn’t necessarily cover wha…

Flight Recorder in Go 1.25

The Go Blog Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek 25 September 2025 In 2024 we introduced the world to more powerful Go execution traces. In that blog post we gave a sneak peek into some of the new functionality we…

The Only Three Cameras That Truly Wowed Us Back in 2019

The year 2019 was really wild. One could say it was the peak era for many companies before the pandemic hit us. While many excellent devices were launched that year, only three managed to hold our attention, unlike any other. Some of these cameras were innovative and spectacular…

Taking the Day

Hello fronds and anemones. Tomorrow is my birthday so I am taking today off. I’ll see you back here on Monday. But before I go: I pushed some changes to how videos work on the site (after a bunch of feedback). The default behavior is now: you click on a video and it plays.…

I like AI slop and I cannot lie

I looked in my home directory in my desktop Mac, which I don’t very often (I run a tidy operation here), and I found a file I didn’t recognise called out.html. Here is out.html. For the benefit of the tape: it is a half-baked GeoCities-style homepage complete with favouri…

An Important Lesson from Mary Ellen Mark

"Don’t put away your camera," says legendary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. "Keep it out at all times, even when you think you have the shot already." This is the quote I hear in my head so often and that has made me urge camera manufacturers to improve their battery life ever…

Godox V100 N – The Best Bang-For-Buck Speedlight I’ve Used

In nearly two decades of professional photography, I've used countless on-camera flashes. From entry-level models to professional-grade units, they've all seen the top of my cameras and moved on after a few years of usage. For the most part, the pro ones have all had pretty much…

One of the Great Mirrorless Cameras Olympus Made

Olympus cameras have been at the forefront of the Micro Four Thirds systems. The company has changed the way we look at small sensor cameras, especially in terms of build and image quality. While there are multiple excellent options in the company's portfolio, there is one devic…

Was the Nikon D750 from the Period of Peak Camera?

Back in 2014, we reviewed the Nikon D750. That camera boasted a 24MP full frame sensor. And in so many different ways, it was an incredible camera. It also made us realize that if companies are still using 24MP camera sensors, then this might've just been the era of peak camera…

For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an...

For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an edited version of Romeo & Juliet, with “a 67-line final conversation between Romeo and Juliet”, was more popular than Shakespeare’s original. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at...

A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at our wedding? “Who was the tall man in a dark suit, distinguished by the look of quiet mortification on his face?” Love the reason he was there. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.or…

Engineering Lego Cars to Climb Increasingly Tall Walls

I haven’t gotten my Brick Technology fix in awhile, so here’s a video featuring a series of more and more capable Lego vehicles climbing over taller and taller walls. As I have written before, here’s what makes these videos so compelling: They’re not even really about…

The Team Who Could Save Four Thirds for Photography

The most fun I've ever had with Micro four thirds cameras has always been doing street photography and when using classic-feeling lenses with rangefinder-style cameras. And I know I'm not alone. go through YouTube and you'll see tons of photographers asking for the same thing. B…

From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US...

From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US restaurants of the past 20 years. The list includes Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Via Carota, Husk, Alinea, Nong’s Khao Man Gai, Mission Chinese Food, and Gjelina. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The...

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The most important rule of literary citizenship is to show up. Showing up can mean a number of things: attending events at your local bookstore or library, volunteering…” 💬 Join the discussion on k…

The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...

The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a primordial black hole, perhaps formed by quantum fluctuations during post-Big Bang inflation “before any stars had yet appeared”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....

Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking. “I was still in basketball shape. And they destroyed me. Being out there on the mountain bike, I was like ‘oh my God this is so fun!’ And that’s what got me hooked.” 💬 Join…

The Music of the Everyday

Artist and composer Matthew Wilcock looks for patterns in the everyday and creates music from them. It’s easier to quickly watch an example than to explain: Instantly thought of the video for Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers, directed by Michel Gondry. They also seem…

Zadie Smith: “In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind...

Zadie Smith: “In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Is the Fujifilm X100S Still a Good Camera in 2025?

When the Fujifilm X100s was announced, I remembered that it was given the "s" moniker for "speed." In truth, it's rare that Fujifilm and speed are seen in the same sentence together. It's also true that an image that I shot with this camera still remains in my street photography…

This Compact Camera Could Be the Successor to the Iconic Pen F

The Olympus Pen F has a cult following. The camera offered a balance of excellent ergonomics, retro design, and performance packed into one small compact device. The Pen F was so successful, but alas, it was discontinued. While there is no report on the successor yet, many wonde…

The Hummingbird Bike

Gooood lord, just look at this exquisite handmade bike, a collaboration between British design collective Tomato1 and Shinichi Konno of Cherubim. Karl Hyde and Rick Smith of the electronic group Underworld are Tomato co-founders. I found my way to this bike after watching Und…

New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had...

New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had forgotten that the Statue of Liberty was, upon installation, brown.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Two Slice is a bitmappy font that’s only two pixels tall and...

Two Slice is a bitmappy font that’s only two pixels tall and “somewhat readable”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility...

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.”