Palaces Of The Crow by Ray Nayler

I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst that humanity is capable of. It starts to veer into misanthropy. I said: I hope…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I’m used to programs begging to update them (why, btw?) but a program asking you to update your OS so they can update? #Raycast #macOS #Update #Upsell

Is the Sigma 24-105mm f4 Still Worth Buying in 2026?

The Sigma 24-105mm f4, originally made for DSLRs, is a wonderful lens by today's standards, too. It may not be lightweight, but it offers superb sharpness, good bokeh, and can be used for genres like events, travel, landscapes and portrait photography. Sigma is one of the few co…

Computer History

I invested (not just spent) this last week at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley, enjoying a series of unconferences, each building toward, and on, the wacky, vast, sometimes scary, but mostly promising capabilities of AI—especially of the personal kind. I'll h…

Sony FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS Review: Is Ultra-Light Reach Worth $2,700?

The world of super-telephoto lens is one where the conversation largely revolves around the best zoom lenses in this category. Sony has decided to buck this trend, instead focusing on ultra-lightweight super-telephoto lenses like this one: the Sony FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS. The lens…

Scraps, snip snap, psyops, suns

What if a barber took 1/10th the time but with the exact same quality? Gut feel is I would pay 50% more and visit twice as often. Robo-scissors at just below the speed of sound, you wouldn’t even sit down. Locations like photo booths, call it Snip Snap. Cmon AI boffins get…

Cycling Vermont

In October I rode the Green Mountain Gravel Growler route in Vermont with a few close friends. It’s a route curated by bikepacking.com that consists of back roads, dirt roads, and single track trails. It wasn’t as blissfully car-free as the C&O Canal or the loop around L…

Auto ISO Is the Best Menu Change for Night Photography

The Auto ISO setting can arguably be one of the things that makes night photography so great in 2026 as higher ISO settings from modern cameras are very clean now. Night photography is still one of the most daunting genres of the medium. Traditionally, cameras were designed to d…

This Week in the IndieWeb

October 30 through November 6, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, November 4 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00pm Upcoming EventsFrom events.indieweb.org: IndieWebClub BLR…

Simulation

How Long Will Your Olympus Camera Really Last?

If you own an Olympus digital camera, you should know that it's bound to last around a decade or perhaps even longer. That's especially the case for the weather resistant models. Olympus has some wonderful cameras. There are some great micro four thirds cameras, such as models s…

They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...

They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tells a story about how [Mars’] crust formed”.

The Match Archive

The Match Archive is creating “the first research-grade, digital archive cataloging American matchbooks as primary sources for graphic design, commercial culture, and social history”. They haven’t launched a website yet (they’re working on it), but they’ve been s…

An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...

An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish study of 1.2 million children) found that the tiny amounts of aluminum in vaccines are not linked to “increased risk of asthma, autism, or autoimmune conditions such as type 1 diabetes”. Of course!