Running

I'm in Chicago for the Marathon and our son's birthday (he's running tomorrow). Also hanging with relatives and enjoying the city, which always feels to me like a giant Boston. (Color me wrong, it's okay.) Meaning it was fully yours Steven Levy: I’m Still Convinced the iPod Wa…

Does Gear Actually Matter in Street Photography?

Street photography has a reputation for needing almost nothing -- a camera, a lens, and a willingness to walk. But talk to enough street photographers and a more complicated answer starts to emerge.

Focus Peaking Explained: The Shortcut to Sharper Manual Focus

Anyone who has worked with a manual-focus lens is aware of the sinking feeling when the image looks sharp on the screen, but looks soft on the computer. The images, then, after hours of hard work, go down the drain. If you are someone who is working with manual lenses, or are pl…

I Tried the Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 on the Nikon Zf. Trust Me, You Need This Lens

Yesterday, I got the Phoblographer's copy of the Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 lens in for review. And so this article is letting everyone know that I updated the review, so go check it out at this link if you wish. But in this article, I'm going to speak a bit more to the fact that this…

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This Week in the IndieWeb

October 2-9, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, October 7 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, October 7 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia Sunday, October 4 at 6:00pm…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Apparently I can’t switch these toggles because this is their disabled state #Toggle #Switch #macOS #Disabled

Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by...

Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by Anna Kodé. Looking forward to this one…Kodé is one of my favorite journalists covering urban culture. “Observation…is not a passive act, but a powerful and radical way of connecting…”

Every US Electrical Outlet Explained

This video from Practical Engineering was very illuminating to me, a naive person who thought there were only three types of electrical outlets used in the US — the two-prong, the three-prong, and the 240V — and not the real number, which is more than 35 types of electric…

Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the...

Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the dance floor, played ambient music, and invited daytime clubgoers to chill out and read. Would 100% frequent a bookstore/cafe that did this regularly.

Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie

In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a bigger world around it. But short stories can work the other way too. If you ha…

Roberto Cavazzuti Uses a Rare Technique for the Rhythmic Ghosts

As a high-functioning blind man, I'm truly in love with the work that photographer Roberto Cavazzuti does. He takes the beginner's concept of making everything super sharp and detailed and throws that into the wind in the embrace of art. And a lot of his work embraces this idea…

Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...

Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari ball. You can even roll up KDO. This is too much fun. See also Destroy Any Website.

Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?

It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time. Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger’s Formula 1 Quiz: 3. Which team was the best in the 80’s? Statistically, it’s McLaren, but that’s not a corr…

I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.

I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.

Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...

Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”

How a Blind Photographer Shoots Portrait Photography

Diagnosed with extreme keratoconus over a decade ago, I never let that stop me being a photographer and doing things like portrait photography. So with the world of finding articles in this AI-slop mess that we're in right now, I decided to go super personal and blog about how I…

Why Hasn’t China Tried to Make a Digital Leica Clone?

Almost 10 years ago, I flew to Photokina and published a first-impressions review of the Zenit M Digital rangefinder. In this case, Zenit and Leica collaborated on making the camera. That, of course, was a Russian company. And this collaboration has had me questioning something…