Inside Lenne Chai’s Nostalgic Vision of a Queer Singapore

Photographs raise questions, evoke curiosity, hold a mirror to society, or transport us back to moments seeped in bitter-sweet nostalgia. At times, these images create an alternative reality, one shaped entirely by the photographer's own vision. These photographs need not shock…

Fraturday

Cory Doctorow makes sense of wtf is happening with AI. The Indiana Hoosiers football team, still-undefeated national champs (17-0 including last year and this one) take on the Howard Bison today at noon. I'll be watching. (It's on Fox One.) John Venn has the perfect historical m…

The Day After

There was far more, and often better, processing of what we hadn’t yet named 9/11 in the days that followed. Here is my own blog, twenty-five years ago today. Again, this is reverse-chronological. My learnings and writings that day go from bottom to top. Wednesday, September 1…

I Compared 3 Tripods Head-to-Head. Here’s the One Worth Buying.

Photography accessories such as filters, flash, or a good camera bag can make or break a shoot. Tripods, in that sense, are no different. Landscape, astro, and portrait photographers are just a few of the people who rely on a good tripod for their assignments. If you're someone…

Viltrox at IBC 2026: New L-Mount and APS-C Lenses Unveiled for Serious Photographers

Viltrox was a part of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, and the company has unveiled a wave of new gear. This includes the expansion of full frame and APS-C lens lineups, along with a new high-power flash, and a new camera monitor. With a move like th…

The Hollywood ecosystem can support one maybe two bald men at a time

How many Hollywood actors are there? I means ones with the combination of talent can carry a movie for the public can be accepted by producers. Certainly more than a dozen at any given time. But I’m sure fewer than a thousand, to put an upper bound on it. So, to guess, a…

This Week in the IndieWeb

September 4-11, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, September 9 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, September 9 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, Sept…

OH Scale

Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that...

Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper.

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Interesting that the biggest, most contrast button on this page is not the primary button. The primary button (!) is this construct in the middle that looks like a text input. Thanks Alex Shoykhet for the picture #Affordance #Hierarchy #Verizon

A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in...

A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.”

Biiiiig Stretch

Back when I went on sabbatical in 2022, I told the story of the fiddle leaf fig tree I bought shortly after my ex-wife and I separated and I’d moved into my own apartment. I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and figured a large plant in m…

“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at...

“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)

The Cameras That Tell the Story of 9/11

Every year, the Phoblographer treats 9/11 as a pretty sacred day. In fact, if we don't publish stories about photographers on this date, then we don't publish at all. That decision comes from me. During 9/11, I was 14 years old in religion class at St. Francis Prep in Fresh Mead…