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Biked around the back cove on an unseasonably warm weekend.

This Filter is Supposed to Make Your Camera Colors Better. Does it?

Long-time readers of this website know that I've been a long-time supporter of cameras being more weather resistant, cleaning your camera sensors, and using protection on the camera to keep it functional. It's one of the reasons why I created the Photography Care Program. But ma…

These are Some of the Best Presets for Vibey Looks

Our presets are designed to make editing a minimal task so you can get back to shooting! We're in love with Retro Digital. Luckily, that's when we founded the website closer to two decades ago. So we dove into our image archives, looked at how the Adobe Gurus were telling us how…

Light Lens Lab 300mm: First Look at the Wildcard Telephoto

Third-party lens makers have been helping photographers get the best out of their cameras. Companies like Viltrox, SG Image, Laowa, and 7Artisans are a few names that have been pushing the optical industry forward with newer innovations. Like them, Light Lens Lab is another thir…

Porteur bag 2

Back in May, I wrote about a custom porteur bag that I sewed for use on my bike. That bag served me well on two trips - a solo ride up to Brewster and back, and my semi-yearly ride on the Empire State Trail, from Poughkeepsie to Brooklyn in two days. But I had a longer ride in…

Cooking with glasses

I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most influential tech reviewers. My impressi…

Recently

I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I’ve followed…

Recently

I guess I’ll cover the context first so that we can move on to the good stuff. Man, everything is going terribly. It’s hard to overstate how bad things are for America right now. We’re just doing the thing: we’ve elected fascists and they’re funding an unaccountable…

epanet-js

epanet-js is a new web application that combines modern web maps with the industry-standard EPANET hydraulic simulation algorithm. It’s for people planning and updating water utility systems: connecting pipes and pressures and figuring out what will happen. It’s a problem ar…

Recently

A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century by Ross…

Making a custom porteur bag

I just finished my first fully custom sewing project: a porteur bag for bike trips. This is a bag designed to fit on a front rack, in my case a rack called Jack The Bike Rack. On multi-day trips, I want to bring a change of clothes, and need somewhere to put them that’s reas…

Reading Zanzibar

Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanzibar, and bigger…

Recently

I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, w…

Tidbyt without the company

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Franconia Notch

We went to the Franconia Notch, which is on objectively funny thing to name a region. It was beautiful and the weather was wildly clear. Even on top of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the entire north eastern United States, it was sunny and calm. We could see all the way b…

Earth

While I’ve been listening to Hounds Of Love, I’ve also been reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Here’s a passage from an early chapter as the crew of the International Space Station watch a typhoon forming: How wired and wakeful the earth seems suddenly. It’s not one…

Hounds Of Love

The album Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush turned 40 years old this month. It has really stood the test of time. It still sounds like nothing else. It’s kind of two albums in one. There’s the A side with all those perfect pop songs—Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, Cloudb…

Sponsor Web Day Out

If you work at a clever company, then you should let them know about sponsoring Web Day Out. All the details are in this PDF sponsorship pack. Basically there are three (and only three) spots available, at three different levels of sponsorship. One of the best things about the…

Is the LUMIX S5 II Still a Good Camera?

A camera that I've used pretty much weekly since its release is the LUMIX S5 II. It's genuinely been one of the absolute best hybrid cameras that you can get for the money. And over time, it has become one of my favorites too. Arguably, I'd say that it's a brand new camera after…

Godox X3Pro Gives You Pro Control In The Palm Of Your Hand

Godox has built a reputation providing professional and amateur photographers with tools that are smart, practical, and more advanced than what they expected. The new X3Pro wireless flash trigger continues this tradition. It retains the portable design of the original X3 while a…