On June 11th, PetaPixel published a post entitled Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras by Jaron Schneider, which had an intriguing premise but fell a bit flat on delivery. This article is my attempt to fix that. This is perhaps what Jaron should have said. While sitting at a train station in Osaka, Japan, Chris Niccolls stated, “I’m thinking of buying a new camera.” This might seem extremely innocuous, a common phrase uttered by most photographers as frequently as trains depart the Osaka…

I woke up with a migraine today. This happens sometimes. Often, paradoxically, after a night of more sleep than my typical amount of way too little. As I was slowly gaining consciousness I discovered an email from Ko-fi. Someone had sent me a tip, with a very lovely message, thanking me for the Buying Coffee post. I actually teared up a little. It also got me thinking and made me realize another aspect I hadn't thought of before: Effort. People showing their appreciation by pushing those two…

So, awhile back, I decided to start self hosting my music collection. I’m sure I’ve at least mentioned it somewhere here on the blog. I re-downloaded my entire collection and more beyond that. Nearly 5TB of new music was stored on my various hard drives. It took months. And by the end, I was pretty damn proud of it. I’ve been using that system now for months, and I’ve realized that I miss streaming services like Tidal and Spotify. It makes me feel a little dirty writing it, but it’s true. Why?…

At the end of May, my husband and I took a 3-day road trip down to Izu. It’s a peninsula directly south of Mt Fuji in Shizuoka prefecture, and the main road runs right alongside the coastline, so you can enjoy some great seaside views, not to mention all the little caves and beaches you can check out along the way. To drive around the whole coastline of Izu - from Odawara to Numazu - is a little over 200km, and can technically be done in 6 hours. However realistically speaking, when you factor…

The sixth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 6, I chat with Cory, the author of coryd.dev. We talk about, among other things, the role of community in the indie web, a day in the life with his website, and music listening and community as it relates to personal websites.I hope you enjoy the episode!Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts. Cory coryd.dev The sixth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out Wonders of…

I met a man today. A stranger. I spoke to him. Setting the sceneIt's a miserable day. Wet, damp, cold. It's June, and I can only assume mother nature didn't get the memo that it's summer. Anyway, it's Scotland so we're used to random seasons. I grasped the opportunity to take the dog a walk as I'd calculated (unscientifically) that there was a short recess in the wet stuff. We headed towards the nature reserve a few minutes stroll from me — an elderly gentlemen was approaching us with his dog.…

My woodworking shop is coming together nicely and one benefit of having everything in the right place is that it makes completing new projects faster and easier.Last week, I decided to tackle I project I've been thinking about since January, which was when I first watched a YouTube build video and immediately ordered a set of cushions from Wayfair. It's a riff on a high-end outdoor sofa from West Elm that goes for over $5,000, the kind you might see in a fancy hotel's pool area. The real sofas…

Today the UK Government announced an "under-16 social media ban". Whilst I have previously complained about the Online Safety Act, largely due to its poor implementation, I'm not inherently against the idea of a social media "ban" for those under 16. Before you call me a hypocrite, the difference is that the big social media platforms are inherently toxic. They are not there for the users, or even the creators (including businesses), they are purely for the (almost exclusively) US owners to…

(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions) Back in March, I had been reading On the Egyptian method of decomposing into unit fractions by Abdulrahman A. Abdulaziz, and I reported that: There is some indication that Ahmes preferred fractions with even denominators, because they are easier to double, and the usual Egyptian method of multiplication required repeated doubling. Although I had long ago written an article about why the Rhind mathematical papyrus (RMP) has a table of Egyptian fraction…

You won't be surprised that I managed to swap a fiver on the Bring'n'Buy stall for some stuff I probably don't need, although this time I managed to find items that might just be useful. Vinyl letters are always useful. They are now in the drawer with transfers. These are larger than anything I own, I think, so a quid well spent. Possibly less useful is a roll of blue and white check vinyl, but if I did another RC car, I could use that on the wings. Obviously, I don't need another model boat…

In the fediverse, there is no central authority that can verify you. Instead, you link to your fediverse profile from your website, blog, or even some of the larger platforms, like GitHub, in a way that proves that these online identities are connected and controlled by you. This then serves as one of several signals about the authenticity and authority of your fediverse account. And you can also automatically include an author link when people share your site or an article. I’ll walk you…

I’d wish I could dedicate time to Japanese patterns. They are great. Too many open doors already. Just a little reminder in this little page for my future self, maybe he has time to do research.

Got himself a Lambo…

Google will remove the last traces of Manifest v2, the feature that enabled robust ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, in Chrome versions 150 and 151. Chromium forks — Edge and Opera — have signaled they will follow Google’s lead, though no firm deadlines have been set. Manifest v3-compliant ad blockers work, albeit with limitations. Firefox (and its derivatives) and Safari will continue to support Manifest v2.

Technology has given us a lot of cool things. I'm a fan of vaccines and ibuprofen. You can now talk to your friends and family basically anywhere. The Norwegians invented kveik beer yeast. Thanks to the internet, a solid chunk of human knowledge is just sitting there basically for free. They've even started making mildly sycophantic mentats to predigest it for you. And we have dating apps. Doesn't everyone love dating apps? But, this is surely a fraction of what could be. There are many…

swiped from bakeracademic.comEric O. Jacobsen, The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment (Baker Academic, 2012), 297 pp.If Jesus's "dwelling among us" means that he lives as we typically do, he would most likely be living in a subdivision at least a few miles from where he might interact with people in a quasi public setting--like a shopping mall or a grocery store. In this case, Jesus would need to own and operate some kind of automobile simply to have the kind of…

Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult. However with Uruky I have managed to find the exact results I need. No silly "AI" summaries. No other weird shit. Just list of links. That's all I want and that's exactly whar Uruky provides. It seems like a search…

Finished reading: Lick by Kylie Scott 📚

Finished reading: His Last Bow by A. Conan Doyle 📚

At last, I am rich!! The Coffee Saga has paid off. Thanks Manuel for the donation who, in his own words, “Donated because your post about donation was nice and also to force you to go edit it since you do have a donation now ” I have edit my post appropriately, of course, I’m all about full disclosure. Now, what to spend my riches on!! Unless someone else wants to buy me a coffee too?? Nah, that won’t happen. P.S. Manuel started the wonderful People and Blogs set of interviews (now hosted by…

Getting a little more organized in my workshop. My pwin poi t was boxes if nails or screws falling off shelves. I took a lesson from Minecrafters and put an instance of what was inside the box on the front id the box.

This weekly update covers Sunday 06-14-26 through Saturday 06-20-26 (an icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Another week of endings (one of which was sad) and beginnings. 📕 All of the people outside of my immediate family have been extended the invitation to my mother’s burial service next month. I don’t know if they will attend, but the invite is out there nonetheless. Flowers may be sent in lieu of their appearance, which would also be fine. 📜 Well, I now know what my apartment complex’s fire…

I find myself writing about blogging a lot this year. I’ve gone meta! I’ve been exploring this topic to get at truths that have eluded me so far. Here’s another try at uncovering them. I started Down the Road in February of 2007 with no readers and no idea how to get any. I just wanted to write. This site, as it appeared in 2007 That was fine for a while, as the writing itself was reward enough. But after a couple of years, I started to wonder whether anyone beyond my friends and family would…

Status: Feeling somewhat refreshed today with a curious mind so decided to sit in the garden and clear my browser tabs and in doing so exhausted my capacity for wordsmithery commenting upon them. Enjoy. Reading: Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You — A deep dive into how the digital colour spectrum (screens, cameras, etc) misses out a whole chunk of human-visible colours, why that is, and where to see those colours in the analogue world. But don’t try to photograph them, it won’t…

Sunday, June 21, 2026 - 21:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project There's some thing of a rolling process to setting up and posting these blogs. Even as I am in the middle of posting the sections of Orr's dissertation, I'm working ahead to finish writing up the remainder of the blogs for this document. I have one more work session to complete that work and then I can coast for the rest of the month. It looks like I've timed the blogs precisely to finish the current publication on the last day of…

After nearly twenty years under CBS ownership, Last.fm is once again independent: Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. It is difficult to know whether it is riskier for Last.fm to be independent or under the banner of the hilariously corrupt Paramount Skydance conglomerate, but I imagine it would not — uh — last long if the leadership of the latter continues making cuts. I am…

I recently discovered that Bubbles offers the option to embed a widget on your website, to show how often your post has been upvoted and also to nudge people to go upvote in the first place. I'm not sure if I really want this on my blog and if it really has any kind of benefit... The idea behind it of course is to get your post in front of more eyes and increase your reach and visibility, and this leads back to the question why I write a blog in the first place. Is it just to get my thoughts…

If you were wondering why there was a huge uptick in coffe related posts, well I had a opinion... And people had opinions about it... Like a lot of opinions. Like really, a lot of opinions. In hindsight, if I knew that this post would blow up this much, I would have put a lot more thought into it. But hey, it started discussions about the subject, so that's good I guess. I'm going to go brew myself a cup of coffee now...

Junited is here so there's lots of links around! Check out all the participants and I have my Junited list of daily links. A lovely post about Home by James: I had come all this way to a place I had dreamed of, had the best of times, and heard the most wonderful of stories. Yet, my heart still yearned for home James is also thinking about a chat community for web writers. The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators by Brennan is about fandom spaces and all the spaces of the internet, about…

Welcome to the world, remote control. We’re happy to have you with us, laptop monitor. You’re free, cellphone. AWESOME! Want a new awesome thing every day? Sign-up here: Photo from: here The post #654 Peeling that thin plastic film off new electronics appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.