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First Photowalk of October Went on a wee photowalk here with my Ricoh GR III camera. I am trying to get used to the 28mm focal length and think I am getting better with it. Decided to shoot digital for a while to save money. I prefer film but it is expensive to shoot. For this walk, I had nothing in mind, I was just listening to an albumn I like and going around town on a kind of extended circle route that ended up back at mine. I’m using some film simulation recipes on these shots, I got them…

BlogCat got a new Youtube subscriptions page Made a really nice feature today after a friend requested it, added a new page to BlogCat that will list all the Youtube Channels you subscribed as a thumbnail grid, much like a non-algorithmic version of their home page. That means that you can use BlogCat to subscribe to channels, use the new page to view latest videos from the channels you subscribed, and use an alternative front-end to view the said videos such as invidious or nadeko. By…

Originally when I talked about owning our own platform is this blog, I meant owning the stack that powers and serves the blog. Moving to your own VPS or servers or static pages in which you didn't depend on some *Blog As A Service* company such as Wordpress.com. Eventually, I [started talking about owning the workflow that empowered your blog experience](https://andregarzia.com/2026/02/building-your-own-blogging-tools-is-a-fun-journey.html) not only your posting experience but your reading…