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Cameras and Lenses
Really nice work by Bartosz Ciechanowski, visually exploring the basics of how cameras and lenses work interactively. This is one blog to keep monitoring – every post is a gem. https://ciechanow.ski/ Source: Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Sourcing Campingaz ‘Easy Clic’ canisters in Sweden
TL;DR: ChatGPT 4o “Deep Research” saved the day and helped me secure a nice stash. We are camping in Sweden this summer. Managed to pack everything including possibly the biggest tent I’ve ever seen into our car, including the kids, and generally having a great time. One detail I overlooked in the prep was ensuring…
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Frame of preference – Aresluna
Marcin is a hero – his attention to detail and enthusiasm are infectious; whether he’s writing about abandoned rail infra in SF, obscure movies (Sneakers!) or vintage typography. This is a gem showcasing (interactively! with VMs in your browser!!) the evolution of Mac preferences UI. Join me on a journey through the first twenty years…
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📰 Archive Your Pocket Saved Pages as .webarchive Files
Pocket is shutting down. “After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to phase out Pocket — our read-it-later and content discovery app. This includes the Pocket Web, Android, iOS, and macOS apps, as well as the Pocket browser extensions.” — getpocket.com/farewell If you’ve been relying on Pocket to store articles, research, or reading material…
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On Using LLMs productively
Some great insights here. And I concur: “No, I don’t use LLMs for writing the text on this very blog, which I suspect has now become a default assumption for people reading an article written by an experienced LLM user. My blog is far too weird for an LLM to properly emulate. My writing style…
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Hans de Zwart – the modern renaissance man
This man takes reading high-quality content very seriously and takes the time to make us all part of the process. I’m envious of the dedication. Hans de Zwart is a researcher and lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). As a philosopher, he focuses on the ethics and philosophy of technology. He is…
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Paul Strassmann on Information Management and Organizational Entropy
This is a classic I’ve come back to quite frequently in conversations. Can’t believe I never posted this here before. “The Marine Corps views everybody in terms of, are you teeth or are you tail? So the teeth to tail ratio is really an expression, a mathematical expression of Shannon theory.” Information Management and Organizational…
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James Mickens on Security
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofours.pdf One of the pieces of wisdom from James Mickens. This article has lived rent free in my mind for a decade now, and I still regularly quote some of it in conversations. Funny, but some real gems of insight too. Can’t believe this wasn’t on my blog all that time.
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Rotterdam Apartments | Ogenschijnlijke fraude met reviews en ervaringen
Gelukkig hebben we inmiddels een koopwoning en daardoor niets meer te maken met dit soort bedrijven, maar omdat een gewaarschuwd mens voor twee telt toch een “heads-up”. Eerst een korte summary, daaronder de details: Onze persoonlijke ervaring qua service en communicatie is ongelooflijk slecht. De positieve reviews op Google (en voorheen FaceBook) lijken niet authentiek:…
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ActivityPub / Mastodon from WordPress
This new WordPress plugin is looking neat; https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ – this might help bridge – at least in one direction – the gap between a personal blog and the Mastodon world. I’m working through some quirks on this server but it should be possible to follow this blog via ActivityPub as @thomas@macconsultant.nl