Anyone have any good suggestions for a #hiking app for iPhone?
I don't need anything heavy duty. I just want something for local trails.
I had downloaded #GaiaGPS a few years ago. It was OK at the time. I went in there tonight, and it's a monstrosity! It turned into some sort of Instagram horror, with a feed and influencers, and ads, etc.
I just want an app of local trails and maps that shows where I am on that trail via GPS.
I found this on my hard drive. It's a tweet that hit too close to home.
I'm in the process of installing LibreWolf on my Mac via HomeBrew.
During the installation, HomeBrew gave me the following message:
"Warning: librewolf has been deprecated because it does not pass the macOS Gatekeeper check! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01."
I guess its days on the Mac are numbered.
😭
Any recommendations for a current full-featured web browser that runs on Mac desktop that does not use Webkit?
I want to run it in a Mullvad split tunnel, so its traffic does not go through the VPN. I need it for websites that freak out when they see me using a VPN. Sad, but that's the enshittified web we live in.
I'm already using Firefox, Ungoogled Chromium, and Vivaldi for other stuff, so I need other recommendations than those.
Hey, photographers, I have a problem. I want to set up some good, cheap lighting for Zoom meetings.
My computer is in a corner of the room. I wanted to buy a $15 clamp light from Home Depot and somehow rig it to the side wall. I was going to point that light at the blank wall behind my computer. The light would bounce off of that wall and illuminate me in a big, soft glow.
I can't figure out how to attach the clamp light. What other #lighting options do I have?
Here is a pair of donkeys I met at the Oregon Donkey Sanctuary a couple of years ago.
Don't forget that Artemis II launches today! A flyby of the Moon!
I'm hazy on the actual launch time, because there are several planned holds during the countdown. Maybe around 5:30 PM EDT?
I saw a coyote tonight!
I was walking home from my Mythology group at about 9:15 PM. This was in a suburban light industrial area southwest of Portland. There's a greenbelt that runs along a creek.
The coyote crossed the street ahead of me. It stopped in the middle of the street for a couple of seconds, then continued across. It was silver/gray.
Sorry, no photo. It was too far away, and I only saw it for about five seconds.
Nature refuses to concede territory.
I updated the tables to include some more sans serif fonts that are sometimes recommended as readable. I also added the "hn" column.
The Sans Serif table has footnotes now. They're not clickable in the image, so I'm presenting them here.
1 Recommended by British Dyslexia Association
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/jmedday/files/2025/05/Dyslexia-Style-Guide-2023-BDA-Style-Guide-2023.pdf
2 Created by Braille Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible
5 (Not shown, because it's $50!) Dyslexie
https://dyslexiefont.com/en/
@moonglow started a discussion about legible fonts. That prompted me to make these three tables of fonts.
Some of these fonts have a reputation for legibility. Others are just very common. The latter are so you can see how legible or not the popular fonts are.
I've included four columns of easily confused characters. I recommend using those columns as your primary criteria.
Edit: Added additional readable fonts.
#accessibility #legibility #font #fonts #typeface #typefaces
Check out this amusing photo from 1902. It's from yesterday's Chronophoto game.
I love this because it looks like an action shot. They're playing polo with these new-fangled horseless carriages. The one guy has been thrown from his car and is in the process of hitting his head on the ground while simultaneously about to be run over by that other guy.
I'm sure this was staged and nobody was actually moving. Film was too slow in 1902 to catch this for real.
Here are a couple of test shots that I made with the "65x24" iPhone app by @heliographe_studio.
The 1st shot is kind of artistic. It was made in the app's standard (or "Wide") mode. I think it uses the iPhone 16 Pro's 1x lens.
The 2nd shot is in the app's "Supr" (extra wide) mode. Presumably this uses the phone's 0.5x lens (or however the iPhone fakes extra wide). It's not as good, but there are occasions where it's the only way you can get the shot.
My photographic inspiration has been in a slump for a while. Maybe I need to shake things up a bit. I downloaded a few iPhone apps by @heliographe_studio. I'll be testing them out over the next week or two.
This is my first shot processed by their AgBr app. This is their Lomo Lady Gray emulator.
Anyone have opinions on whether #Uber or #Lyft is better?
Lyft changed the price on me multiple times. Recently, it said "Since you updated your stop or destination, your fare reflects actual time and distance". I didn't make any changes!
On the next trip, it sent the driver to the wrong location. I think that is Apple's fault. Their GPS was total garbage in downtown Seattle. But Lyft's app didn't give me a way of contacting the driver to find out where he was. They charged me a waiting fee.
I ended up going to the laundromat tonight. I assumed that the place would be almost deserted. Wrong!
Anyway, while I was waiting for my laundry to dry, I thought I would go over to McDonalds and have a not-at-all-pathetic Xmas dinner. I wasn’t the only person at McDonalds either.
This guy didn’t want to go to dinner without his favorite family member.
Q for #Python people. I'm hiring someone on Fiverr to build me a website. It's a relatively simple site. I want it built with #Flask, because it's a small framework and it should be easier to maintain.
The coder is recommending #Django. I want the site to have a blog. He says that Django has a built-in admin panel that makes that easier. He can build that feature in Flask, but it will be more work.
So Flask or Django? How much more effort is required to understand Django?
Some trees beside the river. Their leaves starting to turn color. Shot with the Holga lens.
#art #photography #Olympus #EM10 #holga #HolgaLens #HolgaDigital
Here are some berries on a little plant in the park. Shot with the Holga lens.
#art #photography #Olympus #EM10 #holga #HolgaLens #HolgaDigital
I took the Holga lens out to a park for a short expedition. This is one of the shots. I did adjust the color and contrast in Photoshop. I don't know if that "ruins" a toy camera image. It does seem to weaken the toy camera look.
#art #photography #Olympus #EM10 #holga #HolgaLens #HolgaDigital
I've been bothered by my lack of interest in photography over the last year. I need to shake things up. Get out of my rut (it's not even rutting season!).
Ten years ago I bought a Holga lens that fits onto my digital camera. I tried it a couple of times, then I put it in the closet. I'm thinking about dusting it off and shooting with it again.
Here's a test image I made with it in 2015.
#art #photography #Olympus #EP2 #holga #HolgaLens #HolgaDigital
