Use Your Type System

Today I'm discussing a trivially simple technique that I've rarely seen used in production codebases. In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic types built into our programming language or provided by libraries: types like integer, string, …

CO2 Monitoring and Alerting with Aranet4 + an4mon

In my home office, I use an Aranet4 CO2 monitor to track carbon dioxide levels. CO2 levels can climb surprisingly quickly when the door is shut while I'm in meetings or calls. I want to CO2 track levels in InfluxDB and integrate the monitor with Home Assistant via …

Announcing the DzSolarized VS Code theme

dzsolarized-vscode is a new Visual Studio Code theme, derived from Solarized, that reflects my personal tastes and preferences. The most outstanding and unusual feature is that the terminal is in "dark mode" even when the rest of the UI is in "light mode." Try it today; …

Functional Documentation

Without application of force to keep internal technical documentation up to date, that documentation will quickly become inaccurate. Consider internal documentation about a codebase at your company. This commonly takes the form of text files checked into Git, a Notion or Confluence page, comments in the code, system design documents, …

Neat Image noise profiles for the Sigma sd Quattro H

I've developed Neat Image noise profiles for the Sigma sd Quattro H camera. These profiles cover JPEG images and RAW (X3F) images processed with Sigma Photo Pro 6. You can find additional details and download the profiles from the Neat Image website. Alternatively, the files are available here. …

birdbath.tube

Because birds splashing around are cute, birdbath.tube now exists. Theoretically it's supposed to be possible to follow it via Mastodon, but I haven't gotten that to work yet. Please let me know if you have any ideas. Of course, you can subscribe via RSS. …

Trying to remind myself that I don't have to do everything today.

Or tomorrow.

Setting up a dev env for Lychee

I use Lychee to run pictures.dzombak.com, and I'd like to contribute to it. This is the beauty of open source! The primary developer, Benoît Viguier, was kind enough to give me some pointers on the dev process, and I'm documenting here how to get …

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I'm actually pretty sure Safari does "support audio and video."

A rule of thumb, that I need to keep in mind, is that it will take about the same amount of time to edit photos as I spent shooting them.

This holds true for birding (2 hours of birding results in roughly two hours of editing), and in my experience from a decade ago it holds true for music & theatre photography. YMMV.

I'm not yet sure how it maps to photos from e.g. our Grand Canyon or Zion trips, but I bet one day of trip photos roughly equates to the amount of time I want to spend photo editing in one day.

for no particular reason other than I think it's fun,

rss.church now exists.

flickr-rss

GitHub - cdzombak/flickr-rss: Generate an RSS feed of a Flickr photostream or your Flickr Friends & Family feedGenerate an RSS feed of a Flickr photostream or your Flickr Friends & Family feed - cdzombak/flickr-rssGitHubcdzombak Happy to note I've released a small new program. It generates an …

I've long been worried that Apple will drop support for AppleScript automation in macOS updates, or at least allow it to decay into a horrible broken state.

But the fact that Claude, ChatGPT, etc. are now relying on it for high-profile features gives me hope.

A new feature, completed —

Microposts can also appear typewritten, for a semi-hand-made feeling.

I imagine these will also be used in asides in certain blog posts.

Back now to the regular programming.

A new feature, continued —

These microposts can also appear to be written in marker, for a bolder but still-handwritten personality.