Background One of the key defining features of my more serious photography is that everything I publish is the product...
New Toy: Meet the Wobbleometer(TM)
I've had my eye on the Raspberry Shake seismometer for a couple of years now. Last week, I finally succumbed...
ShinyPhoto: New Website
The old ShinyPhoto website was getting a bit long in the tooth. It saw several versions of Python come and...
Frame interpolation for timelapse, using Julia
[video width="800" height="450" mp4="http://soc.sty.nu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sunset-timelapse.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] A long time ago I wrote a python utility to interpolate frames for use...
How Many Megapixels?
There are several cliches in the field of megapixel-count and resolution required for acceptable photographic prints. In no particular order:...
Pentax K-1: an open-source photo-processing workflow
There is a trope that photography involves taking a single RAW image, hunching over the desktop poking sliders in Lightroom,...
A bit of a hardware upgrade
Four and a half years ago I bought basalt,. a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 notebook. Named for being black and geometrically...
Now with added solar panels
The first thing I did on buying a new house in November was to have solar panels installed. Like, within...
Too-Big Data? That don’t impress me much
On a whim, I spent the evening in Edinburgh at a meetup presentation/meeting concerning Big Data, the talk given by...
Discovering SmartOS
[caption id="attachment_1939" align="aligncenter" width="632"] What 22TB looks like.[/caption] It has been a long and interesting weekend of fixing computers. Adopt...
Announcing Timelapse.jl – frame interpolation for timelapse photography
A few years ago I wrote a python utility for interpolating a greater number of frames from a smaller set,...
Transitions
Nearly 3 years ago I spent the best part of 2 hours one afternoon in PCWorld, looking to kick the...
Determining the best ZFS compression algorithm for email
Benchmarking the performance of various ZFS compression options on FreeBSD.