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Backlog: April 2019
Tuesday 6th of December 2022
Apart from a couple of outings specifically done for photography reasons, this month’s output was pretty limited, consisting mostly of pictures of Emily and Zoe. As far as I can remember, this will be a common theme for much of 2019, but hopefully there’ll be enough material to keep this series going. Emily standing on a chair, in a sunbeam On the plus side, the fewer pictures I have to select fro…
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Backlog: March 2019
Friday 25th of November 2022
Looking through my photo library, pictures from this month are mostly of Zoe and Emily – it seems I didn’t get out to do anything else very much. Still, you can never have enough pictures of your wife and daughter, so I’m not complaining :) Even now, almost 4 years on, Em still loves going on the swings. Emily on a swing One of the few times I did go out and, more importantly, come back with worth…
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Backlog: February 2019
Thursday 24th of November 2022
More fog this month, this time on a morning walk around Lound Lakes. While preparing the images for this post, I was inspired by a video I recently watched about the Hassleblad X-Pan/Fujifuilm TX-1, so decided to try cropping the images to that camera’s super wide 65×24 (1:2.7) aspect ratio. It’s certainly a challenge trying to find images to fit, as obviously none of them were shot with this in…
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Backlog: January 2019
Sunday 13th of November 2022
January, like the previous month , was quite sparse, photographically. I don’t recall why, exactly – perhaps it was the work involved in bringing up a 1-year-old, perhaps it was just the weather wasn’t especially cooperative most of the time. Or perhaps I was just lazy? Still, grey, overcast and dull weather can make for worthwhile photos if you approach it with a positive attitude. Lowestoft bea…
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Backlog: December 2018
Saturday 5th of November 2022
December is when winter really get stuck in, and offers frequent displays of soft, low sun. Despite this photographic bounty, December was a surprisingly low-output month for me; perhaps looking after a 1-year-old child took its toll. early afternoon on Coast Road It’s also a time of wrapping up warm when out and about. shoppers at Norwich market Emily wrapped up warm doing a superhero pose The lo…
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Hopton coast, evening sky
Saturday 5th of November 2022
After a period of laziness, I’ve resumed my lunchtime walks along the sea front, just in time for the weather to finally start turning cold! Luckily I recently got a new jacket, which has actually held off the cold rather too well, if I’m honest – by the time I get back I’m often sweating. Bodes well for when it gets really cold, though, and it’s an excellent jacket though, so I’m not complaining…
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Portrait Night
Thursday 3rd of November 2022
Last night the photography club I’m a member of held a portrait evening. They’d held one a couple of weeks earlier too, but I passed on that one to go to the gym instead, as portraiture isn’t really my thing. In fact, portraiture hasn’t ever really been something I’m interested in. I’m not really a very outgoing person; I was very shy as a kid, and even now, having mostly got over that, I’m stil…
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More on themes
Friday 28th of October 2022
In my previous post I mentioned how I’d added the ability for the user to choose themes to Velum. In its original guise, this was a select box with an auto-generated list of themes, each one derived from a CSS file in the directory. It was quite a powerful system, in that each CSS file had complete control over the look of the page, but it had a big downside: it was a maintenance nightmare whe…
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Blog notes: themes etc.
Tuesday 18th of October 2022
A week or so ago I added the ability to switch themes to Velum, so you’re not stuck with the default light-background one (now called Topo ). Since then I’ve been tweaking and fiddling, making sure each theme looks good at any reasonable screen size. Give them a try! There’s also been quite a bit of under-the-hood work to allow for this functionality, as well as various readability and quality im…
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Backlog: November 2018
Monday 17th of October 2022
This month’s pictures are, in large part, brought to you by the Lutify.me colour grade called Heulandite, which goes all in on the cinematic teal-and-orange thing. Also featuring strongly this episode: the 23mm f/1.4. beach rocks warning sign sun shining through a lifeguard hut window orange brick wall against a teal sky It also makes reds to super saturated. fire extinguishers on the back of a …
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Backlog: October 2018
Sunday 16th of October 2022
It’s a little odd, writing this backlog post 4 years after the pictures were taken. At the time, I obviously had no idea what was to come: just a couple of years later, both my parents would die, only months apart, and then shortly after that, Zoe’s mum would also pass away. These pictures are from a much happier time. It was Em’s first birthday, for one thing, and although she was obviously too y…
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Rust Web Frameworks: Warp versus Axum
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
When I started writing Velum , I didn’t really have any idea about what web frameworks were available, or what was good. So, somewhat at random, I chose Warp , since the examples looked fairly straightforward and it’s pretty popular. Coming from Rails, and the almost infinitely malleable Ruby, working with Rust feels very restricted. Rust is incredibly pedantic, and there’s very little magic goin…
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Parsing HTML with regular expressions
Tuesday 20th of September 2022
Note: Recorded here for posterity in the event of the original being purged from this world. You can’t parse [ X ] HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that i…
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Now On Velum
Wednesday 14th of September 2022
This blog was originally set up using Ghost 0.3.2, and then pretty much never updated. There have been many, many updates to Ghost since that 2015 release, which I’ve basically ignored as I wasn’t using the managed installation on their servers, and had made several modifications to the default Casper theme, and honestly couldn’t be bothered to deal with the hassle of upgrading. Now, Ghost was p…
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Exploring the 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8
Saturday 15th of February 2020
About 2 months ago, I got the 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8 lens as a Christmas present from my wife. I’d been eyeing it up for a while, wondering if a fully manual lens would really be my thing. Considering I already own the two Fuji 23mm lenses (so more or less the same focal length), I wasn’t sure I really needed it. This is a remarkably inexpensive lens though: £79 from Amazon UK, so even if I didn’t r…
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