Me, 364 days of the year: Why do I have so many ladders?
Me, the day I put up Christmas lights: if only I had a longer ladder…
I’m pretty much giving up on focus stacking in photoshop. Every time I try, I find something doesn’t align properly. Then I go try Helicon Focus and remember why I got it in the first place. The results are always better.
Exactly, and this is what Claire is getting at. “Pay down tech debt” won’t get attention. “Improve response time by 5%” will, even if they’re both describing the exact same code change. It’s framed to be evaluated vs other business priorities.
Those test scripts that make sure you have a clean database at startup so your test runs are all reproducible? Yeah, so you should make really really sure those aren’t run from a system where the environment is configured to connect to a prod database…
Screens for uncommonly used controls are okay. Physical controls for common controls are far superior. Ten years ago, I didn’t think the UX of a car’s a/c and music would be a deciding factor for a purchase decision, but it will be next time I’m in the market.
Today a learned that not only are cereus blooms gorgeous, they can make your cactus so top heavy it falls over.
ALT Cactus fallen over
Went for some cityscapes recently, which I usually don't do. Not sure any of them are amazing, but it was fun doing something new.
There’s a real art to constructively telling someone what they’re doing or how they’re doing it is bullshit. I admire people who are good at this.
Horizontal. The vertical foreground isn’t the interesting element. The repeated plants across the horizon in the horizontal point to the sky to emphasize the sunset.
How’s the 100-400 for low light? I’d love the reach of that, but wondering if the 70-200 f2.8 will be better in low light at closer distances.
Redundancy in aviation navigation systems.
ALT Large rock sign on the side of a hill pointing to Phoenix with a plane flying over.
