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Eastern Gray Squirrel

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Winter Backyard Birding

Public Discourse

Operating System Friction

T-Max 100 at Carnegie Lake Dam

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

Kingston Grist Mill in Fresh Snow

Birds, Winter, Kingston

Automattic, WordPress, and Long-Term Endurance

Sunday Paper

Kingston Grist Mill on Ilford XP2 Super 400

The Grey Between – Frenchtown

Porridge Oats with Cream and Nutmeg

Sunday Paper: Markdown’s Quiet Power, Systems, AWS’s Reality Check, Apple’s Creator Studio

Winter Morning at Lake Carnegie Dam

Waiting for the Kettle

Why Every Cybersecurity Architect Should Know How Software Actually Works

Linux in the Air, or Just Passing Through?

Sunday Paper

A Response to Tim Chambers’s 2026 Predictions

The Hacker Manifesto – 8 January 1986

New Jersey Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center

Black-capped Chickadee: Another Kitchen-Window Rescue

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Island in the Net in 2025

Cornerstone 1.1.0: Fediverse Avatars Now Display Properly

MINI Cooper S vs MINI Cooper SE

Scanning Expired Kodak Portra 400BW

Forgotten Roll: Kodak Ektar 100

Expired Fujichrome Provia 400F: Two Years in the Dark

Customised Server Login Message and WordPress Email Problem

Atlanta Film Co. EUPHORIC

An Island in the Net in 2030?

Expired Fujicolor C200

Saturday Morning Ruined

Sourland View Preserve

Audio Signal Chain

The Perfectionism Trap

Knowing and Not Knowing

7-Mile Island Beach at Avalon

Sunday Paper

Thinking About Winter HDR Photography

The Winter Wildlife Photography Problem

Rockingham Historic Site

The Sensory Reality Of A Working Farm Brewery

Building a Self-Sovereign Social Media Strategy

Sunday Paper

Stop Calling It “Full Frame”—It’s Marketing Nonsense

Claude.ai’s Apple Integrations: What Actually Works

ChatGPT’s Apple Integrations Are Mostly a Letdown

Security Review Philosophy: Collaboration Over Compliance

Why Is a Pondhawk Called a Pondhawk and a Blue Dasher a Blue Dasher?

Waterlilies or Lotus?

Frost and Feathers at Millstone Park

Sunday Paper

The Single Worst Thing You Can Do With Your Camera Settings

Eastern Tiger Swallowtails at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve

Morning Mist at Carnegie Lake Dam

Birding Walk on the Millstone Park Trail

Why Beer Culture Feels Like Home

Dark-Eyed Junco in pine litter

Sunday Paper: AI Spending, Security, and Societal Doubt

Views from DC’s Old Post Office Tower

Lincoln Memorial at Night

Blood Red Sky

The United States Library of Congress — Thomas Jefferson Building

United States Supreme Court Building

The American Goldfinch Waiting Game

Sunday Paper – Ubuntu Linux Certification, CBRA

Beyond the Reach of The Lens

Ithaca Falls: The Shot I Missed in February

Triphammer Falls: What Was Possible

Forgotten Camera, the Wrong Filter and Ludlowville Falls at 10% Flow

Sunday Paper

How I Finally Started Using 1Password as My SSH Key Vault

Belted Kingfisher at Lake Carnegie Dam

Green Heron at Carnegie Lake Dam

Tanzania Kahawa Migombani Coffee

Dhanteras to Bhai Dooj

Spotted Sandpiper at Lake Carnegie Dam

Spined Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis)

Sunday Paper

The Revolutionary Roots of Montgomery Township

Design by Subtraction

The New Pharaohs

Apple Notes and the Myth of Markdown Support

Sunday Paper – Mac Open Web, ActivityPub, BlueSky Patent, WordPress, Social Web Foundation

40 Years of Open Source: A Celebration of Freedom and Possibility

Introducing Cornerstone: A WordPress Theme for the IndieWeb

Replacing JetPack Boost

Sunday Paper

Thinking About The Next Five Years

What 20 Years of WordPress Stats Reveal

Upgrading my WordPress Server to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS