Photos from downtown Ottawa
We took a photography class on the weekend, and it was my first introduction to 'street' photography. Edited in Lightroom.
Connor Hicks
Some pictures
I finally got around to pulling out an SD card reader to edit RAWs rather than the JPEGs that come from the camera's WiFi transfer. Re-edited some previous photos plus some new ones. I think I'm strting to get the hang of Lightroom and not
Chatting about plugin systems and WebAssembly
We wanted to kick off the new year with a chill conversation about plugins within SaaS, and some of the reasons why Wasm is the ideal technology to make them safe. It was a good time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCL1oV6QCY
Shoutout to Fathom Analytics
We use it at Suborbital, and I installed it on this blog as well. It's simple, privacy-oriented, and doesn't require any cookie banners. I'm a fan.
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Why am I obsessed with server frameworks?
There's something that bugs me about the current generation of server development frameworks. There's something about the rote "router that feeds into middleware and a handler" that feels in need of a shakeup.
One of the first things I built in the early days
Trying to learn to take pictures at night
The combination of freezing rain, tree branches, and street lights is pretty nice
Blogging is quite a mindset change
I find myself struggling to shift my mindset from 'small, low-effort, throwaway tweets' to 'intentional, medium-to-long-form posts'. I now have 4 drafts of posts that I think would be good topics to write about, but the mental block of making them '
I’ve enabled newsletter signups on the blog
I dont expect to be sending often, but when there is something important, I'll send it out that way. I may also do monthly recaps or something of that nature. Give it a try with me!
Adapting to my new blogging workflow (progressive web apps FTW)
When I first set up this blog checks watch yesterday, I assumed that the editing experience on mobile would be trash, so I set up some 'email to post' automations using Zapier. As it turns out, that was entirely unneeded due to the beauty of PWAs, or Progressive
Learning Lightroom (on iPad)
I recently bought a 'beater camera' (a used Sony A6000) to learn photography and photo editing, and now that I feel like I understand how to use the camera in terms of settings, buttons, and knobs, I'm now learning the basics of editing with Lightroom.
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