Defending Human Creativity From the Deluge of Slop

It is easy to feel despair at the state of affairs in all realms of creativity affected by the existence of generative models, LLMs, and other AI that dumps slop at the click of a button. I know I feel this way. Is it possible to fight back?

Scanning 35mm Film with Nikon Pixel-Shift

This weekend while organizing I pulled out my whole stack of developed film that I keep in a cabinet. I remembered there was a film frame that I wished had been better scanned at the lab, so I pulled it out, with the intend of just doing a regular scan using my Nikon Z6 Ⅲ. I did that, and the result was, fine…

Links of the Week

Here are some things that I found around the internet this past week (more or less) which I enjoyed, in no particular order…

List Of 10 Albums That Won’t Appear On A List Of Greatest Albums Ever But Should

Apple Music started putting out Their Very Own™ list of "100 Best Albums of All Time", which just made me think, yet again, of all the terribly under-appreciated albums in this planet.

I could babble a lot about this here, but the jist of it is that there is so much music out there that to try to create any list of best/great/important/influential music will always leave out deserving mentions. And if it’s intended to be a recurring thing, well, this just moves the question to "why weren’t any of these part of last year’s one?"

So instead of just moaning about it, I decided to create my very own list. One more! How much harm could that bring. However, instead of highlighting what I believe (and yes, these are always subjective) to be the greatest albums, I’ll instead highlight albums that should simply be more widely known. I don’t intend to be prescriptive or thorough here, and I’m assuredly missing many, many more, but I think these are a good list to start with. (Yes, I might make more!)

blog, verb

add new material to or regularly update a blog: it's about a week since I last blogged.

– New Oxford American Dictionary

Seems straightforward in theory, but as clearly demonstrated by the very specimen you are currently reading, it is far from it.

Postcard Exchange

TL;DR: I have started a postcard exchange. Send me a postcard from anywhere and I’ll send one back!

Adding IPv6 support to VestaCP 0.9.8-19

The current release of VestaCP (which I use to host this site) doesn’t currently support IPv6. In this tutorial I will explain how I managed to make my server accept IPv6 connections with very little changes to the config files of my server, in a way that makes it very easy to undo the changes when VestaCP eventually supports IPv6 officially.