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cdevroe commented on Kottke.org is 25 years old today kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

phendrenad2 · 2 years ago

Ah yes, the age of blogs. Seems like yesterday you'd stumble on interesting blogs by people, and they would link to 20 or so more interesting blogs... And you could subscribe to all of them using RSS. And there were easy tools to subscribe to RSS feeds, and also publish your blog as an RSS feed.

It ain't so easy these days.

cdevroe · 2 years ago

There are more blogs today than ever! And, RSS is alive and well. Come back!

cdevroe commented on Kottke.org is 25 years old today kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

Brajeshwar · 2 years ago

Hey, this is so nice. I used to be a regular on your website. I fondly remember a time when you included my website in one of your article (blog post) and I had that traffic spike. I mean, my simple personal website being linked from the likes of Kottke, 9rules, Adobe, etc were a big-big thing for me. :-)

Thank you for keeping the site alive.

cdevroe · 2 years ago

Nice 9rules shoutout there. :)

cdevroe commented on StreetPass: Find Your People on Mastodon streetpass.social/... · Posted by u/doener

cdevroe · 3 years ago

+1 for Safari!

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cdevroe · 3 years ago

Umm, no.

cdevroe commented on iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap lux.camera/iphone-14-pro-... · Posted by u/robflaherty

k2enemy · 3 years ago

The author clearly knows a lot about photography, so I don't think this is a mistake in the article... When did "depth of field" begin meaning the opposite of what it traditionally meant in photography?

For example: A nice side benefit of a larger sensor is a bit more depth of field. At a 13mm full-frame equivalent, you really can’t expect too much subject separation, but this shot shows some nice blurry figures in the background.

For as long as I can remember, depth of field referred to the range of distance that is in focus. So more depth of field would mean more things in focus and less subject separation. And "distance to subject" and "field of view" equal, a larger sensor results in less depth of field.

But in the article it is clearly the opposite. This isn't the only place I've noticed the change in meaning either.

cdevroe · 3 years ago

I think you're right. The point they were trying to make is that there is more separation between the subject and the background. So, in a way, an _improved_ DOF if not a _greater_ or _shallower_ DOF.

Maybe?

cdevroe commented on Twitter Is Down twitter.com/... · Posted by u/Heliosmaster

evunveot · 3 years ago

Your post shows up as two minutes after this one on /newest

cdevroe · 3 years ago

Thanks for noting this. I checked the list before posting and after it published I didn't see any others similar. I guess I wasn't quick enough!

cdevroe commented on Twitter Is Down twitter.com/... · Posted by u/Heliosmaster

r721 · 3 years ago

Some people don't like these posts and flag them, "flagged" usually means "flagged by HN users".

cdevroe · 3 years ago

OK, good to know. I won't post stories like this any more. I just thought it was noteworthy.

cdevroe commented on Twitter Is Down twitter.com/... · Posted by u/Heliosmaster

cdevroe · 3 years ago

Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not.

To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!