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Because they are solid stone carved from the mountains south of Cairo, near modern day Helwan.

That's the next Apple Neo color for you.

Or SETI which would search for signs of alien life.

Yeah, the influx of people is disrupting my work, but it brings me joy to witness OpenAI’s decline in consumer support. So much for their Jonny Ive product, whatever it was.

https://www.daviddegner.com

Where I share my photography and in the blog section I share my coding projects and ideas.

I’m curious to know which you believe is overvalued. Is it the model creators, who are essentially producing a commoditized product that will never generate the current inflated values? Or is it the individuals who build useful tools that are only incrementally better than previous solutions? Or is it the companies that are attempting to develop groundbreaking products, but they are perpetually six months to two years away from delivery?

This will be the year of Linux on the desktop!

I met Stallman once when he was pamphleting outside a beloved book store because they were using meetup to organize a book signing. The guy is consistent.

This NYTimes article makes it sound like the problem is fixed, but I'm not seeing any improvement yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-...

The Synology Drive version mirrors the filesystem, though I’m sure it has a database for sharing metadata. Is that what they mean?

Yeah, and fails quickly at anything handwritten.

Thanks for posting this, really interesting!

I've been building a wordpress plugin that converts JPEG to AVIF on the local server (since everyone wants to sell a service to convert in the cloud).

As a photographer who wants high quality photos on their portfolio website I love how AVIF respects color more the webp.

https://github.com/ddegner/avif-local-support

TSLQ

Electrify America, EVgo, ChargePoint, and Blink Charging also offer "Site Host" programs.

I love this! I tried to apply the same idea to scan the tallest tree in New England with a drone. It didn't come out great, but I might just try again now.

Here is how it came out: https://www.daviddegner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tree-...

It was part of this story: https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/discovering-old-grow...

In NYC it appears down for me too. MacBook-Pro ~ % ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Yeah, I used an older version of a bluetooth messaging app like this. We wish it had been available in the times of Tahrir Square, but it was actually helpfull onetime when my bus stopped at a rural Ethiopian bus stop, my girlfriend ran into the bathroom but was taking too long and I was able to warn her that the bus was getting ready to leave.

Wireless internet is getting better, but when you really need something like this, you really need it.

Yeah, I've built a small iOS app and wordpress plugin for myself and love them. I'm curious if more people will do this in the near future, should we all be sharing our code on github?

Here's a great podcast he was on today if you want more depth than one of those big bombs: https://overcast.fm/+AA4I1vyy4qY

Yeah, I think this is a shift that will be very interesting when commercialized. I already use chatGPT to write odd plugins for wordpress and programs for image and text manipulation. Now I can get an applet to do almost anything simple after an hour of messing around.

Yeah, I'm afraid if WordPress.org doesn't have control over their own API's then they are compromised and reduces trust in them.

He’s also using the foundations copyright to target the primary competitor to his for-profit business, demanding that they invest in the profits of the for-profit company, at the expense of the WordPress open-source community. None of this looks altruistic or for the good of wordpress.org.

Here's the original with better media: https://global.honda/en/tech/Noise-reducing_Wheels/

Okay, how do I get some Honda wheels on my 2015 prius?

Yeah, I photographed this story for the Smithsonian. It was talking about how the stones were transferred by boat from near Tora to Saqqara.

The water came most of the way up to the now seasonal lake near the pyramids there.

But also the river used to flood so there were some seasons when the water was high enough to easily transport the stone directly from Tora I assume.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shippin...

Was there a harbor pilot on board, or the normal ship pilot?

Were there tug boats helping with the exit?

I have often felt that the harbor protocols were overkill, but this is one of the times they could have helped.

I have the same problem, but with a bakery in St. Louis Senegal. That darn brown butter filled pastry is still in my dreams.

Thanks, I never expected to subscribe to a lumber podcast, but I am now.

Here's a story about Old Growth forests in New England that I shot for Smithsonian Magazine. The most interesting part was seeing archive photos of New England when it was basically clear cut for firewood and pasture. Today we think of it as wooded, but that is relatively recent: https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/discovering-old-grow...

Just wait until you get this ear-worm into your ear. I'm probably 25 of the 27 views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3x7KhsZOY