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  Dictating a blog post draft into Bear.app while you're fixing something on your car… works? (it is quite rambling and disjointed, but i kinda love the spirit)

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  I used to spend a lot of time riding bikes and taking photos while riding bikes.

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  In a different timeline, I'd be a session drummer, or succeed Matt Cameron in Pearl Jam. https://youtu.be/ki3mzgyflK8

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  You’re four days deep in the backcountry, get skunked out (not literally) from a very remote mountain top spot, and end up at a campground on the Oregon coast. I walk into the bathroom and am confronted by two kids with home air mattresses. The older kid is using the electrical outlet to pump his. I ask, “Do you need help?” The younger who is trying to inflate his with the hand dryer says to me, “I don’t have this cord.” I did not bring all of my cords to the bathroom this evening young gents.

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  RE: https://neighborhood.11ty.dev/@11ty/116992313722304911 Every time I create something with 11ty/Build Awesome, I learn so much, and I appreciate that every site I’ve made with it is different, unique, and allows for so much flexibility and leeway. Make something dead simple or go full out with whatever needs you have. It’s been working out great for us.

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  Once a grunge kid, always a grunge kid.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/116999315058449566 I heard you like Fujifilm LUTs and simulations.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/117004342849111243 Having a brief Seattle interlude currently, but a few days ago, at the end of the road, at the top of a small mountain.

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  Yesterday was 19 years married. 19 years of @jenschuetz being down for the ride of camping in unknown places, waking up early so we can hike and see places like this, and communing with nature, and people from all over. Also: Mt. Rainier is a big one.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/117010156999828516 Lots of really good updates in this one. Some great work from @rcarver and @jpzambrano.

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  A moment of reflection on @aphera 1.0, written high in the woods overlooking a lake in Washington. https://nazhamid.com/journal/aphera-1.0/

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  No person with two polo collars should ever be trusted.

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  I’ve been piloting the Aphera accounts on Threads and Instagram, and wow. After being away for two years, those platforms feel like alien planets. The slop is so evident in pursuit of engagement bait, and people can’t write paragraphs. Give me a run-on sentence that’s fucked up.

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  This is a bumper of an article and it’s great that @jenschuetz wrote about her long experience with an affliction that happens to women: Bartholin’s cysts. I’ve seen her deal with it numerous times with grace and ultimately getting a fairly invasive procedure. I love that she wrote this so more women can find this information. https://jenschuetz.com/journal/the-two-percent/

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  Building software from scratch, on hard mode (i.e. with care and intention) feels like the hardest thing, but also feels like a big fuck you to mass software.

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  There’s been a lot of Privacy Policy and ToS updates lately in my inbox. They all seem pretty iffy, but Netlify’s today seems to be good! (Comparatively). https://www.netlify.com/blog/stance-on-ai-training-data/

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  Rooster is such a sharp and good comedy show. The cast is great. Lots of heart (a Bill Lawrence joint: Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Scrubs). I’ve watched this scene too many times. https://youtube.com/shorts/ED4qzAgWvX0

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  If I never see this again for the rest of my life, I'd be FINE.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/116457544035889891 Hawai’i holds a very deep and special place in my heart. At one point, we almost moved there. I believe in their independence, and the rise of mainlanders moving there and buying land and property, displacing native Hawaiians is something we felt very conflicted about. Hawai’i feels very much like Malaysia at times, and I’ve personally felt at home there. It is also charming, that when there, I often get mistaken for a local. Taken Januar...

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  “1. Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. 2. Things that are done well require time and effort. 3. You make meaning through the doing. 4. Ideas are common; effort is not. 5. There are no shortcuts." — Ky Decker. https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/116440246827807368 I often revisit this specific image to look at it. One of my personal favorites as it gives me a sense of calm, but also wonder at how life continues in the harshest of conditions.

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  Thing on my shit list: People who say an approximation of “the future (AI) is coming regardless, so we may as well be the ones controlling it.”

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  I think Barb would approve.

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  When I go too deep in researching shovels.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@aphera/116410912974467309 This is how I edit now once I develop a Look (an aesthetic treatment of an image independent of its tonal needs). Very quick to apply my aesthetic preferences, then balance images together or in this example, split off independently to adjust exposure to bring it close to the other, then balance the two together again with the same controls.

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  @jonhicks wrote about Albums, the Apple Music player app and I’m digging it thus far. I’m using the free features for now to see how I get along, but a lot of these album-centric players are interesting. For the most part, serendipity + perusal are the two things missing the most from streaming apps. A way to be at a virtual record store or as if you were picking something off your own shelf. Less surprise, more intention. https://hicks.design/journal/albums-app

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  A more public version of @aphera's site is now live with an About, Docs, and Now: our blog and changelog. We did this to support beta 9, which was a massive update, and brings about a deep dive into “How We Redesigned Culling.” There are so many ways photo apps allow you to "rate" and we feel we found an elegant solution. https://aphera.co/now/how-we-redesigned-culling/

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  The Nine Inch Nails Peel It Back Tour is phenomenal. NIN always have a great visual and light show, but this tour with two stage set-ups going back and forth over four acts was something else altogether. Chase Center, SF, 03.15.2026. Photos shot with an iPhone 14 Pro, 3x lens, RAW DNGs edited with @aphera. #photography #NineInchNails

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  Finally got the ol’ website and worry stone into an updated place. Mostly a new homepage, re-did the footer, and there’s been a bunch of small improvements and layout tweaks across everything. https://nazhamid.com/

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  Just another regular morning where @rcarver and I are sweating every little detail in @aphera. A lot of keyboard shortcuts today, and what modifiers to use, etc. Interesting to note too the recent posts from @mwichary and @gruber.