Behind the Viewfinder
Behind the Viewfinder
Wojtek Powiertowski
Mix of personal photography, posts about technology (currently building my own POSSE stack for ghost cms) and occasional posts about family and bringing up kids in today’s world.
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I wrote before about my (mis)adventures in photo backup along with some technical musings about bit rot which can lead to corruption of old files across backups. Ever since I wrote those posts I have been working on a solution custom...
Following up on my two previous posts about book recommendations. I now finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The book didn't disappoint. I watched the HBO series back in 2021 when it came out and it remains, in my...
Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off....
My exercise journey dates back about 14 years when I first started running. The goal was very typical to lose weight. Looking back, I'm not sure I succeeded but over time my goals changed as did my view on exercise.I was probably in my...
In my recent post I wrote about my experiment with using Claude Opus to analyze my book history, quiz me about my own book preferences and then recommend my next book. As a result I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, so far only 80...
I love reading books, long time back when I first moved to Portland, OR and commuted to work on the light rail I would read about a book per week. I really loved that part of my daily commute just sitting and reading while the world...
I spend every minute outside of work with my kids and as the weather gets nicer I tend to document their adventures both for ourselves and our family back in Europe. I also really don't like to hold my phone while I spend time with them...
In one of my previous posts I shared images from a 2016 trip to south east Washington area surrounding the town of Walla Walla and in particular the views from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse region. The first part of the trip though was a...
I have always been fascinated by photography, loved watching old slide films from my parents' youth as well as revisiting old photo albums from family trips. My active journey with photography started back in 2010 after graduating from...
Back in 2016 my wife and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Walla Walla in eastern Washington. We both wanted to explore that area for a while and the long weekend at the beginning of summer was the perfect occasion. We started at Palouse...
In my last post I mentioned that PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon over a finite field to detect and repair bit rot. I ended that one saying the tech exists but nobody put it in tools normal people would use. So naturally I started writing my own...
I was watching an interesting conversation between Hank Green and Sherri Davidoff about Claude Mythos. They covered a lot of topics but one idea stuck with me. They were talking about how the future of AI probably isn’t one giant system...
I read Pablo’s post on AI-enhanced writing and Arun’s original piece that started the conversation. I appreciate both of them putting their thoughts out there — this is exactly the kind of discussion the open web is for.I want to start...
These images NASA posted today of Artemis II flying around the far side of the moon are simply breathtaking! I can’t get enough of them.Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby)Source: NASA...
In my last post I talked about losing photos and the false sense of security that comes from having "a backup." But even if you have copies everywhere there's a quieter problem that nobody warns you about. Your files are degrading right...