About two years ago, I got into film photography. More accurately, I got back into film photography, having grown up in a world before digital became mainstream. I have scattered memories of taking disposable cameras with me on school trips, with mixed results, and later borrowing my dad’s Lomo Smena 8M for a while until the winder jammed. In my teen years, as digital became more widespread, I got…
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f /4 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO 1600
luna, friend of eggbug (@luna@pony.social) · 24 May 2026 the year is 2021 she is decompiling a 20-year-old video game and finding cheat codes that aren't on gamefaqs the year is 2026 she is decompiling the exact same 25-year-old video game and finding the exact same cheat codes that she never got around to putting on gamefaqs last time So in the interest of not letting these cheat codes go…
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f /4 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO 1600 📍 Out and about in Manchester
art002e000192 Hello, World , Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman You may already have seen the above photo taken by Reid Wiseman on the Artemis II moon mission. For some of you it may conjure memories of another photo, The Blue Marble , taken by Harrison Schmitt during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972: AS17-148-22727 The Blue Marble , retouched by Wikipedia user Yann I’ve known that photo my whole life,…
My Olympus OM-20, fitted with a stack of 7mm, 14mm, and 25mm extension rings. I’ve been curious about macrophotography for a while, and recently I got hold of some extension rings for my OM-20 to give it a try. I took them out with me on one of the first properly sunny days of the year, and snapped these photos I’m quite pleased with. Both were shot handheld, using the 7mm and 25mm extension rings…
cathedral (cat·he·dral) Having the form of a cat.
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ @ 800
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Ilford HP5+ @ 800
It’s been too long since I last shared my photos, so here’s a crow I saw a couple of months ago. I love watching the local birds. The sparrows in my neighbour’s hedge, the starlings that like to perch up high in their tree, the crows and the magpies playing on the roofs, the occasional blackbirds skittering around on the ground... they all bring me just so much joy. Olympus OM-20, Soligor 400mm…
Note: The bulk of this article was written a few months ago, and left gathering dust on my hard drive. I rediscovered it recently and decided to put it out there, even though it’s still a little rough around the edges. I’ve been concerned about my digital habits for a long time. When I was active on Twitter years ago, I found myself endlessly fixated on follower counts, retweets, likes, anything…
I took this one back in March and apparently never posted it here. Still very fond of it. Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kodak Gold 200
I’ve been hooked on the Guitar Hero games ever since I first played Guitar Hero II back in 2006. [1] That’s continued over the years, through many of the later iterations, playing custom tracks on a modded copy of Guitar Hero III (PC), and in recent years with the moddable-by-design fanmade revival Clone Hero . Partners and close friends will know that I’m an absolute fiend at it. I rarely played…
unthinkable (un·think·able) RMS Titanic , as described by Daffy Duck.
ad nauseam (ad nau·se·am) The online experience, sans adblocker.
Have you ever bought a pre-owned game cartridge or MP3 player or something, and the previous owner’s data is still on it — and for a brief moment, you feel a sense of connection with that stranger through their lingering data, and a twinge of sadness at the idea of deleting it to use the device for yourself? Tangentially, I know it’s a video game and it’s a standard/expected feature to have, but…
Watson (wat·son) Surname; son of 2 nd baseman.
That’s it — that’s the whole post.
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kodak Ultramax 400
harman phoenix kinda rules actually Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Harman Phoenix 200
It’s always nice when I’m able to get the subject in focus before they fly away ^^ Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800
Olympus OM-20, Soligor 400mm f/6.3, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800
Coming up next on ITV, The Inside Outtakes — deleted scenes and unused material from Bo Burnham’s 2021 musical comedy special Inside . Meanwhile on ITV2, The Inside Out Takes — a panel of movie pundits give their thoughts on the 2015 Pixar movie Inside Out .
Consider for a moment, the following (true) story: I write some valid C++23 code: #include <array> #include <print> int main() { std::array<int, 3> arr = {1, 2, 3}; std::println("{}", arr); } I compile it with -std=c++23 on the compiler command-line. I receive a small novel’s worth of template errors: In file included from <source>:2: In file included from…
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
“Try pushing HP5 to 1600” they said, and they were right. Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
The last place I lived, there were several magpies that liked to play in the neighborhood. They would always put a smile on my face, and I miss them a lot. Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kodak Gold 200
Cohost was a place where I felt able to be vulnerable, in a way I don’t elsewhere online. So as the year comes to an end, and the site draws its final breath, I’d like to share again one of the last posts I got to make over there: (with love to the late Margaret Wise Brown) Transcript: In the great green room There was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of . . . The cow jumping over the…
I finished shooting another roll of film earlier today, which means y’all get to enjoy these satisfying camera noises before I load the next one. You should buy a film camera for the clickety-clacks (and to take photos with I guess).
discord: paywalls being in more than 100 servers also discord: asks why you’re leaving a server also also discord: doesn’t provide an option for “making room for new servers” also also also discord: doesn’t provide a text field under the “other” option either
Did you know that humans are fallible? Did you know that programmers are humans? Did you know that sometimes programmer [1] make typos? Did you know that you can mistype a += b as a =+ b and it’ll still compile/run, so long as the language you’re programming in has a unary plus operator, and the return type of +b is assignable to a ? Did you know that it’s even easier to make the same mistake with…
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kentmere Pan 400
A lot of people don’t know this one weird trick — much like JavaScript, C also lets you perform arithmetic with mixed types: #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts("-0.5" + 1); } $ gcc code.c && ./a.out 0.5 You can do this for exponents, too! #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%d\n", 50 ** "2"); } $ gcc code.c && ./a.out 2500 Ain’t that neat?
I encountered these lovely geese while out-of-town for a flat viewing a month or so ago. I’m still pretty new to film photography (and non-smartphone photography in general) but I’m very pleased with how these shots came out. Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Kentmere Pan 400 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Kentmere Pan 400
I think I’m gonna die mad about this. Consider the OM-1 , a 35mm film camera released in 1972 by Olympus as part of their OM System product line. This is of course not to be confused with the OM System OM-1 , a micro-four-thirds digital camera released in 2022 by Olympus subsidiary OM Digital Solutions Corporation. Oh, and they use completely different lens mounts too, so good luck trying to find…
You may be familiar with an oft-repeated factoid about the word bear , referring to mammals of the family Ursidae. It typically goes something like this: Did you know that “bear” doesn’t derive from the creature’s original name? It was feared that speaking its true name would summon one, and over time the original name fell out of favor as people adopted “the brown one” or similar as a euphemism,…
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Kodak Gold 200 I spotted these while out on a walk a month or so ago, before autumn arrived. I’ve no idea what they are (my plant knowledge is essentially non-existent) but if anyone can identify them I’d love to know.
This too is yuri. Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kentmere Pan 400 I do wish I’d had color film loaded in the camera to pick them out from the grass a bit better, but I’m glad to have caught the moment at all.
I’d like to expand and explore these ideas more, but I know what I’m like when it comes to writing my thoughts in long form, and given the choice between “post unstructured thoughts now” and “struggle to write a longer version and end up not publishing at all”, here’s the CliffsNotes: One of the many things I think Cohost got right, and which I’ve not really seen anyone talking about: to follow…
A new entry in the Uxbridge English Dictionary : parasocial (para·so·cial) Skydivers’ meetup.
The year is 202X, and you’re still writing C++. Your friends with strange hair colors and multiple partners keep telling you about this new language called Rust, which seems to be kinda like C++ but without all of the footguns you’ve been dealing with for years. You nervously dip what’s left of your toe in. While it’s strange at first, you quickly grow to enjoy it for all sorts of reasons — but…
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4, Kodak Gold 200, dev+scan by Come Through Lab
My blog engine is a horrible mess of duct tape and prayers. This is because I looked at the popular blog engines a few years back, and decided I’d rather use my own mess instead of someone else’s. [1] When I wrote the RSS feed generator, [2] I wrote it so that the updated field for each entry would be populated with the timestamp of the last git commit to touch the corresponding article (or any of…
TL;DR: If you plan to publicly re-host posts from your official Cohost data export, strip the EXIF metadata from the images first — they may contain unredacted location data. Image files contain metadata. Which camera model did you take the photo with, how long was the shutter open, did the flash go off, [1] etc. Sometimes, that metadata includes the real-world location that a photo was taken.…
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A new entry in the Uxbridge English Dictionary : polynomial (poly·no·mi·al) Of or with multiple gnomes.
With Cohost closing its doors, and everyone making their own personal sites with blogs and RSS rather than relapse back to the algorithm-driven social media hellscape, a lot of us have been making 88×31 buttons for our websites, just like the olden days. Photoshop has been my go-to image editor for years , but I canceled my subscription recently, and I’m still getting to grips with Affinity Photo…