The Big Hobby of the Tiny — 1. Introduction Roughly one year ago, I involuntarily triggered a personal butterfly effect by dipping my toes into the field of extreme macro photography. An impulse action that has ballooned and escalated in ways I could not foresee. This article documents my extreme macro journey as well as my setup in such…

A journey towards better color in photography — Introduction Hi, fellow photographers. I’m an amateur wildlife photographer from the Netherlands. And I have confidence issues about the color and color temperature in my photos. I’m a Nikon shooter photographing in RAW whilst using Adobe Lightroom as my preferred editor. This particular workflow has brought about a pain that has…

A giant little milestone 🐉 — We did it! The JungleDragon community has now passed the 100,000 photos milestone. A perfect excuse to write this rare meta post to discuss the State of the Dragon, in three chapters: Celebrating 100K JungleDragon’s history JungleDragon’s future Celebrating 100K Let’s give some meaning to the 100K photos milestone. As a superficial…

A possible solution — This is one of those posts regarding a super obscure bug/issue that costs me a huge headache and lots of time. I’m writing it solely to avoid you from going through the same pain. The issue I’m developing a PWA. It has a form. When I open the page with the form…

Introduction Earlier this week, a new chapter was added to the rocky history of Flickr, one that quickly escalated out of control, as per usual on ragenet. To sum up some recent events: on April 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr for an undisclosed amount. My understanding is that it was a do-or-die…

On demand ES6 Components without bundling — Quite likely you’re confused by both the cover image and title of this article, so let’s get both out of the way: The image features a Velvet worm, a high confusing animal. It’s not really a worm. Not a slug either. Not an insect, and not even an arthropod. It…

This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Henriette and I had previously visited Madagascar twice, first covering the classic West/South/East route, followed by a second visit that exclusively focused on the less-traveled North of Madagascar: Northern Madagascar Trip Roundupferdychristant.com A third…

Read this if you suck at picking colors — Introduction Rather than placing web folks into the bucket Developer or Designer, I think many people would find themselves somewhere in the gray zone in between, not at the extreme ends. I most certainly feel that way about myself. I’m primarily a developer, yet with some creative tendencies (I used to…

A dangerous precedent — This is a little opinion piece. Last week, Mozilla published their take on the growing misuse of websites requesting notification permissions in user-hostile ways. The article describes a plan to experiment with heuristics, some form of intelligence to let these requests through or not. …