No excuse, just own it
11. February 2018 | link this post
I'am as guilty of this then anybody: looking for excuses. Not so much before others but before myself. "If I only had this other camera/great piece of software/whatever I could have done this. Of course this way it wasn't even worth trying." Obviously whenever the second part of that reasoning comes out you have already lost, you have kept yourself from even trying, thus failing instantly without learning anything instead of at least failing a little later and learning something - or not failing at all. Just putting this out there.
The sun has returned
09. February 2018 | link this post
Finally it is back a little more often ... So I got to get out my camera get out in a bit of a better spirit then in recent weeks.
Out in the wild: first impressions of the M4
28. January 2018 | link this post
After almost a week I finally got to go out with my shiny "new" Leica and play around and while I still have to get a handle on working with this camera I really had a blast. It's just such a joy to handle, even more so once I could let go of the idea of having to check my exposure with my phone all the time and just accepted that it would all work out in the end. This ends up being a really pleasant and uncomplicated tool that never gets in you way. As far as lens I got goes (a Summicron 50mm from the early 50s) I have to say it performs really well for a 60-70 year old lens. The one thing I found out quickly is that I'd really like to have a 35mm lens, but everything at its time.
Back into analog photography: the Leica M4-2
24. January 2018 | link this post
For once you are getting two posts in a row from me as I really cannot resist sharing my excitement about that little camera with you. I will certainly write up a full first-impressions post later but for now I am still in awe about its build quality and handling. I think I am beginning to get why people are talking so enthusiastic about these cameras.
Setting up models in Laravel
23. January 2018 | link this post
This post was written before the blog was somehow taken over by photography and never got released. So while I am sure there must be some reason for that, I am releasing it now since the topic seems interesting for people using Laravel: At first glance creating a model on laravel is easy as typing "php artisan make:model User" and being done with it. Of course there is a little more to do and so here are few points that you might want to remember. Let's see a very basic example: <?php namespace App; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes; class Request extends Model { use SoftDeletes; /** * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany */ public…
Another quick image
21. January 2018 | link this post
I took a trip around the block last weekend, so now I now get to spam you all with images ;)
Back into photography
20. January 2018 | link this post
I have been out of photography for a few years now. There may be something on the story behind that later but suffice it to say that I am back. So, in the spirit of this very fact this Post is a bit of a “first impressions”-piece of getting started with digital photography. Back when I was doing more photography I almost only used analogue cameras, for once I did not have the money to buy the digital once I liked and they just felt too much like computers with imaging sensors with all their menus. I recently got started into the Fujifilm X system with an X-T10. I chose the X-T10 over say an X-Pro 2 because I wanted to get into this spending less on my first camera body and rather buy a few good lenses. First impressions: the camera I can onl…
Changelog, of sorts
03. December 2017 | link this post
There have been a few changes with what I am doing and with this site and now I am finally getting around to writing down at least some of it. This site is moving backwards It really is: I have reactivated the old version based on kirby after rolling with Ghost for quite a while. Most of this has to do with the simple fact that I am mainly a php-developer and don't know a lot about world of wiritng node.js applications - or hosting them for that matter. I want however to port over most of the content from there. On upgrading all of this to the latest version of kirby I did discover a few bugs with my old code, something I hope to iron out over the next few weeks so that this may then be a more permanent version of this site. Laravel I have…
Collections in PHP
01. October 2017 | link this post
This article was ported over from the old blog A while ago I stumbled on Adam Wathans book "Refactoring to Collections" and a lot of people saying this is a really great book. Of course I didn't get it at the time: collections were a thing I had never given a lot of thought. Ok, now that some time had passed I read another blogpost by Christoph Rumpel on the topic and eventually commited to find out what's up with this thing that people think is so great. Long story short: I researched a bit, got the book and then I realized some hours had passed. Not bad for a programming-book... What are Collections? This was the question I started out with since I head never had much contact with the concept of a collection. To put it short: a…
Remodelling the local network
01. August 2017 | link this post
This article was ported over from the old blog and will soon receive a follow-up My current network setup is a bit of a mess, so I thought I'd share a little of what I have running right now and how I want to reconfigure all of this to make it a little more usefull for a wide array of tasks. As an aside: since I am currently not living on my own I have to be somewhat mindful of not disturbing the network for anybody else - though in this case that shoudl not be an issue. My Setup I am right now fielding a wide collection of different hardware: On a 16-Port TP-Link Switch Whitebox Workstation (Xeon E3-1230 V3, 16gb RAM) Supermicro 1U Server with an Intel Atom CPU HP DL380 G6 (Two E5-Somethingrather, 72gb RAM) Raspberry Pi 3 for testing…