Museum displays of Roman building material tend to be badly labelled and quickly walked past. A broken lump of wall behind glass with a card reading “concrete, 2nd century AD” gives a visitor nothing.…
Cars usually die because nobody buys them. A smaller category dies while still selling, because the cost of making the engine comply with the next regulatory step exceeded what the volume could…
Museum displays of Roman building material tend to be badly labelled and quickly walked past. A broken lump of wall behind glass with a card reading “concrete, 2nd century AD” gives a visitor nothing.…
Walk any Mediterranean seafront between June and September and you will see the same three-item outfit repeating on a loop: cutoff denim shorts, a swim top worn as a top, and a rubber thong sandal. It…
Every static site generator comparison opens with build times, and every one of them is measuring the thing that matters least. I took the same corpus, four hundred markdown files with frontmatter,…
Console launches are covered exhaustively. Console cancellations are covered for a week and then vanish, which is a shame, because the cancelled machines explain the industry’s structure better than…
The press release survives as a document type in almost perfect health. Volume is up. The wire services are profitable. Companies still employ people whose primary output is a two-page document…
The seafront promenade is one of the few street environments that reliably delivers subjects moving in a predictable direction at a predictable pace. People walk the length of it, they walk slowly,…
Container terminals are among the most photogenic industrial environments anywhere and among the hardest to get into. They are also, from the outside, considerably more accessible than most…
The 135mm prime is the cheapest good lens in the used market and has been for thirty years. Every SLR system made one, most made several, they were sold in enormous numbers as portrait lenses, and…