Just cleaned out emails in my inbox dating back to 2024 and I've pretty much completely disassociated from reality. I think that's enough computer for the week now 😵‍💫

Something I'd like to do more this year is take some of my project threads and bundle them up into proper blog posts. I’m bad about posting projects because I tend to want to wait until they're finished. Unfortunately that means it's often a high level overview or I never write it because the […]

Imported photos from my M240 from the last couple months and found some photos of the foggy Santa Cruz Mountains from December. https://emorydunn.com/blog/2026/01/forrest-in-fog/ #photography #santacruzmountains #bayarea

Most of my jobs are local-ish, but then every once in a while I get a job down in Silicon Valley and I always forget how much of a nightmare the traffic is. I really need to start charging portal-to-portal for jobs like this. On the plus side I got to work with a robot arm for stills, which is […]

Took a chance on a new YouTube channel going over the history of image formats. Lots of splashy graphics, a little light on technical details, but a reasonable overview. Until they got to JPEG, when they mentioned metadata, specifically GPS, where they say you could be accidentally sharing your […]

After repotting my monstera I noticed that it’s looking a little sad, so I did a quick search and the top result is basically the perfect botany joke: “Yellowing leaves are often caused by overwatering, underwatering, …” Yes, thank you internet article, that’s really helpful (except that I […]

You know what I would like to read a very thorough blog post about, or even a YouTube video if it, were good enough? Managing custom symbols and footprints in KiCad. I've tried a couple different methods, and both are Very Annoying and don't seem like the best way to do things. Originally every […]

Not having the best luck with this new ink. I'm beginning to wonder if the viscosity of the ink (or something) doesn't play well with my technical pens. I may also need to do a more thorough cleaning #penplotter

Projects dealing with third party hardware are cursed. First there was my GPI Controller which behaved oddly when used with a specific brand of $5k video reference monitors. Now an $8k medium format digital camera doesn’t play nice with HyperFocal I am absolutely not being paid enough to have […]

This is more than a little ridiculous, especially considering my browser is up to date

I’ve been meaning to repot my monstera for ages, it kept sending roots out of the old pot, and I finally swung by a local nursery and picked up a bigger pot. When I got it back I thought it was way too big, but once I pulled the roots out of the old […] [Original post on mastodon.tinycart.club]

The project I originally wrote my own TIFF implementation for is finally happening… it took not quite the full morning to fully implement

First grilling of the year with some of my closest friends

On set with a client today who, like many others, builds their shotlist in Google Sheets with information manually pulled in from disparate places and plenty of errors because of it. Making changes isn't difficult, but provides more opportunities for mistakes because the data is organized […]

Well this is fun! I think I may have just found my first-ever macOS regression that fundamentally breaks one of my apps 🙃

Whelp, it finally happened. A user reported what may be a Tahoe-only bug in one of my apps. Time to spin up a VM and see what the issue is, you know other than someone running Tahoe

Finally used these itty bitty canvas boards I’ve had stashed away for ages. The surface is a little rough for the technical pen, but it worked well enough #penplotter

My quick passes at figuring out how to represent an n-degree Bézier as drawn by de Casteljau's algorithm with either cubic or quadratic curves have not worked out, so does anyone know the proper way to do that?

Trying to not quite debug, but unify my Bézier curve implementations, and oh boy Are There Options. The blue line shows a cubic curve with control points at the points of the light grey line, and a center point halfway between the control points. The […] [Original post on mastodon.tinycart.club]

Wanted to looking into some control options for Fuji cameras and… 🙂 They have an SDK 😊 that's freely downloadable 😲 with macOS sample apps 😳 written in Swift 🤯 and SwiftUI

Where has this been all my life? https://front-end.social/@henry/115849438342109819

I want to get a better sense of some test plots while I work on the project, so I’m doing something deeply silly: plotting onto my reMarkable tablet #penplotter

Went into Venmo this morning and it told me I had two notifications, I click on the little bell icon: nothing. I refresh, force quit the app, this doesn’t load. Finally I turn off Wi-Fi and it works. Their notifications page must have been blocked by my PiHole as advertising/tracking nonsense

I was getting a little annoyed by how annoying it was to iterate on projects in SwiftGraphics, so I built a little viewer application. Now the project, usually a SPM executable, can render an image and notify the app. Which will then show the image […] [Original post on mastodon.tinycart.club]

If they can do a "subset of the full language" for Embedded Swift, I want my SwiftScript.

Anyone want a ray traced clock?

It would be nice to be able to conform to protocols with stored property requirements in an extension just for organizational purposes. Maybe something like `inline extension`, restricted to the original module, that could tell the compiler to treat the extension as if it were in the original […]

I build kind of a weird workaround with a wrapper object to add styling to shapes that conform to a Drawable protocol… in the library… that I wrote… :facepalm:

Alright, sitting down and reading, from start to finish a paper (it's six pages) on calculating reflection and refraction for ray tracing. Hopefully I can figure out how to do this all correctly.

I officially have no idea what I'm doing wrong with this ray tracing. I simply cannot get it to generalize. I think it has to do with the normal direction for intersections, but no matter what I do to try to align the normal with the ray it breaks if I flip the light around or when a ray hits […]

I remembered I had these glass photo filters, and growing tired of simulating rays, cracked open a laser pointer and set up a little optical bench. Shooting with the flash did a great job of highlighting the primary beam

The refraction math is working so much better, though I think I need to do a little work around critical angles because while the telescope is cool looking the red line shouldn't be a mirror. All of those rays are also hitting the iteration limit, so […] [Original post on mastodon.tinycart.club]

Adding a `Vector3D` package trait was fairly easy and mostly painless. The vector math does look like it's working now, which is great. However the rendering process seems to have stalled out, consuming GB of RAM!! I tracked it down to not the ray tracing, or writing the file, but determining […]

Been struggling with some weirdness around ray intersections and deflection angles and I'm beginning to suspect the problem maybe be that I'm using 3D vectors, because IDK maybe I'll add 3D at some point, even though everything is 2D without any sort of projection. This is something I ran into […]

Designed some brackets to fit in the belt loop(?) holders for my hex wrenches. They snap into place and then slot into some pegs for the Skadis board, but can be removed easily to take the set where it’s needed. Previously they been laying on a shelf #3dprinting

I’d wanted to add the second Skadis peg board, on the left, for months but they were out of stock or I forgot when I was at Ikea, but I finally got one. So much space for organizing 🤩

I’m also a little annoyed at myself because this was the first (small) trip from home since I installed the jailbroken Nest and I totally forgot to turn it on remotely to pre-heat my studio 😅

Kind of on a lark I swung by an Ikea on my drive home today because they supposedly had the new Matter sensors in stock, unlike the Ikea that’s near my house. I went to the lighting section where they usually have smart home stuff but didn’t see the sensors. There was a father and son also […]

AI Slop was in the crossword my mom is doing in the New Yorker. Something something bubble

Picking up on the long neglected rewrite of my graphics library, and I know I'd kind of left it in a very unfinished state, but I'd forgotten how much had been left out. Today I updated the ray tracing implementation. Next up are boolean operations

Oregon. 3rd October, 2025. 📷 Hasselblad 500C/M 🎞️ Kodak Portra 160 #filmphotography #kodakportra160 #hasselblad500cm #oregon

A friend sent a video of a joke Wi-Fi antenna and, via a couple rabbit holes, now I know about this nonsense

Was getting tired of adjusting command line arguments for my TIFF shuffler so I threw together a little GUI for it. Now I can open an image, process it with different settings and see the results, all in one place. #swiftui #generativeart

Just grabbed a seat in the brewery and heard the next table over, glanced up, and made eye contact. We exchanged a knowing nod. They were talking about the advantages and disadvantages of running an LLC taxed as an S-Corp #freelancing

Went out to run some errands and noticed traffic around my building was oddly bad and the freeway was totally backed up. When heading back I took some back roads and found out why as I went over an overpass: there must be a huge wreck thats blocking all but one(?) lane. As a result everyone is […]

Did my final job of the year which was supposed to be a nice easy half day. Instead SF lost power so it took me an hour and a half to get downtown from Oakland, we did the shoot in the dark, and then another hour home. All-in-all a good shoot. All of my equipment was battery powered, as were […]

I was pleased when I decoded the sequence tags from Phase One XF cameras which add metadata about focus stacks or exposure brackets, however when I went to move on to step two I ran into a problem. Apparently ExifTool won't write new tags to the MakerNote metadata table, only update existing […]

Little quake? Felt kind of rolling

Just spent like an hour dealing with various state tax and corporate service & payroll websites trying to pull info out of one to enter into another and I'm ready to just walk into the sea

Having some fun making an animation out of the grid in the Hyperfocal icon