Out of 340 captures over 90 days — Readwise highlights, Obsidian quick-captures, browser bookmarks — exactly 68 ever became a note I actually used. That's a 20% completion rate. The other 272 had a timestamp and nothing else.
The uncomfortable part wasn't the number itself. It was what the data said about _where_ things died. I assumed the bottleneck was my weekly review — not thorough enough,…
As camera megapixel counts keep rising, the limitations of online photo sharing only become more apparent. Most photographers share photos online via platforms that use heavy-duty compression, making images look noticeably worse. While this isn't always a big deal, it can be, especially when trying to share with clients. To solve this issue, a Japanese developer built HiRezGo, an online sharing…
A manual checkpoint outperformed full automation by 35 percentage points. That's the number that changed how I build every prompt chain now.
I spent two months convinced longer chains meant better output. More refinement steps, closer to correct. So I built a 7-step chain for client ad copy — brief intake, angle extraction, brand voice filter, headline drafting, scoring, rewriting, final polish…
Adobe's promised creative agent, or agentic AI, has fully arrived in Creative Cloud. Inside Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, users can tell Adobe's Firefly-powered AI Assistant how to edit photos, videos, and other graphics.
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Alongside Studio Pro, its new photo editing platform designed for high-volume working photographers, VSCO announced VSCO One, and it's getting a lot of attention, and not only for good reasons.
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One iCloud conflict ate a note about a client's campaign structure. I didn't notice for three days.
That's the honest summary of month five with Obsidian on mobile. I run ad ops automation across four clients plus a content side business, so context-switching is the actual job — not a nuisance around it. The pitch for Obsidian mobile was simple: capture anything away from the desk, have it land…
Pattern Recognition Company (PRC) has announced that Excire Foto 2027 is now available, promising improved search, organization, and workflow tools for photographers.
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Zoner Studio has released its Summer Update 2026, introducing a collection of workflow-focused improvements designed to help photographers spend less time managing images and more time editing them.
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From a pure AI perspective, nothing Apple showcased during their WWDC keynote yesterday was particularly groundbreaking. In fact, much of it featured capabilities long since available in other AI tools and services – in some cases, years ago. And guess what? That doesn’t matter. Based on what we saw yesterday, Apple is set to winweiterlesen
I put together a deck for product and engineering leaders and barely struggled with the slides. When I dug into why, it wasn't about slides at all. I prioritize tools I can hand to an agent, and it means I get to stay in the narrative while the busywork happens around me.
A team can get to near-total AI adoption and still feel like things aren't moving. The tools changed. The jobs didn't. Here's the difference between the teams that pulled ahead and the ones who just made their old work faster.
Lengthy photo and video editing sessions can take a toll on your body. Sitting for long periods in an uncomfortable, non-ergonomic chair is painful, bad for your long-term health, and it saps artists of their creative energy and flow. The Sihoo Doro C300 Pro V2, the first full-body, adaptive ergonomic chair, promises to keep you comfortable whether you're doing a light editing session or working…
Early roadmaps for my working projects and establishing flows
Three patch releases in one evening — how using my own plugin on a real project surfaced a confusing schema field, an internally inconsistent verdict, and the case for state as a first-class concept.
Your org chart still assumes marketing handles these things, engineering handles those. That mapping is from before. The lanes were always capacity, not rules. That capacity has come off, and the org charts haven't caught up.
UnifyDrive has introduced PixelMob, a new sub-brand aimed at professional photographers and video creators. Positioned as a “Creator’s Companion,” PixelMob is designed to address a longstanding gap in imaging workflows: the inability to verify, at the file level, that backups are intact before leaving the field.
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Lately, I’ve been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real websites materialize in front of us as we converse. I’ve been half-jokingly call […]
As much as photographers and videographers may want to be out in the field, behind the camera, they know firsthand how important the behind-the-scenes work on the computer is to delivering great results. Editing RAW files and cutting together videos is an essential, often intense part of the creative process. Sihoo wants to ensure those long hours at the desk aren't just productive, but…
GitHub Copilot, the coding agent, now integrates with Jira. Assign issues to Copilot and get draft PRs — no context switching between planning and code.
How I'm reducing risks of legal concerns now and in the future with AI-generated code.
today iain learned: How to build an always-on mini-monitor as a dashboard running on an Arch Linux/Hyprland computer
AWS Agent Plugins give coding agents the skills to architect, estimate costs, and deploy to AWS. Type "deploy to AWS" and the agent handles the rest.
Baristas rightly obsess over grind size, water temperature, and flow rate, among other variables, to achieve the perfect extraction. But how they move behind the bar can make or break espresso quality.
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Key takeaways Operational efficiency has become an essential for coffee shops worldwide. With labour shortages persisting, rising costs squeezing margins, changing menus, and customer expectations at an all-time high, coffee shops must optimise every process and procedure. At the heart of this is workflow. It encompasses everything from how baristas move behind the bar to […]
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Three projects, parallel sessions, and the rhythm of AI-assisted development.
today iain learned: How to use Walker and Elephant to match Raycast features in Linux
Choosing a branching model for macchiato
Lately, I've been working on Macchiato to bring web application development libraries for ClojureScript on Node.js. Get a few people of different backgrounds involved on a project, and pretty soon a discussion about methodology will emerge.
Since both Dmitri Sotnikov and myself are working on some libraries at the same time, we had to decide which…