Behind the Viewfinder
Behind the Viewfinder
Wojtek Powiertowski
Mix of personal photography, posts about technology (currently building my own POSSE stack for ghost cms) and occasional posts about family and bringing up kids in today’s world.
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Last week I finished my third Emily St. John Mandel novel in a row, The Glass Hotel, and it has been a fascinating journey. Mandel has built a marvelous multiverse across Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility: each book...
My custom POSSE toolkit for Ghost CMS has been pretty stable over last couple months with previous release v1.2.1 on May 2nd. Over those couple months I have accumulated couple useful quality-of-life and security fixes, resulting in a...
Udenstue is a Danish term for a sunroom. The word itself has fairly simple origin in Danish language and comes from: ude (outside, outdoors) and stue (room) and is typically a glazed room built onto a house, with walls roof largely of...
I have three kids, currently approaching 5/3/3, who I truly love spending my days with. The most amazing thing to me is how much they show me a young fresh perspective on everything. At this age everything is new and exciting for them,...
A Short Hike is a delightful indie game released back in 2019 in which you play as Claire, a little bird-person who came with her family on vacation to the fictional Hawk Peak Provincial Park, located on a small island. You get dropped...
I just finished my second book by Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, and I must admit I’m fascinated by the author’s ability to create thrilling stories that are essentially slow-paced. This is the second book in my recent memory...
I have been wearing smartwatches for over ten years now, pretty much ever since Apple released the first Apple Watch. I went through several of the basic models, eventually landing on the Apple Watch Ultra and up until recently wearing...
I wrote before about my (mis)adventures in photo backup along with some technical musings about bit rot which can lead to corruption of old files across backups. Ever since I wrote those posts I have been working on a solution custom...
Following up on my two previous posts about book recommendations. I now finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The book didn't disappoint. I watched the HBO series back in 2021 when it came out and it remains, in my...
Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off....
My exercise journey dates back about 14 years when I first started running. The goal was very typical to lose weight. Looking back, I'm not sure I succeeded but over time my goals changed as did my view on exercise.I was probably in my...
In my recent post I wrote about my experiment with using Claude Opus to analyze my book history, quiz me about my own book preferences and then recommend my next book. As a result I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, so far only 80...
I love reading books, long time back when I first moved to Portland, OR and commuted to work on the light rail I would read about a book per week. I really loved that part of my daily commute just sitting and reading while the world...
I spend every minute outside of work with my kids and as the weather gets nicer I tend to document their adventures both for ourselves and our family back in Europe. I also really don't like to hold my phone while I spend time with them...
In one of my previous posts I shared images from a 2016 trip to south east Washington area surrounding the town of Walla Walla and in particular the views from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse region. The first part of the trip though was a...