Alex White's Blog
Alex White's Blog
Alex White
I'm a tech guy located in Central Ohio in the United States. I've worked in IT, software engineering, product design and currently work as a engineering manager.
Latest Posts
I really enjoyed doing macro shots last time, so I did it again! To switch things up though, I swapped my Sony aIV frame with an old Nikon D5100 (my first DSLR). It was kind of a beast to work with. I used the same lens as last time, but...
On Palm OS, the interface for picking the start and end time of an event is represented as two columns, hour and minutes. The hours list either starts at 8AM and shows until 7PM (covering a full business day, or it starts at the next...
There's a shopping center I sometimes walk to for lunch. It's been there long enough that it doesn't have a sidewalk (before city ordinances required sidewalks I imagine). A few years ago, a mixed-use complex was built next to it,...
This post is a quick tip for anyone else running into issues installing the Palm Pilot desktop software, JPilot on Arch Linux. If you just try installing via yay -S jpilot, the build will fail as the dependency pilot-link no longer...
David writes about the importance of reaching out to the author of blog posts and starting a conversation, I 100% agree! I love when something I write resonates with somebody, and more often than not it turns into a continuing...
Today I returned to the park from day 4 armed with a macro lens I remembered I have. It's for a Nikon camera, and it's all manual (aperture ring and focus ring), but with an adapter it worked just fine with my Sony. I had some trouble...
Thought I would try something different for this entry! Each of these photos were taken with my Gameboy Camera attached to an Analogue Pocket (since it allows easy exporting). I've had this cartridge since I was a kid (I included 2...
I created a tiny script for counting per-page visitors on your site. It's as simple as uploading the PHP file to your server and pointing a <img /> tag to it. Leveraging the script as an image is an attempt to seed out bots (since they...
Woke up to this email in my inbox. At first I though "ugh a sales pitch", but then I saw the line at the bottom. This company runs autonomously · polsia.com This led me to visiting Polsia. It's an entire platform for doing the minimal...
I'm working on a new application called TinyFeeds, it's a native RSS feed reader. Sure there's thousands of those, but this one is mine and as such I'm being extremely intentional about how it's built. I believe constraints breed...
Took my soon to a park near our house. He had his kid's camera and had a blast taking photos with me. ↑ One of my son's photos of me.
I was at the gas station filling up the tank (unfortunately we still have 1 gas vehicle), when I noticed the numbers were in the typical 7-segment display style, but the screen was a modern LCD. It's curious that they made this...
Life has been busy and I missed the past 2 days, but thankfully I remembered to bring the camera with me today! I snuck out in the brief calm between rain storms, don't particularly want to test how waterproof my camera is. ↑ This is the...
This is in reply to Kev writing about his fears of flying. The first time I flew was also the first time I left the country. In September of 2012 my mother dropped me off at Columbus International Airport for a morning flight destined to...
Realized I issued myself a challenge, but failed to define any parameters! My goal is to post at least 1 photo taken with my Sony A7IV per day. Let's see how it goes! Today's photos are from a short e-bike ride my wife and I did along...