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
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...
David talked about their reluctance to share their blog with others in the real world. I have much the same reluctance, I definitely don't want a coworker on my blog, or even one of my IRL friends. I do occasionally share links to my...
I've been wanting to get out and take more photos, so here's day 1 of a personal challenge to do so! These were taken while on my lunch break. There's a beautiful trail next to the coworking place. If you want full resolution versions of...
Before my daughter was born, I hosted a retro gaming night. I had recently acquired a PS2 and 32" Sony CRT and was looking forward to a night of fighting bots in Medal of Honor and chasing each other with RC helicopters in 007 Nightfire....
In my previous post I talked about my frustration that the used Thinkpad I bought was crashing when unplugged in Linux. My conclusion at the end of the post was that I would return to Mac OS. Well that lasted about 1 day. I'm back to...
On Wednesday I picked up a new (to me) Thinkpad P14s Gen 4. I was excited to finally get off my System76 Pang12, a computer that works, but has a long list of hardware and reliability issues. Thinkpad in hand, I installed Ubuntu 25.10...