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#ICGlass #GlassCollection #Adapters

/ˈsnæp.ʃɒt/Dec 28

Looking Ahead: My Intentions For 2026

About this time last year, I jotted down some intentions for 2025, ‘a few ideas of the things that I really want to do over the coming twelve months’. I did quite well with these: I resurrected a few old cameras, like the Kodak 1A and 3A folding cameras, and the Vest Pocket Kodak; I finally got to use the medium format half-frame beastie that’s the Bencini Koroll 2; and I actually used my only 127 film in the Purma Special on a 127 Day this year. I also tumbled down the rabbit hole that was the Rapid film system, which led to some great fun with colour emulsions, redscaling, and even trying some EBS photography, or exposing both sides of the emulsion, and of course I added a load more weird and wonderful cameras to my collection.

https://flic.kr/p/2rscu7a

The only part of my ‘intentions’ for 2025 that I didn’t really get anywhere with was glitching; taking a perfectly good photograph in digital format and altering the data contained in it to produce a corrupted image. As a reminder, images can be glitched in a number of ways: with a Hex Editor, to alter details of individual pixels in an image; processing a digital photograph in a program not intended for editing image files; or using a script in a programming language to corrupt the file. This is known as databending, but there is also circuit bending, which either takes an image and corrupts it using a specially made image processor, or using a camera where the hardware within the camera has been physically altered so that the image saved to the card is corrupted.

A corrupted 3D image, taken with the Fujifilm W3 Real 3d stereo digital camera. The file has been databent by processing the file in the audio editing program Audacity.

I already have one circuit bent camera, and also a couple of cameras with failing sensors that produce lovely glitchy images, but I’ve also recently obtained an old Digital8 video camera that I hope will allow me to use a circuit bent device called the Mismatcher Petite to corrupt digital images and videos. This year, I also picked up a scanner, the Epson Perfection v750 Pro flatbed scanner, and a little micro computer to use it with. Onto this computer I’ve loaded some of the programs and applications that I hope will aid me with databending and glitching.

The Mismatcher Petite, an image modification device the I’ll use in conjunction with the Sony Digital8 camera below.

I’ve not forgotten film, of course, and although I’m not really in a position to soup and develop my own films, perhaps I can ‘glitch’ some instant film, or deliberately introduce light leaks to exposed 35mm and medium format film, for instance. Of course, there will always be new (to me) cameras to play with, and if last year is anything to go by, not all of these are light tight, and I have several rolls of expired film to use. With glitching, be it digital or film, you never quite know what result you’ll get, and that for me is what will make the coming year so exciting.

A digital image taken with an Olympus Pen E-PL1 and a homemade Deakinizer (a wide-angle effect lens held reversed over the lens). The image has been databent by processing the image in the audio editor, Audacity.

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#Adapters #AgfaRapid #Cassette #CircuitBending #Databending #Experimental #Expired #Glitch #Inspiration #Intentions #LoFi #Motivation #Rapid #VintageCamera

N-gated Hacker News Oct 29

Ah, #SwirlDB, the Swiss Army knife of #databases 🤹‍♂️—except none of the tools actually work together unless you summon the arcane dark magic of "adapters." 🔮 It's like legos for #developers who hate fun, making sure to remind you that everything is an adapter, even the tears of those who dare to use it. 💧
https://docs.swirldb.org/ #Adapters #TechHumor #SoftwareEngineering #HackerNews #ngated

Home | SwirlDB

Modular-first CRDT database for browsers and servers

Josep Bigorra (jjba23)Oct 28

Hexagon of Doom - The Cost of Over-Abstraction and Indirection

Let me explain why I think Ports&Adapter / Hexagonal architecture introduces net harm to software projects.

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/development/hexagon-of-doom/index.html

#software #engineering #architecture #dev #project #cleancode #java #scala #hexagon #mvc #ports #adapters #abstraction #programming

Hexagon of Doom - The Cost of Over-Abstraction and Indirection - jointhefreeworld

N-gated Hacker News Sep 29

🖥️🔌 Oh wow, not all #eGPU docks are the same? Who would've thought! After a thrilling quest involving M.2 #adapters, mysterious power buttons, and a hidden metal plate with switches, our hero finally made some fans spin—riveting! 🙄
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/not-all-oculink-egpu-docks-are-created-equal #eGPUdocks #technology #hardwareenthusiast #DIY #HackerNews #ngated

Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal | Jeff Geerling

Troy Torres Sep 10, 2025

So, I thought I had it all figured out and ordered a bunch of adapters for my headphone setup… only to realize I got it wrong 😅 I assumed the female side was the tip and the male was where you plug in.
Turns out, the male is the tip of the adapter, and the female is where you plug the headphones to change the size. Instead of getting '3.5mm female to 6.5mm male', I ended up with '3.5mm male to 6.5mm female'. Well… who knows, maybe it’ll be useful if I want to connect my phone to one of my amps. Lesson learned: I now need to order the correct set.
#AudioLife #HeadphoneSetup #Adapters #LessonLearned #StudioLife

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jul 24, 2025

Debunking the #Myths: 5 Surprising #Facts About #Powerline #Adapters

https://www.makeuseof.com/powerline-adapter-myths-busted/

Debunking the Myths: 5 Surprising Facts About Powerline Adapters

Powerline adaptors might not be the Wi-Fi replacement you're hoping for.

MUO

Andrew Tiedgen Jun 14, 2025

so I have a rotary phone that I bought off of eBay. However, it has a very strange connector. At first I thought it was some strange coax variation. It's threaded, bigger on the bottom if you're holding it so the end is up. I sent ChatGPT a picture of it and it said it was a 505A bell connector, used up till the late 70s. Do y'all know where I can find a suitable adapter for such a thing that converts it into RJ11? For the life of me, I cannot seem to find one. I searched round 4-prong to RJ11 as well as 505A to RJ11 adapter, as it also listed that as one of it's names as well.
#oldphones #telephony #adapters