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Pedro Corá
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I take photos and I blog. On the interweb since ~ 1997.
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@manton Really beautiful!!

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This evening light!! 🤩

#shotoniphone #processzero

A garden with lush greenery and a white wall is visible through a window.
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🦆🦆🦆

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#shotoniphone #processzero

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Den Haag, NL

#shotoniphone #processZero

Skyline of modern buildings and a construction crane reflected in a calm canal in The Hague, Netherlands.Scenic view of a tree-lined path by a canal with the skyline of The Hague, Netherlands in the background.

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@otaviocc damn! espero que seja leve! melhoras à todos!

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Weekend

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#shotoniphone #hipstamatic

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@maique safe travels!

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@pratik 😔😔

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🔗 Brazil threatens to suspend X

Great news for Brazilians! Bluesky seems to be getting a lot of signups today.

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@numericcitizen 👏 super nice!!!!

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It’s here! Amari and the despicable brothers!

My next book.

A Kindle device displays the cover of "Amari and the Despicable Wonders" by B.B. Alston, featuring an illustration of diverse characters.
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@maique this is reason number one I’m still with them. 😂

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I feel like everyone is talking about some conference, or politics, or whatever is happening at social media.

I’m barely following. So here’s a photo I took this morning. 🙂🙃

Visible in the sky are several distinct contrails from aircraft, set against a backdrop of a partially illuminated blue sky with silhouetted trees at the bottom.
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@pratik How do you accumulate sick leave hours? Like can you run out of it?!

Here we just take them as needed. If longer times, might need a doctor evaluation, but as far as I know, one does not run out of them.

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@ner3y well, before that you would be in constant fear of getting it. Now the fear is gone, you just wait and draft the sick day email do HR. 🤣

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@pratik I think it really varies, but every time I tried using wordpress, it gives me big irks. It's not intuitive, not simple to do things, even the simple ones. So I just gave up. Every time I dealt with squarespace, I wish I had money to maintain a website there. 😉 ​ ​But this really depends on what do you expect from this website. depending on the complexity, even Micro.blog mini-sites (forgot the name of the thing) can suffice (and you have it payed already).

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@pratik If I can’t say Squarespace, I’m not going to say anything.

Wordpress: 🤢 Ghost is nice, but it’s a headless CMS. You will need to do lots of coding to make it looking like what you want.

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Reclaiming my time online blog.pcora.eu
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@pratik have you tried creating a script with ChatGPT? I did for app.net and it was pretty simple.

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While walking around the neighborhood this afternoon, I took these photos with Halide’s new Process Zero feature.

Auto-generated description: A row of brick residential buildings with striped awnings is visible behind a line of parked cars and lush greenery.Auto-generated description: A white and black boat is navigating a river near a white building on the shore, with large black and white bollards in the foreground and trees in the background.Auto-generated description: A group of people is enjoying a boat ride on a calm river surrounded by lush greenery.Auto-generated description: A red train is crossing a bridge over a body of water, with trees and streetlights visible in the background.Auto-generated description: A riverside scene features a bridge, a sign with a QR code, and some urban buildings in the background.Auto-generated description: A boat navigates down a peaceful river flanked by green banks and a raised drawbridge in the background.

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Took Thursday and Friday off to drive to Düsseldorf and Essen in Germany to celebrate J’s birthday. I have lots of photos to process, but too little time so far. And I just realised while typing that I’ve barely posted any photos from our summer holiday in France a few weeks ago. 😁

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@otaviocc this app was very nice, but I just tried now and it's pretty much useless unless you pay for it. :(

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@otaviocc this looks amazing! I'd love for an ipad/iphone version. Might get the switch one!

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@otaviocc I still have to check more closely, but I like the initial results!

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@maique I would really love to support local businesses more and more. But my salary can’t afford that. Specially bookshops, Amazon or other big online retailers are 50% less..

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@Gabz oh wow! 🤞

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🔗 Process Zero: The Anti-Intelligent Camera

Today, we are launching something unlike any tech product in 2024: a product that uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce natural, film-like photos. We call it Process Zero. It lives in Halide, and it turns your iPhone into a classic camera.

This is something I wanted for ages! Great timing!

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Going to Germany tomorrow. Look who’s going with me! #fujifilm 😂

A camera, and various items are inside an open black bag.
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@odd Norwegian and Swedish have been on my wishlist for a while.

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@jemostrom yes to plain text! It's email, not a damn keynote presentation! 🤣

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@otaviocc I second that. My iPhone is probably my main computing device. Too risky for me. I usually wait until at least the .0.1 to upgrade On iOS 16 I waited until 16.1 🫣. @maique

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@otaviocc same here. or even drop at our door, completely unattended. 😔 @maique

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@maique I'm just waiting for the photos! 😊

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@pratik ha! I was puzzled as I started reading the sample after I saw your post about it and mine is definitely UK. Go figure.

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@pratik isn’t the book set in England?

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As someone who frequently visits people’s profiles when I like what they publish, I have to say that I really dislike pinned posts.

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Online communities and politics blog.pcora.eu
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Den Haag. Shot on Hipstamatic

A quiet, empty street with tram tracks running alongside paved walkways and bicycles parked near lampposts.
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Calais, France

A street scene in Calais, France, featuring a row of charming, historic buildings with varied architectural styles and colorful facades. In the foreground, a man in casual attire rides a blue bicycle across a pedestrian crossing. The street is lined with trees, parked cars, and a few barriers. The atmosphere is calm and picturesque.
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Harrys is leaving the Netherlands, which sucks because I finally found a great razor for shaving. Luckily, I still have 20 razors left, so with my current usage, that’ll last me over a year. Gives me plenty of time to find a decent replacement.

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Back home after almost a week of traveling across Belgium and northern France. Lots of photos to share. Maybe tomorrow after I get some rest.

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Strait of Dover.

It may not be fully visible in the photo because of the compression, but it’s possible to see the UK back there.

A serene coastal landscape features a grassy foreground and a calm, expansive sea under a partly cloudy sky.
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Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪

A cobblestone street with tram tracks runs between historic buildings, leading to a tall clock tower in the distance, while people walk, bike, and socialize alongside.
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Hello from 🇫🇷! Apparently we found the summer!!

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Parked for the day. 👋