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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ onX subscription Local hiking guide evergoods packing cubes Black Diamond Mission MX Mitts (chris) -Opinel No.12 +Opinel No.8 JBL speaker from: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/ A donation in their name to a local outdoor group. jefferson's bourbon: https://jeffersonsbourbon.com/whiskeys/jeffersons-ocean-bourbon/ @@ -51,7 +51,27 @@ nomad grill # Darktable -Every great piece of software starts with a problem. Good software solves the problem. Great software makes you forget there ever was a problem. +Every great piece of software starts with a problem. Good software solves the problem. Great software so elegantly solves the problem we forget that it ever existed. Writing machine code was a problem. Enter the compiler. Try to find someone who remembers that once upon a time writing machine code was the only way to program. + +Elegance is in the eye of the beholder of course, consider for instance the elegance of Vim vs the mess that is emacs. I am told there are programmers who feel the opposite. Just kidding emacs users. Although I have never like emacs, LISP the would rate high on my list of elegant solutions. + + + + +For me this is Darktable. Darktable is a RAW image editor. It's in same vein as Adobe Lightroom, except that it's far more powerful, and open source to boot. + + + + + + + + + + + + +## Darktable alt One of the great myths of free software (free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in beer) is that if it doesn't work the way you like, you can take the code, modify it to suit your needs, and go on your merry way. This is the cornerstone of the Free Software Foundations argument for why free software is better than proprietary software. |