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# Notes ## Action cams, underwater domes: https://www.amazon.com/Diving-Trigge-Underwater-Waterproof-Accessories/dp/B08L68TJ72/r https://www.amazon.com/GEPULY-Waterproof-Housing-Underwater-Photography/dp/B08TTP2KB8
## birding update:
don'ts - dye in hummingbird feeders, bread, etc seagulls
t-shirts
bird nerd
## terms
EPC Earnings Per Click: an affiliate marketing term that refers to the average amount of money you earn each time someone clicks one of your affiliate links.
CVR Conversion Rate: a marketing metric that tells you how many users are converting on your website
AOV Average Order Value. This is an eCommerce metric that indicates the average amount a customer spends during each transaction.
GMV Gross Merchandise Volume: shows the total sales value for merchandise sold through a marketplace over a specific time frame.
CPA Cost per acquisition: financial metric that is used to measure the revenue impact of marketing campaigns
CAC Customer Acquisition Cost: see above
# Scratch
packages
18x18x18 10lbs
# Outdoor Gift Guide
Buying gifts for the outdoor enthusiast is damn near impossible. Your outdoorsy friends are probably gear heads, meticulously pouring over reviews, guides, and the perennial wisdom of ounce-counting, basement-dwelling Reddit users to find THE EXACT RIGHT THING. The chances of you picking THE EXACT RIGHT THING for them as a gift is exactly zero. Don't even try. Instead, buy them one of these thoughtful, always-useful, sometimes whimsical things that are almost guaranteed to not only delight them, but actually be used.
Everyone who spends times outdoors needs more merino wool socks. I don't care how many you have, you can never have too many. There's also the chance that your outdoorsy friend of loved one doesn't yet know the genius of good merino socks. Allow me to wax poetic for a moment about merino wool. Okay, I'll spare you, just read our guide to the best merino wool instead. Suffice to say that aside from buying nothing, wool socks are the best gift . We've been testing socks for years now, and Darn Tough remain some of our favorites. They're technically good -- high in wool, low in synthetic fibers, though there is enough in there so they have a nice stretch to them (and note that not all Darn Touch socks are merino, so read the label.
Trillium hammock
Did you know most of us spend [87 percent of our time indoors](https://indoor.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-47713.pdf) and another 6 percent in enclosed vehicles? Help your outdoorsy friend get outside more with this giant hammock. Trillium hammocks are an awesome addition to any yard and they give you a reason to get outside by offering a huge comfy place to lounge. I am in fact typing this from a Trillium hammock, which is also where I do all my meetings. Meetings still suck, but they suck a little less when you're in a hammock. The only word of caution here is that you do need to have trees (or some kind of post) in a roughly triangular shape for this to work. Probably not the best choice for desert dwelling friends.
Opinel No.8
Opinel's classic folding knife practically begs to be taken on a hike with some good hard chorizo, soft Spanish cheese, and a nice baguette. It's the first step to hiking european style. Or at least how I imagine European's hike (always with delicious cheese, meat, and cheap wine. Please don't ruin my visions European readers). I got my Opinel as a gift from a friend, and I love it. And I am an outdoor person, so there is your living proof that this is a good gift.
Opinel makes dozens of variations on this knife that you can pick from when gifting. Cycling friends might love the tk version. Grab your tk lover, the tk version. The one version I don't recommend is the carbon steel version. Carbon steel is great, but in this case, when you're throwing it in your backpack and possibly forgetting about it for long periods of time, carbon steel will rust. Stick with stainless when gifting this.
Water bottle
hatchet
knife
Minus33 sweatshirt
Snow Peak Titanium French Press
Darn Tough socks (bombas for adrienne)
Laws Guide to Nature Journaling
notebook field notes waterproof
binoculars
onX subscription
Local hiking guide
evergoods packing cubes
Black Diamond Mission MX Mitts (chris)
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/
nomad grill
# Darktable
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 finding someone who remembers days when writing machine code was the only way to program.
Elegance is in the eye of the beholder of course. Everyone sees elegance in their favorite text editor, though others may not. Some see elegance in various ways of the fibonnaci sequence, or writing a Perl script in the shape of a dolphin. tk etc
If I were picking the ultimate in elegance I would pick something that might seem obscure, but borders on the magical when you really think about it. It's not just one piece of software, but a chain of things that enable you to transform something you've seen in the real world into something that exists on your screen.
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.
While this is technically true -- the provisions for copying, modifying, and redistributing are governed by the licence -- it ignores the social reality of programming. There is more to software than code.
The code is perhaps the least important part of a software project, particularly a large software project. All software starts with a problem. Good software solves the problem. Great software moves beyond the problem entirely. Which is to say that code must be there, but at some point in the life of a software project the code takes a back seat to the other two elements at play, the human elements, the developers and the users.
These are the two elements that determine the fate of the code (again, taking for granted that the code does in fact solve the problem).
Perhaps the oddest part of programming is that these two factors, the producers and the users often end up producing a tension that can make or break projects. In the best cases this tension drives the project forward. From what I've witnessed over the years in the free software community successful projects have great leadership, whether that's a very talented individual or a governing body of individuals. What makes a great leader is difficult to say, it seems to vary by project even.
While there are doubtless exceptions, most major project splits I've witnessed have been related to personalities within the project more than the capabilities of the code. Think LibreOffice, which spun off of OpenOffice in major part because the developers wanted a more egalitarian project structure, or NextCloud, which was forked from OwnCloud in part because, again, there were cultural differences between developers and the parent company. There are plenty of other examples. WordPress forked from b2, MariaDB from MySQL, Tenacity from Audacity.
In every case the project that ends up continuing is the one that draws in the most developers and most users.
Software without developers quickly dies. This is obvious. What's less obvious is that software without users quickly does the same. Developers need users. The relationship between the two is what makes software more than code, more human.
When we make something public a certain amount of control of that thing slips out of our hands. This is true of any writing, software, fiction, even this column will no longer be exclusively mine once it leaves my notebook. Somewhere in the process of publishing it, I fade to the background, the reader comes to the foreground. What matters now isn't what I have written, but what you think of it. These words don't belong to you in a legal sense, but in reading it you become part of a conversation and any community that surrounds it.
The same is true in software development. Whether you are a contributor or just use a piece of software, you are a part of the conversation that surrounds that software and whatever community may exist around it.
As with communities in other parts of life, some software communities are better than others.
Therefore, you have
certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if
you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others
The conversation and community look different depending on where you stand.
Personally I don't use software made by people I don't like.
Somehow segue to darktable.
One of the more interesting examples of software
like undeveloped film : a raw image can be developed by software in a non-destructive manner to reach a complete image that resolves every pixel in a RGB color space. Raw development adjustments include color, contrast, bjurightness and details recovery. A given raw dataset can be developed many times with different adjustments.
When Adobe moved Lightroom to a subscription model I started looking around for alternatives. I tried a few, but quickly settled on Darktable. It has the same conceptualization as Lightroom -- it is both a photo file manager and RAW image editor -- that it felt familiar even if all the tools and workflow was different.
According to the commits in Git, Darktable came on the scene in 2009. I believe I first began using it in 2010.
So it is literally the raw recording of the camera sensor. It's not even an image file as I understand it, it's just raw data, which is why you need a program like darktable or lightroom to display it.
4:32 PM
But it gives you more editing capabilities than jpg.
4:32 PM
And ultimately, when you're done tweaking it, you export it to JPG, TIFF, PNG or whatever
4:33 PM
Jason Kehe
ahh, fun
4:34 PM
so the column is about darktable - which is obviously NOT a programming language - but, sure, it kinda sorta qualifies as machine-speak in a way, right?
4:36 PM
sng
yeah because I really want to talk about the user/programmer relationship. the give and take (give and build?) that happens there. I'm just going to use darktable as an example of how that works in both good and bad ways.
# Blurbs
## Urbz Window Planter
If space is really tight, consider the Urbz Window Planter, a small plastic orb that moves your counter top garden to the wall. It will attach, and I mean really, solidly attach, to any non-porous surface—windows, a tile backsplash, bathroom mirror, and more. I even got it to stick to some very smoothly varnished wood, although that wasn't quite as secure. These little planting pods are also easy to move around if you change your mind about where to put them.
There's a water catcher so your floor won't get wet, and I was also pleasantly surprised to find that window plantings did not fry in summer or suffer from our cold winter. You will want to stick with sun-loving plants if you put the Urbz in a window, but I had great results growing everything from succulents to herbs in the course of my testing. —Scott Gilbertson
## Root Pouch
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