Gueorgui @gueorgui@merveilles.town

#introductions

Nice to meet you! My name is Gueorgui, and I'm a photographer, designer, and engineer living and working in London, UK after living in Russia, France, Germany, and Japan.

In my work life, I'm running a tiny creative studio called A Possible Space (https://a.possible.space) together with my wife.

I'm interested in the intersections of art, tech, society, and in working for an ethical, sustainable future.

#photography #tech #society #design #privacy #ethics

Brexit is already with us

I’m now one of those people who can’t believe how freaking expensive Apple hardware is. What happened? Is this what being married and a business owner has turned me into? #MacBookPro16

Cancelled my Thinkpad X1 Carbon order as my macbook has returned from the dead. The Thinkpad will have to wait until next time I upgrade my hardware...

I'm the kind of person who always has 50 tabs open, and this firefox extension has been invaluable for reducing the memory load on my laptop: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

Basically, I'm trying to get the colour inversion part of the process away from the scanning software. I want to scan my negatives as positives (eq to raw files in a digital process) and then be able to mess with colour balance later. ColorPerfect is, as the name implies, perfect for this, but only runs on Mac/Windows.

Hey #photography Fediverse: does anyone know of any (preferably FOSS) negative film inversion software that will run on #Linux? I would like something similar to the wonderful ColorPerfect (https://www.colorperfect.com/) to help implement this workflow on Linux: http://benneh.net/techshit/vuescan-colorperfect-a-guide/

Boosts very welcome!

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “In Session” album is always a huge favourite. So many great tracks! https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ky0KrI4tRVImiv9IqpiSz?si=0OGGj2fmT0yTP0LU3TgJfw #theStudio

When you’re really enjoying nature but also know it is constantly trying to kill you by allergies

I remember absolutely hating UML in university, little did I know that I'd be learning it again 18 years later! This is a decent tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6lqHOVHic and the Dia app on Linux seems like a good editor.

Now playing: Propagandhi -- Victory Lap https://open.spotify.com/track/1p40MAvOzGAO07icf3MuAl?si=0L6Mt1YpSg-kQcw6PZLPkw #theStudio

Now I'm thinking about building a Gnome UI on top of the CLI tool. Don't know where to even start, but will research.

#GoLang's time formatting is whack, by the way. The way to set a format is by writing your own representation of the timestamp "Jan 2 15:04:05 2006 MST". Why? Because:

Year ranges are good to go as well. #theWorkshop

Some progress. User-specifiable Month and Week ranges are now working. #theWorkshop

Submitted my first PR: https://github.com/gochrono/chrono/pull/14 ✨✨✨

I need to figure out a way to move all of my fonts from mac OS to Linux.

The Amstrad ALT-286 was the first computer in my family, we got it around 1991. While my father used it for word processing and spreadsheets, I mostly played games (especially SimCity and Civilization at the time) and tried to hack around the computer's limitations. I remember getting it to run Windows 3.11 "for Workgroups" even though it wasn't officially supported. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/46565/Amstrad-ALT-286-Laptop-Computer/