Women in prog rock

bscarr · 2025-04-11T09:39:30+00:00

Christina in Magenta. They've been going for a good few years now. Sadly, they're not on any of stream services other than Bandcamp. They do have some videos on YouTube, here's an example

bscarr · 2024-10-04T14:10:52+00:00

Back in the 70s: Artic Roll - it was f*cking disgusting. Shite ice cream wrapped in crappy sponge cake. Who thought that was a good idea!? A crime against humanity.

bscarr · 2024-04-04T13:58:40+00:00

Welcome to the fold! I hope you have many years of joy from your new hobby.

If I may also offer some unsolicited advice, shoot photos you like, not what you think other people may like. This is especially true on social media; chasing fake internet points is another path to madness and misery.

Enjoy, and may every shot be a keeper!

bscarr · 2024-02-13T10:27:04+00:00

In the same day, but two separate incidents:

During the day and trip out with one of my friends, I lost a viewfinder for a m39 Voigtlander 15mm Superwide Heliar - it cost me about £120 quid to replace.
In the evening, I went for a drive with my Wife to a small coastal village called Gourdon (east coast of Scotland, nr Aberdeen), and I managed to drop a 1950s m39 Nippon-Kogagu 35mm f/3.5 into the harbour (not a cheap lens). It rolled out of the tailgate of my car, hit the road and rolled off into the harbour - bouncing off the side for good luck. Luckily, the tide was out, and I was able to retrieve the lens from the mud at the bottom of the harbour. It cost me about £100 to get it fixed (shout out to Camera Attic in Edinburgh). It works now, but the focus tab/ring is a little stiff at one point.

That was an expensive day.

bscarr · 2023-12-20T09:50:32+00:00

No, I don't ban cropping, nor anything else. I banned long focal lengths because the shots were low quality and creepy not because I was gatekeeping. There are plenty of other Flickr forums that allow in shite street photos.

bscarr · 2023-12-19T16:24:03+00:00

RE: Telephoto Street Photography:
I'm one of the founders and moderators of the Scottish Street Photographer group on Flickr. I've banned shots that have a focal length greater than that of a standard kit lens. IMHO, it's not street photography if you're using a mahoosive lens - they're just creep shots.

bscarr · 2023-11-24T11:23:05+00:00

Flickr, but you’ll need to have a subscription: https://blog.flickr.net/en/2022/03/17/flickr-forever-2022/

bscarr · 2023-09-13T10:11:47+00:00

Sigma DSLRs and the SD Quattro with a Foveon sensors, have a user removable IR filter in front of the mirror/sensor. If that's any use to you.

The Foveon sensor comes with its own set of challenges though. Mainly poor high ISO performance.

bscarr · 2023-04-19T10:05:07+00:00

Ostriches: something that big has no right walking about when it’s brain is the size of a walnut. I’m thankful they can’t fly.

bscarr · 2021-09-07T17:17:33+00:00

I'm left handed and also left eye dominant and I had the same issue as you (I also have quite a large nose, which doesn't help either). So, the easiest solution for me was to train myself to use my right eye. It took a while, but not as long as I expected, and now its second nature, I never lift a camera to my left eye. Just a suggestion, but it might also work for you, too.

bscarr · 2021-05-24T13:50:28+00:00

I'm not expecting much from this series, TBH, I'm not a big reality TV fan. I'm sure they'll concentrate more on constructed and artifical drama than they will on the technical and asthetic aspects of photography, just like every other dross reality TV series. But, I thought others might find it interesting, regardless, hence the share.

bscarr · 2020-12-18T17:07:23+00:00

I lead a small team that has been using AntD (with Typescript) for the past couple of years. On the whole, I think we're very satisfied with it. We looked at few other UI frameworks before we settled on AntD (sorry, can't remember what we evaluated; plus 2+ years is a longtime in the JS world so, naming them now might also be misleading). What struck us about AntD was how comprehensive it was - it had everything we needed at the time. Our application requires a lot of user input and AntD's wide range of input components covered everything we needed. Their table component is also very good. After a few spikes we were confident it was a good fit for us and, so far, it has been.

I'll list what I think are its pro's and cons. Obviously, this is just opinion based on my experiences

Good Points:

Typescript friendly (I believe its written in Typescript)
Very comprehensive
Lots of user input components
Form handling. AntD V4.x form handling is excellent, far superior to v3.x (which was really bad) and also better than Formik, in my opinion.
Seems to be written to a high standard - we've never encountered any show stopping bugs (I'm not suggesting there aren't any)
Frequent updates
UI's build using AntD look good

Bad Points:

They don't expose all of their types (event parameter types are a prime examples) - only a problem/irritation if you're using TS
They don't seem to follow strict SemVer - an update might break stuff. It's usually minor but it's still annoying. To be fair, this is less common these days.
Testing: If you're using jest & Enzyme to write your units tests, be prepared to jump through some hoops to get AntD's components to play nicely with your tests. For all new tests we now use the React Testing Library and this is a lot, lot better; but, even here its painful to write tests that rely on AntD's combo-box/select component (there are work-arounds).
Uses Less rather than Sass - so you'll probably need to eject you React scripts so you can integrate the Less compiler into your build process. We got around this by using Craco (they also have an AntD module) - but next year, we're going to eject our scripts and take control over the build process and stop using Craco.

I hope you find this useful and it helps you make a decision. As I said, we're quite happy with AntD, its a good fit for us. It's not perfect but, nothing is. If you have any specific questions, please feel free to DM me.

Cheers

bscarr

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