Abbie Schenk
@abbieschenk.com
Software developer / Photographer interested in storytelling whether via data or multimedia, past or present.
Posting about things I’m up to, and thoughts on tech, photography, and digital culture history.
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wayswe.travel @wayswe.travel
Posting about things I’m up to, and thoughts on tech, photography, and digital culture history.
abbieschenk.com
wayswe.travel @wayswe.travel
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Sunlight and alps peak out from behind a mountaintop hut in Wallis (Valais), Switzerland.
Taken with a Fujifilm X-E4 and an adapted Canon FD 85mm f/1.2
Taken with a Fujifilm X-E4 and an adapted Canon FD 85mm f/1.2
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sunlight and alps peak out from behind a mountaintop hut in Wallis (Valais), Switzerland.
Taken with a Fujifilm X-E4 and an adapted Canon FD 85mm f/1.2
Taken with a Fujifilm X-E4 and an adapted Canon FD 85mm f/1.2
and there we go — a little image carousel svelte island on the wayswe.travel main page, with a timestamp and a TV static transition effect.
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
and there we go — a little image carousel svelte island on the wayswe.travel main page, with a timestamp and a TV static transition effect.
Pretty happy with how this little component is coming along though :)
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pretty happy with how this little component is coming along though :)
Pitfalls of AI coding: trying to check if my Svelte unpic Image loaded, and was getting convoluted solutions using custom event listeners, runes, etc... the working and simpler way was to use "onload" instead of "on:load" b/c unpic doesn't implement on:load but onload gets passed down to the img.
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pitfalls of AI coding: trying to check if my Svelte unpic Image loaded, and was getting convoluted solutions using custom event listeners, runes, etc... the working and simpler way was to use "onload" instead of "on:load" b/c unpic doesn't implement on:load but onload gets passed down to the img.
Aftermath of the World Cheese Awards
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Aftermath of the World Cheese Awards
Baseball is peak sport, and peak game.
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Baseball is peak sport, and peak game.
As an Oilers fan and a Jays fan, I’m currently taking offers to become a fan of whichever team you want to lose in the final round.
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
As an Oilers fan and a Jays fan, I’m currently taking offers to become a fan of whichever team you want to lose in the final round.
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Abbie Schenk
The Star Ferry approaches the Wan Chai terminal on Hong Kong island.
More photos @ wayswe.travel/articles/sta...
More photos @ wayswe.travel/articles/sta...
September 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Star Ferry approaches the Wan Chai terminal on Hong Kong island.
More photos @ wayswe.travel/articles/sta...
More photos @ wayswe.travel/articles/sta...
I thought I’d post photos from my photo-blog to Instagram, to get some people to see my stuff. But opening the app is making me wonder if my motivation to post photos hasn’t been gone for the past 10 years because I worked in it, but because of the platform itself.
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I thought I’d post photos from my photo-blog to Instagram, to get some people to see my stuff. But opening the app is making me wonder if my motivation to post photos hasn’t been gone for the past 10 years because I worked in it, but because of the platform itself.
Worked on this site off and on for years and finally got it up! Basically a place to finally post a lot of travel photos, memories, etc. that my partner and I have collected over the years, that isn’t bound to someone else’s platform.
The site is up 👀🌐 wayswe.travel
September 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Worked on this site off and on for years and finally got it up! Basically a place to finally post a lot of travel photos, memories, etc. that my partner and I have collected over the years, that isn’t bound to someone else’s platform.
Good short article from Cal Newport.
Social media gives the illusion of meaningfulness. “In reality, you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory, while billionaire overseers mock your efforts and celebrate their growing net worths.”
calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...
Social media gives the illusion of meaningfulness. “In reality, you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory, while billionaire overseers mock your efforts and celebrate their growing net worths.”
calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...
On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil Society - Cal Newport
Many of you have been asking me about the assassination of the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk earlier this week during a campus event at Utah ... Read more
calnewport.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Good short article from Cal Newport.
Social media gives the illusion of meaningfulness. “In reality, you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory, while billionaire overseers mock your efforts and celebrate their growing net worths.”
calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...
Social media gives the illusion of meaningfulness. “In reality, you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory, while billionaire overseers mock your efforts and celebrate their growing net worths.”
calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...
The mental tug-of-war between wanting to wait 3 years for the iPhone Turbomax with 27 new cameras vs. switching back to my Sony T700i
August 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The mental tug-of-war between wanting to wait 3 years for the iPhone Turbomax with 27 new cameras vs. switching back to my Sony T700i
Almost done a project I’ve been hacking away at for too long so it seems like the perfect time to finally learn vim
August 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Almost done a project I’ve been hacking away at for too long so it seems like the perfect time to finally learn vim
Thinking about switching some apps just to make my dock less confusing
August 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Thinking about switching some apps just to make my dock less confusing
If Apple could make the German (Swiss) setting not show weird approximations of Swiss-German spelling in the weather app, and instead refrain from autocorrecting words with two s’s to ß, that would be great!
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If Apple could make the German (Swiss) setting not show weird approximations of Swiss-German spelling in the weather app, and instead refrain from autocorrecting words with two s’s to ß, that would be great!
Very cool thing I came across today: Strudel, a tool for creating music with code, with an in-browser REPL strudel.cc/workshop/get...
Getting Started 🚀 Strudel
Strudel is a music live coding editor that brings TidalCycles to the browser.
strudel.cc
June 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Very cool thing I came across today: Strudel, a tool for creating music with code, with an in-browser REPL strudel.cc/workshop/get...
I'm a rare X-E4 owner, and use it for stills, film scanning, and a bit of video. The X-E5 looks solid — all I'd want more is weatherproofing and tethering. But since IBIS for video is the only reason I'd have to upgrade (and it's really expensive) I'd sooner get a more video-focused camera.
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm a rare X-E4 owner, and use it for stills, film scanning, and a bit of video. The X-E5 looks solid — all I'd want more is weatherproofing and tethering. But since IBIS for video is the only reason I'd have to upgrade (and it's really expensive) I'd sooner get a more video-focused camera.
After everything that happened over the last few months, I wanted to start self-hosting my few websites instead of relying on infrastructure hosted in a place descending into a hostile unknown — the rest of BlueSky is annoying enough about it so I won't get into it.
June 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
After everything that happened over the last few months, I wanted to start self-hosting my few websites instead of relying on infrastructure hosted in a place descending into a hostile unknown — the rest of BlueSky is annoying enough about it so I won't get into it.
Surprised to find I'm not totally lost watching the follow-up to the Lego Island decompilation video. Turns out we were doing something similar at my first dev job when we were modifying and validating Neverwinter Nights save files via bytecode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthm...
So we FINISHED decompiling LEGO Island...
YouTube video by MattKC
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May 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Surprised to find I'm not totally lost watching the follow-up to the Lego Island decompilation video. Turns out we were doing something similar at my first dev job when we were modifying and validating Neverwinter Nights save files via bytecode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthm...
Saw the original Terminator for the first time tonight, projected on 35mm film from its original 1985 run, scratches included. I don’t always agree with the people saying “the way it’s meant to be seen,” but this is for sure high on the list of ways it’s meant to be seen.
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Saw the original Terminator for the first time tonight, projected on 35mm film from its original 1985 run, scratches included. I don’t always agree with the people saying “the way it’s meant to be seen,” but this is for sure high on the list of ways it’s meant to be seen.
Reposted by Abbie Schenk
Back in 2005, the Wikipedia article for 2023 only had one piece of information
February 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Back in 2005, the Wikipedia article for 2023 only had one piece of information
Sometimes I roam Google Earth looking for remote islands I wish I could visit, but likely never will. The latest I found out about is Kerguelen. Some neat trivia and links:
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Sometimes I roam Google Earth looking for remote islands I wish I could visit, but likely never will. The latest I found out about is Kerguelen. Some neat trivia and links:
Wired has a great longform article about Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Wired has a great longform article about Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...