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This post provides an overview of how to use the new scene-referred workflow in darktable. See this article and the manual for an explanation of what scene-referred means and why you should use it over the display-referred workflow …

Throughout the past decade, in 2013, 2015, and 2018, I've written about what I believe to be the core of Star Trek and how a new series should carry on this important legacy. I am thrilled to report that Star Trek: Picard has fulfilled and surpassed these expectations. Let's explore …

Updated: 8/20/20

Below are some uplifting resources during this time of uncertainty and stress with the COVID-19 pandemic:

• Richard Davidson, the founder of the Center For Healthy Minds, discusses COVID-19 And Our Common Humanity. You can also use the Healthy Minds App to help manage stress during this …

I recently purchased an AMD Raedon RX 570 GPU in order to accelerate Darktable processing operations using OpenCL. It looks like ROCm, AMD's open-source OpenCL implementation, should work. However, the process to install ROCm and enable image support on Arch Linux was not intuitive, so I'm documenting it here.

Before …

A new version of Web Launcher, 1.3.x, is out now with the following major improvements:

• support for Lubuntu 18.04
• Wake-on-LAN capabilities to wake up Viewers from sleep (or even better manage Viewers which don't support WOL)
• improved auto-discovery of viewers, especially for the mouse
• support for automatically …

Mark Knopfler's latest solo album, Down The Road Wherever (YouTube), is perhaps his best work since Shangri-La. His other recent albums (even including Get Lucky, which I reviewed here), have felt too folky for my taste and lacked hints of Dire Straits rock. Down The Road Wherever reduces the folk …

Introduction

I find myself frequently working in high-contrast scenes which makes post-processing a challenge since adjustments to the exposure wreak havoc with colors and I often want to only selectively modify part of the image. Fortunately, Darktable's deeply-integrated LAB support and powerful parametric masks make these difficult shots easy …

It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo. #StarTrek @cbsallaccess Photo: @shervinfoto pic.twitter.com/8Ynuj3RBNm

— Sir Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) August 4, 2018

Introduction

Sir …

I've really enjoyed watching Royal Pains over the last eight years, but it took seeing the finale to be able to really articulate why I like it so much: all of the characters give, and through their giving they receive what they need. For example, Hank helped so many people …

Ansible is a fantastic technology that allows you to deploy and manage servers easily and in a repeatable fashion. One thing that can be tricky is using templates to create complex configuration files. In this example, I'll demonstrate how to use nested variables to create a sample Sanoid config file …