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As a kid, I got introduced to analog photography by my dad who has been an avid collector of analog cameras, but also took a camera with him whenever we went on vacation to shoot some photos. I enjoyed photography too, but sometimes I felt like I just wanted to shoot photos, instead of dealing with ISO, aperture, focus depth, etc.

As I got into the field of design, and once I started using tools like Photoshop and Lightroom, I really enjoyed just shooting photos and then editing and manipulating them afterwards to create something new and unique. I lost that spark a bit over the course of the last couple of years. Well, I did not lost that spark fully, since I tried to capture any moments with my iPhone whenever I could. Fast forward to today, and I am a happy owner of a Fujifilm X100VI, and I am so excited about having a small form-factor camera, no need to handle around different lenses, simply point and shoot to take photos, and enjoy the beautiful looks of Fujifilm's film simulations, so there is no need to edit images.

I am very much looking forward taking this camera with me wherever I go and get back into photography again.

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Fresh Updates & News

Capacities introduces two-way properties, better queries, and a refreshed design →

Capacities just released an exciting new update that brings significant improvements to data modeling and the overall user experience. Users are now able to use two-way linking of properties. This can be enabled in the settings of an object select property. Once turned on, this allows users to link two related properties of two different object types. As an example, you can link all your "Authors" properties on your book object type with your "Books written" property on your person object type.

Besides that, in this update the "Multi-select" and "Single select" properties have been renamed to "Object select" property to make it clearer what these properties are for. And on the design side, Capacities introduced a refresh to bring a more polished, intuitive, and visually appealing experience across different areas like the Dashboard, Tabs, Cards, Calendar, and more.

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results →

With the rapid developments within the field of AI, it becomes increasingly harder to distinguish AI-generated images, so-called AI slop, from real images. Besides that, the internet gets flooded with AI slop every single day. Therefore, it is a very welcomed change to see that DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting allowing users to filter out AI images in search results. Increasingly, AI slop is getting in the way of finding what you are looking for, and with this new setting DuckDuckGo is fighting against that.

Mental Wealth

❯ The High Agency Mindset – “Which of these best describes you: I feel like the hero of my own story. I feel like a supporting character in someone else’s story. Of course, we all feel a bit of each in different circumstances and at different times. But if you squint, where you fall on this spectrum overall is a pretty good indicator of what might be the most underrated concept in all of psychology: Agency”

❯ How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype – “If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways. When we hype up the technology, we mostly help the people who put money into it. This post isn't about those people or that money, maybe they could use the help… my point is, they are irrelevant when we want to understand the merits of AI. They muddy the waters and overshadow the important questions.”

❯ Never hearing No – “If you are very rich – think multi-millionaire or billionaire – there is a thing you no longer experience really: Hearing no. Sure there will always be people on social media yelling at you and what you did and what you stand for but in your daily life, your actual environment that will happen increasingly rarely.”

❯ The power of doing nothing (and why it helps your creative work) – “In a culture obsessed with productivity, doing nothing can feel like failure. But if your creativity's running on empty, stepping back might be the most powerful move you make all summer. In this article, I'm going to explain why purposeful rest matters and how to give yourself permission to embrace it.”

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Appendix

❯ ICYMI

Are you on the hunt for simple, lightweight, and easy-to-use apps to quickly edit, convert, resize, or optimize your images? Then you should check out Part 5 of my Tiny macOS utility apps I love series, in which I gathered three apps that specifically focus on letting users edit and convert images with ease.

❯ Quick Bits

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