Robert Kosara

The first four weeks of digital solargraphs are in the bank! Over 45,000 individual shots across two cameras, 380GB of RAW files condensed into a few seconds of video 😅

The daily solargraph is the continuation of my digital solargraphy project. You can watch every day's capture as a little video, or scrub through manually. The new capture is added every night around 10pm PDT. eagereyes.org/app/daily-so...

Spending some time to clean up old links in blog posts and comments. A lot of things have gone away, pretty sad to see. So long Charticulator, Circos, iCharts, kartograph, Kuler, a bunch of yearly EuroVis and VIS workshop sites (BELIV!), and a whole lot of people's academic websites.

Good use of LLMs though, I had Claude build some scripts, and then Fable orchestrated 25 Haiku agents to classify uses of links into incidental (could break removed automatically) and "load-bearing" (hey, it's Claude after all!).

Spending some time to clean up old links in blog posts and comments. A lot of things have gone away, pretty sad to see. So long Charticulator, Circos, iCharts, kartograph, Kuler, a bunch of yearly EuroVis and VIS workshop sites (BELIV!), and a whole lot of people's academic websites.

Something fun you can do with digital solargraphs that you can't with paper, is look at each daily streak separately and admire the patterns. Here are four from the last few days in Seattle, the first on the solstice (6/21), and then 6/26-28.

It's kind of odd how The Twist clouds so much of my memory of The Sixth Sense. It was an incredibly well done movie, might be time to re-watch (27 years later 😬). youtu.be/ujH-6k218Kc

$12K for an original Playfair? In this economy? Though the little historical snippet about Playfair and his relationship with the prime minister at the time (who owned this copy) is kind of interesting. www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

I just sent out emails to everybody who was subscribed to my website back when it was on WordPress. If that's you, check your spam folder :) You'll have to confirm your subscription or it won't be activated. There's interesting new stuff coming, you don't want to miss it…

There's something about USB power I just don't understand. This is old-school 5V power, not power delivery. It seems that USB hubs provide more power when no host device is present than when there is a computer there. So devices might work without host, but fail to boot up when there is one.

In my case, it's for a pair of GoPro cameras. They power up just fine on a power brick, and on some USB hubs when there's no computer. But the point was to control them over USB, which is impossible unless I want to turn them on by hand each time power comes back (which I don't).

There's something about USB power I just don't understand. This is old-school 5V power, not power delivery. It seems that USB hubs provide more power when no host device is present than when there is a computer there. So devices might work without host, but fail to boot up when there is one.

I'm trying to make some nice transitions from one place on the globe to another. Are there any good web apps or similar for this? I'm trying Google Earth Studio, but when I export, I get… this.

JFC, the Google Earth "Pro" app for macOS is intel-only

I'm trying to make some nice transitions from one place on the globe to another. Are there any good web apps or similar for this? I'm trying Google Earth Studio, but when I export, I get… this.

New video in the works… currently in the "arguing with Claude about thumbnail layout and title options" phase

Me: Hmmmm, should I look into some way to add comments to my static-site blog? Claude Code: here, let me build a commenting system that creates PRs on your repo with a custom-written Lambda and walk you through how to set it up. Me: okay

I haven't been very active here or, uh, anywhere. But I just completely revamped my website and will be adding more stuff over time. I'm also bringing back some of the things I broke in a previous transition. Take a look and let me know what you think! eagereyes.org

Specifically, I've reimplemented my ZIPScribble map to be interactive. You can now zoom by hovering over the navigation bar at the bottom, by numeric range or by state (US only for now). eagereyes.org/app/zipscrib...