Taken on 2026-05-15. This is acceptably overkill, for such a simple photo.

Day 100: Three Hundred Links

2026-05-17

Hello! Wow, new order of magnitude!

For the past three weeks, I've been in contact with various bloggers and friends across the internet to promote 300+ different things. I've read (or seen) all these things myself, and that I think you might find them interesting.

If you're already a reader of mine, you'll know I try to link to something interesting at the end of each day's entry. This is 300+ of those.

And if you're not a reader of mine, become one! I'd especially love to know if you clicked through any of the 300+ links here and found them interesting, or if you were mentioned in the list below. Let's just get started, shall we?

This is divided into a few sections to make it less obvious how mind-numbingly long this is.

Let's start with the articles I really love and thought were worth getting their own place at the end of a regular day's article. I had already typed up their paragraph (hence all the "finally"s), but the rate of finding cool links outpaced the daily quota pretty quickly.

Finally, this detailed look at touring Vietnam. Social media tends to lock me in to North American (or British) perspectives — yet another reason why I'm trying to leave entirely — so when an article like this comes my way, it's very welcome. Ravi, a techie from India, shares the food, the views, and the transit of Vietnamese cities, and even bothered to license all images under Creative Commons.
Finally, a gallery of drawings, digitally painted using the free iPhone Notes app. These sketches have an epic feel, simple but vibrant and powerful. ... I'm not great at describing art, am I?
Finally, I'm linking to a huge photography project, documenting all the US Postal Service stations. It's a really cool look into the rural American landscape, and how the USPS has survived throughout history.
Finally, visiting an active temple of rats. Now, there's two ways to view this — one, as the prejudiced tourist treating the temple as an oddity, and two, as an outsider who is willing to go and learn the names and titles of each rat. The writer of the article described their experience with huge kindness, and as a result, their images are respectful and intimate.
Finally, I'm loving the street photos from Portuguese photographer Maique, especially their series of street stickers. It's so dang simple — take a photo of a sticker surrounded by its context — but because the subject keeps changing, it's also so dang interesting.
Finally, German photographer Dariusz Winkler is on sabbatical, traveling across the world with a camera. Lucky. His photos from New Zealand are like nothing else, and I'm linking to a specific photo of a beautiful landscape that you just need to pull out your phone for.
Finally — and I can't believe I haven't linked to this already — Teejay from the United States is trying many different pens and many more different inks, writing their blog posts on paper! I now want to try messing with pens, if only to buy obnoxious glistening / shimmering inks.
Finally, space photos are so advanced and so beautiful, that it's hard to show a photo that stands above and beyond. But I found one! And it's featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, where a lagoon reflects the Milky Way — sideways.
Finally, I'm inspired by the silhouettes of the early morning sunrise, photographed by Ray Grasso in Australia. I meant to take several sunrise photos like it, but I got busy and I also don't like going outside that early...
Finally, a close look at the creation of color film. Not the processing of it, but how a full company makes the stuff with science. Of course, take the video with a grain of salt — it's published by the company itself, so there must be some conflict of interest — but I've never seen research and development shown in an accessible medium like this before.
Finally, The Atlantic republished an introduction to street photographer Lee Friedlander, and when I saw this, I was worried it was an obituary of a classic photographer. But he's still alive, according to Wikipedia. Thank goodness.
Finally, I'm unsure if I should share this link. This is a list of five ways to "reverse brain rot", and for such a serious topic (maybe complex is a better word) and it's so easy to hype up something based on no evidence. This is one of those cases — no evidence, pulled from a blog post that sources a podcast hosted by some guy believing in "Study Hacks". I don't trust this at all. I'm sharing it anyway, because I want you to try and disagree with every single of the five ways, in an exercise of nuance and a reminder to never take things this sensitive at face value. For the silly things, great. Scroll on. But for things such as your brain, maybe stop and think with it.
Finally, some technical information for nerds. Not by me, but by a lens testing website that can put clinical sharpness into clinical numbers.
Finally, Artemis has flown and landed. That's old news. Even the photos have been released and thoroughly inspected... on Flickr. Why's that? It's just one of NASA's many publishing platforms, but the dive on Flickr is especially interesting.
Finally, something I missed from the Earth Day celebrations this April. NASA published satellite imagery of rivers and land formations that happen to look like alphabet letters, and you can spell words with them! They want you to write your name, but you could also just type aaaaaaaaaaa and see what you get.
Finally, space nerds that get to be nerds can make crazy things. Internet influencer Hank Green has used AI to make a website on the Artemis II timeline, through photography. It's dark mode only, so you know it's modern and AI. It doesn't run without JavaScript enabled, but that's okay — my site doesn't either... but I've done my best!
You all really liked Michail Rybakov's gradient.horse that I shared in early May, so I found a photography-related thing made by the same guy: how shaky is your hand at arms length, taking a panorama photo with your iPhone after a long period of time?
Finally, the Kolar Kola. I know next-to-nothing about the tech industry and the economy at large, but I'm noticing a trend where a lot of competition is being reduced. We lost a bunch of airlines in 2007 (and Spirit Airlines is leaving as of late), we lost independent forums and blogs to centralized platforms like Reddit and X, and the cameras of today are produced by maybe five or six companies, compared to the wacky inventions of a comparatively tiny business from the 1930s. To be clear, I'm not 100% opposed to this consolidation — I can't think of anyone who still cares about the latest Sony Xperia phone, when Apple, Samsung, and Google have mostly got it figured out in the US — but it is a bit unexciting.
Finally, swapping doomscrolling for reading comic books. Joel Harley details his rediscovery of comic book reading and how it has improved his mental health. I have no idea why The Guardian wrote an article about this — must be a slow news week — and I especially dislike the line of the mind's "self-sabotaging devices", as if addicted users are doing this entirely by themselves without any outside force. The decision to read comic books (or anything that replaces social media) is a successful fight against billions of dollars of advertising, culture, and psychology research against you. The cards are not stacked in your favor, and the blame should reflect that. Put in a different way: the words "social media / screen detox" and "escape from the digital world" are not coded with words strong enough to describe the humongous effort it takes to step up against this madness. Any step up is a momentous occasion, a genuine win. The victory is yours, the blame is not.
Finally, gnarly science. The US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reviews vehicles for their safety, and part of that testing requires them to crash vehicles into a wall. Cool!
Finally, Chrome installed AI to my computer, and I didn't realize it. I found this article on how to uninstall it, and now I have four gigabytes of extra storage. It took me sixty seconds. The one hidden trick they don't want you to know.
Finally, David Attenborough — possibly the most well-known David — has turned one hundred years old. The human impact on the world is terrifying, and we don't know what we're missing. Every shot in the documentaries he helps make reality is wallpaper material. Today, I'm going to the library and the local thrift stores and see if I can spot a David Attenborough film or piece of media. I bet they're all taken, but I'll update soon.
Finally, media personality Adam Savage got access to IMAX headquarters and made a couple of videos showing how the giant machines work. In short: they're old and need replacing.
Finally, my school uses Canvas. At a pretty important time of year, it became under attack. I'm linking to an article by The Atlantic not because it's particularly informative (it's not) but because it tells a larger story about a teacher and a student realizing the world, running on "software as a service", is not what it used to be.
Finally, a starry night unlike any other. Angel Fux from Switzerland rides a helicopter up 4200 meters and sees three glowing arches in the night sky. She combines many original images into one final file, using professional astronomical imaging software that I've never heard of. Angel is planning on making a follow-up letter, and I'll share that as well when it is released.
Finally, photographer Sarah Teng takes a sponsored trip to north Japan and shares her street photography results. I didn't know how much I like vlogs until I watched this, and it's making me consider returning to my old practice of filming my photowalks. There's a shot somewhere about fourteen minutes in, of a seemingly-endless sprawl of urban buildings in twilight, and it's beautiful.
Finally, a stroll through the world's street markets, through photography. Every so often, Flickr posts a compilation of photos around a certain theme and it's great.
Finally, movie character types into the real world. Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry of the 2000s, has produced a mix of disruption then and nostalgia now, and people are out to relive it. I'm not going to pretend like I know anything about anything, but photographer Marc Baptiste has published a photo series of Nigerian women in New York City abandoning the old cultural norms and sticking to whatever the modern era — sanitized and polished — isn't. Whatever labels I could apply ("counterculture", "radical", "underground") probably don't fit here.
Finally, some red, white, & blue. Look, it's such a simple photo. I might not even think twice about the image, until I saw the title. And I love clever titles. I have a few on my website that I'm proud of, but a lot just leave much to be desired. Chris Schlarb, your photo titles are great. I hope I can learn from you.
Finally, make your own (digital) mixtape. Not really a web game, not really a music recommendation, but a little bit of both. I don't actually know what this is; I'm not a millenial, which I assume is the age group they're trying to get nostalgia money from. It seems to be a good adventure tale of the old days (the 1990s or 2000s), complete with its own (paid) video game that I haven't tried. They don't have an about page, which I thought was a standard for most companies these days, so I can't parse their official explanation if they have one. If you can piece together what this is, let me know and I'll probably replace this paragraph of confusion.
Finally, I forgot NPR Tiny Desk was a thing! I only heard of them maybe once or twice when they held the virtual Home series during the COVID-19 pandemic, but these days it looks like they're sticking to that stripped-down style of certain music genres. I'm listening to Daniel Caesar's second performance this January, and the choir of backup singers sounds especially beautiful.
Finally, I've found someone taking the challenge to draw a pokemon every day. I previously thought of taking pictures relating to each generation I Pokemon, but I've yet to take action on that idea.
Finally: "what can I tell you? We are funded by the federal government", said a judge in California ruling over a court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, two rich men in a legal dispute over OpenAI's non-profit status.
Finally, a marathon barrier has been broken. Marathon has been known as a simple and "gear-agnostic" sport that a wide range of people can try. But breaking the two-hour barrier requires millions of dollars by shoe companies and scientists.
Finally, the impressionist art movement was not successful when Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro were beginning. These struggling artists depended largely on one art dealer to support their work: Paul Durand-Ruel, whose story is fascinating.
Finally, I'm finding the cheapest activity to stay healthy: walking. It's a free sport, so long as you have a place to walk to outside (or if you're particularly resourceful, a free treadmill that you can bargain for on various online marketplaces... it seems like everyone wants to give those away!). A friend gave me a single-purpose pedometer to track steps. It doesn't know what the Internet is, and if it runs out of electricity, it can be replaced with a standard coin battery. I've yet to pay them back for this gift, but I'm planning to use it to reach 13,000 steps every day, as per this NPR article. It's likely that I'm just going to be hitting 7,000 steps daily, but 13,000 is a nice stretch goal.

I think that you can make a profile of anyone based on what they choose to share and what they find interesting. My common sources of inspiration, news, and general reading are all aggregated into one technical app called NetNewsWire, which is an RSS reader.

RSS is a powerful (but technical) tool that combats the dreaded infinite scroll of social media. If you like a YouTube channel, you subscribe to it. YouTube lets you see your subscriptions all in one page, without an algorithm. It aggregates everything and shows you what you already want, for free.

Clicking the YouTube subscribe button isn't the only way to subscribe. RSS lets you to subscribe to YouTube channels. And news sites. And comic releases. And Google Alerts. And email newsletters. And blogs (like my own). All in one app.

That app, for me, is NetNewsWire, but there's so many alternatives out there. I used to use Feeder, which was a website, but it was sort of slow, and I was approaching the limit.

It automatically reads from hundreds of feeds and shows them to me on one page. It doesn't matter if the websites have different layouts. They all talk to the feed reader.

The only catch is that access to these feeds remains a secret. You have to look for them.

... Or you could plug any website, including YouTube, to rsslookup.com which will find it for you. (This is why I ended up using RSS. It's just too easy!)

I have nearly two hundred RSS feeds in one place(!) I never go to YouTube — all my subscribed channels send their videos to me, within an hour of being uploaded. I follow photography news from ten sites from one folder in my reader. Go try it on a site you read; they probably support RSS already. That's how I am able to pull more than 300 different interesting links so quickly. I actually meant to do one thousand, but that will be a goal for the future instead...

And for those sites which want you to sign up for their email list: kill-the-newsletter.com offers a workaround by generating a random email to subscribe to the newsletter, converting incoming emails to RSS, and pushing it to your feed reader.

Oh, and since you're reading from a separate app or website, you skip the ads and clunky popups that plague the modern internet. It is truly really simple.

The following is a list of everything I've read almost exclusively through aggregated RSS sources.

I use my RSS reader app for more than aggregated sources, though. Over time, I've collected 50+ solo photographers and bloggers that I find interesting. I've linked every single one below, with at least two from each website.

The following is a list of everything I've read through individual blogs and photographer websites.

Sites with higher production and a team of staff don't interest me as much, but there's still a few gems that I pay attention to.

My website is written and edited by me! I limit analytics, screen addiction, AI assistance, and I'm cutting them off as I go. If you want to support my photography passion without opening your wallet, then I would love to at least hear from you. Really!

The following is a list of news and magazine sites.

... I really hope that this article doesn't cause my website to be perceived as a content aggregation tool. I'm a photographer usually! And a hobbyist musician. And a reader. And an online nerd.

I initially sent out a draft of this article to the bloggers and photographers that I included here. Some have replied, inviting me to dig deeper, with great pointers at the internet rabbit holes they're thriving in.

The following is a list of interesting links that others have recommended to me.

Okay, I'm done with the websites, articles, and blogs. Now for some music and books that I love listening to and reading. I could probably write a paragraph for each item here, but I think there's so many of them that they all deserve to be consolidated in one place.

These are also books that I haven't finished, or music albums that I don't know much about.

The following is a list of music and books.

Tenth of December: Stories. I never finished it.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. I couldn't even start it.
Jacob Collier - Norwegian Wood.

And finally, some YouTube videos. Because it's the only social media I'm still addicted to... I'm not proud of it either.

The following is a list of YouTube videos.

If I made a mistake (link doesn't work, duplicate items, unfair bias, etc.) please let me know.

And if I didn't, tell all your friends how perfect this article is. I didn't collect links just for myself to click on!

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Cheers,
David

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Camera: Nikon D7200
Lens: Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro
Focal length: 70mm
Exposure: 1/640 sec shutter speed, f/4 aperture, ISO 640
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2026-05-17

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