Day 88: They Call It a Pediment

2026-05-05

Hello! First, a technical note: the homepage now only loads 30 images instead of 50 images. It used to have an infinite limit, but I'm on Day 88 now and I really don't want people scrolling so long — it probably causes accessibility nightmares. As always, a linked-text list is available for all articles.

Okay, an actually short article today. Although, instead of studying for exams, I'm wasting my time learning basic coding at dingusberry.com with as little AI as possible; you can check out my latest experiments there :-). I took a short class in school on web design, and we started with HTML and CSS, ending up with learning Bootstrap, which I quickly discovered was overkill for anything I wanted to do with it.

Jargon, the set of industry-specific vocabulary words and phrases, always seemed weird to me. Until I started learning jargon of my own, and repeating it without a second thought. Finance and economics is probably the worst offender here; it's so loaded with acronyms and abbreviations that no one outside a college economics course would understand.

Photography has those jargon words too. I'll list three of them: bokeh, exposure triangle, and pixel peeping.

No, I'm not explaining them. Instead, I'll link to a great glossary on Wikimedia Commons that has definitions for these terms and, like, a hundred other.

Finally, John Tinkelenberg reflecting on the revival of a local creek is a great short story, if nothing else. It pulls on the right emotional strings and has a great beginning and end, and I wish I could create stories like that — the kind that moves you to think. Not today, though!

Cheers,
David