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		<title>Quintessence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a youtube interview with Jerry Seinfeld I heard him quote a book on &#8220;Quintessence&#8221; &#8211; the quality an object has, to be perfect in itself. He gave Bic Pens and Levi 501s as examples. I find this idea fascinating. Some quotes from the short book that I borrowed from archive.org: In a roundabout way... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/quintessence/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Other Considerations: NUX JTC Drum and Loop Pro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I should make a video about this &#8211; I bought this pedal, and it needed help. Out of the box the micro-USB didn&#8217;t work. There are software gotchas too. Video someday.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Modding a Hipshot bass extender</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently my longtime friend Matt sent me a gift &#8211; a Hipshot extender aka detuner! This replacement machine tuner gives me a switch to change my lowest string from standard E tuning down to D (there are other options, but this is all I use it for). Why didn&#8217;t Matt keep it?! It made his... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/modding-a-hipshot-bass-extender/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷 Early 2023 AI Reaction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about AI. Some personal conclusions: If I ever post an AI generated thing I&#8217;ll tell you, but I do consider AI-assisted tech (like autofocus or Photoshop) to be basic tools not worth mentioning The easier it becomes to generate beautiful images the less valuable they are, thus the more valuable... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/early-2023-ai-reaction/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷 Shooting low</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shooting from down low&#8230; as a 195cm (6&#8217;5&#8243;) person I needed this assignment.]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷 High Noon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Snowkeh again! The goal for this week&#8217;s photo is the harsh lighting of noon &#8211; but almost every day was overcast, so I have the great &#8220;diffuser in the sky&#8221; for this shot. This is my safety shot, which lacks the extreme shadows of the example shot. Yet, this was shot at literal noon. When... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/high-noon/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷 Shallow DOF, Chair, Lyrics, Macro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here are 4 photo posts in one&#8230; World Travel and hosting provider failures; I&#8217;ve not kept up so I&#8217;m batching a few weeks into one post. Shallow DOF Shallow DOF is challenging with my fastest lens as it really fights against my camera&#8217;s autofocus; the &#8220;nifty fifty&#8221; 50mm f1.8 mark ii still can get great... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/a-month-of-52frames/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Writing for PetaPixel! Good Hobbies vs. Great Hobbies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2015 my wife pointed out that I am &#8220;a fun guy, who doesn&#8217;t know what fun is&#8221;. It&#8217;s a long story how we arrived there, but the point is that I really had no hobby. Years of experimenting helped me form some guidelines to help myself discover a hobby worth spending time on. When... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/writing-for-petapixel-good-hobbies-vs-great-hobbies/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷 Black and White</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 23:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This already feels like &#8220;the one that got away&#8221;. Black and White photography is a favourite to be a viewer of, and I have enjoyed some results in my own shooting &#8211; but a very full schedule gave me few opportunities for shooting. My biggest epiphany from my weekly video crash-course was that I can... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/52f-black-and-white/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Obligation to Learn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 23:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I should learn more stuff. So should you! In my youth if I needed to learn something specific I had to travel somewhere; usually a room full a books that I had to take a bus to. Now I don&#8217;t even have to leave the couch. In less than a decade, the information-hunting experience went... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/obligation-to-learn/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>📷 Photo of a Stranger &#8211; SNOWKEH!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week 52 Frames gave us the scariest challenge yet &#8211; photographing a stranger. When the snow began to fall in the most beautiful way I knew it was ideal conditions &#8211; what I hadn&#8217;t factored in was that it was time for people to take the trash to the curb for early morning collection.... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/photo-of-a-stranger/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>📷 Bass Photography</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s 52 Frames challenge we had to photograph our hobby &#8211; I refuse to do a meta posting on photography, which leaves only bass guitar. In my photo description I gush about the iconic design work of Leo Fender which has essentially defined what a bass guitar even is. I have a early... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/bass-photography/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>📷 Long Exposure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s 52frames challenge was a long exposure. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever shot in Timed Value mode before this. I give this shot a B+, it&#8217;s not quite what I was envisioning, but I liked the stark difference with the black glass reflecting the swirling light. I did a few dozen attempts to get... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/long-exposure/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Best Part of Travel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Travel is fun! Novel experiences are saved in our memories with a higher degree of quality than our routine. The best part of travel is challenging our perception of what is normal. My little slice of Canadiana is not normal &#8211; not in a global sense, not historical human history. There has only been one... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/the-best-part-of-travel/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>📷 Self Portraits</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is week 1 in the 52frames.com annual challenge. I have found it so helpful to have an assignment and the accountability of friends also doing it. I thought it would be cool to &#8220;show my work&#8221; as I learn about the various facets of the challenges. This week: Self-portraits. I&#8217;m usually behind the camera,... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/self-portraits/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>📷</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The single most enjoyable surprise of the pandemic has been rediscovering my love of photography. With the chaos of agency work and having children, using a &#8220;real camera&#8221; was almost a forgotten art. I purchased a modern mirrorless camera purely to have the best webcam possible for any lighting conditions I could face in future... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/%f0%9f%93%b7/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Boilerplate Etymology: a metaphor built on a metaphor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently a team member asked me why we use the term &#8220;boilerplate&#8221;. A metaphorical shorthand is only ideal if it&#8217;s understood, otherwise it starts being poor communication, so I finally looked up the etymology of the term! First, here&#8217;s the context in which I was using it as a software/web development term. &#8220;Boilerplate&#8221; became common... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/boilerplate-etymology-a-metaphor-built-on-a-metaphor/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solving Infuriating Mac Error Sounds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ArleyM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look. I&#8217;m not the most patient person. When my Mac started making the bonk/boop/beep sound with my Command+Ctrl+Down Arrow line-bubbling keyboard shortcut I started slowly losing my mind. I originally thought it was just a VS Code issue, but either the move to Sublime Text 4 or a M1 introduced the issue to my favourite... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/solving-infuriating-mac-error-sounds/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tech Predictions for 2022</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ArleyM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my house we rely on technology to the point where much of it is invisible; so common place that we take for granted its function and presence. Air conditioning, electric light, even Internet are so ubiquitous as to be assumed! Before a technology reaches this point it has to reach critical mass. It&#8217;s so... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/tech-predictions-for-2022/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dialog: The most anticipated DOM element of 2022?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ArleyM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting upcoming HTML primitives that’s being developed right now is the &#60;dialog&#62; element &#8211; this will create a native version of the pattern we know as modals or popups. Modals are notoriously annoying and difficult to have be accessible. Let’s imagine we have a modal that is triggered by a button... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/most-anticipated-dom-element-of-2022/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exploring AI 2021</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ArleyM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spoke in Chapel today at Crossroads, and began with this video, titling my talk &#8220;Deep Calls to Deep&#8221; (citing a classic Bible verse from the Psalm 42) I wish I could have seen all the reactions&#8230; The contents of the video are in the structure a typical Chapel message; I have shared a personal... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/exploring-ai-2021/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A quieter, more private web</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a noisy world isn&#8217;t it? The conflict, confusion, and controversies of 2020 continue (published on March 283rd, 2020). As a result I am all-but off of Twitter, additionally I&#8217;ll be shutting down my Facebook-related accounts in the coming days. If you know me from one of these contexts please stay in touch; arleym@gmail.com. If... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/a-quieter-more-private-web/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
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