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		<span class="date grey milli">June 6, 2024  - </span>
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		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/quintessence/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">May 3, 2024  - </span>
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		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/other-considerations-nux-jtc-drum-and-loop-pro/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">May 20, 2023  - </span>
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		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/modding-a-hipshot-bass-extender/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">April 26, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym_xoar0z/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/early-2023-ai-reaction/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">April 3, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym_xoar0z/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>Shooting from down low&#8230; as a 195cm (6&#8217;5&#8243;) person I needed this assignment.</p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">March 19, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym_xoar0z/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/high-noon/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">March 6, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/a-month-of-52frames/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">March 1, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym_xoar0z/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/writing-for-petapixel-good-hobbies-vs-great-hobbies/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">February 5, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/52f-black-and-white/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 28, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/obligation-to-learn/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 27, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/photo-of-a-stranger/">View Article</a></p>
		
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	<article id="post-3783" class="box archive-post post-3783 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-personal category-photography tag-52frames">
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 21, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/bass-photography/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 14, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/long-exposure/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 13, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/the-best-part-of-travel/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 5, 2023  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/self-portraits/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">November 18, 2022  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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 class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/%f0%9f%93%b7/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">July 6, 2022  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/managewpbotface/" title="Posts by Arley" rel="author">Arley</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/boilerplate-etymology-a-metaphor-built-on-a-metaphor/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">May 25, 2022  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym/" title="Posts by ArleyM" rel="author">ArleyM</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/solving-infuriating-mac-error-sounds/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">November 8, 2021  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym/" title="Posts by ArleyM" rel="author">ArleyM</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/tech-predictions-for-2022/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">October 29, 2021  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym/" title="Posts by ArleyM" rel="author">ArleyM</a></span>

		<p>One of the most exciting upcoming HTML primitives that’s being developed right now is the &lt;dialog&gt; element &#8211; this will create a native version of... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/most-anticipated-dom-element-of-2022/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">October 14, 2021  - </span>
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		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/exploring-ai-2021/">View Article</a></p>
		
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		<span class="date grey milli">January 7, 2021  - </span>
		<span class="author grey milli">By <a href="https://arleym.com/author/arleym/" title="Posts by ArleyM" rel="author">ArleyM</a></span>

		<p>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... <a class="view-article" href="https://arleym.com/a-quieter-more-private-web/">View Article</a></p>
		
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