Chuck
@chuckdries.com
Software engineer & photographer in Portland, OR
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Chuck
@chuckdries.com
· Nov 7
Hakone Open Air Museum on Kodak Gold
These are all from the single roll I put through my Hasselblad 500C when I went last week. My hit rate on this trip has been insane
grain.social
I put these and 6 more from that roll in this gallery on @grain.social. That's 10 whole bangers on a roll of 12 total. Probably my best hit rate ever grain.social/profile/chuc...
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.
He had this to say about the experience:
He had this to say about the experience:
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.
He had this to say about the experience:
He had this to say about the experience:
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
I just got back from a delightful two week trip to Japan. I decided to only pack 3 rolls of film, thinking I'd get more once I got there, but I actually only ended up using two rolls total. I shot one of them during our day in Okayama. These are all from that single Cinestill 50D roll.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I just got back from a delightful two week trip to Japan. I decided to only pack 3 rolls of film, thinking I'd get more once I got there, but I actually only ended up using two rolls total. I shot one of them during our day in Okayama. These are all from that single Cinestill 50D roll.
Last week I visited the Hakone Open Air Museum, and I just scanned the photos tonight. These are Kodak Gold - I only used a single roll of film that day but I am really really pleased with almost every photo I took
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Last week I visited the Hakone Open Air Museum, and I just scanned the photos tonight. These are Kodak Gold - I only used a single roll of film that day but I am really really pleased with almost every photo I took
Starting a petition to get them to actually enforce the NO WAITING signs in the arrivals roadway at PDX
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Starting a petition to get them to actually enforce the NO WAITING signs in the arrivals roadway at PDX
I find myself with an unexpected 24 hour layover in Seattle. Anyone got ideas for something to do?
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I find myself with an unexpected 24 hour layover in Seattle. Anyone got ideas for something to do?
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This is why a single app store on a given device is bad.
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.
reut.rs
October 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is why a single app store on a given device is bad.
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
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In Telemelt, every player runs the emulator locally while peer-to-peer networking keeps state synced between players. The controller can be passed seamlessly, and the controller player is never subject to any network latency.
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
In Telemelt, every player runs the emulator locally while peer-to-peer networking keeps state synced between players. The controller can be passed seamlessly, and the controller player is never subject to any network latency.
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Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.
September 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, he will momentarily wake up just to kick it before instantly going back to sleep.
September 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, he will momentarily wake up just to kick it before instantly going back to sleep.
This is perhaps my favorite edit of all time
September 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This is perhaps my favorite edit of all time
My latest side project is live! It's an app that holds your hand as you learn your computer's command line. Currently Mac only, Windows soon chuckdries.itch.io/command-line...
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My latest side project is live! It's an app that holds your hand as you learn your computer's command line. Currently Mac only, Windows soon chuckdries.itch.io/command-line...
CLI cookbook update: the first recipe is feature complete! It now handles optional arguments and spaces in paths. Next major steps are writing documentation, setting up installers and distribution, then more recipes!
August 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
CLI cookbook update: the first recipe is feature complete! It now handles optional arguments and spaces in paths. Next major steps are writing documentation, setting up installers and distribution, then more recipes!
I’ve been cooking on a new side project recently, and I’m really excited about it! It’s called Command Line Cookbook. It’s meant to be sort of like training wheels for the terminal, for people who are relatively computer literate but may not be comfortable in a text environment yet
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I’ve been cooking on a new side project recently, and I’m really excited about it! It’s called Command Line Cookbook. It’s meant to be sort of like training wheels for the terminal, for people who are relatively computer literate but may not be comfortable in a text environment yet
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🎉 Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – in every browser since Feb, 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are!
Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support.
youtu.be/bhHV0rQ3-CQ
Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support.
youtu.be/bhHV0rQ3-CQ
August 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🎉 Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – in every browser since Feb, 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are!
Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support.
youtu.be/bhHV0rQ3-CQ
Why 2.5 years? Nothing will change tomorrow, but Baseline uses this milestone to signal confidence a feature has gained "wide" support.
youtu.be/bhHV0rQ3-CQ
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In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
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Media critic Jay Rosen says journalists' regular fact checks are overmatched by today’s political lies. What’s needed now, he says, are “reality rejection checks” as Trump and his supporters deny established facts.
My Q&A with @jayrosen.bsky.social in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My Q&A with @jayrosen.bsky.social in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.
Q&A with Jay Rosen: How Trump nullifies reality
Media critic says lies should be called lies, but the word has “no magic powers.”
www.stopthepresses.news
August 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Media critic Jay Rosen says journalists' regular fact checks are overmatched by today’s political lies. What’s needed now, he says, are “reality rejection checks” as Trump and his supporters deny established facts.
My Q&A with @jayrosen.bsky.social in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My Q&A with @jayrosen.bsky.social in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
August 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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(hitman places little taxidermied squirrel with a bomb in it on the forest floor) EXCELLENT work, 47. tomorrow morning the owls of ga’hoole will have a new legend to tell
August 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
(hitman places little taxidermied squirrel with a bomb in it on the forest floor) EXCELLENT work, 47. tomorrow morning the owls of ga’hoole will have a new legend to tell