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Designer, co-founder Lux Optics. We make Halide, Kino, Spectre and Orion - delightful photo and video apps for iPhone and iPad.
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The Sigma BF is very neat. A bit of an indictment against Leica that they keep making things more fussy and complicated rather than this: a reduction to the essence of what makes a camera. It’s truly a case study in minimalism. Wonderful stuff.

Incredible how far ahead of the curve Adobe is with AI. I don't know any other company that has floating UI menus that are precisely aware of your work so they can be in the exact wrong place obscuring everything all the time

achieved a new height of parental pride last night when my daughter shunned the kids books for bedtime and instead opted to excitedly thumb through a copy of "Airline Visual Identity, 1945-1975"

That single camera back on the new iPhone 16e looks so good

Anyone else excited? I wonder what’s being announced today. I hope new Mac Pro wheels.

Not surprised that Humane is gone, and how fitting that it was HP — a place a lot of promising tech goes to pasture. Remember webOS?

Hey look, I’m on TV! Thanks for having me to chat about Kino and the App Store Awards, ABC 7 Bay Area. :)

emotional support old fashioned

Heart rate sensors in Apple products, 10 years apart. Miniaturization in technology will never cease to amaze me.

my favorite social network

Amsterdam might just be the coziest city on the planet. (iPhone 16 Pro)

Slick OpenAI ad. Pretty impressive that they’re managing to own a circle as their brand.

The Tim Cook Severance promo is wild because I always felt like the show could be about Apple - a company with such a deep, crazy culture of secrecy that they’d be the first to opt for severed employees in the workforce. also, my work there was always mysterious and important

Up in the air. iPhone 16 Pro, Process Zero + edits.

Super fun @halideapp.bsky.social challenge theme this week! Here’s some of my recent shots that work well for this one:

I genuinely believe we’ll look back on this era of the web and think we were all just collectively insane. The best technology of our existence for reading is ubiquitous yet there’s never been a worse reading experience.

I can’t help but be a little bemused at the people on Threads that are currently shocked that their particular billionaire owned platform is not actually better / the billionaire is also not better than the other billionaire owned one.

Sunset in Santa Cruz — still loving that 5× tetraprism on iPhone 16 Pro

Time for another Amsterdam trip soon. Unbeatable city for taking iPhone snaps.

My resolution is to read a lot more books in 2025 — I’d love to hear your favorite reads from the last few years!

Parenting is amazing. I looked up if it’s normal / alright for our kid to sleep with her (hard, extremely uncomfortable) doll in her bed and people on Reddit are like “my child only goes to sleep if he has 2 basketballs and his pet rock named Rupert in bed with him”

this icon by @Mantia hit a crazy nostalgia nerve

iPhone shots of the island of Hawaii

Loved A Complete Unknown. That’s coming from a Bob Dylan fan, but I feel like it was objectively a great flick.

Merry Christmas 🎄

We’re doing something a bit different this year and previewing our next big update to Halide. Here’s what’s coming in Halide Mark III. Also: a new community, and a huge thank you for an incredible 2024! www.lux.camera/the-road-to-...

A wonderful big update to Theater is here!

Incredible stuff from the Economist. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Moonrise in Patagonia.