This just blew my mind: A road in Pompeii, built prior to AD79. The small white stones were designed to reflect moonlight making the road easier to see at night
This article on the zombie of Silverlight had me flashing back to the end of the 2000s, before HTML5 was a thing, when I was really concerned that MS was about to succeed in quashing the web once and for all for dynamic content/single page app type network apps. Like C# is to Java, Silverlight was Java Applets (and Flash) done right. There was no real alternative available. With Silverlight only having first class support on Windows with close second class support on OSX it seemed clear that all other desktops would be locked out. The open source Moonlight project, based on Mono, was always painfully behind. As much as I hate JavaScript I'm glad that the community got HTML/CSS and JavaScript polished up to not match what you could do with Silverlight but exceed it. Anyway, the spirit of Silverlight has been picked up by the community thanks to technologies like WASM and Blazor. Interesting read but not something I'd look to jump to personally. #microsoft#silverlight#moonlight#JavaScript#blazor#xaml Silverlight Just Won't Die: 'XAML for Blazor' Arrives -- Visual Studio Magazine
I just played around with my new vintage lens that's over 50 years old, and I'm surprised at how sharp it is, even when connected to a teleconverter.
Gear:
• Sony α6400
• Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135 mm f/3.5 (3rd version, zebra, early 1970s)
• Soligor Auto Tele Converter 2X to fit Pentax M42 (Japan)
• K&F M42-Sony E Adapter