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Sunspot Regions 4296, 4294, and 4298

Kevin Freitas — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Some rather large sunspot regions rotated into view on the Sun this week. Here are a couple photos I was able to capture amongst the typical December clouds in Seattle. More »

Art from the Arch

Kevin Freitas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:49:00 +0000

After a few days of work trip meetings and events, I had a morning to get away while still in St. Louis. More »

Jun. 23 Meteor Fireball Over Seattle

Kevin Freitas — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:30:00 +0000

Caught this lengthy meteor fireball in the late summer evening light to the north/northeast of Seattle. More »

Time-Lapse of Seattle Fog Rolling In

Kevin Freitas — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:22:00 +0000

What started out as gentle fog over nearby Elliot Bay became our completely socked in morning here in West Seattle. More »

Feb. 13 Meteor Fireball

Kevin Freitas — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:41:00 +0000

Captured from NW to N of West Seattle. Reported to AMS. More »

Poppy Kitty Playing in the Seattle Snow

Kevin Freitas — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:50:00 +0000

Silly cat! More »

Jan. 19 Meteor Fireball

Kevin Freitas — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:15:00 +0000

Caught this one on cameras in both Seattle and Mineral, WA and reported here and here. More »

Video – Mt. Rainier Snownado

Kevin Freitas — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:29:00 +0000

I setup my camera with a telephoto lens this afternoon to capture some lovely clouds blowing over the top of Mt. Rainier. More »

Moon-Mars Conjunction Through Cloudy Seattle Skies

Kevin Freitas — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:52:00 +0000

It was touch-and-go for a bit as I wasn’t sure the event would be visible for us tonight. Yesterday, at the last minute, I restored a used Meade ETX 90 telescope I bought and ordered a cellphone eyepiece mount to give this a go. More »

AI Poison Pill [beta]

Kevin Freitas — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:37:00 +0000

Download v1.0.20240304 (will update to use official WordPress.org link once approved/live) Email kevinfreitas.net@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions. The words you write and publish on your website are yours. More »

Commercials Coming to a Prime Video Near You (Unless You Pony Up)

Kevin Freitas — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:18:00 +0000

OK, we’re lobsters and we’re boiled. Y’all sure fooled, us, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Disney, etc. More »

DIY Food Container Lens Holder

Kevin Freitas — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:58:00 +0000

One of the primary lenses I use with my Canon 80D needed a home when not in service. Lately we’ve been washing condiment and other plastic containers before recycling them and sometimes (the ones that don’t melt in the dishwasher) they come out so clean I keep a few for storing bits in my workshop. More »

Load Images Like a Champ with Progressive Loading

Kevin Freitas — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:20:00 +0000

recently looked for a simple solution to progressively load images over on my Handheld Computer Museumrn site but didn’t find anything that met that single criteria (given my rnJPGs weren’t setup as progressive themselves). 🙂 I whipped out rntechniques I thought might work like ye olde “lowsrc” <img> tag rnattribute to find out that’s been deprecated. More »

DIY Monitor Flush Wall Mount

Kevin Freitas — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:43:00 +0000

The time for our kiddo to have a screen in his room has come. It’ll help contain the sounds of some of the horrible shows he watches :) BUT, and more fun, he can more easily hang with a buddy and play games together. More »

No Figma Merger with Adobe After All

Kevin Freitas — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:11:00 +0000

Designers everywhere, rejoice! A Figma blog post today announced the news that the Figma / Adobe merger is no more. More »

So Long & Thx for All the Bananas

Kevin Freitas — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:32:00 +0000

After just over 7 years, Friday was my last day with Amazon. I got to work with some fantastic people (thanks and cheers to all the good/real ones! More »

What's Old is New Again

Kevin Freitas — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Ahhh, blogs. That thing people use to use to express themselves online that wasn't a forum. More »

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