SyncTrain for Syncthing on iOS

A few years ago I gave Mobius Sync a try as a Syncthing client on my iPhone and iPad. That went about as well as you’d expect for an iOS adaptation of something that wants to be an always-on filesystem-watching daemon. It wasn’t really worth the stress of wondering what quantum state of sync everything is in, and I hated having to explicitly open it up to nudge it to sync. ...

April 20, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Mike Hall
a crispy photo of misty trees by a lake.

On iPhoneography these days

I took my iPhone 13 Pro along as my sole camera for a quick camping trip to Vernonia. I’ve only had the phone for a week and was pretty excited about its new RAW format. I like the images I get out of it, but in a qualified sort of way that I’ve felt about iPhone photos for a little while now: Computational photography is a wonder that can do some amazing things. I have to do a lot less work to get a nice image out of an iPhone in weird lighting conditions than I do with one of my Fujifilm cameras, especially when dynamic range is challenging. ...

November 21, 2021 · 3 min · 487 words · mike