kosara.net

I started using Twitter a few months ago, but I'm not entirely happy with it. It seems too limited with those 140 characters, and it has no intelligence at all: there are no posting types, no link field, just a simple string of text. Recently, I came across tumblr, and it seems to make a lot more sense for actual micro-blogging. I have decided to move the blog part of this page over to tumblr, with smaller updates, but more of them. Tumblr also makes it easy to use your own domain, so here's the new blog.kosara.net. More ...

The fine folks at Google have done an incredible job of porting FUSE to the Mac, and have also created sshfs, which is incredibly useful. Unfortunately, sshfs is officially unsupported, and bug reports are not welcome on the MacFUSE page (and there's really no other place for them). To remedy the situation, and to make sshfs useable to more people, I am forking the project and providing an updated package here. More ...

When looking for an alternative way of doing source code management, I came across a number of distributed version control systems, among them git and Bazaar (or bzr). While the former may be technologically the most elegant and efficient system around, Bazaar is so far ahead in usability, documentation, and support that the choice is really quite easy. More ...

This website has been in existence for over eight years, and has seen few changes in that time. Looking at some of my writing (some of which goes back more than ten years) makes me cringe, and I had been planning a new website for a long, long time. It is finally time to flip the switch and look at an (almost) entirely new kosara.net. More ...

Information Visualization (InfoVis) is a field of research that deals with the visual display of data. By looking at images of the data, we can use the immense power of our visual system to detect patterns or outliers, and quite generally come to a better understanding of our data. To achieve this, the visualization method must be suitable for the data and the task in question. More ...

The Loch-Lomo is a pinhole camera I built from an old Agfa Clack 6x9 box camera. More ...

A pinhole camera is the most basic type of camera: a light-tight box, a piece of film or photographic paper, and a small hole to let light in. Pinhole cameras produce images like no other camera, and offer a lot of room for experimentation. They are also easy to make. More ...