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25. August 2022 sturmflut

Running darktable on RISC-V

How well does darktable work on RISC-V? Surprisingly well, if the hardware is fast enough…

13. April 2018 sturmflut

I’m an engineer and interested in all kinds of technology, especially if it is used to build something big. But I’m also fascinated by what happens when things suddenly change and don’t go as expected, and especially by everything that’s left behind after technological and social revolutions or disasters. In October 2017 I travelled across Japan and decided to visit one of the places where technology had failed in the worst way imaginable: the Fukushima Evacuation Zone.

Linux Open Source Photography Ubuntu

24. February 2018 sturmflut

Open Source Color Management is broken

Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought

Open Source Photography

19. August 2017 sturmflut

How I sped up the PNG export in darktable using perf

I do a lot of photo editing nowadays, mostly for my travel blog over at One Man, One Map. I’ve always had the impression that the PNG export in darktable might be slower than it has to be, but it had become a real issue since I’ve upgraded my desktop PC to a six-core Ryzen 7 1600X CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU.

Linux Photography

2. August 2017 sturmflut

A cheap and automatic way to catch lightning

Taking pictures of lightning is hard. Usually one would take many shots with an exposure time of several seconds, and then sift through all the pictures. I didn’t feel like doing that.