kosara.net

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 ...