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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/09/2026

my mistake! i didn’t realize they were going for type 100 peel apart which would work. i thought they were trying to bring back 4x5. i think that would open up the possibility of the OEM polaroid back working with some borders on the 500

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/09/2026

it’s a bit complicated. the NONS back is probably the best bet, but it takes instax square film which is great because it’s pretty easy to find. it doesn’t quite fill out the whole frame though. the LLL peel apart is for larger instant cameras I think

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 25/09/2026

the amount of times i could use this gif in a single day of corporate design work would astonish many people

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 13/09/2026

i have processed this photo maybe 500 times and it never gets old #photography

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 10/09/2026

bye. i regret every thought i put into making gutenberg more accessible just to let this guys ego pop off

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 09/09/2026

i do not want more phone. i want less phone

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 08/09/2026

people have been knocking off my designs with vibe coded stuff and i know it’s just going to sit there unless they drop 30k a quarter in advertising. to maybe have a chance at getting into the black in like a year

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 08/09/2026

i don’t think people realize the toll you still have to pay to get your thing in front of people. your thing could be great and you’re most likely paying a huge tax to Google, Facebook, Reddit, whoever. vibe coded products actually mean more money for them

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 06/09/2026

i get *so many* inmails from "expert groups" and they also find my personal and harass me there. there's like 3 companies with several people and they're relentless on top of the normal linkedin performance art

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

legitimately asking: can i delete linkedin yet? are we still doing it

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

you might say: nic that sounds like something solved by taking a bus or train. *sickos gif*

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

i don't think this survives much longer than a viral photo or whatever. for the operator of a vehicle, this does not win against direct manipulation and controls. but this isn't for operators, this is for passengers who want to relinquish the driving experience while still owning it

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

wait they’re only on desktop? now I look like a ding dong

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

can we blame them? the work of agitating a system that delegitimizes you as an agent doesn’t generally reward nicety.

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/09/2026

look i'm seeing these thread counts and i'm not enjoying them

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

"in your heart" idk about all that i mean the words are out there! and they're not great! for a pretty long time!

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

this will age well when this happens again (and again) with increasingly less coded language from d** before he gives up on technology and ultimately goes into policy

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

i mean, it's a banger If the Spam Martini holds its own within the esthetic parameters of Spam, my staring at that pickled-fetal-tissue imitation for two weeks will have been worth it. I admit that the bouquet is odd, neither of Spam nor of gelatin,

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

i’m such a baby for ektar mostly because it looks like all of the film movies i love. incredible 120 film when you’re outdoors and have light

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jamie ☺︎ @jazzyjams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More people should have cats on their screens

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

my goal is to freak out the neighborhood whenever i share my screen. my coworkers cant deal with it. ecru background? cat in IDE? what's next with this guy

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/09/2026

i am becoming unhinged, i am not making a lil tamagotchi that gives small hints about vim motions. i just make toys now tbh

a little maneki neko pixel cat sitting in an nvim session

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/08/2026

there's a difference between "i had an idea" and "i'm convinced my idea will create good outcomes for people other than myself" and shipping against the former is wasteful, not just of materials, but of people's time, trust, and safety

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/08/2026

the waste of AI makes me super uncomfy for a number of reasons. i've also seen a huge uptick in "i made [thing thats already been solved] and i need you to beta test it for me" and shifting a huge validation burden to users

Post from reddit user DRZBIDA:
I can't comprehend the logic of wasting your own time prompting a worse version of something that's already been solved, clearly without ever checking whether a solution exists. And that's 99/100 of the "projects" out there right now.

Someone should tell Anthropic and OpenAI to put a step in their agent harness (for subscription users, not API) that web-searches whether the dumbass "idea" already exists before generating anything. It'd save an enormous amount of money and compute. It has become almost impossible to find / promote something actually useful in between all the useless abandonware.

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 23/08/2026

AI melted cheese is truly terrifying

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 23/08/2026

h/t @ky.fyi and @namesake.fyi for the style inspiration on Caffenol's manual

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 23/08/2026

new blog just dropped about my newfound appreciation of documentation and great user manuals www.nicbertino.com/blog/manuals/

nicbertino.com

The manual is part of the product

Why my latest project ships with a manual, how it stays updated, and its new

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 08/08/2026

great that you’re finding it ergonomic! love a well designed and very functional camera. i found the waist level viewfinder also incredible for candids - people don’t clock that you’re taking a picture in the same way they do when you hold a camera up to your face. it’s the little things!

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 05/08/2026

hell ya. welcome to the club

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 02/08/2026

load bearing and seams for me

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Ky @ky.fyi · 02/08/2026

Hey friends. Still looking for work!

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 28/07/2026

seeing her again in october and simply cannot wait

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/07/2026

ruby justice thelot's "why are there no new aesthetics" is my favorite lecture of the year and it's not even close

youtube.com

"Why Are There No New Aesthetics?" (Spring 2026 Rutgers Design Lecture Series)

YouTube video by Ruby Justice Thelot

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/07/2026

if i'm remembering right, these had a nice potentiometer on them with a very satisfying click when they went from off to on - crazy so many lamps had halogen bulbs at the time, and how glass had to be added as part of the design to keep people from touching them

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 26/07/2026

testing to see how actual negative scans do, it's a bit crunchy but i am a high contrast enjoyer so i really like the look. 35mm ektar 100 redeveloped to ortho "cross processed", re-printed

A print shows a two story restaurant over the San Diego bay. It's in black and white.

A black and white photo shows a sailboat in the San Diego bay between two window panels

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 22/07/2026

multi-pass process that's visually more similar to how a consumer photo printer works

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 22/07/2026

testing out color prints. RA-4 is an incredibly inaccessible workflow — paper costs a lot and you have to burn through a lot of it to get good prints.

Waimea Canyon in Lihue, Hawaii is shown in a color print generated by CAFFENOL, a darkroom toy for making prints.

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 22/07/2026

photo editing roguelike with no output being the same is kinda it here, but it makes some cool art

A black and white photo shows a woman in a white dress and a man stand side by side in an open field.

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 22/07/2026

created a darkroom toy beta for all of my photog peeps that like the negative/print process or are curious about how it works #photography

caffenol.app

CAFFENOL darkroom

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 16/07/2026

develop a negative and then make a print!

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 14/07/2026

next up: develop the negative

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 14/07/2026

experimenting with a darkroom style print approach, live laugh print

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 13/07/2026

hot shit. my tb-03 is somewhere. someday i'll grab an acidlab one

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 10/07/2026

my new years resolution was to watch one new movie every seven days, and letterboxd has been the backbone of both discovery and logging, guess it's time to get this: shop.a24films.com/products/a24...

shop.a24films.com

Movie Log

Go analog with the Movie Log. Buckram-textured paper cover and space to record over 300 movie entries.

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nic bertino @nicbertino.com · 10/07/2026

if netflix buys letterboxd. i'm done with internet

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