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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 17/07/2026

It took a while on account of trying to edit on my phone on vacation, but this should be better. Thanks for the heads up!

A screenshot of this post on my website with the note box fixed.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 21/06/2026

A few weeks ago I ordered a new (from 2018?) NES game, Micro Mages, and it came in yesterday. Naturally, it made for a great Father's Day afternoon activity.

Me and my boys sitting on the floor of a very Lego and Hot Wheels heavy play room, playing a Nintendo game.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 18/06/2026

I'm having fun printing frames from this trip to the racetrack. #darkroom #filmphotographt

A printed black and white photograph of midget cars driving around a racetrack at night.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 13/06/2026

I went with the family to a local speedway for some races. It was my first time, and lots of fun. Here's a photo of a driver chatting up the race official as his car is being towed off the track. 😅

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 10/04/2026

I spent spring break in Arkansas, where I got to visit Crater of Diamonds State Park and Hot Springs National Park. I also go to try out the new Harman Switch Azure film, with some color couplers switched, which is really surreal.

A surreal image of a mine shaft building under a yellow sky. The colors are flipped in unexpected, unexplainable ways.

A surreal photo of a tall building with a Hot Springs National Park sign in the foreground. The sky is yellow, the building looks cyan.

A surreal photo of the facade of a spa. The building looks cyan and the sky looks yellow.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 14/02/2026

I've been working with an artist for months to design a piece that captures my fascination with light and color. I've spent 15 years learning to simulate it with graphics programming, then moved to analog processes in the darkroom. Today the piece was installed, and I love it!

A piece of art hanging on a wall, above a record player. The art is made up of a white panel with a light in the corner, and several dichroic glass panels sticking out, creating colored reflections.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 12/02/2026

This is built in to Mastodon, I think. Not sure it does likes, but posts for sure.

Screenshot of the mastodon web settings interface.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 24/01/2026

It's Friday night! Let's go!

The title screen of the 1996 movie Hackers.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 17/01/2026

Have I been missing your writing?!? Your rss feed broke!

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/07/2025

After introducing the boys to Star Wars the last couple of weeks, it's time to start on the next challenge!

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 24/05/2025

I just returned from a week in California for Google I/O and some other stuff at Google, which was amazing. I was a little surprised to come back to this kitchen renovation, however. 😅

A photo of my kitchen, with a large terrarium with two Russian Tortoises sitting in the kitchen island.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/01/2025

Tonight I'm playing around with a C program to fetch my currently playing track from Last.fm. I'm thinking of using it as a CGI script so that I can have a fun current moment page at ryanharter.com while still keeping the site Javascript free.

Screenshot of my computer screen. On the right is a Sublime Text window with a C program called "lastfm.c", behind that is a browser with the last.fm API docs and a terminal with the getenv man page open.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 28/12/2024

I'm watching The Fifth Element with Sara, who's never seen it. As soon as the cab says "Dallas", Sara reflexively says "Corbin Dallas". I asked how she knew that and she reminded me that I wanted to name our kids Corbin Dallas Harter. I totally forgot. 😅

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 27/12/2024

After a year or so, I spent some time this holiday break to finally put a 4" touchscreen on my Volumio HiFi streamer. It was a nice addition, but I decided it could use a little more space for interaction, so I got a 7" touchscreen instead. It's nice to be able to control this without my phone.

A display showing Fall Out Boy on Volumio, sitting on a powered bookshelf speaker with an aquarium next to it.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 15/12/2024

We decorated our Christmas tree today, and set up a "new" train! The old one was from Sara's grandpa, from the early 50s. This one came from a family member in an unopened box packed with a Lionel catalog for 1988.

A Christmas tree with a Lionel train set around the base. Two boys and I sit on the floor playing with the train.

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 08/12/2024

My mom has been in the hospital after a lung transplant and I've been sick so Sara spent the week in Minneapolis with her. We picked her up at the airport today and the boys made signs. I'm not sure they fully understood the "airplane pickup sign" idea, but I think these are great! 😂

Two marker on cardboard signs. The one on the left reads "I love you Mom and I hope you had a grate trip and I love you and I and Vader and Ohana love you. From Milo, to Mom". The one on the right has a large, lopsided heart and reads "I am sorry that I messed up on the heart. I love you."

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Ryan Harter @ryan.harter.us · 23/11/2024

It's opening day of deer season in Wisconsin, so I'm at my family's cabin in the North woods.

A broad forest and prairie landscape, with a small cabin with smoke rising from the chimney in the mid-ground.

A photo in the woods, of nothing in particular. In the foreground you can see horizontal branches stacked up, serving as a hunting blind.

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