Fragments & Reflections
John Ozbay — Designer, developer, creator of Cryptee
John Ozbay's thoughts on design, indie development, and building Cryptee.
blog.johnozbay.comJohn Ozbay is a designer, developer, musician, and the creator of Cryptee — an encrypted photo and document storage service. His blog is a quiet space for interdisciplinary thinking: one post might critique Apple's attention to detail, the next might walk you through calibrating a manual focus lens for a Leica M. He's also active in Open Web Advocacy, fighting for browser competition and user agency on the web.
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What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail?
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented. This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether. I'd rather write less and show you more. So let's go through a couple of examples that made me feel heartbroken and eventually made me stop using some...
How to calibrate a TTArtisan 28mm f5.6 Lens for Leica M
During last month's trip to Germany, something about my beloved Voigtländer Nokton 35mm f1.4 Classic MC II lens didn't feel right. For whatever reason the front element started wiggling where it shouldn't, and a few days later the aperture ring became looser and looser. Here's what it looked like : Thankfully I got to capture great photos during the trip before things got worse. Here's a photo of me and my beloved Voigtländer & Leica M11 on Deutsche Bahn, taken while passing time during tha...
Hello World
I finally have a blog! I think the last time I had a blog was back in 2012, during the Tumblr era. I plan on using this as a place to talk about random thoughts and ideas, science, tech, research, activism, advocacy, projects, business, photography and of course music. So if this sounds interesting to you, feel free to follow this blog with an RSS/ATOM reader. I recommend Reeder for iOS, it's a really well polished app. I may occasionally use AI tools to improve textual clarity, as I've been le...
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