This image shows a kitchen counter with a pot cooking on the stove.

A person wearing a baseball hat and a brick-shaped container on a cardboard box.

A woman wearing a baseball hat and apron is sitting at a wooden cabinet with a computer screen displaying the word "BERT."

This image shows a wooden sign with the text "Made with Love and Tism" written on it.

New photography for @nytimes. A program placing autistic cooks in fine-dining kitchens — and a pasta shop a few blocks from my apartment in #CambridgeMA I somehow never knew existed.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/dining/autism...

This could have been an email.

If you happen to be going to #Luxor anytime soon consider spending a night at my friend's airbnb.

#Random, but it might help.

www.airbnb.com/rp/ddegner1

Catherine Hyland’s images show what happened after the giant migration to the cities. With a few pargraphs By Peter Hessler.

www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/chin...

It’s so true, I’m a photographer who has rounded off so many of the tough edges of my work and now has a GitHub.

Saw #Sirat a couple weeks ago and it's still with me. Ego dissolution as cinema. Stunning — but if you have PTSD, tread carefully.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/movies/sirat-...

A screenshot of a website on a smartphone screen with a blue sky in the background. The phone is on a road.

An app for photographers who use @WordPress . It uploads large photos reliably without overwhelming the server or timing out the browser. And it's now free on the App Store!

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WP Media Uploader

A few personal photos from a day ice climbing in Conway, NH.

Thanks Ice Fest! www.mwv-icefest.com

ddegner - Overview Photogapher based in Boston. ddegner has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Okay, I promise I am done vibe coding new apps/plugins/extensions/scripts for a few months. It has been fun. But I think I have optimized everything, and the snow is thawing.

Look at my work and wonder: github.com/ddegner

Cat Scratches App - App Store Download Cat Scratches by David Degner on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Cat Scratches.

@Safari Extension to save webpages in the @DraftsApp.

Over the past month I have been improving this Safari extension in many little ways.

But today has reached a new milestone. Version 2.0.2 is being released for macOS and iOS in the Mac App store!
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Somerville vacillates between a paradise and dystopia in a quick walk through the snow.

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AVIF Local Support High-quality AVIF image conversion for WordPress — local, quality-first.

AVIF Local Support for WordPress Plugin — Smaller Files, Better Color, Zero Cloud Dependency

I'm a photographer and wanted my WordPress portfolio to load fast without sacrificing image quality.

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A short series of photos someone posted saying that these really look like Egypt. And it's true, they remind me so much more of Cairo than all of the tourist photos that usually define Egypt.

www.reddit.com/r/Egypt/commen...فاهمني_ولا/

Yeah, I wonder what they are using?

Drafts Directory: Call Sheet Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

Any other photographers use the @DraftsApp to keep shoots organized? I posted my updated action group that turns email conversations into call sheets and call sheets into captions here:

directory.getdrafts.com/a/2VF

My latest group project. Share any finds and I'll post them with a link to your website.

#Photography #PhotoProject

www.daviddegner.com/blog/pee-...

Miss Hall’s Students Accused a Teacher of Sexual Abuse, But Prosecutors Won’t Charge Him Despite evidence of sexual abuse by a Massachusetts teacher, prosecutors said no criminal conduct occurred. Now survivors are trying to change consent laws they say “offered cover” to their abuser.

Students Accused a Teacher of Sexual Abuse. Prosecutors Say They Can't Charge Him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us...

The Rise And Fall Of The American Diner New Jersey is the diner capital of America, boasting more than any other US state. But even in New Jersey, traditional, chrome-clad diners seem to be disappearing. Rising food costs, labor shortages, and competition from sit-down chains like Cracker Barrel and IHOP have all made it tough to be in the business. Yet, Tops, the state’s busiest diner, still serves 13,000 people a week. And Summit Diner, one of the state’s oldest, still slings out pancakes and Taylor Ham rolls from its tiny grill. So what happened to the all-American diner? And how, against steep odds, have Tops and Summit kept the Big Business of diners alive? Read "I've been in the same job for 14 years. When I broke my tibia, my boss came to my house and brought me food and money" — an interview with one of Summit Diner's employees: https://trib.al/4CQB0Bz Read "I run a nearly 100-year-old New Jersey diner. I won't serve avocados on my menu": https://trib.al/oEFCjRf 00:00 Introduction 1:13 NJ’s Busiest Diner: Tops 2:32 History of Tops Diner 4:13 Tops Kitchen Behind the Scenes 5:12 Disco Fries 6:10 The Rise of Diners in America 9:25 The Fall of American Diners? 11:52 NJ’s Best Diner: Summit 14:27 Taylor Ham Roll 16:01 No to Avocado! 18:05 Summit Diner’s Importance in the Community // The Charm // Character of the Town 19:03 Why Are Diners Struggling? 20:57 The Next Generation of Diners 26:00 The Future of Diners 26:51 Credits _____________________________________ #NewJersey #diners #restaurants #bigbusiness MORE BIG BUSINESS VIDEOS: Inside The Billion-Dollar Hot Wheels Boom Fueled By Adults https://youtu.be/6qGjA4pam7g How Radioactive Shrimp May Have Gotten Into America https://youtu.be/8BRHNC1IKuw The Secrets Behind America's No. 1 Hot Sauce https://youtu.be/iEYsdIO7u7M Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com Business Insider on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Business_Insider/5319643143 Business Insider on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessinsider Diners Are Dying. How Is One Of America’s Largest Thriving? | Big Business | Business Insider

This took quite a few hot days of filing as I squeezed in the cracks between ovens and fryers. Great production by @AbbyNarshk. It's a fun one, watch it tonight!

The Rise And Fall Of The American Diner

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCtg...

This Larry portrait keeps being re-interprated with completely different context.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us...

A man stands on a bench in Brooklyn Heights Promonade in a Superman cape.

Found photo, Brooklyn, 2025

Photos for a science story about growing little brain organoids for future research.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/sc...

Pay attention to what is happening in #Sudan. Especially how those committing the atrocities are so confident they will get away with it that they are documenting it all.

I pick up my retired iPhone 12 mini, and miss it in my bones.

The monks’ revolution: St. Catherine’s battle for independence For the monks, the new law amounts to nothing less than “erasing the monastery’s independence”

Mada Masr somehow makes great stories out of bureaucracy.

Hassan Mostafa- الحلقة 150 مع ا. حسن مصطفى :سجون رؤساء مصر وانظمتها القمعية بين مبارك ومرسى والسيسى — Cairo in Exile القاهرة/مصر في المنفى اسباب حبس ا. حسن مصطفى فى سجون كل من مبارك ومرسى والسيسى وما هى فروق السجون؟لماذا تعرض للإختفاء القسرى اكثر من مرة.حقيقة صفعه لوكيل نيابةما هو الحزب الذى ينشئه مع آخرين وكيف يرى وضع الأحزاب فى مصر وهل ينبغى ان تنزل انتخابات نعرف مسبقا انها غير نزيهة؟

As the #MAHA movement dismantles our health infrastructure I remember the Kofta machine promoted by the #Egypt government soon after Sisi came to power.

Does anyone have a rigorous explanation of why authoritarian movements do this?

An interview from Egypt:

GitHub - ddegner/avif-local-support: AVIF local support plugin for wordpress. Converts JPEGs to AVIFs with a focus on quality and replaces JPEGs on the front-end of Wordpress. AVIF local support plugin for wordpress. Converts JPEGs to AVIFs with a focus on quality and replaces JPEGs on the front-end of Wordpress. - ddegner/avif-local-support

If you care about the quality of photos on your #Wordpress website I built a plugin for you.

AVIF is an alternative to JPEG that allows smaller files and better quality, and this plugin is built with some special tweaks to make photos even better.

Show of Force This photo project uses an infrared camera to mark military equipment in a civilian environment. It is a continuation of Richard Mosse’s work in the DRC where the visual irony – brutal realism painted...

Nice! Do you have any suggestions for getting the color in Photoshop? I’m using Capture One but am still learning how to get it consistent: www.daviddegner.com/photography/...

‎Cat Scratches ‎Cat Scratches captures web content and creates a new draft in the Drafts app. Simply press ⌘⇧D to instantly create a perfectly formatted Markdown draft in the Drafts App. Smart content detection cleans article text while filtering out ads and navigation.

If you use the @DraftsApp I built a simple, free Safari extension that can save articles into a clean draft.

Katanji Brown Jackson I worked with the CBS Evening News crew to photograph Katanji Brown Jackson at Harvard University. Because it was more of a film set than photography movement and lighting was severely limited…

I don't fan-boy over celebrities, but it was an incredible experience to meet Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and photograph her during an interview with CBS.

I was holding back tears several times.

Portrait of Philippe Crettien published in World Tribune Why making this portrait with Philippe Crettien it was amazing how open he has been to the world and obvious how he is still has a fire of curiosity. But this was for a…

After years of isolation while caring for his wife, Rose, Philippe Crettien reached out to the SGI community he had left 30 years prior.

#Portrait for @WorldTribune #SGI