it was really great to see these pop up on Hacker News. I would forget about the blog in the daily bustle of my own life and then see the familiar brr.fyi where I could open up a different world for a few minutes.
Like finishing a good book, I'll miss following this person's story! (for a few minutes)
> At some point in November 2022, this blog took off in popularity. I wasn’t expecting this, but it has been a lot of fun writing something that has brought joy to so many people.
I have a friend that was on the over-winter IT team.. he has great stories of his winter there. Datacenters where you open a valve to let in super cold super dry air to cool the servers, rathan than think about AC.
"In the 9 months I’ve been in Antarctica, my trusty cell phone has taken some truly remarkable photos under challenging conditions. Nearly every photo I’ve taken for this blog has been a cell phone photo. " [1]
His "old phone" he keeps in a drawer for internet usage is an Android but I can't see any attribution to his current phone model. [2]
I've run exiftool over some of his photos, and some of them include make and model, and these were the Samsung S22. I haven't gone through all the images, so maybe some other phone models could be found in there.
And some of the images contained "Profile Copyright: Apple Computer Inc." but I don't know if this means that some were shot on an iPhone.
Like finishing a good book, I'll miss following this person's story! (for a few minutes)