Max Lynch – Page 2 – thoughts, photos, and travels

Ionic 4 is out today

January 23, 2019Ionic

Today, the Ionic team (my company) rolled out version 4 of Ionic Framework, our flagship open source project enabling web developers to build awesome apps for iOS, Android, Electron, and the web as a Progressive Web App.

You can read more about the announcement on our blog.

I just want to say that I’m so damn proud of everyone that made this release happen. It was a ton of hard work, and even more courage in the face of a ton of technical uncertainty around new Web Component APIs, especially browser support, tooling challenges, and developer perception of those APIs.

At the risk of leaving out everyone at Ionic that contributed to this release, I want to call out Adam Bradley for really laying the foundation for this release. Adam created our new Stencil project and proved that Web Components would be viable for Ionic. Adam and I spent a ton of time early on talking through the possibilities and I’m just enjoying being able to step back and see his vision come together. Of course, it takes a village to ship production-ready software like this, so I want to thank everyone that contributed and improved that foundation over the last year.

I believe Ionic 4 ushers in a new era of UI frameworks focused on modern web APIs, and I’m thrilled with what the team created.

So proud to work with such awesome people and can’t wait for everyone in the community to try version 4!

Almost Blood Moon

January 21, 2019Life, Photography

Everyone got a photo of the blood moon lunar eclipse already so I’ll skip that.

I took this photo with my iPhone through the viewfinder of my Minolta SRT100 of the moon rising. This viewfinder is dusty and dim and discolored and I love it. This was my first film camera and will always be my favorite.

My first photography show

October 30, 2018Photography

Over the weekend I participated in my first photography show ever. This show came together thanks to my friend Josh who wanted to put together a benefit show for breast cancer research around film photography.

I’ve never done anything like this and have never considered myself an “artist.” Suffice to say this pushed me way out of my comfort zone. In particular, trying to curate all my random 35mm film photos into something cohesive was way harder than I expected.

The show ended up being a great success and I had a wonderful time. I wound up putting together a set of black and white photos that showed a mood and style that made me fall in love with in film in the first place. A little surreal, a little dream-like. I joked with a few people that if they left feeling a little unnerved about my photos or with a newfound sense of longing, then I was successful.

Here are some of the photos I shared (and some I wanted to but didn’t make the cut). Most shot on a Minolta SRT100 and mainly Ilford HP5+. A few were home developed in D-76.