https://www.gailhenry.com/ Personal and professional site — projects, writing, photography, and the things I make. en Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/teaching-a-model-to-see-my-garden/ https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/teaching-a-model-to-see-my-garden/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence What started as a weekend camera trap turned into six months of training an image classifier on my own back porch — and a lesson about which photographs actually matter. https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/shooting-at-1-4000-and-still-missing/ https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/shooting-at-1-4000-and-still-missing/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Photography A hummingbird wing beats around fifty times a second. Freezing it is less about shutter speed than about accepting how many frames you are going to throw away. https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/the-quilt-that-taught-me-version-control/ https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/the-quilt-that-taught-me-version-control/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quilting Half a metre into a queen-size top I made a cutting error I could not undo, and finally understood why I have spent twenty years insisting on commits. https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/the-config-file-that-outlived-the-project/ https://www.gailhenry.com/blog/the-config-file-that-outlived-the-project/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Programming A YAML file I wrote for a weekend experiment in 2019 is now load-bearing in three unrelated systems, and nobody including me remembers what half the keys do.