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This is an update to an older post you can find here. If you just want to download the new Replay Director, click here. Working with the iRacing replay software can be pretty challenging. While they clearly thought about people producing replays and have custom cameras, keyboard shortcuts to switch cameras, etc – actually using the replay software in that way is frustrating and almost unusable. Lately, even things like the ‘Follow most Exciting’ camera mode doesn’t even seem to work, and I doubt issues with the replay software is near the top of the team’s roadmap....

Old Austin looks great in grainy black‑and‑white, but you can’t spot the brick details or storefront signs that way. In this post we test a handful of historical Austin photographs. I pulled the best old black‑and‑white Austin photos I could find and ran them through my color‑and‑detail Stable Diffusion workflow. The post shows each original next to its AI pass and gives a little detail about the original image. Thanks to Reddit Texas History as the source of most of the images....

Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 Egyptian campaign was driven by a mix of strategic objectives and personal ambition. Determined to disrupt British trade routes and gain influence in the East, Napoleon also nurtured a deep fascination with Alexander the Great, envisioning himself as a modern heir to the ancient conqueror’s legacy. He believed that by conquering this gateway to Asia, he could cement his own place in history. While his military venture ultimately faltered, the expedition inspired one of the most significant scientific and cultural studies of its time, leaving an indelible mark on our understanding of Egypt....

Humble started off small, long before oil turned it into a boomtown. Joseph Dunman was thought to be the first to settle here in 1828, and he was soon followed by folks like Pleasant Smith Humble—“Plez”—who arrived just before the Civil War. Plez built a ferry crossing along the San Jacinto River, served as justice of the peace, and eventually opened a post office in his home in 1886, cementing the Humble name for good....

I’ve been using ComfyUI to enhance photos from a set of over 300 aerial balloon photographs taken by the U.S. Army’s 14th Photo Section during World War I. These images are part of a bigger archive that shows everything from ruined towns to giant trenches carved across the countryside, all captured from balloons tethered high above the Western Front. What I love about these shots is how they’re basically a window into a time when aerial photography was just getting off the ground....