John Biesnecker

About

John Biesnecker

Hi, I’m John. I’m a software engineer, amateur photographer, husband, father, son, football (⚽) and baseball (⚾) enthusiast, would-be world traveler, language learner, and a bunch of other things. I like to cook and I love to eat. I’m low-key AI-pilled. I live in Orlando, Florida with my wife, children, and dogs.

I’m a staff engineer at Airbnb where I work on i18n infra. In my spare time you’ll often find me outside with my Fujifilm XE-5 trying to capture some pretty light. I mostly work with vintage manual lenses, though I grab either the 23mm or 90mm XF autofocus lenses when I want the crispness they provide. Someday I’d like to be more serious about photography than I am.

You can find me in all the normal places: Instagram, Github, LinkedIn.

Site Colophon

Built with Astro and MDX, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. Body is set in Source Serif 4, with Inter for UI and JetBrains Mono for code. Syntax highlighting via Shiki.

Camera Stuff

I shoot digital and 35mm film. For digital, I have a Fujifilm XE-5; for analog, an all-black Minolta XD-s, a Praktica VLC-2, and a Zorki-4. Of course I also shoot plenty of pictures with my iPhone.

Lenses

Most of these lenses I adapt to the X-E5. Of course the MD lenses fit the Minolta, and the Praktica can mount any M-42 lens.