Akis Manolis

Akis Manolis

I build software. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm learning to use a camera: streets by day, the sky by night. Here's what I make and what I'm picking up along the way.

Illustrated portrait of Akis Manolis holding a camera

Things I build

FABRICA
PaperDuck PHP · Laravel · React · Inertia · 2024–2026 The CMS behind this site: one schema-driven content engine, a dense admin, and a replaceable theme for each site. Odd Earth TypeScript · Next.js · React · three.js · 2026 A cinematic 3D globe of 992 extraordinary real places, each with a short, sourced story and credited photographs. WSI Studio TypeScript · Vue · OpenLayers · WebAssembly · 2025–2026 A private, in-browser viewer for whole-slide images. Open, annotate and measure pathology slides without uploading them anywhere. Image Search JavaScript · WebExtension · 2015–2026 A browser add-on for reverse image search: right-click any image to look it up on Google Lens, TinEye, Bing, Yandex, SauceNAO or trace.moe.
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Photos

CAMERA
An old wrought-iron street lantern with yellow panes and green, rusting scrollwork on a peach wall, beside a wooden window shutter, in hard afternoon sun.
A tabby cat lying upside down on dry pine needles, one green eye on the camera, its long whiskers sharp against a soft brown background.
Sunset over a calm sea from beach level: a walkway with yellow bumpers runs into the water, a catamaran sits under the low sun and a headland is silhouetted on the right.
Tower Bridge from the riverside at dusk: its lit Gothic towers with gold pinnacles and pale blue suspension chains under a deep blue, cloudy sky, reflected in the dark Thames.

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Night sky

TELESCOPIUM
The Orion Nebula: a glowing red cloud of gas with a bright white core, surrounded by stars on a dark sky, with the smaller round M43 just above it, a faint nebula near the top and a bright star with a small cluster below.
Orion Nebula (M42)
The Moon one night before full: grey maria and bright highlands, with long rays fanning out from the crater Tycho near the bottom.
The Moon, a night before full
A long red curtain of glowing gas with the dark silhouette of the Horsehead Nebula on its edge; above it the orange Flame Nebula sits beside the bright star Alnitak.
Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

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Notes

LIBER
The little telescope that could

A short review of the ZWO Seestar S30, a smart telescope small enough to take anywhere, after a year and a half with it.

ASTRO
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Say hi

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