I’ve been contracted to build a few things that I’m torn on the moral side of, very strange, but the contact seems legitimate and they say they have no issues meeting my usual fiscal requirements. How does one weigh out the fiscal incentives of something when they may not agree with what it’s going to…
Month: January 2022
I hate (lack of) video compression
Why does it feel like videos have just gotten needlessly large? It used to be normal to get a 2.5 hour movie and have it push two gig. Hell, even the old 700mb XVID releases packed a crazy amount of video into a small datasize. It’s just annoying how gluttonous data is, now that bandwidth…
Overkill Resume stuff
Started talking with a friend of mine about resumes and had an interesting idea brought up I like using the LaTeX language for PDF creation, so on my internal Gitlab I made a CI/CD job to compile my LaTeX to PDF compilation. I might even be able to port it over to generate forms on…
Weird timing
Had an interaction with the CEO of a neat looking company called https://blacklight.tv/ Seems kinda neat, been really interested in the idea of field journalism lately, but right now don’t have the bandwidth to dig in further. Kinda just making a note of it now Gonna make a category called self-reflection and configure an alert…
Jamming out
While writing the backup systems, I let spotify throw some random music at me. It made a pretty good call with this one. Kinda hooked on this album and am gonna eventually order a vinyl. I do find the truly interesting how Rare Americans is actually a Canadian band. I’ve had nothing but good times…
backups, backups, backups
I gave it about three minutes of thought and realized, if I want to take this seriously, I should make sure I’ve got an overkill backup systems. New server, new life, amirite? I threw together a few cron scripts that do backups like this. WP+DB being the site you’re on, Unraid being my internal NAS,…
Joplin X WordPress
I threw together a neat little python scraper that’s parses my Joplin notebook (https://joplinapp.org/) for new posts and mirrors them to this wordpress site, and if this post works I guess it worked! It’s probably going to mess up some stuff, it’s not going to support fonts, and probably won’t utilize the weird block writing…
sometimes I hate helping people
Like many nerds, I run a plex server for my friends and family. I’m sitting at about 20tb of storage on a NUC+NAS combo that’s doing hosting/transcoding. But I just got an alert that the drives hit 1tb remaining. ughhhhh I added a show for a friend, but I guess the entirety of the show…
what the heck is this?
I had a discussion recently that pointed out that I should set something like this up to log some of my projects that I’m working on. Honestly, I think it’s a dumb idea, but because of the circumstances – I’m tired of filling up notebooks. Plus notebooks can be annoying to carry around, people already…