tech and other interesting stuff
Walking before I run I’m a relative beginner in Blender, having dabbled in the past with different things. I’ve used it to do bits and pieces, like stinger transitions. Having seen a decent simple ‘BRB’ screen on AliMackScot’s stream (Twitch link), so I figured I’d whip up one of my own. Blender is really powerful. […]
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tl;dr: use the userscript I modified to show preview images (or the original by ItsCinnabar) Recently, YouTube and Google have been showing modal cookie consent agreement forms when not logged on. This is slightly irksome if you don’t like browsing logged in to YT/Google. It has another effect: it breaks URL previews in Element, the […]
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tl;dr: use matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, you might be most interested in reading about the traefik aspect What’s All This About? I like Matrix for messaging / group chats. I like an open ecosystem, which gives people the choice of running their own services. Browsing the list of bridges listed on matrix.org (a bridge connects another service — […]
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Okay, day-and-a-bit. First impressions! I’ve been coding up a dice roller for a friend’s in-development RPG, and I decided on a whim to give TypeScript a try. Here’s some early impressions of the language — both TS and JS — coming from a mainly python background. Interfaces My very first thought was “what the heck […]
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Not a guide A while back I installed Foundry VTT, the web-based tabletop system developed by Atropos (It’s great, check it out). I ended up writing a small module for it, for converting walls to drawings (ie lines) so that a GM doesn’t have to duplicate effort if he’s making up a quick map on-the-fly. […]
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Pick a team for me I’ve been known to stream on Twitch, and one of the things I do is a wee informal monthly ‘competition’ to give subscribers something to root for and cheer on. For November’s outing I wanted to assign everyone a team, which is simple enough for me to do using random.org […]
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Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network level via DNS. By combining this with OpenVPN I had ad-blocking on my OnePlus 3. Things have moved on since then; the machine – a laptop ‘server’ – serving Pi-hole […]
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Update 2021-04: There was some discussion of a similar issue over at ffmpeg-user (full thread at nabble). It may not be the same problem, but I found it interesting that Android would produce another seemingly-unrecoverable video I recorded the grinding out of a tree stump on my phone over the course of half an hour […]
Continue ReadingI set up a local Gitea server for some ‘local’ repositories- things like my accounts (in hledger format!) which I wouldn’t want on a server not under my own control. I considered doing this in Docker as that is a supported install method and I’ve enjoyed using Docker; but Gitea ties together a few services […]
Continue ReadingBlocks in blocks in blocks I recently installed Stackable’s “Ultimate Gutenberg Blocks” plugin for WordPress as I wanted a block that could be expanded for my series of OCR posts. I created one, an ‘expand’ block in a container which I made a reusable block. However, doing so gave the error: “This block has encountered […]
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