tech and other interesting stuff
check your whitespace A while back I beefed up vim with some plugins, mostly around python programming and one for ledger, or my case the excellent hledger entry. This is all great until something starts conflicting or stops working. For some reason — system update, plugin update, phase of moon changed — I started seeing […]
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tl;dr: read the compile guide, and set a PREFIX and / or LD_LIBRARY_PATH I did something I don’t normally do and compiled ffmpeg today, since the ffmpeg-user mailing list requires/strongly prefers/only supports current git head. I was doing this as I had some broken AVI files and wondered if they were salvageable: Since it’s been […]
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FoxCam not fully operational Over the last few weeks a family of foxes has been visiting my garden. A friend kindly lent me their Dohiker trail camera. You can see example output above (or here if embeds are disabled). I was interested to see what exactly they were doing in the garden- I’ve seen them […]
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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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