I woke up this morning to Intuit’s status alerts blowing-up my phone due to a severely large number of service outages related to their developer portal. After the 20th-or-so notice within a few minutes, I figured I should have gotten the message…
WhatsApp & Opus
Despite many sites espousing WhatsApp and its usage of Opus for audio messages, I am unable to actually send an Opus file through WhatsApp that is playable within the app itself.
It’s time to replace GIFs with AV1 video!
Over at #aomedia on FreeNode, I saw a link (above) posted to this neat blog showing the effectiveness of replacing animated GIFs with AV1 videos. While the general idea of using true video formats to replace short GIF animations has been implemented, with the industry support for AV1 and its clear superiority over other existing…
Sun dog in Pickerington
A beautiful sun dog I saw in Pickerington
Retailers – don’t make it hard to checkout!
While online retailers struggle to maintain profit with increasing competition, this one tactic is a sure sign they are going to lose customers.
LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
antirez, developer on Redis, shares an “easter egg” in the spirit, and perhaps in lamenting the loss of, traditional hacking.
Switching back to MATE
I tried GNOME again for a few days, and after two crashes and progressively slower performance, I’m switching back to MATE on Fedora.
Unsought answers to questions I did not ask today
It’s amazing what questions you find the answers to when you’re not looking!
Note to self: check out git-bug, fossil, vimwiki, forgefed, and ActivityPub
It’s no secret that HackerNews is one of my daily (sometimes hourly) reads due to the excellent signal-to-noise ratio and deep hackish nature of many of the contributors. However, even I am a little impressed at the depth of information found in this one discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
Trying out the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress
The latest update to WordPress comes with the addition of a new, experimental editor appropriately entitled Gutenberg. It brings with it the concepts of blocks which brings a sense of structure and modularity to your blog posts as opposed to a single monolithic chunk of editorial.
The Video Wars of 2027 – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Patent and copyright law collude to create a dystopian world – fiction or future?
I am now the Director of Software Engineering at SUPER-H Analytics
I have accepted the position of Director of Software Engineering with SUPER-H Analytics. Please read on for more information on my journey to this point and acknowledgment of those that made it possible.
Empathy and leadership
A comment I made on LinkedIn may be the kernel of something I would like to expand on more.
Canon 120MXS 120MP CMOS Sensor – YouTube
Canon 120MXS 120MP CMOS Sensor I used to get unequivocally excited about technology like this, but with all the dark, Orwellian prospects of how this tech can and often is used, my excitement is somewhat tempered by a dosage of concern. Even in the video, they highlight using this for surveillance explicitly as one of…
GScribble test
Before this, I had tried a desktop WordPress client called Lekhonee. Now that I’m “back”, searching through Fedora’s repo I discovered another client named GScribble. Out of the box, the one feature advantage I found with GScribble is that it supports tags, whereas I did not find that possible through Lekhonee. The advantage of a…
Return from blogging hiatus
After “taking a break” from blogging for the past four-and-a-half years (that’s “fancy talk” for being to busy/lazy to post), I realized I was, as usual, over-thinking what I should say for my great comeback. So, I decided that I should probably just tear-off the band aid and speak directly to it. A lot has…
Griggs Park
Some photos from our outing at Griggs Park in Columbus.
Audacity 2.0 released!
Alhamdulillaah, Audacity 2.0 has been released! As an audio recorder, producer, editor, and overall manipulator, Audacity is one of my most important tools (more on my whole multimedia workflow to come in a subsequent post). I have been using it for so many years, I’ve lost count. Before Audacity, Adobe Audition was my staple, as…
Fedora 16 “Verne” has been released!
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِي الْحَمْدُ لِلَّه, Fedora 16 has been released! You can read the full release notes or just go straight to the torrents for downloading. See the release announcement after the fold…
Donate to Wikipedia
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحد لله, Allāh has granted me tawfīq to donate to Wikipedia. I wouldn’t mention this except for the fact that I hope others, upon reading this, might give it consideration when they otherwise would not have. A donation to Wikipedia is tax-deductible, so you can save on your taxes or get…