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2021-11-09

How to do a Mashup (YouTube Download)

Note to self – write script On Ubuntu 21.10 – youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vxHOCeiQ4 [youtube] j7vxHOCeiQ4: Downloading webpage [info] Available formats for j7vxHOCeiQ4: format code extension resolution note 249 webm audio only tiny 52k , webm_dash container, opus @ 52k (48000Hz), 1.69MiB 250 webm audio only tiny 69k , webm_dash container, opus @ 69k (48000Hz), 2.22MiB 140 m4a audio only tiny...

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2021-11-09

Possible Esolang

Some thoughts on an esolang so I don’t forget An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke. Wikipedia There’s a...

Coding Comments: 0

2021-10-29

Gouge Error

I set up a little workshop here initially for practical reasons, house renovation. But I’ve always enjoyed playing with wood, especially carving. When I saw a lathe in a local shop at a very low price, I jumped at the chance. Ok, a cheap Chinese thing, but good enough for occasional use. That would have been about 15 years ago...

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2021-10-22

Apache, symlinks, 403

tail -f /opt/lampp/logs/error_log I’m still in the process of setting things up on this server. Web stuff via Apache on Ubuntu. I’m moderately familiar with the Apache setup as it comes with the Ubuntu distro, but recently had cause to install Apache + MariaDB(≈MySQL) + WordPress on a local machine. I’d recently stumbled on XAMPP (≈LAMPP), effectively a bundle of...

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2021-10-11

Cheap Laptop Upgrade

Upgrading memory & hard drive in an Asus F507M laptop (with mostly-broken keyboard). A €300-ish machine made significantly more friendly with €70 of parts and a couple of hours work (mostly research). Some tips if you want to do something similar. Caveat: I use Ubuntu, no idea what might be different on other operating systems. Background A few years back...

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2021-10-04

Drawing a Million Dots

tl;dr : Live demo, code on github, a million dots (maybe) Edit 2021-10-07 : I’ve tweaked the code to allow upload of arbitrary images and be able to change the parameters Big numbers feature a lot on the news. But how does one visualize millions, billions, trillions..? There are a bunch of things I want to write in Javascript in...

Coding Comments: 0

2021-09-15

Shibboleths in Academia

I’ve wanted an excuse to use this word for years. From Wikipedia : A shibboleth (/ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, -ɪθ/) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining...

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2021-09-06

Make the Difficult Things Easy (the easy things difficult)

WordPress has the most unintuitive user interface I’ve ever encountered. It’s horrible! Ok, block editor, I guess I can see why you might want that. But the way it’s implemented, seems a lot more hard work than something like trad WYSIWYG. I’m way out of touch with HTML+CSS, both seem to have become Turing Complete and probably sentient in the...

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2021-09-04

WordPress Blog Update

I installed WordPress using XAMPP, a packaged-up version of Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl, which has WordPress as a plugin. I used this fairly recently for some local dev work and it seemed to work nicely. Doing it live, here, brought some annoyances. First, I want static site material at https://hyperdata.it/ and this blog at https://hyperdata.it/blog. This setup...

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2021-09-03

Linux Audio Problems? Try this.

(On Ubuntu 21.04 with a USB audio interface – ymmv) For general use, sound on any modern Linux distribution Just Works. But when you start attaching audio interfaces and playing with things like digital audio workstations (DAWs) or video editing, things can get very confusing very fast. Historically, things like soundcards were an absolute pain on Linux. While manufacturers would...

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