Disclaimer: I only have photos for some of these, and that’s because those are the ones that I own.
So, back at it again with fountain pens. For most people, ink is ink. For us, well it’s much more advanced than that. Let’s take a look at some of the different ones: sheening, shimmering, iron gall, you name it.
Continue readingSo I know I just got finished talking about Nextcloud, but just stick with me here, there’s only one more piece of software that I’m going to talk about: Syncthing.
Continue readingSo you know what Dropbox is, right? Free cloud storage. Put your files in Dropbox, and they’re available anywhere, shareable to anyone, if you want. Sounds cool, right? What about Mega? (Or MEGA?) Or Google Drive? Or Microsoft OneDrive?
Well, let me introduce you to my newest cool thing: Nextcloud.
Continue readingNow I know that if you’ve been on the internet long enough, you’ve at least heard the term TCP thrown around. Maybe UDP too, and to any networking people here, you should be very familiar with what they are and how they compare. Well today, I bring the unheard third layer 4 protocol into the spotlight: SCTP
Continue readingYeah, it’s definitely been something of a journey, alright. Redis, for those unaware, is, essentially an in-memory key-value store. At the most pasic level, this seems fine. Start looking into the documentation, and.. well it just seems to do everything really.
Continue readingSo you remember the posts about my cards or my cubes, right? And now the pictures weren’t exactly perfect? Well, I just finished running the numbers. And this will be fun.
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If you’ve seen my recent posts, you’ll know that I’m the owner of a Nikon D80. It’s a good camera, and served me well for the short amount of time that I’ve had it. However.. quite frankly, my phone is better in some aspects, and it’s just plain a little old. So I was looking at something a little more modern and up to date, and came down to two choices: the D3500 and D7000. In the end, I’ve decided on the D7000 as my next upgrade.
Continue readingAnyone notice that pages are (hopefully) loading a little quicker, especially for ones that contain a bunch of images?
Well I just changed from using PNG image files, to WebP image files. For some more specifics, read on.
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White balance is the term used in photography to describe either the particular tint that your (intended to be) white lights are, or the camera settings to bring it back closer to pure white. And today, I have something cool… about shifting light source colors. Nice, I guess?
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