So I’m not usually one for decorating every square inch of every computer I own with stickers, but…
Well one of my close friends told me that, personally, they don’t like people who sticker their devices. Naturally, I immediately bought 18 stickers and applied them to every single one that I own. As for the result, I imagine you can see it scrolling by above.
Continue readingFor those unaware, there are two special files that almost all websites use to influence how visitors see them. Not human visitors, but bots — web crawlers, search engines, one of the many various “internet archival” sites, you name it. Maybe you’d like to know this because you’re building up a website or service, or maybe you’re just curious on how to read them. In either case, let’s get to explaining.
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Hey as long as we’re going to be talking about the things I like to play with, we might as well get this one over with too, right?
Now show of hands, who’s surprised that I have a few of these sitting around?
First off, let’s get the numbers out of the way first… PB of 32.15, Roux method. Anyways, let’s talk cubes.
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See, I’m a collector of many things… apparently playing cards are making that list rather quickly. You… will have to excuse my camera for this, it was definitely not a fan of the lighting I have.
I’m no Chris Ramsay, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate a good deck of cards. Plus I like these and this is my site, so I’ll share. 😛
And this is just covering normal playing card decks, not some special ones… though there is one specific one that I’ll mention later.
Continue readingIf you haven’t noticed by this point, there’s a brand new search bar at the top of this blog now, and you can even get to it anywhere by pressing “s”, isn’t that neat! Anyways, there’s a bit of a story behind that, because getting those results in place, well… isn’t exactly the easiest.
Continue readingFor those that don’t know, well, I like to learn things. I like knowledge, and I spend almost all of my free time learning more, absorbing facts, and gaining new insights. The pursuit of knowledge is a noble one indeed, and one that, in my opinion, benefits everyone.
Continue readingIt’s safe to say that I’ve seen my fair share of T440 ThinkPads in my time, and there’s one common element on all of them that just downright bugs me.
If you ever take the back off one (and not snap it off somehow), and decide to unscrew the heatsink, you’ll see two dies: a larger one on the right (CPU) and a smaller one on the left (GPU). Those little shiny blocks are the heart of that machine… and they’re so tiny too!
Now if you look closer, you’ll see that the GPU die is bare. Oops.
Continue readingOne of the many things that make Python such a popular and powerful language is that you can easily divide your code into multiple concurrent threads rather easily, take this for example:
from threading import Thread
def thread_func(n):
print(f"I'm thread number {n}!")
for t in range(4):
t = Thread(target=thread_func, args=[t])
t.start()
4 threads! Easy, right?
Well, not exactly.
Continue readingSo I know I’ve already covered the basics of raw photos, but there’s a few things worth elaborating on that I think deserve a separate post, so here we are.
There’s three things that can be easily solved with raw photos, two of which are obnoxious and annoying and the other is.. less so. These are dead pixels, noise, and lens vignetting, solved by dark frames, and flat fields.
Continue readingMany good-quality DSLR cameras I’ve seen will have the ability to save your photos in a few different formats, JPEG, TIFF, or some form of raw format.
If you’ve every tried to use one, you’ll quickly realize they’re not like normal photos and don’t quite work the same. So what exactly is this, and what is it used for?
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