a word of warning: this is a long and long-winded post, in part due to the complex subject matter i am using this blog as a rubber ducky to figure out for ourselves. if you have no personal interest in us you have a get out of jail free card to skip this one. also we use singular and plural first person pronouns throughout, in case it gets confusing. a few days ago i pledged to, every single day,…
Matto has tagged me in a blog question challenge, it's a fun game and i'm flattered to have been considered for it :) i've been dragging my feet getting around to not only writing this post but also doing some work around the website (we have an official 88x31 web button now!), but it's finally getting done! when did you first get interested in technology? ever since being pretty much exclusively…
i got a next thing co pocketchip sometime around 2017 second-hand from a friend who had ordered and (luckily, seeing as the company went under before fulfilling all orders) received his but ended up no longer wanting it. i've played with it on and off quite fondly since, and i've recently unearthed it and done a bunch of upgrades to it, so i figured i would write a post about it. a lot of it is…
yesterday i came across an interesting tumblr post. (the original has been removed, but it lives on in reblogs) this wormed itself into my mind and i ended up spending far, far too much time on it. for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image ( and not a URL as some guessed ). [ed note: multiple people have argued that it is indeed a URL and the MDN…
webgbcam version 4.1 introduces two new features: edge-sharpening and a URL query parameter to start with the UI hidden, which is meant to aid in using it directly into OBS firstly, to use camera and audio capture into an OBS browser source, you need to start it with the -use-fake-ui-for-media-stream parameter. if you're using a POSIX system, this might need to be passed with two dashes in front…
recently we bought a Hitachi TRK-612E boombox. there's not much info on these online other than listings of other people selling them, but suffice to say it's a pretty average budget boombox probably from the late 80s. it has tape and 4-band radio, but that's about it. you can record tapes from mic or from radio, and the one really impressive feature is that this has a fairly nice tape deck with…
disclaimer: i performed this mod several months ago and am writing this post by recollection alone, for the sake of documenting some stuff i had previously documented on the fascist shithole that is Twitter meaning that everything i wrote is now gone so the standard configuration of a ThinkPad X61t is a 1024x768 (XGA) screen. there are some 1400x1050 (SXGA+) screens out in the wild for the X61t,…
i've been a twitter user since february 2009. next month would mark my 14th year on the platform. since i joined it, we have gone through pretty significant personal changes, the account i was holding could be argued to have begun with a completely different person (or, if you don't believe that, at least another facet of ourselves) to close 2022 off, twitter decided to permanently suspend my…
recently i've developed a tool to help extract pictures from eyemodule and eyemodule2 camera modules for the handspring visor PDA. i've since gotten some people asking me how to actually extract the palm os databases necessary for the tool, so here's a brief guide first, you need a way to hotsync your visor to a computer. if you're using windows the latest palm desktop (version 6.2.2) still works…
that's a word i feel i always understood to be a serious issue but never thought it was something i could have. like you needed an official diagnosis from a doctor like ptsd or cancer. but in hindsight it's so clear i've had anxiety, and more importantly anxiety attacks, my whole adult life for a period of time i would wake up from dreams of urgency and helplessness in a cold sweat. then for the…