SLO County Coders @ Vintage Computer Festival West 2026
This year a few of us from San Luis Obispo County Coders made the journey to north to Silicon Valley for the
Pedal Driven Programming
A personal website about bikes and code.
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A GTK Dropdown with Ellipsized Items
Welcome to installment #2 of "stuff that I thought would be easy but turned out to be hard when
5x Faster .fits Decoding using Rust and Rayon
Part of my job at [Las Cumbres Observatory](https://lco.global/)
Self Hosted Jukebox with NFC Cards
My daughter turned 2 this month. She loves music and we bought her one of those
Meshcore is having a week
I clicked [a link](https://meshoskey.com/index.html) in my local meshcore
Gelly 1.2 and The Most Cursed Cache Bug
[Gelly](https://github.com/Fingel/gelly) is a music player for Jellyfin and Subsonic servers. I just released version 1.2, which includes support for saving favorites. A favorite is just a boolean flag on an item, nothing more. When the user clicks a cute heart icon or whatever, we flip that boolean, make a HTTP request, and move on. Should be easy to implement right?…
Jellyfin Makes a Good Audio Server
[](https://pedaldp.s3.amazonaws.com/v3/images/54qyu8ZrJCY-gellyservers.png) More and more people are turning to self hosting music as an alternative to streaming from Spotify. This is a great way to both support artists as well as reclaim some sovereignty over omnipresent rent-seekers. The first question…
Zed and Waypipe for Remote GUI Development
My laptop is old and under-powered and crappy and I love it. It's a 10 year old Thinkpad T470s. Super light, great keyboard, battery lasts for ages (replaceable!) - but it's _dog_ slow. On the other hand, my desktop is a beast. So what to do when I'm on the road for the holidays and want to ignore my family by hacking on my current project [Gelly](https://github.com/Finge/gelly): a GTK + Rust…
The 7 Greatest Desktop Environments and Window Managers of All Time
Linux is all about freedom, customization and choice. There are many people who will tell you this, and then also tell you what the best choice is and why you should definitely agree with them. Following in that tradition, I'm going to share what I think are the seven best window managers and Desktop Environments (DEs) of all time. This is not about which one you should be using _now_ but instead…
Arch Linux is for Rust Lovers
Arch Linux is a great distribution for people that love Rust and Rust tools, by the way. [](https://pedaldp.s3.amazonaws.com/v3/images/szFNI1VaGhU-rustarch.png)