Giving Up on Self-Hosted Storage
Sometimes the best course of action is just giving Google £15
Quiet System
Yellowsink's blog - code, unix, and ramblings.
Latest posts
VR Eye Tracking: I Caved
Comparing the Pico 4 Enterprise to the alternatives.
What Image Codec Should I Use?
AVIF, JXL, or WebP?
Crypto 101 for DIY HRT
What you need to know to use crypto to buy HRT
ProShot Post-Processing
Comparing the noise reduction and sharpening modes
Good Software
A celebration of the software that makes me happy.
The AliExpress Quest Pro
Building a DIY VR eye tracking setup
Backdooring my Phone for Neither Fun nor Profit
A Data Recovery Misadventure
Reflections on 2025
The obligatory end of year retrospective
Experiment: VR on Linux
Trying out the whole stack.
Comparing VR Streamers
A UX Comparison of Pico Connect, ALVR, and Steam Link.
A Watch Review: Huawei GT 3
Reviewing my current smartwatch.
Livestreaming audio to the browser
How uwu radio's new streaming works.
A Retroactive Watch Review: Two Fitbits
I am nerdy about smartwatches, hehe, let's review some old Fitbits.
How to perform a HRT injection
A beginner's guide on injecting hormones for trans people
The Bits We Don't See, Part 2: D
The initialisation and finalisation steps of the D runtime uncovered.
The Bits We Don't C
The secrets hidden behind your main function.
2024: Over Already???
A self-indulgent retrospective.
Hosting your own DNS for fun (but not profit)
A convenient workaround, and a more self controlled network infrastructure.
The State of Michiru, Sept 2024
A thorough coverage of my server.
systemd Drive Auto-Mounting
A nicer way to deal with my external SSD
Burst Mode: Accurate or Awful?
An investigation into the EAC modes.
Demystifying ReplayGain
A confusing system with patchy support
Hazel goes to see Enter Shikari
Writings from my first time at a concert!
Re-testing MS Office on Linux
Has the situation improved from Wine 6.x to 8.21?
How I consume music
The ins and outs of my local music library
A not-retrospective: 2023
A year...
A stationary opinions info dump
Lord help me this is not normal
My half-term project - An audio codec
The written portion of this project.
An evaluation of Kagi
I am not awake properly but I am intrigued.
I'm on Software Hiatus
I cannot do this currently.
I'm here. I can also not be.
Some thoughts on support.
Uploading music to Apple Music
From Bandcamp checkout to Apple Music streaming (on Linux!)
How to make a Michiru
The coming together of my server
What's the fastest F# runtime?
Perf testing the many F# runtimes
The many faces of WebAuthn
The differing experiences of WebAuthn
On the performance of web applications
Overhead and performance ramblings
Can YOU tell audio codecs apart?
Audiophiles love to talk about lossless. Here's proof they're usually full of shit.
The Oxidation Pt. 2 - Bending Rust to my will
Rust series post on proc macros
Quite Okay Pixel-Art Video Compression
A toy video codec based on QOI
The Oxidation Pt. 1 - The Reference Dance
Rust series post on memory, ownership, and mutability
The Oxidation Pt. 0 - Intro
Welcome to a series of blog posts on Rust.
A proof that all roots of primes are irrational
A little proof exercise I thought was neat
Proving the parabola of connected intervals
A worksheet oft used as an exercise for kids hides some elegant maths.
5 things I learned from TimezoneDB
A hard lesson learned in software development
The why behind shelter
Why is shelter like it is, instead of like most other client mods?
A look back on 2022
It's been a hell of a year for me, as well as a weird one.
Running iTunes on Linux
Despite this being incredibly niche, what if we could run real iTunes on Linux?
The art of remix album covers
Sometimes remix albums have great covers, let's talk about it.
Two "beginner" 3D printers
My experience with the XYZ Da Vinci nano and Creality Ender 3 V2