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About my over-engineered system to watch TV at home. This is Part 2, which details about automating playback via my Chromecast.

What does it mean to optimize Kafka for High Availability? This means that the Kafka applications should recover as quickly as possible from failures to ensure reads and writes are always available from and to topic partitions by the respective Kafka...

FFmpeg is a highly versatile tool that supports a range of popular formats like MP3, MP4, and AVI. You can also use it to convert files between different formats.

Nyxt is lean, yet powerful web browser that is heavily inspired by Emacs and Vim. Learn how you can create your custom browser with it today.

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RTMP also called real-time messaging protocol is a data transmission technology that supports live online video streaming. It is used to transmit vi...

🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…

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Run an elevator, be a hacker, vaporize bots, and more in these 7 great coding games for both beginners and experienced programmers.

Sonic Pi is a new kind of instrument for a new generation of musicians. It is simple to learn, powerful enough for live performances and free to download.

This guide features some of the most popular open-source Free UPnP and DLNA Media Servers you can use for your streaming and data-sharing tasks in Linux.

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I get a lot of questions about the gear I use, so I've collected it all here on a single page. A couple of quick notes: Just because I use something doesn't mean that I recommend it to everyone. I make stuff for a living and have been fortunate enough to upgrade equipment over time....

Last week, I was putting things together for an upcoming episode of Mac Power Users1 and came across a few old posts in which I shared my Apple setups. I thought it would be fun to put them all in one place: October 2009: This was my home desk at my wife and I's first...

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Over the past few days I’ve been developing a hobby site ( furtherfrom.com) using Phoenix 1.7 and fly.io. I ran into a few snags along the…

Masterclock’s NTP time servers are an accurate, rack mountable Stratum 1 timing solution. GPS/GNSS, time code (IRIG-B, SMPTE, EBU), or master oscillator options.

I lasted tweeted on Dec 22. (It was, unsurprisingly, a link to a blog post about Mastodon.) Today I wondered what percentage of the people who appear in my Mastodon timeline today also appeared on …