Writing

It’s ridiculous that I have to write it, but it looks like there is no hope in this being an actual feature of the Microsoft Edge web browser - setting a blank new tab. Not a tab with minimal ads, but just one that is blank. You know, the thing that you could set in Firefox for ages.

Taking the next step in my professional career.

Make your GitHub life easier with no-touch commit signing.

Or why software we get today is not the software we should strive to be getting tomorrow.

Figuring out how the Stream Deck ticks, and how I can make it do what I want.

For some time, I needed a way to use caffeinate on Windows. If you are coming from macOS, you know how useful this utility can be when you want to keep the computer awake for some definite or indefinite time. So, following the engineer mindset, I decided to build my own, starting with a PowerShell script.

If you are a podcast owner, one of the things that can be a bit annoying is the multitude of different data points that are available for the show. Now, this is not the fact that there is too much data but rather that this data is scattered across different providers, with different systems, and different ways to manage it.

Recently, younger residents of British Columbia (BC) became eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, which is awesome news! If you live in BC, I encourage you to register to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

I encountered a very unique challenge today - I needed to cut a part of a video hosted online with Azure Media Services for reference. The video in question is Into Focus, the ‘show within a show,’ that aired at Microsoft’s Ignite conference earlier this week.

Getting an open source speech-to-text library up and running on one of the most popular operating systems.

2021 turns out to be a good year for folks like myself, that love collecting their own personal metrics.

Technical details on the implementation of audio recording in FoggyCam - a Nest camera recorder.

How I re-purposed a NAS to be my data acquisition system.

An attempt to make a 2010 DSLR work as a webcam.

I just recently got a Stream Deck - it’s a wonderful tool to automate some of the more boring (read: routine) tasks. Literally with a click of a button I can kick off a bunch of automation. Apparently it can do everything but launch Windows Store applications.