Writing

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.

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.

How to make your Synology NAS a personal note storage container with minimal friction.

Twitter has many short user IDs available, but it might take some time to find the right one. That’s why I wrote a script to automate this.

A twist on a project I worked on a couple of years ago, that makes it easier to get the Nest HD camera stream without hacky workarounds.

I learned that owning your data is powerful, and it’s even more powerful when you are able to slice-and-dice it for better insights.

In case you always wanted to build your own notes in Markdown, there is a way to do that easily with Hugo, Docsy, and Docker.

In an effort to make personal site discovery better, I decided to experiment with web development a bit and create an open-source personal site and blog directory.