Today: static status pages — easy cases for your KiCad projects — miniature atomic clock — TUI spreadsheets — Bluetooth sensor standard — Steam Machine delayed due to AI — Fediverse hashtags
flac to set a default compression levelI'm using Whipper to rip CDs into FLAC files on the command-line. It comes with support for MusicBrainz and focuses on bit-perfect archival of the original audio data.
However, what it doesn't come with is a lot of configuration options, and choosing a compression level for your FLAC files (or customizing the CLI arguments passed to the flac command) is not something you can easily do.
Which is why I wrote a custom wrapper script in Python to get around this.
❤️🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions transmisia, J. K. Rowling, and the Epstein Files.
Today: genuine SD cards — guitar strings attached to a magnet — what if Signal goes away — Hans Zimmer's transmisia — Bash in the Epstein Files — MicroPythonOS — university exams in the age of chatbots — Chrome to ship cache sharing — parsing Link: headers — analyzing Midnight City and You Spin Me Round — documenting samples in MusicBrainz
Before you ask: This category being called "Daily Notes" means that notes can be daily (in contrast to other blogs, which have a "Weekly Notes" category), but if there's nothing interesting on that day, there won't be a post.
❤️🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions Jeffrey Epstein and pedophilia.
Today: Guild Wars Reforged — HOPE lost its venue — Gargron steps down — Android on Linux — trailers for Project Hail Mary and Wake Up Dead Man — the Billie Eilish wall in Berlin — John Oliver about "pedophile math"
I've just sent an email to Eric Migicovsky, the founder of the Pebble smartwatch company, which went bankrupt in 2016. He's also the founder of Core Devices, the company behind launching new Pebble hardware in 2025.
Here's what my email says.1
When you're using a static site generator, a common workflow is that you have a Git repo with your source documents, run the SSG on it, which will render your site's HTML into an output directory, and then you take that directory and push it to a separate branch (usually called pages) in the same directory.
But how do you switch branches, especially if you might have uncommitted changes? And how do you make the output subdirectory the top-level directory in the other branch?
As you might have noticed if you're following my Fedi posts for any amount of time: I'm a big proponent of content notes (also known as content warnings). They allow you to decide whether you're okay with reading about a particular topic at this moment or not, and they're an essential accessibility tool for people who have had traumatic experiences in the past.
And therefore, I needed them in my blog, too.
This is the first post in the Daily Notes category, where I collect things that I found interesting, but didn't want to write a full blog post about.
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Today: static site hosting — Róisín Murphy's TERFism & a browser extension — WebDAV — CLI-based playing & downloading of streaming music — unlocking multiple disk encryptions simultaneously — mixing colors in CSS — Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview
2025 is the year I'm finally taking the time to have a fucking website again. Welcome.
Let me talk a bit about why I've decided to do this.
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