Another “Today I Learned”, except I was more “doing” than learning. Back in 2024 I was happy to find that the camera I invested in to monitor my kids doing homework back in the COVID days supported RTSP. I made a note to see if I can take it a bit farther, and if it wasn’t for the fact that the DCS-8526LH was eating Micro-SD cards and I was losing valuable information I wouldn’t be where I’m at now.
Enter the “Home DVR”…
Read MorePreviously on Optimizing Video: 2021 Honda Odyssey RES I had a beautiful ffmpeg 1-liner to convert videos to “space-saving-letterbox-loving-USB-sized” videos to be played on my Vehicles Entertainment System. Unfortunately, some of the videos continued to fail to play to the point where the system would reset and would need me to cycle the vehicles power to cold reboot the entertainment system.
Suffice to write it’s led to much trial-and-error, with much more excitement on success.
Read MoreGraduation is an amazing accomplishment, and getting quality photos is also another accomplishment.
This year our daughter walked the stage and the school hired a studio to take the Diploma-Holding photos. Today they provided us a link to their pixieset.com shop to view those photos.
These are great photos, and as much as we would like both of them at $27.00 per photo we just cannot afford it. They even went the extra distance of overlaying their advertising/copyright as well as adding in copyright and tag exif metadata within each photo to hammer it home that it’s their property.
…except they forgot one tiny thing about their Canon EOS R5 camera…
Read MoreOn November 20, 2003 I was hired at Marchese Computer Products in Batavia, New York. Originally I was the good-looking person who was seen when you walked through the front doors my initial tasks revolved around answering the phone, taking computers in for service, and performing front-end sales.
Read MorePart of learning a new programming language when you already know a couple is getting deep into the nitty gritty of it. With Python being the new BASIC I decided to start with something, well, basic.
I remember “back in the good old days” when there was a goofy standard of “web-safe colors”. Specifically there were 216 defined colors, so I decided to start by writing a program to take an image and covert it as if it was presentable in the late 1990s.
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