October through December 2022
Right now I’m focused on: Reading:
July Through September 2022
Right now I’m focused on: Building and maintaining good habits, and then stacking those habits together Streaming more often and with more variety – the museum, some gaming, some programming, etc Improving and expanding self-hosted services like Plex and Nextcloud Learning NodeJS by making bots in Puppeteer Getting more serious with Virtual Reality
Holy Heckbeans, It’s A HaritoraX!
VR is about to get a whole lot less V and a whole lot more R for this Yak. From a jerry-rigged phone with untracked hands made of other phones (thanks VRidge Riftcat), to 3 point tracking with the Quest 2, to simulated 5 point tracking with Driver4VR – my el-cheapo journey into Virtual Reality…
Finding My Friend At Burning Man
I’m going back to the desert in a few weeks, and what would a trip to Burning Man be without some new tech to test out? This year, it’s going to be friend-finder, a means of locating and communicating with someone in a city that is notoriously separated from simple things like casually texting or…
April through June 2022
Right now I’m focused on: Putting together a collection website for the Ration Museum Scanning and sharing my grandparents’ slides with the family Building out this website Deciding what to do next in life! Finding a replacement car: <- So She Goes
Gearing Up For VR Streaming
Problem: I want to justify more time in VRSolution: Plan more interesting VR Trips and Stream It What Are The Goals Of This Test? What Hardware and Software Will Be Involved? What’s not to love OBS? Open Broadcast Studio is basically a portable television broadcast booth you can use to patch all sorts of content…
Solved: High Resource Usage With External Samba Storage on Nextcloud
For photos and videos I intend to share with friends, family, or freelancers, I run my own hosting and chose Nextcloud to serve as the platform that does the heavy lifting. I’m running it on Ubuntu 20 LTS, and I use the External Storage App from the App Library in order to reference content that…
Burning Junk NFTs for Fun and Profit!
Note: This post is specific to NFTs on the Solana Network If you’ve got a Solana address, and you’re active in the NFT space, then you’ve probably seen something like this show up out of nowhere: What’s that? Where did it come from? Did I win something? NO. STOP. This is a scam! Someone is…
ISS Feed Compiler
The International Space Station (ISS) is up there right now, blasting along at over 17,000 miles an hour, endlessly falling towards a point beyond the horizon. Well, not entirely endlessly – it will come down some day unfortunately. In the meantime, it’s fun to keep tabs on the ISS. To that end, I slapped together…
Presearch – Welcome To Mainnet
Right now, a five year long effort begun by Colin Pape is transitioning from a carefully monitored, incrementally tweaked Testnet to its next phase. Presearch is being heralded as the world’s first decentralized contender in the Search Engine space. With almost 4 million registered users and over 150 million searches running through the system monthly,…