Playing around with PHP-FFMpeg to grab video duration and dimensions from uploaded media files. Seems like a pretty robust library and probably overkill for my needs, but it works well.
Day off tomorrow to watch the Tour Of Britain as it comes through the village. If it's anything like 2014 when we went to Cambridge to watch the Tour de France, we'll be stood on the side of the road for hours only to watch the riders go past in a matter of seconds. Anyhow, the weather forecast looks good, so we'll take a nice picnic.
Every now-and-again my laptop gets really hot. I'm pretty sure the culprit is GNOME Tracker, but I'm not sure I want to resolve the issue. Winter is coming!
One of my favourite YouTube channels is Probably Riding. The videos offer a chilled and relaxed alternative to the more competitive cycling videos that the YouTube algorithm normally promotes. Well worth a watch if you like a bit of cycling, coffee and culture. www.youtube.com/@probablyriding
I have really fond memories of past OggCamp events and I've always come away from them feeling inspired and motivated to hack on stuff. I was super happy to hear the event is coming back for 2024. I've ordered 2 tickets and booked some accommodation, I'm really looking forward to it! oggcamp.org
Spent a minute to clean-up my AppIndicator icons. It's a silly little thing, but the coloured icons looked out of place and whilst they were not triggering me too much, it is nice to have them fit in with the other monochrome icons.
Mission complete. Oasis tickets acquired!
Becky has managed to get into the Oasis tickets pre-sale. Hoping to grab our tickets ahead of general release tomorrow 🤞
I had a moment of weakness last Friday and moved back to using Debian. I find it mentally difficult to switch to using a different distro, but after a couple of days I decided that I should persist with my self-imposed mission to switch to using Fedora. I've been a Debian user for so long that I feel some sort of brand loyalty towards it, which is just crazy. Anyhow, I think this is what lead to my moment of weakness. Does anyone else get these feelings? I'm not crazy.
Built myself a RSS client to keep informed of new software releases that I use. I only add feeds for release notes and the client pings me an email whenever a new RSS item is retrieved. It's nice to receive the email notifications and not have worry about manually checking any feeds. There is probably some software out there that already does this, but it was fun to hack on my own.
Watching The Sound of Music, it’s got some banging tunes!
And just like that, my month long journey with Fedora is over. I really enjoyed Fedora 40, but ultimately I'm a Debian user at heart. It feels good to be back.
Writing some shell scripts for system admin. I love writing shell scripts.
Playing some Counter-Strike: Source like it's 2004.
Listening to Stuff You Should Know - True Mysteries of the Internet.
Watched the first couple of episodes of The Acolyte tonight. Enjoyed it a lot, but I'm not sure how Yord became a Jedi Master? He seems somewhat inept, I think he must have cheated on his exams.
Released a PWA today. It did not work as well in the real world as it did under test conditions. I think I'm going to have a busy week ahead trying to problem solve a few issues.
I only listen to podcasts about tech. I'm trying to be a bit less one dimensional, so I've added some political podcasts to my listening list. I now listen to podcasts about tech and politics. What else is there?
Vietnamese black coffee.
Tonight, I have mostly been building flat packed furniture. It’s a bit like Lego for grownups, not that grownups can’t play with Lego. That said, I think Lego comes with better instructions and is more fun, it also weighs less and is easier on my aging joints. Thinking about it, I’d much rather play with Lego.
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