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I currently use Jekyll to generate my blog posts that you see hosted here. One thing I have wanted was to add a commenting system. Inspired by this recent toot by @joel@fosstodon.org, and as I am a proponent of the Fediverse and a Mastodon user, I took a first stab at setting up comments collected the notes below.

A simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets

Uses AI to analyze your mic setup and suggests changes to make it sound great. Tells you if you need to come closer, reduce background noise, adjust gain, etc.

This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.

Mastodon is a wonderful, nearly utopic experience... but you have to figure out how to join it, first. In this video, we'll discuss the future of social medi...

The recent (2022) compromise of Lastpass included email addresses, home addresses, names, and encrypted customer vaults. In this post I will demonstrate how attackers may leverage tools like Hashcat to crack an encrypted vault with a weak password.

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

APITable, the best Airtable open-source alternative and an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps. - GitHub - apitable/apitable: APITable, the best Airtable open-source alte...

I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.

A fan of the Domesday Duplicator project is currently opening pre-orders on a run of fully assembled and flashed Domesday86 Duplicator kits. These kits, when combined with (and modded into) a compatible player allow a direct image of a LaserDisc to be saved!  The project has also evolved to both PAL

Here's an interview with Simon and Chad of the Domesday Duplicator / LD Decode projects - A combined hardware and software effort to achieve bit-perfect rips of laser discs!  In my opinion, this project is extremely important, as aging laserdiscs have a finite lifespan and will soon be lost forever

Software defined VHS decoder - Fork (maybe temporary) of the ld-decode Laserdisc rf decoder - oyvindln/vhs-decode: Software defined VHS decoder - Fork (maybe temporary) of the ld-decode Laserdisc r...

I gave a graduate seminar to the Faculty of Science and Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning today. It was the first time I’ve had the opportunity to talk about the dissertation research …

Many of those of us who work in higher ed have been thinking about ChatGPT since OpenAI dropped free access to it at the end of November. The fancy new chatbot which can generate essays, responses …

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

WordPress Playground brings key platform dependencies into the browser. Here’s a quick breakdown of how it works: - PHP runs as a WebAssembly binary - MySQL is replaced for SQLite via a WordPress plugin - Web server is implemented with the Service Worker API

open source cross platform text comparisoin tool

I’ve been discussing Mastodon UX wishlists with some new acquaintances there. This excerpt from A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon concludes with part of my own wishlist. In a Mastodon timelin…

Learn about the statistical methods and analytical tools that are defining data with META Lab's Learn Excel modules.

Mastodon has been attracting Twitter expatriates at a brisk pace. If you've set up an account on this federated social media network, you're probably wondering just how things work. I've been gathering questions from Mastodon newcomers and have some answers here.

Can a website play with a mastodon?

It's 2003 again.

install the latest patch then run the game in d3d9 mode to run Unreal Gold at modern resolutions

With 2022, I see PHP's cost as becoming prohibitive. Here's why.PHP continued to evolve in 2022. That's a good thing. PHP also scored an "own goal" near the end of 2022. This latter concern is