Dash Web Apps
When a Dash web app is run from the command line, a warning is generated that the python development server should not be used in a "production" environment and points to something cal...
Pi Project
Having all of the necessary pieces and some spare time during the holidays I resurrected a project that never reached completion to measure and plot temperature with a Raspberry Pi, in th...
Embedding Album art in FLAC files
The first part of this is taken from this page. In a directory of FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files and a file of album cover art named cover.jpg which looks...
Simple Macbook backups
To complement my Time Machine backups I wanted to add an rsync backup which is relatively easy from the command line but needs quite some care when bash scripting it.
#!/b...
Lightbox Image Gallery
Having added exif to individual images I was in pursuit of a way to create image galleries and was able to directly use the code from this page which is a shortcode that c...
Webserver behind VPN
I don't want my Hugo site to be public so the idea is to have it running on a private network and control access by who has VPN access. The steps as far as I can tell are:
- I...
Transcoding iPhone videos for Firefox
I found that sometime in 2021 iPhone videos exported to .mov files had no audio in Firefox, the speaker icon on the video player is crossed out indicating the v...
(Not) Setting up OpenWRT on a Linksys MR8300 for KPN Glass Fibre Internet
I have a Fritz!Box 7590 that I rent from my internet provider, KPN, and it works extremely well in conjunction with two Frit...
Building my own NAS
I have a Synology DS218+ and although it is Linux based, it has a weird directory structure and permissions are not always obvious. Finally when it refused to let my Macbook back...
A few Hugo tweaks
I wanted to be more selective about which posts are displayed at least until there is a way to control access on a post-by-post basis if that ever becomes possible (that seems unli...
Setting up Ubuntu as a Time Machine destination
Each time I set up my linux box (usually Debian based but this will work for most others I suspect) as a Time Machine destination, I have to search fo...
Exif Tags
I always like to see the technical details of a photo via the Exif tags and Hugo supports this out of the box via custom made shortcodes. I tried first following this post but was unable...