OBS Studio on Debian

Updated 03-Aug-2025 OBS (Open Broadcaster Studio) Studio is a popular, open source multiplatform broadcasting and recording control panel. OBS Installation for Debian sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) ffmpeg obs-studio v4l2loopback-dkms Note that the Linux headers and loopback (not included in the most recent release of OBS as of February 2022) enable a virtual camera button, ... Read more

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Google is a behemoth and has a variety of properties that one may need to use, for example: YouTube - to watch YouTube content, and to create and upload YouTube content YouTube Music - to listen to YouTube Music There are subscriptions available for YouTube Premium as well as YouTube Music Premium. As ... Read more

Snake Games

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Snake games are quite popular. The first widely played snake game is of course snakes and ladders which originated in 2nd century CE India. The game was imported into the UK in the 1890s and made its way to the US as chutes and ladders, snakes apparently too scary for small children. Snake ... Read more

Homemade Dill Pickles Recipe

Updated 03-Aug-2025 These last a few weeks (or longer), and are a quick alternative to a longer pickling procedure. Ingredients 500g small cucumbers (ideally 9 cucumbers, somewhat skinny bunch of fresh dill 250g water 120g white vinegar 1 tsp salt 2 cloves of garlic (more for spicy) Utensils 2 pint size mason jars Procedures Combine ... Read more

Sea Salt, Kosher Salt, Table Salt

Updated 03-Aug-2025 There are differences in salt. Kosher Salt Kosher Salt generally is only sodium chloride (NaCl), without iodine or other trace minerals or additives, and is coarse grain. It is called kosher salt due to being large grained and suitable for the kosher blood draining process (ensure that kosher salt is certified kosher if ... Read more

Svelte, Svelte Kit, Svelte Native

Updated 03-Aug-2025 I've started on Svelte and Svelte Kit since it seems to produce an excellent product with minimal code. I buy into the basic concepts of the benefits of Svelte (over all other frameworks). There is also Svelte Native. I was reading up on Cloudflare Pages, which apparently has gone full stack, and it ... Read more

Generated Faces

Updated 03-Aug-2025 https://generated.photos/faces/beautified/young-adult/asian-race/black-hair/long/joy/brown-eyes https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/03/generate-realistic-human-face-using-gan.html https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3

Diagrams.net (was Draw.io)

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Diagrams.net -- previously draw.io -- is a neat web/web 2.0 diagram editor. It supports Google Drive and also VSCode integration. Currently I usually just use Inkscape and draw whatever I need by hand. It is usually faster, and can embed as an SVG or simply output a PNG file. However, if one does ... Read more

The Oregon Trail

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Play The Oregon Trail (1990) Online at Archive.org I Designed The Oregon Trail, You Have Died of Dysentery - The lead designer of The Oregon Trail explains his team's process for creating the most successful educational computer game of all time.

What is Notion?

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Wikipedia says: > Notion is a notetaking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management. The app uses databases and markdown pages for use in personal and collaboration work. This is a bit unwieldy, but so is Notion, which does have ... Read more

Virtual Reality and Children

Updated 03-Aug-2025 It turns out that there are many legitimate concerns when it comes to virtual reality and children, the ones that are different than the concerns with video games (addiction, etc.), are around how the eyes focus (or not) in virtual reality as opposed to reality. Currently, one could say that all virtual reality ... Read more

Asus Flip C214MA

Updated 03-Aug-2025 The Asus C214MA-BU0546 is a Q3 2021 durable (milspec) 11.6" 2-in-1 Chromebook. It has: Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, Intel UHD 600 Graphics (Integrated), eMMC 32GB SSD, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 11.6" 1366x768 screen For my mind and money this replaces the venerable Asus C101PA. This device is effectively an update 3 years ... Read more

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