Located smack bang in the middle of South Australia’s capital city, Adelaide Airport has an interesting runway approach lighting system – located in suburban streets and residential backyards! Some background Adelaide Airport is located approximately 6 kilometres…

Allows you easily scan for and delete scam comments using several methods. - ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

In a previous post I showed how I modified a Minitel 2 to run arbitrary firmware . The firmware I used came from a chap who has played aroun...

Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of …

Ars chats with historian Barry Strauss about his book, The War that Made the Roman Empire.

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In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years

Netflix has been resolutely opposed to selling ads, prioritizing the user experience; however, the market conditions for streaming have changed, and so should Netflix

LCEVC video compression leverages a base video codec (e.g., AVC, HEVC, AV1, EVC and VVC) and employs a highly efficient and low complexity enhancement.

The fine folk at HP sent me one of their new Laser printers to review. The HP M140w is a small printer/scanner with built in WiFi. It's pretty good - but has an atrocious app - and works with Linux. So, what do you get for your £220? Unboxing Annoyingly…

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Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them

Germany's economy ministry said it acted after Gazprom Germania was acquired by two companies of unclear ownership.

So, there was a time when I was only developing applications using Python. And so I found out about virtual environments.

Ruby, OSS and the Internet