Updated December 29, 2024

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Updated December 29, 2024

What is `/now` all about? ------------------------- This is a Now page. Here, you can find what I'm currently doing. Inspired by the website nownownow.com. Everything you would tell a friend you haven't seen in a year is here. You should create a /now page if you have your website. What am I doing right now? -------------------------- Last updated 29.12.2024 ### My current focus: * Publish episodes for my podcast “Server Side Stories” every two weeks. * Play the beta release of Path of Exile 2 and see how the community's feedback flows. * Continuous bullet journaling. * Create space for an hour of reading every day. ### My plans: * Start training in May 2025 to become a club manager end of the year. * Complete the AWS Certified Solution Architect course. * Implement the project with the working title “APEL” and introduce it to the customer. * To keep the 3rd district league with my table tennis team. * Eat more consciously and pay attention to less sugar. * Maintain the sporting mix of gym, table tennis training and running. ### What have I achieved in 2024: * Finally, I refreshed my first-aid knowledge and took a course. * The SaaS service RapidStream I built with my team went live. * I have been elected head of the table tennis department and can finally intervene in a formative manner. * I write a diary using the bullet journal method. * I was able to make my diet more balanced and sugar-free with the help of the tips from “The Glucose Goddess” by Jessie Inchauspe. * My cross-posting product Sociabli starts its beta phase. * I finished the C-licence course for table tennis trainer training. * I finished the "TV Masters by Thinkbox" course. * Organizing the internal championships for my table tennis division at NTSV and bringing joy to 40 attendees.

Updated December 28, 2024

Start your career as a developer in Japan ----------------------------------------- Join 5000+ developers on Discord -------------------------------- You're not alone. Our community can help you start or grow your career as a software developer in Japan. Insights from foreign developers in Japan ----------------------------------------- ### Hi, I'm Paul McMahon. TokyoDev started off with me writing about my own experiences being a developer in Tokyo. As other international developers asked me questions about working here, I wrote articles to answer them. Now TokyoDev has evolved into a site dedicated to helping international developers start and grow their career in Japan. Learn more

Updated December 26, 2024

TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression. ts\_zip: a practical text compression utility using a large language model. ts\_sms: short message compression using a large language model. TextSynth Server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text completion, question answering, classification, chat, translation, image generation. NNCP (lossless data compressor) is now leading the Large Text Compression Benchmark. QuickJS: a small but complete Javascript engine. textsynth.com provides access to large language models. A tiny and obfuscated image decoder for the 2018 edition of the International Obfuscated C Contest. LibBF is small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers. The TinyPI program computes millions of digits of PI. Run X Window or Windows 2000 in your browser. TinyEMU (previously known as RISCVEMU) is a small emulator emulating 128 bit RISC-V and x86 machines. The SoftFP library is a new IEEE 754-2008 floating point emulation library supporting the 32/64/128 bit floating point types. BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format based on HEVC and supported by most browsers with a small Javascript decoder. A 4G LTE/5G NR/NB-IoT base station running entirely in software on a standard PC. A new ASN1 compiler generating small and efficient C code. A PC emulator in Javascript: how much time takes your browser to boot Linux ? 2700 billion decimal digits of Pi computed with a desktop computer. Analog and Digital TV (DVB-T) signal generation by displaying an image on a PC display. QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer. FFMPEG, the Open Source Multimedia System. I launched this project in year 2000 and led it for several years. TCC is a tiny but complete ISOC99 C compiler which enables you to use C as scripting language. TCC has its roots in the OTCC project. The TCCBOOT boot loader demonstrate the speed of TCC by compiling and launching a Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds. QEmacs (for Quick Emacs) is an emacs clone I began to learn Unicode rendering algorithms, text buffers manipulation and XML/HTML/CSS parsing. OTCC is a very small self-compiling compiler for a subset of C I wrote to win the 2001 edition of the International Obfuscated C Contest. TinyGL: a Small, Free and Fast Subset of OpenGL. An online Scientific Web Calculator. Pi formulas, algorithms and computations. A tiny C program to print the biggest known prime number. Old projects. * * * If you have any questions or suggestions, write to _fabrice at bellard_ * * * last update: December 26, 2024

Updated December 26, 2024

Salut. I'm Parimal, a designer, writer and occasional musician living in Berlin. I also go by Félix. I'm interested in communication, languages, cross-cultural exchange, aviation, computer history, information systems and the European Union. Neustadt.fr is my personal website, a tribute to the creative web of the 90s. New music ---------- Listen to the new Snow Circuit single Burnover, a psychological thriller in synthwave form featuring singler Liliia Kysil! Currently ---------- I work as a UX/UI Designer at OpenProject, a secure, open-source project management software that respects your data and your privacy. **Snow Circuit** is my retro synthwave project. I was previously a student pilot and host of the Ground Effect aviation podcast. Writing ------- This is a selection of essays I've written over the years: * In Praise of Dive Watches, an eloge to the humble dive watch and why the timing bezel makes them a particularly useful everyday tool even now, in 2024 * Rediscovering the Small Web, about how, despite the dominance of the commercial web, a fun, creative and informative _small web_ designed by regular people still exists and is worth exploring, 2020. This essay was featured on the front page of Hacker News and has been cited elsewhere. It seems to also have played a role in the development of Kagi's small web lens. * Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web, about how not to replace an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditises people, 2017. This essay was on the front page of Hacker News twice, in 2017 and in 2020, quoted in a Swedish book by privacy experts (page 174), recommended reading in a Berkeley course and cited elsewhere. * A Beginner's Guide to Crafting a Blog with Metalsmith, a hands-on tutorial on creating a blog using a node.js-based static site generator, 2016 * Teaching Myself German, a guide to self-learning Deutsch, 2016 * 32c3 - Chaos Communication Congress, highlights from the 32nd edition of the biggest community-run hacker meet-up, 2016 * Physics in Metal, a scientific lyrical analysis of metal songs that deal with concepts in theoretical physics and cosmology, 2015 * Island (At Long Last), a poem about murderous sea-dwelling nymphs, 2015 * China: One Nation, How Many Languages?, an academic paper about the development of the Chinese language, also somehow one of the primary sources for the Wikipedia article on the Beijing dialect, 2010 Music ----- I make retro synthwave music as Snow Circuit. Dark, melancholic and sometimes hopeful, Snow Circuit brings elements of rock and metal to an 80s-inspired synth-driven sound. Other music ----------- I mostly listen to progressive metal, powermetal and old school heavy metal, but also enjoy synthwave and pop music. Some of my more experimental musical creations: * L'appel du vide, an attempt at creating a soundtrack for a horror film, inspired by what Italian metal band Goblin did for Susperia, 2023 * Terminate, a cover of the legendary Terminator 2 movie soundtrack created entirely on a PO-133 Pocket Operator, 2022 * Déconfinement, retro synth track based on an old composition, 2020 * Einstein-Rosen Bridge, instrumental electro-metal, 2016 * To Hell with Heaven, instrumental old-school metal, 2015 * Navigate the Seas of the Sun, Bruce Dickinson cover, 2015 * The Machine Stops, based on the short story by E. M. Forster, 2012 * Il était une fois, inspired by Yann Tiersen, 2012 * Vita, morte, miracoli, meant to be a morning wake-up alarm, 2012 * In My Life, Beatles cover with my brother Parag on the guitar, 2012 * Return of the Ghost, with two guitar- and one keyboard solos, 2012 * Dreams to Illusions, once described as "power game music", 2008 * Threads of Time, dark introspective rock, 2007 * Age of Mist, mid-tempo instrumental about not knowing, accepting, 2007 * Fallen, 4-chord song about valiant (but incompetent) warriors, 2007 Retro Stuff ------------ I grew up with the internet of the 90s and early 2000s. It was chaotic, irregular, flashy, gaudy, peppered with animated GIFs, but most websites were made by people like you and me who wanted to share their interests and hobbies. Luckily, I'm not the only one nostalgic about the Geocities era. There's a lot of us! Click the icon below to enter my Retro Collection page full of links to websites, tools, Winamp skins and other cool stuff from the past. Guestbook --------- Don't be a stranger. If you have a comment, suggestion or simply want to say hello, you can sign my guestbook. Or read what others have written. You can also get in touch with me via email (felix@neustadt.fr). —

Updated December 26, 2024

Rudy Limeback's personal web site --------------------------------- Created 1996-05-31, Updated 2024-12-26 ### Contents * Doomsday Algorithm 2024-12-26 The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head) * Frisbee Golf Central 2020-10-05 Stories about Frisbee Golf * My Toronto 2018-08-05 Stories and pictures of nature and neighbourhoods in Toronto * Rocket Cards! 2018-03-05 Spaceships, Space Exploration, and Rockets, circa 1957 Copyright © 2025   Rudy Limeback Mastodon

Updated December 24, 2024

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Updated December 21, 2024

Latest posts ------------ * ### AI/Copilot and deterministic code refactoring 2024-12-21 I tested whether AI can accurately refactor code. Spoiler: It can't! But I had some fun and did some neat meta-programming along the way. * ### I’m not sure I understand themes any more – a strange journey through old WordPress code. 2024-12-09 Come on a journey with me as I - a an experienced developer - dive into old WordPress theme code, find myself in an enormous tangle, and question my life choices. * ### Old Tabs: Part 12 2024-12-09 My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is still WAY out of hand. So I'm challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 11. You can call it part 2 of season 2 if you like. Yes, I had a LOT of open tabs! * ### Old Tabs: Part 11 2024-12-08 My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is still WAY out of hand. So I'm challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 11. You can call it part 2 of season 2 if you like. * ### Old Tabs: Part 10 2024-12-08 My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is still WAY out of hand. So I'm challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 10. You can call it part 1 of season 2 if you like. * ### Turbo Admin: Philosophy and inner-workings 2024-11-16 With the release of CommandUI there has suddenly been a lot of people looking deeply at how my own product Turbo Admin works. This post addresses some of the philosophy behind Turbo Admin, and clarifies some things about the tool that aren't necessarily obvious. * ### The Turbo Admin “Business Model” 2024-11-02 I feel I should say some things about the “business model” behind Turbo Admin, my command palette for WordPress. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. * ### On command palettes and competition 2024-10-24 If you don’t know, three years ago I made and launched a WordPress “command palette” tool called Turbo Admin. Now, there’s a new WordPress command palette on the block (no pun intended)! And actually, it looks really awesome and Calvin did a great job. I give you CommandUI! You should check it out. I love \[…\]

Updated December 21, 2024

* * *  **Ben Tibbetts Studio**      Home    Services    Archive    Students    About    Contact    Now    Store    Subscribe * * * **Now** _("So how have you been? What are you up to now?")_ **_Last updated on December 21, 2024_** Here's some of the stuff I've been up to in 2024. **Teaching** My teaching studio has grown a lot. This time last year, I had about thirty students. Now, I have about fifty students. That's because I started renting my office full-time, so I had a lot more time on my hands to work. The recent student recital video is now on YouTube. I thought that was the best student recital so far. I saw improvement this year from all my students. That recital featured about half of my studio, since the other half are adults. They had some performance opportunities, too—informal “Music & Mingle” parties—but those events aren't filmed. **The _Curses_ Concert** The first event this year was a concert called _Curses_. This was a collaboration between the poetry group Typewriter Rodeo and a group I'm a part of, Central Texas Composers. Curses was an eclectic mix of art songs inspired by the word "curses." For example, one song was about magical spells; another was about cursive writing; and another was about swearing. The song I composed for that concert was called Ode To Cursive. The full concert is available on YouTube. Please be aware there's a lot of adult language. **Developing A Video Game With A Student** I helped one of my students compose music for an original video game. We began the project last year, and it was released this past spring. My student Vaibhav wrote all the music and we designed the game during the last ten minutes of our piano lessons. I programmed it in GameMaker and it came together nicely. You can play it at www.glitchmountain.net. **Music for Jani Putzker** I composed some music for an animation by my friend Janina Putzer. The film, which is called _Hook In The Mouth_, is still in production. **_Not Yet_ by Ashten Falter** I arranged music for a music video by my friend Ashten Falter. Ashten is a local filmmaker, actress, musician, and dancer. The film is called _Not Yet_. It features the Debussy piece, _Clair de lune_, arranged for piano, flute, and cello. It was filmed at Mozart's Coffee Roasters in Austin, and featured Sheila Va and Caroline McGee. **One Ounce Opera: Valentine's Day** Early this year, I accompanied vocalists for a Valentine's Day concert organized by One Ounce Opera. The concert featured Carlee Abschneider, Katie Winchester, and Kevin Arratia-Diaz. I will release those videos later. (I want to add lyrics on the screen, but it's a slow process for me.) **Inversion Ensemble** I had the privilege of performing with the Inversion vocal ensemble this year. The first performance was at the Austin Public Library, called “Inversion at the Library”. The second was at the Here Be Monsters Festival this past summer. For that latter performance, I was on stage with an electric organ premiering an original oratorio by James Tecuatl-Lee called _Godric And His Demons_. Please be aware that this piece contains some graphic descriptions which are not child-friendly. **Sam Levreault's Doctoral Recital** I also had another opportunity to play with the flutist Sam Levreault. Sam is pursuing her doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I flew up there to perform a couple pieces in her Doctoral Recital. We performed the Prokofiev Flute Sonata, a solo piece by the contemporary composer Amanda Harberg, and a virtuosic showpiece by Alfredo Casella. **Young Artist Competitions** Another highlight of the year was playing for several young artist competitions in the area. These were at Cedar Park, Cedar Ridge, and Vandegrift high schools. These are basically school-wide competitions where student musicians perform sonatas, concertos, and other showy solo pieces with piano accompaniment. **Orchestration Lessons** This year, I worked hard to improve my orchestration abilities. I took orchestration lessons with my friend Keith Allegretti. Keith has been providing a lot of helpful advice, but more than that, having a deadline every two weeks to produce something has been incredibly useful. Here are the pieces I produced this year, if you'd like to listen: * In The Cave * Humoresque * Cold Blood Overture * Joy Ride **Aria in the Style of Mozart** A few people from Central Texas Composers were commissioned by One Ounce Opera to produce arias for the Here Be Monsters Festival. The lineup included Graham Yates, Carol Brown, and myself. We were given considerable freedom in what we could create. I chose to write an aria in the style of Mozart. It was a parody of the _Queen of the Night_ aria, titled _The Queen of the Morning After_. It was beautifully performed by Elise Leung Kotara and Benjie Dia. That video will be released on YouTube. **The Riddles Recital** In September, I participated in _The Riddles Recital_. This was originally the brainchild of my friend, Amy Herman. Amy was seeking public domain text to set to music, and she happened on a set of medieval poems called _The Exeter Riddles_. In the end, she, Keith Allegretti, and I set a few of these poems to music. This was my first time writing music in Old English. It was hard, but it was fun! The video will be released soon. **Personal Things** This was a busy year. To make my work schedule easier, I moved to an apartment near my office. This was a good call. It's right down the road, about a 3-5 minute drive. I've been learning the guitar. This has been fun. I think it's making me a better teacher, too, because it's reminding me of what it's like to be a beginner on an instrument. Scarborough Fair was a recent project. I’m still playing at Trinity Church every week. I’m grateful for that because it gives me an opportunity to perform regularly, which ensures I don't let my chops slip too far. (Thanks for putting up with me every week, Tim.) Instead of New Year's resolutions, every year I pick a word or phrase to remind me of something I want to focus on. This past year's phrase was “Netflix or Bust”. I wanted to participate in something on Netflix or another streaming platform—to be connected, in some small way, to show business. I sort of managed to fulfill this, since earlier this year I was an extra on the TV show _1923_. It'll be on Paramount, not Netflix. That'll be coming out in February. Someday, I'd like to snag a scoring job for a show, or something similar. That would be amazing. Being a film composer was a childhood dream of mine, and as an adult I still have a strong desire to tell stories with music. I don’t know what my New Year’s theme 2025 will be yet, but things are looking up. **Musicians & Organizations** Here are all of the musicians and organizations I mentioned in this update. I've included links so you can find more information about their work if you're interested. Timbral Music Studios Central Texas Composers Typewriter Rodeo Keith Allegretti Graham Yates Carol Brown Brittney Benavidez Smith Charissa Whillock Mary Schani Jordan Walsh Barbara George Armstrong Community Music School Ashten Falter Sheila VA Caroline Magee, cellist with Austin Civic Orchestra One Ounce Opera Carlee Abschneider Katie Winchester, instructing with Cedar Park High School Choir Kevin Arratia-Diaz Inversion Ensemble James Tecuatl-Lee Here Be Monsters & Tetractys Sam Levreault Amanda Harberg Elise Leung Kotara through One Ounce Opera Benjamin Dia Amy Herman with ACMS Bethany Ammon Monica Salas Curtis Simmons Lisa Lamb Local Opera Local Artists * * *  **Ben Tibbetts Studio**      Home    Services    Archive    Students    About    Contact    Now    Store    Subscribe * * * Copyright © 2006-2023 Ben Tibbetts change log

Updated December 19, 2024

About worldnews24.tv -------------------- Last updated: 2024-12-19 Why I Created This Site ----------------------- In a time when society polarizes and political tension rises, we need to see the news from different perspectives so that we can build informed opinions. The local TV channels I watch mostly focus on local issues, and lately they seem to be getting more one-sided. At the same time, paying for cable to watch world news can get really expensive. So, I started looking online and found that many international news channels are actually available for free! The only problem is, each one has its own website. Opening 10 or 20 tabs just to watch the news isn’t exactly convenient. That’s when I thought, “What if I could bring all these channels together and make it easy to flip through them, just like regular TV? How I Picked the Channels ------------------------- Here’s what I considered when choosing the channels: 1. **World News** – I wanted channels that give a bigger picture, not just local news. 2. **In English** – Channels in English so more people can understand. 3. **Popular in Their Area** – I tried to pick the big ones from each area – while they may not represent everyone’s opinion, they are influential and widely followed voices in their regions. 4. **24/7 Streaming** – So that we can watch from around the world, around the clock. 5. **Open to the Public** – Only channels that stream publicly on their official sites or YouTube, showing that they want to make them public. 6. **No Embedding Restrictions** – I only include channels that don’t ban out embedding; if a channel disable embedding into this site, I respect their decision. 7. **Free** – The channels should be viewable for free on their official sites or YouTube. I don’t want to offer pirated content. How To Use ---------- You can switch channel by using: * ◀ ▶ (on keyboard) * ←👆→ : one-finger left/right swipe on the player window (on touchscreen) * ⏮ ⏭ (on keyboard or remote control), or * CH▲ CH▼ (on remote control) even in full-screen mode.

Updated December 18, 2024

Last updated: _December 18, 2024_ Create your own now page, or reach out if you want help getting your own site up and running! * * * * I'm working as a Software Engineer for Meijer. I work remotely, but have been able to meet many of my coworkers since HQ is only 20 minutes away. * C#, SQL, and .NET * Building websites for clients at techcarpenter.org * Raising my three sons (ages 6, 4, and 1) with my wife. * Running a self-hosted server on my local network. * Doing lots of puzzles, melting bead patterns, wrestling, and reading books with my boys. * My wife and I just started playing a game together called _It Takes Two_, so far we're really enjoying it on chill evenings!

Updated December 17, 2024

Hi, I'm Mark and I'm a software architect & developer ----------------------------------------------------- I have been working in the IT environment for 17 years. As part of my current work at konzentrik GmbH , I plan event-driven applications as a software architect, as a full stack developer I write the appropriate frontend and backend code and as a good agile evangelist (you build it, you own it) I am responsible for operations. Of course not alone, it's just good to understand and master each area in order to discuss solutions with colleagues at eye level. In various agile teams I have often experienced heated discussions about which values makes up the team. A good approach to ensure team cohesion. I always try to incorporate my values: reliability, neatness, excellence, composure and curiosity. The good thing about values ​​is that they are lived in different forms and in nuances can be described in a modified form using other words and thus in the team values can be accommodated. In my teams, respect and appreciation were almost always the top priority. I see this as part of reliability - everyone in the team can rely on that I listen to and take into account his or her opinion with due care, keep my promises and thus advance common issues. I live in Hamburg and play DnD ------------------------------ I was born in Hamburg and, apart from a short trip to Reinbek, always stayed in Hamburg. I am rooted in the north and enjoy the green surroundings in Niendorf. When I was young, I loved spending hours on weekends and holidays playing DSA and DnD. Since 2022 I have been with a few friends and my son to get a group together again with which we can celebrate our DnD 5th Edition campaigns once or twice a month. Most Saturdays we start at 6 p.m. with a delicious meal that I prepare for everyone - there's nothing like a big pot of chili con carne. Then we go into the basement into the games room with digital cards, atmospheric music from the Anker Box and our figures. I play table tennis ------------------- During the Covid pandemic it happened that we put a table tennis table in the garden. What started as a small hobby with my son has developed into an enormous passion. I joined the local club Niendorfer Turn- und Sportverein (NTSV), started training and taking part in league games. Because only a few people engaged in the club, I became team captain, sports director for the men and, since May 2024, department head for the table tennis division. My son trains a lot and is aiming for a professional career. Through many great coincidences it happened that he will be training for a month at the Luneng table tennis school in China in September 2024. I accompany him and I have to say, it's an amazing experience. I read a lot of (fantasy) books ------------------------------- I love reading fantasy series on the scale of Wheel of Time. I usually read a few series at the same time so that I can enjoy them for longer. Since 2024 I have discovered the self-published author Pedro Urvi with his series “The Path of the Ranger”. At the same time, I enjoy the well-known series by author R.A. Salvatore (Dark Elves series), David Eddings (Belgariad Saga) and Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Chronicles). And for a change, Lee Child's new volume from the Reacher series finds its way onto my bookshelf every summer. And for the winter I'm thinking about picking up a Jack Ryan novel again. My career journey so far ------------------------ I work at konzentrik GmbH as a technical lead, software architect and full-stack developer. For more details, check out my CV. Download CV 1. May 2005 - Apr 2014 Swisscom Conception, architecture, development and support of a platform for processing and displaying electronic program data (EPG). 2. Aug 2011 - Sep 2016 Publishing houses Development of various mobile and hybrid apps, as well as websites with a focus on EPG data and videos. Including providing the raw data in a Restful API. 3. Nov 2016 - Apr 2018 Aidminutes In the role of a CTO, my team and I have developed a tool for digitizing medical history with a focus on solving cultural and language barriers in doctor-patient communication. 4. Dec 2019 - Dec 2022 Funke Verlag Individual programming for video content aggregation, TV schedule management and the provision of video content as independent HLS streams for FAST channels on Samsung TV, Xiaomi, LG and Rakuten. 5. Nov 2022 - Present RapidStream Development of a Software as a Service (SaaS) product for the abstraction of AdServer queries in the area of ​​TV streaming for FAST channels called RapidStream . 6. I am currently here in my journey :D A simple stack that you can always trust ---------------------------------------- I've been a software developer for over 17 years, and while my stack has shifted over the years, I kept coming back to the same technologies. The following is the stack that I've developed & honed over the years as a software developer.

Updated December 17, 2024

Skip to content #### Updated December 17th, 2024. **What’s Going On?** -------------------- * **I executive produced “Screens,”** a Japanese film about two long-distance lovers who find their screen addiction threatens their real-world bond. * **I recently spoke at Techsylvania 2024** * **Are you reading my WTF Journal?** – Every day, I ask myself, What’s The Future? Then I take detailed notes and store them in a journal. Writing ------- **The Japanese Handbook**— I’ve co-authored a book with Maria Telincho that takes readers on an immersive 90-day journey that blends language learning with rich Japanese cultural experiences. **The Metaverse Handbook** – I wrote the go-to guide for understanding the next big technological shift toward the metaverse. Crazy enough, **my book was** **featured in Harvard Business Review**! **Creating** ------------ **LearnJapanese.com** – I’m working on a platform to help people learn Japanese anywhere in a non-boring way with native speakers. **Famous Finder**: I’ve been building a Shopify app that allows you to quickly identify celebrities and influencers who order from your Shopify store. **Learning** ------------ **Japanese —** Most of my downtime is spent learning to speak and write Japanese. It’s a tedious language, but thanks to **LearnJapanese.com,** I’m sticking with it. **Google Gemini (and other Generative AIs)** **–** AI drives massive efficiencies in ways no other tech product can, I’m constantly learning how to utilize Gen AI in my everyday life. Occasionally, I even participate in a Gen AI hackathon.  **This is a now page** – If you have your own site, **you should make one, too**.

Updated December 15, 2024

I’m a full-time marketing advisor and this site is dedicated to paying forward what I’ve learned by helping my peers build successful marketing practices. Quick backstory --------------- Back in 2017, I came to the realization that I didn’t want to build a big agency. I was doing web design and digital marketing for B2B businesses with a team of distributed contractors. It was working, but it didn’t feel right. Like you, I was doing too much, burning myself out, and could never really turn off my brain at night. I was always on-call. Always thinking about the next due date. Always wondering why my margins weren’t higher at the end of the day. My niche—owner-managed B2B services companies—was too broad. I had no real competitive advantage. No negotiating leverage. I was making a good living but was working _hard_ for it. I knew if I wanted to grow I had to make a change. I _could_ use my skills to build a “real” agency—with employees, project managers, and an office to bring it all together. But the thought of that frankly didn’t appeal to me at all. **It was then I realized I could focus instead on the parts I enjoyed most—the _strategy and leadership_ part of marketing.** I could then _guide_ my clients to their goals as an impartial advisor and “producer” of sorts—that’s where the most value came from anyway. The model immediately felt more aligned with my clients’ interests. **That’s when I began to phase my work into advisory model and never looked back.** Since 2017, I’ve sold over ~US$1M.5 in advisory services with an average retainer value of under $3,500/month and an effective hourly rate of over $500/hour. There’s a fair few advisory miles—or kilometres, since I’m Canadian—in my shoes. And I still consult to this day, making up most of my time and income. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I do have experience to share and lessons to teach. And I’m still in the game, innovating on the model and sharing what’s working (or not working). I hope you will join us on this journey in the Mindshare community or subscribe to get my best ideas delivered semi-weekly to your inbox. —kw Fun facts --------- I was born in Ireland. In the 80’s, my family immigrated to Ontario, Canada, where we’ve lived ever since. My wife wishes I had stayed in Ireland long enough to develop an Irish accent. Sadly, I do not have an Irish accent. Claim to fame: In high school, I was the captain of most of my rugby teams (with the injuries to prove it) and lead singer of a metal band (which shall remain nameless). I have a degree in Philosophy which has surprisingly helped me a lot in my business work (and life, of course). I am a proud father of two amazing children, husband, and owner of a loyal and loving dog.🐶

Updated December 14, 2024

Now --- A "now" page designed to capture what someone is focusing on now. First time seeing one? Learn more about it at https://nownownow.com. * * * Last Update: 2024-Dec-14 Spritemage Games, Goblin Hotdogs -------------------------------- In April I founded Spritemage Games. You can get some first impressions from my inaugural blog post. Now I'm continuing to slowly build out the company, and continuing to work on the company's debut game, Goblin Hotdogs. It's great to have the game out in Early Access, if for no other reason than getting experience with game publishing and getting feedback from early players. Company and Employment Goals ---------------------------- Starting the company while not focusing on more lucrative work was a luxury, but now that some of the initial hurdles have been cleared, I'm happy to make it a side project. I miss working with other engineers and working on projects that affect a wider audience. So, I'm looking for other work. So far there are a couple enticing candidates, so I'm excited to see where the future leads! Continuing Education -------------------- Over time I've gained a more nuanced appreciation of the role of books in continuing education. Whereas before my primary source of continuing education was reading textbooks cover-to-cover, now I'm enjoying digging in to experimentation, and supplementing as-needed with research. Specifically, I've spent some time familiarizing myself with modern Laravel (my last Laravel experience being almost a decade ago), and I'm brushing up on Leetcode and DSA-style code puzzles. Health ------ I'm continuing with my powerlifting hobby, and it is doing wonders for my physical and mental health. I've never felt healthier, stronger, and more present. Looking forward to continuing this practice. * * * Previously Now -------------- _Highlights and follow-up from previous updates:_ ### 2024-Feb-01 * I was reading The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman. * I'm now finished, and it has been added to my shelf of "career books worth keeping". Its discussion of affordances and signifiers is a great way to frame design thinking, and the book is full of delightful real-world examples. * Starting tutorials for learning game development * After a couple small tutorials, I felt comfortable deciding that Unreal Engine was a good choice of game engine. I then turned my attention to building out something more substantial, and have since founded Spritemage Games and launched my debut game Goblin Hotdogs on Steam in Early Access. My wife and dog were featured. They continue to be the center of my life.

Updated December 14, 2024

Twenty years ago, I bought a piece of the Internet by registering this domain, xavierroy.com. I know it has been neglected now and then but it has always been the playground for me to learn and experiment with various web technologies. Whatever I know about HTML, CSS, WordPress and other adjacent tools all come from this sandbox of mine. I just hope it still continues to do so over coming years too. Happy 20th!!! When fiction books star adding robots.txt in print versions 😂

Updated December 13, 2024

What I’m doing now ------------------ last updated: Friday 13th December 2024 Life is a hectic affair; To help keep me sane and to give me some guidance, these are my current areas of focus: Photography ----------- Improving my photography Work ---- Continuing to promote and improve both of the guilds I’ve Devoting time out to meetup regularly with my mentor(s) for a coffee Making a better effort to attend more local industry event ### Movies and TV **_In the queue_** Reading ------- **_In the queue_** Projects -------- Build both my photography, and my bucket list sites. ### This site Tweaking, improving, and growing my online home

Updated December 13, 2024

_Hello world_ 👋 * Me * 👉 /about me * Developer 👨‍💻 * welcome.rozendo.dev * Brazilian 🇧🇷 living in Portugal 🇵🇹 * He/Him * Resume: cv.Gabriel.Rozendo.dev * Entrepreneur 👨‍💼 * LinkedIn: _GabrielRozendo_ * Telegram: _@GabrielRozendo_ * About Ideas Now .com * /about * /ideas * /now * this * Made with Hugo * Theme: nostyleplease * rss * Goal: * Public space and index * List some projects * Posts 🔜 * 2024-12-13 Readeck * 2024-12-13 Hugo

Updated December 11, 2024

Void Subject Matter Expert A few days ago, I was doing some Typescript work and went to search for a specific NPM package that I needed the docs for. I generally use DuckDuckGo these days, so I popped in my search and got back some results. These results were a bit odd: Having made a living off of writing C for a few years, I don’t like it when we get random looking byte strings in outputs. We’ve all seen the likes of (Heart|Cloud)Bleed and know that those random byte strings could be anything. Searching further, it’s not just the package I was searching for that has this issue (https://archive.is/gURQv, archived from the original): ... I’m procrastinating writing my Monitorama talk, so here’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while: Is there a space for Serverless applications in the Open Source world? We’ve built up a huge ecosystem of tooling to help us run serverless applications. We have platforms, we have observability, we even have databases, kv stores, queues, and everything else that we could possibly want to deploy an application. So why are there no open source serverless applications? ... Every now and then on my OS journey I find weird things. Today is one of those days. When implementing my login system, I was looking at the standard login files - /etc/group, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow. Those are all well known and normal, right? Well imagine my surprise when a file I’ve never heard of popped up: /etc/gshadow. For the uninitiated, on Linux you have a set of groups that your user is a member. You can see them with id: ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. Recently, I went about implementing a login system for our operating system. I had a general idea of how to do this - users are stored in /etc/passwd, password hashes are stores in /etc/shadow, so we should read a username and password from the terminal, check the password against the password hash, and log the user in if it’s correct. Sounds simple enough, right? Well… there’s a surprising amount of complexity in that “check the password against the password hash” step, and to reveal it we’re going to have to talk about crypt(3). ... In prepping for the next part of my OS journey (writing an init system!), I found a need to add pipelining to my shell. This entry is a quick jaunt into how that works. All the code we break down here can be found here. What actually is a pipe? Before we talk about a pipeline, it’s useful to know what a pipe is. Fundementally, a pipe is two File Descriptors (read: files, yes it’s a bit more complicated but bear with me), where what is written to one end of the pipe is readable in the other. Note that this isn’t a two way communication - one file descriptor is the input, and one is the output. ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. I had intended this entry to be a simple one. I really did. We were going to use the nix binding of the mount function to create a tiny binary that takes a device and a mount point and mounts it. Literally three lines of code. ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. I love a good shell. There’s really nothing better than the raw control of your computer that a shell unlocks. Running programs that do things is all well and good, but man, being able to get a good REPL going? Nothing better. ... We learnt previously that an initramfs in Linux is a “CPIO archive”, so I set out to write something that can read and write them, in order to learn more about the format. What I found was an interesting discrepancy between how GNU cpio and the Linux Kernel parse CPIO files. It seems pretty innocuous, but I thought I’d document it for posterity. The CPIO header CPIO is an exceedingly simple format. At its heart, CPIO archives are a list of entries where each entry comprises a header, a file name, and the file data. The header itself is basically a stat output: ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. Welcome to the first of such formalisations: Getting something booting. ... If you’ve used the ELK stack, you’ve probably had the joy of trying to share a Kibana URL with someone. If you were naive enough to just copy the link from your browser (rather than creating a shortlink), you’re faced with something that looks like this monstrosity: https://kibana/app/discover#/?\_g=(filters:!(),refreshInterval:(pause:!t,value:0),time:(from:now-15m,to:now))&\_a=(columns:!(\_source),filters:!(),index:ea073d70-8ed6-11ea-88e9-39648e0749be,interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'machine:%20164%20AND%20service:%20fun-times'),sort:!()) Discover is right Kibana URL, although we may have a bit of trepidation over what we’ve just discovered, because what are those ?\_g and ?\_a parameters? ...

Updated December 11, 2024

Welcome to Tea and Tech Time where all technology is met with a nice cup of tea. Below you will find a list of topics that I am interested in and for which I have created projects, software, tutorials, and electronics. Topics ------ * 3D Printing * Conference * Docker * Drones * DSP * EDC * Electronics * Film * FPGA * Image Processing * MATLAB * Photography * RF * SDR * Software Hi, my name is Tom Schucker, I am a Computer Engineer with a passion for new technology and making cool things! I wanted to start this blog to document my projects and to share my experiences with different gadgets and products that I use. I have a wide variety of hobbies that mostly revolve around… Continue reading About Feel free to get in touch via email or any of the social media links below! Email: tom@teaandtechtime.com Twitter: @tdsepsilon Instagram: @teaandtechtime or @hallowed\_halides Almost all of my blog posts are full projects but as I iterate on an idea I will list the related posts here for convenience. 36Exp Film iOS Camera App 2.4GHz Antenna Design I spent many hours in front of the computer running antenna simulations in Matlab and was able to successfully create my own… Continue reading Projects “I love reading this blog for all fun things tech with my cup of tea. Great addition to my morning routine.”

Updated December 10, 2024

Dec 10, 2024 ### Should you have a hackweek? Should the company really go on pause to play around? Aug 9, 2023 ### Simple Rust Patterns Me playing with Strategy and Factory in Rust Jun 29, 2022 ### A Staff-shaped Hole Almost nobody has an effective Staff+ program Jan 29, 2021 ### On Hiring Staff Engineers Pitching & Hiring at the higher levels of engineering Oct 28, 2020 ### Extreme Debugging Debugging without source or symbols, alternatively, "Where there's a will there's a way" Jul 10, 2019 ### You Too Can Build A Kernel/Hypervisor Part 1 — Preliminaries I built the skeleton of an arm64 kernel on qemu to (at least attempt) demystify it. Jul 3, 2019 ### My Hugo SciFi Reader (1953–1963) My reviews + recommendations of the first decade of Hugo Aware Winning books! Jul 3, 2019 ### Certificates: A Primer A handy explanation for the fields in a digital certificate. May 14, 2019 ### I Have A Binary, But Where Is Main? Exploring the innards of an ELF binary to find the physical location of main. Apr 13, 2019 ### Manually linking Rust binaries to support out-of-tree LLVM passes Sometimes you want to support some crazy LLVM features in Rust and need manual control over the linking process :-). Aug 27, 2018 ### Translation Workbench I built a tool to help make translating Japanese easier. Jun 29, 2018 ### Network Managed Raspberry Pis for a Shippable Datacenter In a former life I spent a lot of time thinking about how to turn an empty room with chillers, some dark fiber, and a pallet of blank servers into a functioning production datacenter. Apr 6, 2018 ### Toward a better technical interview Technical interviewing doesn't have to be so broken.

Updated December 8, 2024

* Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18 Posted Dec 8, 2024 As with previous iOS versions, let’s analyze the built-in apps of iOS 18 to answer a few questions: How many binaries does iOS 18 contain? Which programming languages were used to develop these apps? How many apps are written in Swift? What percentage of apps use SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Apple’s use of AppKit, Catalyst, Swift and SwiftUI in macOS Sonoma Posted Nov 28, 2023 Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a few questions: What is the total count of binaries within macOS Sonoma? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? How many apps are using Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI versus AppKit? * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 Posted Oct 19, 2023 Now that iOS 17 is available, let’s analyze its built-in apps to answer a few questions: How many binaries are in iOS 17? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? What is the percentage of apps using SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Charts in Markdown using Apache ECharts Posted Jun 27, 2023 With this blog approaching 15 years of existence, it was time to add support for the long overdue Dark Mode. As part of this update, I also made significant changes to the charts that help visualize the data in the different posts. The content of the posts, including this one, are written using Markdown, and processed using Hugo, a popular open-source static site generator. * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 16 Posted Oct 5, 2022 iOS 16 was just released so let’s analyze its built-in apps. Like in the past years, I will try to answer a couple of questions: How many binaries are in iOS 16? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? What is the percentage of apps using SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS Posted Aug 18, 2022 The WWDC 2019 had a major impact on the UI toolkit landscape: while the venerable AppKit APIs remained available, Apple removed the old Carbon APIs and introduced 2 brand new frameworks: Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI. Apple sporadically mentioned some apps built with these new UI toolkits. In this article, I try to bring a better overview of Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in the different versions of macOS, from macOS Mojave to macOS Ventura. * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15 Posted Dec 19, 2021 iOS 15 was released a few months ago in September 2021. In this article, I analyze the built-in apps composing iOS 15. How many binaries are in iOS 15? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? Has Apple adopted SwiftUI for some built-in apps? * SwiftLint for Swift Packages Posted Oct 3, 2021 SwiftLint is a great tool to enforce Swift style and conventions. Thanks to the Xcode Build Phases, integrating SwiftLint in an Xcode project is simple: a Build Phase automatically triggers swiftlint when compiling your project. Sadly at the moment, you can’t easily integrate SwiftLint with Swift Packages: A Swift Package has no Build Phases and no way to automatically runs scripts. This article explains how to use a post action script in Xcode to automatically trigger SwiftLint afer a successful Swift Package compilation. * Mac App Store: Embedding a Command Line tool using paths as arguments Posted May 16, 2021 A couple of months ago, I released a new app called Dependencies on the Mac App Store. You can download and try it for free at https://apps.apple.com/app/dependencies/id1538972026. In this article, I explain how I built the command line support and released it in the Mac App Store. Implementing this feature turned out to be tricky, mostly due to the lack of documentation on this specific subject. This post might be of interest if you are planning to add a Command Line tool to your app distributed on the Mac App Store. * Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps Posted Nov 22, 2020 If you followed the recent Apple events, you probably saw a picture of the A14 and M1 dies… that got me thinking about what you would see if you could pass iOS under X-Rays… In my previous article about the evolution of the programming languages from iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14, I analyzed iOS based on the number of binaries and their programming languages. As I pointed out in this past post, the size of the binaries were not taken in account. In this new article, I look at iPhone OS 1.0 and iOS 14 from a size perspective using tree maps.

Updated December 6, 2024

What I’m doing now ------------------ I’m on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast doing… #### Editing Book A: Cut In Half * Final manuscript back from my developmental editor and am working on finishing touches before it goes into production for March 2025 release #### Reading * 12 Week Plan, a non-fiction planning book and also the Daily Stoic #### Other ventures * Several affiliate sites slowly building their worth #### Health/Fitness * Actively building fitness, been able to run again for first time in 15+ years, albeit with a little injury delay #### Selling Books 1, 2 & 3 #### My Agency * Busy as always, new projects, and some new side projects #### Non-Fiction * All versions of the book are selling well you can see more here #### New Fiction Project: One Man * This one is on hold at the moment as it needs a fresh approach Check out other /now pages here. Current as of Dec 06, 2024

Updated December 5, 2024

Updated: 2024-12-05 from Port Vila Vanuatu Worked at Evolution Marketing Services since 2008, which has from November 5th 2024 merged with Optimate.me, which where I am still working, so change of name, but still the same work, which I enjoy. I’ve been fully remote since 2018 and my current role is as a Senior Solution Consultant. I help our clients understand and solve their problems using CRM and Marketing Automation using Agile methods, see about and tools for more info. My primary interests are family, health, travel, productivity (making effective first, efficient second), Personal Knowledge Management, archery, and of course, motorcycling. Current Projects: * Project improving the workflow for staff in SugarCRM for a company specialising medical properties. * Project updating how subscriptions are handled in SugarCRM for an Australian organisation that provides services to educators. Also doing: * Playing with local LLMs and training them on information local to the device, I see locally trained LLMs as useful to both individuals and businesses, where their IP is kept local and not sent to the cloud * Helping with some community work in Vanuatu. * Riding a KTM 250 in Vanuatu, and a Suzuki Bandit 1250 when in Australia. * Visiting more islands in the Pacific The countries I’ve visited, in order of first visit are: 1. **Australia** (One of the two places I live) 2. United States of America (Colorado was fab. New York better than expected) 3. Malaysia (so. many. people.) 4. Thailand (Chang Mai. Felt like home) 5. Germany (Münster, Berlin, Selters Tanus, and more) 6. Denmark (enjoyed the train ride) 7. Sweden (Old Town Stockholm was great, company was even better) 8. Norway (Hurtigruten! Fjords! Dog sleds! WOW!!) 9. Austria (awesome snow) 10. Switzerland (beautiful) 11. **Vanuatu** (The other place I live, message me if you visit) 12. Nepal (mountains are amazing, people beautiful, I _really_ miss the Moo Moo) 13. Spain (Mungia, Bilbao, and more) 14. Croatia (Brač, Dubrovnik, Plitvice Lakes, and Split) 15. Bosnia (would have liked more time here) 16. Italy (Tuscany, Rome) 17. Fiji (Caught up with friends, I’ll be back) I don’t count countries where I didn’t leave the airport, so New Zealand and Qatar haven’t yet made the list (yet) but even with them, I’ve still visited fewer countries than one of my kids, she is the real _globetrotter_! Places on my shortlist to visit next (or again) are, in alphabetical order: * Antarctica * Australia * Botswana * Croatia * Fiji * Germany * India * Madagascar * Mauritius * Mongolia * Nepal * Norway * Spain * Vanuatu (because, you know, that’s where home is) * Zimbabwe See what I use to do my work on the tools page. This page is a direct result of seeing this /now page. You should create your own.