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SDL2 and FFmpeg on Apple Silicon

Recently I wrote some code to validate a bitstream. My co-worker told me he had various problems playing it using FFmpeg, and asked me if I want to have a go at it. That sounds like a fun little side project, so I decided to do the exercise on the

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Living with Tesla Model 3

After 80,000 miles, my Tesla Model 3 had repairs that I never imagined I had to do.

Toys

Backyard Climbing Wall

Putting a climbing wall in your backyard is possible sourcing all parts from the Internet, but it is quite a bit of work.

Roku IDK

Roku has released a development kit allowing hobbyists to build their own applications to side-load on a production Roku box.

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Ethernet Cables and IP Cameras

Sharing my experience making the cables for home surveillance.

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Synology NAS Web Station, Reverse Proxy and mod_rewrite: Manipulating URLs

Using synology NAS web station, reverse proxy, and mod_rewrite to generate specific URLs.

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Setting Up Synology NAS

Documenting setting up a new Synology DS-220+ NAS with Ghost Blog and Docker.

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Her Story

Her Story demonstrates an interesting and immersive storytelling technique, only possible through an interactive game.

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Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer does not have a blend tool to interpolate between objects.

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EXAPUNKS

EXAPUNK is a fun puzzle games, especially if you enjoy programming: I am writing C++ at work by day, programming fake assembly at night.

Build

Makefile

Notes about Makefiles: rules, dependency tracking, conditionals.

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Hades

Hades is a great game everyone should play and shows how important it is to give player choices.

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Calligraphy Ink 38

Sharing custom Procreate brush for calligraphy.

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FFMPEG Command Line Recipes

ffmpeg command line recipes to cut, extract, transcode videos and more!

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Linux on Mac

This link is all you need: How to Install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro - LaptopNinjaUbuntu on your MacBook can give your aging Apple product new life. Learn how to install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro by following this guide.LaptopNinjaMatt Garrett [https://laptop.ninja/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-macbook-pro/]My Notes I installed

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Shapez.io

I've joined the party late. For $5 on Steam you can play this accessible game with purest game play and ample amount of challenge, but all at a pace that you decide. Game Mechanic At the very basic level, your task is to assemble and paint complex shapes [https://viewer.

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Tesla Solar Roof Install Journal

Notes and rants about my experiences with Tesla energy products: solar panels, roof, and Powerwall batteries.

Build

More GitLab Continuous Integration

How to trigger CI only when source code changes.

Media Format

PNG Image Format

PNG [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/] is an image format commonly used where lossless encoding with alpha information is required. It does have some issue with inconsistent gamma correction [https://hsivonen.fi/png-gamma/] in some context but is never the less a popular format to support. License and Source

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WSL2

If you access your Windows drives from Linux, it is very slow under WSL2. This thread [https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197] reporting the issue is more than a year old. If you are like me and value the convenience of being able to access Windows files from Linux,

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Continuous Integration with GitLab and Synology NAS

Set up GitLab runners on NAS to automatically run unit tests after a push.

C/C++ Notes

ANSI Colors in Command Prompt

{fmt} has this nice feature allowing you to use colors [https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt] for your output via ANSI escape code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code]. Too bad when I tried to run it under Windows the first time all I saw was the escape code

Build

Debugging DLL, CMake, and Visual Studio 2019

One of the reasons why you want to use Visual Studio is because it has nice debugging interface. Support has been around for a while and now it is much easier to construct a cross-platform project using CMake. But if your project is like mine where you build a DLL

Game Notes

Kingdom Rush Frontiers

This is a very addictive tower defense game. There are a lot of these, but this one focuses on the most fun elements of this genre. Heroes Each hero has different specials and abilities that can be upgraded over time as you earn more experience. They dramatically change how I

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Inside

Inside is beautifully designed with great atmosphere.