Blog, General

Two New Language Localizations

Jason / December 25, 2020

In the spirit of Christmas, I’m pleased to announce that starting today two new language localizations are available for this publication – French and Russian.

In 2019 I began the process of making my content more broadly available to everyone across the globe by introducing our first localizations of Chinese and Spanish, and I’m very pleased that we’re ending 2020 on a high note by expanding those language offerings. It is my sincere hope that these translations are helpful in sharing this publication to as many people as possible, even if English is not their first language. read more

Internet, Quick Tips

Simple HTML5 Video Player

Jason / October 21, 2020
Camera on side of building
A watchful eye

As an avid technologist I maintain my own home security cameras. These camera stream H.264 encoded 1080P video across my gigabit LAN to my home server, recording 24/7 footage for future reference. These clips are not only stored on my home server, they’re also processed via a custom Python script for motion, the results of which are logged to a file. I can easily see which video clips contain motion, and make it easier to locate something of interest. read more

Blog, General

Time, Ideas, and Saying No

Jason / September 1, 2020
man with hand up saying "no"
Saying “no”

I’ve always seemed to have more ideas than time. I really should start keeping a log of all my ideas – I’d be curious how large such a list would grow. These are things from awesome website ideas, to ideas for a business venture, to even things like politics and local community development. This is undoubtably why ideas are viewed as being a dime a dozen. Ideas are the easy part, execution is where the things get tricky. read more