Category: Technology

Eton Elite Traveler Radio 0

30 Days of DXing

#30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Radio, SDR, etc. I am currently using ShortwaveSchedule, Short-Wave Info, ShorWave DB, QSL.net, etc. as my sources. Look at the project page for more details. I am a radio enthusiast and also an E&C...

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Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner

I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing, easy to make mistakes, and hard to debug, but on the other hand, it’s available on almost all systems. It...

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Motorola T82 Extreme is my PMR446 Walkie-Talkie

Table of Contents1 Requirements2 License-free and open3 Privacy4 Motorola T82 Extreme4.1 Things I like4.2 Things to improve5 Conclusion As a kid, I always wanted a set of Walkie Talkies to chat with friends. We got cell phones as adults, but that desire remained. A few years back, I took the HAM exam, but...

VLC Playing a 720p (HD) mobile screencast with green padding. 0

One Video Format

I have a bunch of screen-casts that I want to release. I have not found a good PeerTube instance to host my videos. I am happy to pay a monthly fee, and I hope one day there will be a platform that provides this. For now, I will add them to my site,...

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Turning My Laptops into a Dask Distributed Cluster

Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Client Code3 Setup and Run4 Usage I wanted a distributed system where the client submitting the job has the code and logic, but the workers don’t. They just execute the workload they get. I had used Dask in the LocalCluster mode, where everything runs on the same computer but...

Mapping My Motorcycle Ride Through Songs 0

Mapping My Motorcycle Ride Through Songs

Once I finished blogging my recent ride to Kupalli and back, I thought it would be great to map the songs to the location. I was scrobbling my music to ListenBrainz, and any GPS was logged as usual. Using the good old way of using timestamps to match things, I mapped location to...