While at the playground I found this Little Tikes Tap-a-Tune xylophone from 1985. Since I had my bike multi-tool with me, I decided to repair it. Some keys were stuck and some didn't make any sound when pressed.

Or maybe AnarCat.

The Gabrovo bypass road numbered 5004, cost about 77 million BGN, but delivers a beautiful driving experience and, I'd say, is something for Atlas Obscura.

I woke up early and grabbed the camera.

September came with glowing red sunsets.

While thinking about ways to get Visti off Google App Engine to keep my monthly costs predictable I ran into Runor, and realized that all my problems had been solved since December 3, 2020. Marco Bianchi has done a top-notch job with Runor, and the result is everything I wanted Visti to be - and I don't have to develop, maintain, or update it. I immediately shut down Visti and I think I'll have a glass of mead to celebrate the ten years it was up. Rest in peace, Visti, October 14, 2014 to August 30, 2025 - that's 3974 days.

As seen from a small jetty.

Problem: baby likes to talk to grandma over video call, but the little one also presses every single button there is on the touchscreen, resulting in (at best) hanging up or (at worst) the phone being left in some indeterminate state.

Panasonic cameras have always been video-heavy and their compacts were no exception. They have since exited the segment, and now I'd say the crown is either held by Sony with their ZV-1 cameras, or Canon with their PowerShot G7 X Mark III. But the LX-15 was, when I bought it in 2018, half the price of them both. For a measly $400, I got 4K video, a 1" sensor, an f/1.8 lens and raw capture. Those were the days.

While trying to organize the sound files that I produce in my newest hobby, field recording, I came across the problem of combining the outputs from several multimodal models.

Organizing sound files comes with a number of challenges that aren't present when organizing photos or videos.

Ever since Linus Torvalds provided the final piece of the puzzle by getting his Linux operating system self-hosted in 1991, we software developers have basically owned the means of production. Anyone with computer access could get an operating system and, thanks to the massive undertaking that is the GNU project, also a top-notch compiler (GCC) and editor (vi or Emacs). Later, with the birth of a viable platform for in-browser web applications, anyone with access to a web browser and a text editor could learn JavaScript.

Or - how I stopped worrying and learned to aggregate SQL queries. This is a pattern that can be used when you have multiple SQL SELECT queries Q_(1)...Q_(n), each returning zero or one rows, except for the first which must return a single row, where Q_(n) can depend on the result of Q_(1)...Q_(n-1), and you want to reduce the number of database roundtrips.

I was selling my old GPU on Blocket when I saw an ad for a Zoom H2 for 300 SEK ($30). Ever since I filmed Yamato - The Drummers of Japan and was surprised at how much better the final product was thanks to the Nikon ME-1 microphone that I used, I've wanted to improve the sound in my videos.

The little bumblebees were out en masse this evening. There was a light drizzle, so I got to try out my new old Zoom H2 recorder.

Ika Johannesson, one of the authors of Blod, Eld, Död, has created Total Metal, an exhibition at Kulturhuset.