Code Project – JavaScript – Pixel Camera
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Code Project – JavaScript – Pixel Camera

Sometimes I do projects that end up being entirely fruitless and pointless. Ok, maybe not entirely fruitless, but sometimes I get caught up in an idea, and end up essentially just sort of, reinventing the wheel, in a complicated way. For starters, I got caught up with this little tutorial here: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/166-image-to-ascii . It uses JavaScript, to convert the input from your webcam, into ASCII art. It's a nice little step by step process that really explains what is going on along the way so you get a good understanding of the process. And I got it to work out…
Dodie – Hot Mess (RSD Vinyl)
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Dodie – Hot Mess (RSD Vinyl)

Released - 2022.09.30Vinyl - 2023.04.22 I am not real sure why Dodie put out another EP, Hot Mess, as a follow up to her first album Build a Problem. Following her online suggests that she writes well, a lot of music, feels like there would be plenty for a while album. I mean, yeah, there is some of it that's kind of weird and a bit banal, but that didn't seem like it held back her album. But here we are, with a fresh, 4 track EP. I also want to take a moment to talk about this particular release,…
Benn Venn Game Boy Cart Dumper
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Benn Venn Game Boy Cart Dumper

Another device I've been wanting to get for a while was a Game Boy Card ripper. There are a few varieties of these, but I went with the Benn Venn Joey Jr. The key feature here, is the ability to copy off Saved files. I can get ROMs anywhere, what I really want is to preserve my old Save Files. This device does Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advanced titles. The most important title worked right off the bat. My original Pokemon Blue is not preserved forever with my original Charizard. There are ways to get these…
Linear Quotes: Aurora
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Linear Quotes: Aurora

Linear Quotes: Aurora by Ketil Mosnes Just for establishment up front here, I am a big fan of the musician Aurora. If we're measuring by Last.fm scrobbles, which I like to do, she has very rapidly become my top scrobbled artist, of all time. But a pretty large margin. I saw this book posted by someone in a fan group on Facebook and it seemed like a pretty interesting, and probably less known bit of Aurora memorabilia, almost no one in the group was aware of it as far as I could tell. It's also tricky to find, I had…
Record Store Day 2023
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Record Store Day 2023

Today was Record Store Day.  It's moistly just, a "promotional" sort of deal for local record shops, and not really like, a "real holiday".  I decided I would go ahead and give it a go.  There were a couple of pretty inexpensive albums that I was interested in and I've recently (finally) picked up a record player after many years of "I should get a record player". Man, now I'm just getting layers and layers of things to bring up here.  Maybe it's best to just start at, "Why vinyl?" I guess it's almost, "Why not?"  Ok, there are plenty…