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Code Project: Fresh RSS to WordPress Digest V 2

A while back, I talked about a little simple project that I build that produces a daily RSS digest post on this blog. This of course broke when my RSS Reader died on me. I managed to get Fresh RSS up and running again in Docker, and I've been slowly recovering my feeds, which is incredibly slow and tedious to do because there are a shitload of feeds, and i essentially have to cut and paste each URL into FreshRSS, and select the category and half the time they don't work, so I need to make a note of it…
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…
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…
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…
Code Project – Python Flask Top Ten Movies Site
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Code Project – Python Flask Top Ten Movies Site

So, I mentioned dumping the Flask Blog a while back, but then I decided that since I had managed to get it all working, it would be somewhat trivial to get it working on a subdomain, instead of a main domain, which had been my original plan to start with.  I was never too excited about dropping this project because I have a few ideas for little projects that I wanted to build that would actually work pretty well in Python and Flask, since it essentially adds a direct path to running a back end style script and a front…