Doing the Code Monkey Thing

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Been working on a podcast downloader for use with Plex, since Plex decided to take away podcasts–basically I keep the ones I wanna retain long-term in a library collection now. The downloader is a simple BASH script. Seems to be nearly perfected, even adds metadata (track #, cover art, etc) to the downloaded mp3.

I think my last little issue is that I need to have it rename all the files whenever episodes hit a factor of 10 (e.g., if there are 10 episodes, episode one should be “01 – Title”, when it hits 100, episode one should be renamed to “001 – Title”). It’s a little thing–I just like my files sorting properly by name, no matter what OS I’m listing them in. And Linux sorts in lexicographical by default, as opposed to natural order 🙄

Some guys work in the garage on Saturday mornings–I work on code 🤣

Dragon Con 2023

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  • The Marriott Marquis
  • Con-goers show off their ribbons
  • Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
  • The Hyatt
  • The Hyatt Atrium Tower, Ballroom Level
  • Firefly
  • Dr. Teeth
  • Female Ferengi
  • Andorian
  • Cylon
  • Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Gargoyle
  • Dooku and Friends
  • View from The American Hotel
  • Jack and Rose (Titanic)
  • Mandalorian Bobbleheads
  • Blue Screen of Death
  • Beetlejuice
  • The Hilton
  • Mars Rover Perseverance Panel
  • Borg
  • Creepy Girls
  • Marriott Atrium Level
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Panel
  • Adam Savage
  • The Marriott
  • Beaker
  • Fountain Outside Marriott
  • Barbenheimer
  • Wookie
  • Futurama Panel
  • Lion-O
  • T-Rex
  • Atrocious Line Outside of AmericasMart
  • Cute TV Head
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds costume
  • Strong Bad
  • Flight Attendant Bunny?
  • Among Us
  • Bumblebee
  • Taking off from Huntsville
  • The Steed to Dragon Con

TIL

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Windows Terminal handles opacity better than any other CLI ever did. I played with opacity some time back with Powershell before Windows Terminal came along, but the whole window became opaque, as opposed to just the content pane. I tend to set console opacity first-thing whenever I get a Mac, and it’s good that it can now be integrated into my Windows setup habits 😀 One can do this with the entirety of Windows Terminal, or narrow it to any specific command-line app you want.

VICEs

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So, one thing I’ve really gotten into over the years has been emulation. It’s the best way of going back to the things you used to love in computing without actually going back in time–and without having to put a boat anchor of a CRT on your desktop 😉

VICE is one of those emulators I really dig. Our first family computer was the Commodore VIC-20. Using VICE, I can run the very first software that I ever ran (and even coded).

While I guess I wouldn’t totally mind the notion of setting up a full VIC-20 rig, this sure is a great way of getting a blast from the past without 😎