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🥳 Greenhouse Enters Alpha Test Phase!! 🎉

Besides that, I don't feel like writing any more description or introduction to what you are about to witness. [...] enjoy the demo video, and please give me feedback if you decide to try out the service!…
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Managing Child Processes with Golang: Linux, Windows, and MacOS

Just a quick post to go over some problems / frustrations I've had with golang's exec.Command and os.Process APIs during my live stream, as well as how I eventually solved them. ProcessState is a big…
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Greenhouse Update 4 - September

I managed to get the `greenhouse-daemon` (called `greenhouse-background-service` on windows 😇) installing as a windows service via the NSIS installer, ...…
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Using Jitsi Meet with OBS to bring guests on your stream

recently, just out of curiosity, I tried again with a newer version of Jitsi Meet, and it worked! The OBS embedded browser was able to get into the Jitsi call, no prompt, no problem...…
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Greenhouse Update 3 - August

I do think that my application is a lot more compelling this time; I have a demo I can show, and my project is a lot more unique and specialized, providing something that REALLY does not exist currently.…
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Building a Spatial Index Supporting Range Query using Space Filling Hilbert Curve

Like Grant showed, it's continuous from order `n` to order `n+1`, meaning that scaling it down won't move anything around; in terms of percentages, both the 2D -> 1D and 1D -> 2D transformations will look exactly the same. After fixing a few bugs, it was "scrolling like butta" before my very eyes!…
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Better Portable Graphics (BPG) on the web with WebAssembly (WASM) and ServiceWorker

How viable is this? Not very, unless you are making a thicc app. But it's not because of code filesize like you might think.…
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How I optimized my Owncast Stream to run on a Raspberry Pi part 2

...my workstation CPU is a lot cooler, I don't get keyboard drop-outs while I'm typing any more and I think the stream quality is also improved even though the video bit rate is lower, since it's only being encoded once now instead of twice.…
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Greenhouse Development Update 2 - May

For the month of May I've recorded some screencasts and I'm going to try embedding them as HTML videos here.…
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Greenhouse development update 1

I have been striving to work on greenhouse every day. Of course, I can't always meet that standard, but I believe I've gotten more done than my activity heatmap might indicate, as I have a bad habit of working on elements and features for more than a day before I commit them.…
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Creating a Simple but Effective Outbound "Firewall" using Vanilla Docker-Compose

This is great for inbound connections, but it does nothing to control outbound connections. ...I would much rather find a way to control outbound connections using the vanilla docker and docker-compose features. So that's what I set out to do, and that's where the internal networks come into play.…
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Server & Website Updates

I just finished migrating sequentialread.com to an ODROID HC1, plus tons of updates to my infrastructure & apps!…