Hodgepodges from a coder's mind

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2023

September 19th pypi packages with the best (and worst) names!
September 1st The GPL is Evil
August 4th Upgrading from a 6900XT to 3060 RTX
July 7th You Should Use __all__
June 6th Doubling my internet speed with an OPNsense router
February 9th Box 7 is out! But should you use it?
January 30th Enabling Animated AVIF in Firefox 111

2022

December 8th Raspberry PI 8mm Scanner
October 31st Python patterns only beginners use
September 15th Using AVIF and HEIF images with Python / PIL
August 11th AMD improves video encoding yet again! This time with Pre-Analysis
July 5th AMD Re-introduces the B-frame!
April 28th Movies that need a 4K HDR disc release
March 15th Dynamic HLS Encryption for Video Streaming
February 28th 2022 – Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop?
January 3rd Make 2022 a more stable year, use ECC Memory

2021

December 15th Cartoon or Photo? – Image detection with Python
November 11th Hardware Encoding 4K HDR10 Videos?
October 6th Raspberry Pi Hardware Encoding Speed Test
September 9th AMD Hardware Encoding in 2021 (VCE / VCN)
July 8th pre-commit – Check yourself before you wreck yourself
May 5th Python’s New Structural Pattern Matching!
April 5th Stop Re-Encoding Videos!
March 15th 16TB Showdown – WD HC550 vs Seagate EXOS 16 vs Toshiba MG08
February 22nd Upload large files fast with Dropzone.js
January 18th Keep Windows from going to sleep, no power settings needed!

2020

December 31st Favorite 3D Prints of 2020
October 29th Create an image in Task Manager from CPU Usage
September 24th HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision
August 10th A Raspberry Pi Streaming Camera using MPEG-DASH, HLS or RTSP
June 29th Encoding UHD 4K HDR10 and HDR10+ Videos
June 17th Let it Djan-go!
June 2nd Passing the CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
February 11th How NOT to call Robinhood’s secret API with Python

2019

December 5th Raspberry Pi Hardware Accelerated RTSP Camera
September 9th Do heatsinks and fans make a difference for the Raspberry Pi 4?
August 26th On demand gaming server for pennies a month!
July 29th Build your own Pi Powered Enlarger Timer!
July 10th Top 10ish Python standard library modules
May 6th Introducing FastFlix – AV1 encoder GUI and more!
April 8th Encoding settings for HDR 4K videos using 10-bit x265
March 18th Paint, Paper, Panoramas, and Python
February 11th Replacing NZXT’s CAM software on Windows for Kraken
February 5th Personal Cloud Media Server – Encrypted, Streamable, Affordable…Possible?
January 22nd Is the world ready for Python 3?
January 15th Stop using plus signs to concatenate strings!

2018

October 5th Truffle: going from ganache to testnet (ropsten)
July 30th Discover AWS State Machines using Python Lambdas for an ETL process
May 31st Uploading large files by chunking – featuring Python Flask and Dropzone.js
March 21st Interprocess Communications

2017

December 18th ThreadPools explained – In the deep end
October 18th The Birthday Paradox – The Proof is in the Python
September 4th Reusables – Part 2: Wrappers
August 13th Reuse the work of others for profit! (Vega 64 Edition)
June 27th Is it easier to ask for forgiveness in Python?
June 9th First steps into GUI design with Kivy
May 5th Python Box 3 – The reddit release
April 17th Python Decorators
April 4th Creating a successful project – Part 3: Development Tools/Equipment
March 21st Creating a successful project – Part 2: Project Organization
March 16th Introducing Box – Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access
March 12th Creating a successful project – Part 1: The Rules
February 27th Run, Subprocess, Run!
February 6th Reusables – Part 1: Overview and File Management
January 30th Indisputably immutable
January 24th Exception! Exception! Read all about it!
January 6th Book Review: Violent Python

2016

December 28th The Documentation Dilemma
December 11th Your first date with Python logging