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OpenBSD Audio Issues
2022-09-06
Apparently, I lost this post from a few years back. I wanted to get it documented again so there was a record for SOMEBODY to possibly have assistance. I’ve been using a Lenovo T470s for a while. On a fresh install of OpenBSD, I noticed that I would get stuttering or choppy video trying to view anything through a web browser. There’s two different ways that this is introduced, one is in the bios, but at this moment, the solution escapes me.…
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Developing with Arduino on OpenBSD
2022-08-08
I haven’t touched my arduino in a very very long time. I decided it was time to try again and play. For OpenBSD, I needed to install arduino and arduino-makefile packages. I found a few snags that had changed since I first attempted to make anything work on arduino. First up was to install the arduino packages. doas pkg_add arduino arduino-makefile Something I either forgot, or never did, was that my code needed to be in .…
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Single Board Computer Frustration
2016-01-21
I’ve been eyeing up several reasonably priced ARM/SBC systems for a bit now. Let me clarify that my definition of reasonably priced. I mean anything around $35-$65 USD. I know what you’re thinking cheap skate. Yeah, okay fine. I’m on a budget and yet you’re still reading this. I wanted something that could have multiple purposes. Something to do retro game emulation, install and play with FreeBSD or OpenBSD, maybe use as a router.…
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Migrating to a Static Blog
2015-09-16
What an interesting turn of events. I started writing this blog post with my intentions fully moving away from Ghost , which is written in NodeJS, to Pelican , written in Python. I wrote mostly a whole article about choices I was making. All of which were in the direction of Python. I mostly wrote off Ruby as a “hipsters” language. So I decided to stear clear as much as possible.…
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Technical Blogs
2015-02-20
While I may not be seasoned at writing technical blogs, or blogs in general for that matter; I do not want to write a lousy technical articles. I don’t. Just today alone, I’ve come across at least fifteen technical articles that will say how to do something, but not expalin why. I feel as though that takes away some credibility of the author. Maybe they found a quick way to get something done and didn’t look back.…
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Development and Test Environments - Make Sure They Match
2015-01-22
So I made a mistake. I decided that instead of using a virtual image to develop our latest project on, I’d just run what I need locally on my machine. Outside of a VM or clone of our environment. For the most part, that may not be a bad thing if your desktop Linux of choice is of the same distribution path (ie: Ubuntu based deploying to a Debian server).…
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Android vs iOS
2015-01-12
While I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, I’ve been moving myself more towards the BSD systems. Given being a Linux user, I waited with bated breath for OpenMoko to be released. Then came Android. OpenMoko never made it I was anxious and thrilled when Android finally came out. A Linux phone finally in production. I’ve used Apple computers since the early G4 Tower’s (late 90’s), I was pleased with OS X but not so with iOS.…
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A Web Backend Developers Migration to FreeBSD
I’ve been using different Linux distributions since around 1997. Originally, it was more personal than anything. Although I did learn to setup samba, web servers, databases, etc.. I had made several attempts moving to FreeBSD throughout the years. Fast forward to today and here I am a Python developer I’ve moved away from Perl scripting at my previous job. I’ve been more and more frustrated with every Linux distributions having so many different ways with so many different locations of where configs and packages are placed.…