2025 Year in Review

2025 the year in review It’s been a long time since I have posted anything. 2026 has just started and I thought it would be a good time to start my blog/journal anew. I give all credit for this inspiration to an amazing, beautiful, talented woman I met in 2025. Let’s call her Nat (she might kill me, but she will get the joke). We met in the most unlikely of places, but it doesn’t matter. Continue reading

Mermaid Test

Using Mermaid in Hugo I am trying out the mermaid markdown-like syntax for creating code diagrams, graphs, and pie charts. Graph L-R graph LR; Root-->A & B & C A-->A1-->A2--->A3 B-->B1-->B2-->B3 C--->C1-->C2-->C3 Graph Top-Down graph TD; A-->B; A-->C; B-->D; C-->D; Pie Chart pie title Linux Distributions "Debian":42.96 "Ubuntu":50.05 "Arch":10.01 "CentOS":5 Flowchart flowchart TD; A[Choose OS] --> B{Do you want?} B -- Yes --> C[UNIX or Windows] C -- Windows --> D[Good Luck! Continue reading

Balloons

Time to start adding a few more of my photos. This one is an older shot from North Carolina. We attended the Hot-Air Balloon Festival in Statesville and this is one of my favorites. Click on the image to enlarge.

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Comments Feature Added

New feature I have added a new commenting system using Utterances through GitHub. This is an experimanetal feature for me since I am not very active, nor do I “promote” my site. This is a test to see how I like it, and to see how well it works. I have seen it used on other sites and it has been reported to be pretty good at filtering out spam & nonsense. Continue reading

Capture Track Info

SUCCESS!!! In a prior post I talked about re-discovering Internet streaming radio. I am enjoying listening to TheEL.US and I love their variety of Rock, Blues, and Metal. Their library spans decades and they play stuff you’d never hear on a corporate station. What does this have to do with code & scripting? Well, I use the mpv CLI tool to stream the station from a terminal. Each time the song (track) changes I get a message with the artist / title. Continue reading

Radio

Most radio stations suck For years, I have bemoaned the fact that radio has become a corporate wasteland. There just aren’t enough independent radio stations. I suppose it’s financial; probably costs a lot of money to operate. I’m not going to waste time dwelling on my opinion… Found something that excites me greatly I was being a geek/nerd recently, and discovered a shell script (command line interface) that provided a menu to choose from a selection of lofi radio stations. Continue reading