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Personal software engineering blog where I share a variety of topics that interest me.

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2026 11

  1. MPlayer Speed Up Playback w/Audio Adjustment
  2. Create a Bootable USB stick
  3. Chaining Find Commands
  4. Chaining Find Exec Commands for Quick Data Analysis
  5. Conditional Subsequent Command Calls
  6. Read-Only Variables in Bash
  7. Detect Command Timeouts using Bash
  8. Synchronizing Completion of Concurrent Commands
  9. Python Distribution Error (TypeError: canonicalize_version() got an unexpected keyword argument 'strip_trailing_zero')
  10. Extending Video Introduction
  11. Youtube-Dl Broke/Fixing

2024 4

  1. Yolo AutoCropping Presentation Videos
  2. Published My First Python Package
  3. Embarking on Authoring a Computer Science Book
  4. C++ Database ORM Project

2022 3

  1. Extracting Video Information w/FFProbe
  2. FFmpeg - Concatenating Videos with Blend Transition
  3. Concatenating Non-Uniformly Scaled Videos w/FFmpeg

2021 22

  1. Quarantine What's Ups
  2. Data Visualization with PyGal -- Pymntos
  3. RealTime Adjustable FFmpeg Filters -- Part 1
  4. Formatting Numerics with Bash
  5. Linux Find Command with 'or'
  6. Linux Simple Text-to-Speech
  7. Tcpdump Examples
  8. C Storage Classes
  9. 4 Reference Books Every C++ Developer Should Have
  10. Playing Raw Video with Mplayer
  11. Android Rtsp Usage
  12. Cpu Load Monitoring
  13. Recruiting and Staffing Agencies
  14. Archiving Paper Records
  15. Processing Large Quantities of Files with Find/Exec
  16. Dealing With Filenames Containing Spaces
  17. How Do You Process Large Number Of Files with FFmpeg?
  18. Making Videos Look Old Timey
  19. Side By Side Video Makefile
  20. What is 'Infrastructure As Code (IaC)'?
  21. What is CI/CD?
  22. Colorizing Text with Python

2020 42

  1. FFmpeg Commands -- Blog Content Summary
  2. Google ProtoBuff + ZeroMq -- C++
  3. Intro to Docker
  4. Will The WFH Trend Result In An Increase In Outsourcing?
  5. Generating Multi-Plot Real-Time Plots with Python
  6. Atypical Uses for Makefiles
  7. Cartoonize Video with FFmpeg -- Take 2
  8. Deep Thinking / How To Be A Better Software Engineer
  9. How To Quit
  10. Software Consulting -- What The Heck Does '...as an additional insured...' Contract Clause Mean?
  11. Software System Forensics -- Auto Generated Message Trace Diagrams
  12. Flaunt Your Font Want
  13. Makefile Mystique
  14. Video Transition Effects w/FFmpeg
  15. Limiting Network Bandwidth for Testing
  16. Performance Appraisals -- 'Compared to Who?'
  17. Software System Forensics
  18. Mandelbrot Set with Python
  19. Visualization of Sorting Algorithms
  20. Pay Now or Pay Later
  21. World On Fire -- Bear Lake Day Trip
  22. Our 100th Blog Post
  23. Python Generated Sequence Diagrams
  24. Create ISO Image From Directory
  25. Don't Be In The Blind Spot
  26. Eastern Hemisphere Outsourcing and Other Horrible Ideas
  27. Mobile Development Is All Edge Cases
  28. The Extinction of Mentorship
  29. Allen Newell -- Desires and Diversions
  30. FFMpeg Dynamic Splatter Effect
  31. Command Line Processing with Popt
  32. Python Progress Bar
  33. Your Permanent Record
  34. Technical Tastemakers
  35. Gprof Profiling
  36. Selecting A Technology
  37. Late Night Coding
  38. Having a F.U Career
  39. FFMpeg Audio Waveform
  40. Formal Names For Common C Techniques
  41. Displaying ImageMagick Output Direct To Display
  42. Global Variables in C

2019 52

  1. YOLO - Computer Vision
  2. My Journey with Computer Vision
  3. FFMpeg Transitions -- Part 4
  4. FFMpeg Transitions -- Part 3
  5. FFMpeg Transitions -- Part 2
  6. FFMpeg Transitions -- Part 1
  7. Making Use Of Idle Workstation
  8. Non-Rectangular Video Cropping
  9. What's Your Superpower?
  10. Making Slideshows w/FFMpeg
  11. Fantasy Engineering Team
  12. ZeroMQ Presentation @ pyMNtos Meetup
  13. Monitor Specific Process w/Top
  14. FFMpeg + Imagemagick Perspective Mapping
  15. FFMpeg Blur Filter
  16. Pausing/Resuming Processes
  17. FFMpeg Deshake Filter
  18. Cartoonize Video Using FFMpeg and Imagemagick
  19. My Mentor -- Pam Ogaard Padgett
  20. Real-Time Data Analysis From Debug Logs
  21. Dynamic Zoom In / Out Video Effect
  22. Adding Watermark To Video With FFMpeg
  23. YouTube Downloader
  24. Lack of Professionalism in Job Searches
  25. Google Archive
  26. System Forensics -- Locating Relevant Log Files
  27. A Better User Experience -- The Reason The Internet Is Spying On You
  28. My Software Has Tassels -- Clean Out Your Software Garage
  29. Do You Trust It?
  30. Building Gtk Applications with the GNU Build System
  31. GNU Build System – Conditional Features
  32. Introduction to the GNU Build System
  33. Bubble Gum Engineering
  34. Profiling with Gprof
  35. Intellectual Wrestling When Contemplating Leaving a Company
  36. Just Got Back From Minnebar14
  37. FFMpeg Blending
  38. Remodeling Software Engineering Practices
  39. Ffmpeg Reverse Video - If I Could Turn Back Time
  40. Linux Find -- Your Tool To Searching For Dinosaur Bones
  41. Executing Commands Repeatedly
  42. Adventures In Field Testing
  43. A Post Of Many Colors - Metapixel
  44. Python List Comprehension
  45. Risk Of Using Old Technology
  46. FFMpeg Zoom
  47. Applying Image Overlay to Video
  48. FFMpeg Dynamic Adjustment of Filters
  49. Superset Visualization - Get Your Data On
  50. FFMpeg Time Machine
  51. Bash Printf -- Pretty, Pretty Numbers
  52. Poor Man's Parallelism with Make

2018 6

  1. Ffmpeg and Make -- A Match Made In Heaven
  2. PyPlot - Best Line Fit
  3. Bash - Extracting Metrics from Unstructured Logs
  4. Detecting Correlation Relationships with Python
  5. Installing JeroMQ for Android Project
  6. Building FFMpeg - Ubuntu

2017 7

  1. Youtube Downloader - Ta ta ta ta da DAAAAA! PUPPY POWER!
  2. Trello -- Get Your Scrum On
  3. GDB-QuickStart -- 'Things That Make You Go Hmm'
  4. FFMpeg Green Screen - A Chroma Key For Every Lock
  5. FFMpeg Fade Controls -- Fade to Black
  6. Video Ticker -- Give Your Text Some Legs
  7. Hello Again -- I'm Back Baby!

2016 14

  1. C Storage Classes -- Where Do You Store Your Foo?
  2. Singular and Plural Output -- One Lump Or Two
  3. Unix Find Command -- Where'd I Put My Keys
  4. Slowing Program Execution -- Slow Your Jets
  5. Generating a Video Collage -- Get Your Rock On!
  6. Interactively Waiting On A Command -- Beer:30 Waits for No Command
  7. Unbuffered StdOut
  8. Logging to SysLog
  9. Real-Time Plots with Python -- Bookend
  10. Real-Time Plots with Python (Cont)
  11. Real-Time Plots with Python
  12. Real-Time Plots with Python
  13. Plotting with Python
  14. Why 'Dragon Quest 64'?