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Last week I solved an interesting problem - how to get English subtitles working from a Star Trek DVD.
Short answer: it had no English subtitles, but had Closed Captions info in its analog video stream. So it was a matter of making the DVD player to spit the CC out and the TV to ingest and display CC.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-the-curious-case-of-the-missing-english-subtitles.html
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Started the first non-work day of the year with some yak-shaving on my website: learnt how to use local web fonts, picked one (Literata), changed some colors and removed the Google Programmable Search Engine and Google Analytics.
Webpages are now pure HTML/CSS (zero JS) and literally a few hundred bytes in size total.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-how-to-self-host-google-fonts.html
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Started the first non-work day of the year with some yak-shaving on my website: learnt how to use local web fonts, picked one (Literata), changed some colors and removed the Google Programmable Search Engine and Google Analytics.
Webpages are now pure HTML/CSS (zero JS) and literally a few hundred bytes in size total.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-how-to-self-host-google-fonts.html
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Started the first non-work day of the year with some yak-shaving on my website: learnt how to use local web fonts, picked one (Literata), changed some colors and removed the Google Programmable Search Engine and Google Analytics.
Webpages are now pure HTML/CSS (zero JS) and literally a few hundred bytes in size total.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-how-to-self-host-google-fonts.html
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Started the first non-work day of the year with some yak-shaving on my website: learnt how to use local web fonts, picked one (Literata), changed some colors and removed the Google Programmable Search Engine and Google Analytics.
Webpages are now pure HTML/CSS (zero JS) and literally a few hundred bytes in size total.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-how-to-self-host-google-fonts.html
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Started the first non-work day of the year with some yak-shaving on my website: learnt how to use local web fonts, picked one (Literata), changed some colors and removed the Google Programmable Search Engine and Google Analytics.
Webpages are now pure HTML/CSS (zero JS) and literally a few hundred bytes in size total.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/2026-01-01-how-to-self-host-google-fonts.html
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The Light Eaters was a delightful book that catches up to the scientific discoveries in recent decades about how plants are able to communicate, feel, listen, remember, interact with animals, mimic and adapt to their kin. Author Zoe Schlanger brings an infectious energy to her writing about the fascinating abilities of plants and the scientists who are pioneering these findings.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-09-the-light-eaters.html
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Malice is yet another un-put-downable Keigo Higashino murder mystery. Not just the "how", but figuring out the "why" of the killer becomes the focus here. Nail-biting from start to finish.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-16-malice.html
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I rarely give a book 5/5, but Lieutenant Hornblower, the 2nd book in the series was near perfect. Great military strategy, nailbiting ups and down, and witness to the growth of an officer into a commander. Indirectly, it is also a great book on the journey to becoming a leader.
My rating: ★★★★★
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-09-lieutenant-hornblower.html
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Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth is an entertaining Wild West quest for dinosaur bones set amidst the war between US Army and Native Americans. Easy quick read, but lacks the depth of his famous books.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-02-dragon-teeth.html
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Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth is an entertaining Wild West quest for dinosaur bones set amidst the war between US Army and Native Americans. Easy quick read, but lacks the depth of his famous books.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-02-dragon-teeth.html
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Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth is an entertaining Wild West quest for dinosaur bones set amidst the war between US Army and Native Americans. Easy quick read, but lacks the depth of his famous books.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-02-dragon-teeth.html
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Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth is an entertaining Wild West quest for dinosaur bones set amidst the war between US Army and Native Americans. Easy quick read, but lacks the depth of his famous books.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-02-dragon-teeth.html
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Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth is an entertaining Wild West quest for dinosaur bones set amidst the war between US Army and Native Americans. Easy quick read, but lacks the depth of his famous books.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-02-02-dragon-teeth.html
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Everybody in the US is so angry these days, Angrynomics delves into the relationship between the economic situation and this public anger. It is a quick read, presented as dialogues between the 2 authors. Though timely, I really felt that the book was lacking in structure, real data and insights.
My rating: ★★★☆☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-26-angrynomics.html
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Since Google deleted one of my accounts last week (and provided no way to contest its deletion or restore it), I've been worried about my main Google account. I was able to download all my Google Drive docs using rclone today.
Here are the general instructions on how to do that: https://codeyarns.com/tech/2021-11-30-rclone.html
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Kurt Vonnegut can write or what?! In his debut 1952 novel Player Piano, all jobs have been automated in the future and talented-but-jobless people are frustrated. In this rollercoaster ride of a book, Vonnegut both shines a light on serious social issues of automation and AI, but also entertains in spades.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-18-player-piano.html
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Kurt Vonnegut can write or what?! In his debut 1952 novel Player Piano, all jobs have been automated in the future and talented-but-jobless people are frustrated. In this rollercoaster ride of a book, Vonnegut both shines a light on serious social issues of automation and AI, but also entertains in spades.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-18-player-piano.html
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Kurt Vonnegut can write or what?! In his debut 1952 novel Player Piano, all jobs have been automated in the future and talented-but-jobless people are frustrated. In this rollercoaster ride of a book, Vonnegut both shines a light on serious social issues of automation and AI, but also entertains in spades.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-18-player-piano.html
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Kurt Vonnegut can write or what?! In his debut 1952 novel Player Piano, all jobs have been automated in the future and talented-but-jobless people are frustrated. In this rollercoaster ride of a book, Vonnegut both shines a light on serious social issues of automation and AI, but also entertains in spades.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-18-player-piano.html
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Kurt Vonnegut can write or what?! In his debut 1952 novel Player Piano, all jobs have been automated in the future and talented-but-jobless people are frustrated. In this rollercoaster ride of a book, Vonnegut both shines a light on serious social issues of automation and AI, but also entertains in spades.
My rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-18-player-piano.html
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Shutter Island was a deliciously scary psycho-thriller. The slow build of intrigue and darkness is relentless and exciting. The 3 acts in the book are perfect, with a satisfyingly firecracking twist at the end that makes you rewind the entire plot and question everything.
Rating: ★★★★☆
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2025-01-08-shutter-island.html
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Got started on the Hornblower series of Napoleonic naval adventures with the first book Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. It was engaging and pretty soon I was looking up sailing-ship jargon, living on a ship and getting lost in the history and places of the Napoleonic era. Riveting read!
Rating: ★★★★☆
https://codeyarns.com/personal/2024-12-29-mr-midshipman-hornblower.html
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The satire of the oppressive Soviet life was excellent in the Russian classic The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. But I did not find the Biblical and Margarita fantasy parts of the book to be interesting.
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2024-08-24-the-master-and-margarita.html
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@codeyarns hmm Rakesh Sharma seems to be missing there. He wore Omega De Ville Quartz and recently got it fixed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/parcj1/does_anybody_know_what_type_of_watch_rakesh/k7vb1ln/
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@mckra1g I had read this a lifetime ago with similar feelings. These days I don't persist with such books. Instead I drop them and pick something that I like better.
https://codeyarns.com/personal/2006-05-16-the-crying-of-lot-49.html
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Boeing is now unashamedly asking for exemptions from safety rules for their MAX planes. 🤢
This is an apt time for me to recommend reading Flying Blind, to understand why the once-hallowed Boeing has completely rotted from the inside. After they acquired McDonnell Douglas, MDD's predatory/GE/Welch managers completely took over Boeing.
I looked up Boeing's current CEO, he's a GE alumni too. Not surprised.
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The Namesake was easily the best book I read this year. 🌟 Jhumpa is a fantastic craftsmith of words, as we have already seen in Interpreter of Maladies, but when combined here with the South Asian immigrant experience she creates a novel that I seriously doubt will ever be bested in this category.
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The Namesake was easily the best book I read this year. 🌟 Jhumpa is a fantastic craftsmith of words, as we have already seen in Interpreter of Maladies, but when combined here with the South Asian immigrant experience she creates a novel that I seriously doubt will ever be bested in this category.
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The Namesake was easily the best book I read this year. 🌟 Jhumpa is a fantastic craftsmith of words, as we have already seen in Interpreter of Maladies, but when combined here with the South Asian immigrant experience she creates a novel that I seriously doubt will ever be bested in this category.