Search
215 results for “codeyarns”
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
@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/
-
@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
-
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.
-
@codeyarns
#books @bookstodon #SciFi #Magasine #pulpISFDB is a great resource.
Another one is Galactic Central, http://www.philsp.com, where you can track down amazingly obscure stories in magazines.
-
All Systems Red is a sci-fi novella that is interesting and short enough to finish in a single sitting. A great choice to get out of a reading funk. It's also the first in the MurderBot series, so you can get hooked on some great sci-fi-lite fun.
My review: https://codeyarns.com/personal/2023-08-06-all-systems-red.html
-
Getting a single universal remote to replace all the remotes in the living room turned out to be a game changer. I highly recommend getting one.
I was able to download the codes for all the devices, no manual programming was necessary!
I find that I am actually enjoying watching stuff on the TV in the living room now. It seems like having to switch between remotes or remote apps on phone had affected my enjoyment subconsciously.
-
Getting a single universal remote to replace all the remotes in the living room turned out to be a game changer. I highly recommend getting one.
I was able to download the codes for all the devices, no manual programming was necessary!
I find that I am actually enjoying watching stuff on the TV in the living room now. It seems like having to switch between remotes or remote apps on phone had affected my enjoyment subconsciously.
-
Getting a single universal remote to replace all the remotes in the living room turned out to be a game changer. I highly recommend getting one.
I was able to download the codes for all the devices, no manual programming was necessary!
I find that I am actually enjoying watching stuff on the TV in the living room now. It seems like having to switch between remotes or remote apps on phone had affected my enjoyment subconsciously.
-
Getting a single universal remote to replace all the remotes in the living room turned out to be a game changer. I highly recommend getting one.
I was able to download the codes for all the devices, no manual programming was necessary!
I find that I am actually enjoying watching stuff on the TV in the living room now. It seems like having to switch between remotes or remote apps on phone had affected my enjoyment subconsciously.
-
Getting a single universal remote to replace all the remotes in the living room turned out to be a game changer. I highly recommend getting one.
I was able to download the codes for all the devices, no manual programming was necessary!
I find that I am actually enjoying watching stuff on the TV in the living room now. It seems like having to switch between remotes or remote apps on phone had affected my enjoyment subconsciously.
-
OK: time for a #Mastodon #Lists #HotTip
The default web browser view shows only four lists -- but you can have more (I have yet to find the upper limit, but there probably is one)
So by prepending 00_ 01_ 02_ 03_ to your list title, you can control which lists show in the order you want in the default web browser view
Remember: they're all there at the Lists link -- this just puts your most used lists in easy view
h/t @codeyarns for this particular technique
-
Eminent Indian astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar passed away recently. His name sounded familiar, so I digged a little and lo behold he was actually the author of one of my favorite childhood science books "A Journey through the Universe". With superb funny cartoons by Sudhir Dar, this book covered a huge swathe of science and was crucial in stoking my interest in the wonders of this world. This book made me!
-
Eminent Indian astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar passed away recently. His name sounded familiar, so I digged a little and lo behold he was actually the author of one of my favorite childhood science books "A Journey through the Universe". With superb funny cartoons by Sudhir Dar, this book covered a huge swathe of science and was crucial in stoking my interest in the wonders of this world. This book made me!