Category: Engineering
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The Appeal of Web1.0
There’s something that’s nostalgic about the early web. Everyone had their own website for bespoke topics with simple colors, bad clipart, and often times those little pixel logos/badges at the bottom of the page. The title “webmaster” really meant something as there weren’t as many toolkits to help you out with writing your pure HTML…
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The Case for Chromebooks
This was an essay I wrote back in 2018. Several of my opinions have changed since then which I will address at the end of the essay. Chromebooks at first glance can seem to be a very niche piece of technology. After all, why would you want to be limited to only what a web…
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The Importance of Encryption
This mini essay was regarding a news article back around 2022 regarding the government wanting a backdoor into iPhone’s encryption. I wrote this as a response to how disastrous this would be for technology. Unfortunately the link to the original news article is broken (thanks Google News) so we can’t see the exact source… I…
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Linux Rescue Partition
The other day I was thinking about how with chrome dismantling the framework utilized by adblockers the chromebooks i would often recommend to family and those less tech savvy are no longer something I can rely on. (Plus it’s made by google so long term support isn’t reliable on that front either.) So this lead…
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AV1 Video Encoding on Ubuntu 24.04 with Intel Arc
One of my more recent and ambitious projects was to convert my media library of Movies, TV Shows, and Twitch VODs from the various formats that they are in and re-encode them into the new and highly efficient AV1 format. For those of you who might not be familiar, AV1 is an open, royalty-free video…