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A roaming web server (for personal file sharing): blog.bnjmn.id

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For the past 8 months, I’ve been working on pre-production for a road trip movie that I’m excited to produce. Here’s the trailer, and please consider donating at the GoFundMe below.

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youtube.com/...

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gofund.me/49a1dd54

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The version of Windows that Microsoft should sell you, but won't: blog.bnjmn.id

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Fixing degraded Promox VE + Intel I350/X552/X557-AT NIC performance after v8 update: blog.bnjmn.id

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Overview of the Apollo Lunar Module’s guidance computer’s design, functions, input and output, and user interface, presented by Robert Wills and the UK’s National Museum of Computing: www.youtube.com/watch

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If anyone was, like me, disappointed that Garnier’s Fructis Style Curl Treat Hydrating Butter seems to have been discontinued: Carol’s Daughter Coco Creme Curl-Enhancing Moisture Butter has an almost-identical formula, and for me it worked as a drop-in replacement. In stock at Amazon and Walmart.

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Making UHD Blu-ray video discs at home and on the cheap: blog.bnjmn.id

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Great recent talk from Cory Doctorow on de-shittifying the internet: youtu.be/rimtaSgGz…

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Notes on reverb and dialogue mixing for film: blog.bnjmn.id

","summary":"","url":"https://blog.bnjmn.id/2023/07/27/notes-on-reverb.html","date_published":"2023-07-28T05:56:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Macphail","url":"https://blog.bnjmn.id","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F112928.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bnjmn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-07-28 05:56","date_timestamp":1690523797,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"20941869","content_html":"
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“I want to linger in this space as long as possible, this space of smooth and efficient movement through the world, gliding in near total mechanical silence, just the sound of rubber on the pavement, wind in my ears, breaking waves, salt, the smell of pine. This is what electric bikes do: They drive you insane with the poetry of the world.\"

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Always either reaping the rewards of plans set in motion by Past Me (he is a genius) or trying to simplify things for Future Me (he is an utter buffoon) meanwhile I, at the centre of time, am forever burdened to decipher the horrid whims of both

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Distribution of photos taken while traveling in March 2022, by focal length. (Extracted from Exif data. Using 24-105mm lens, full frame equiv.)

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Creating APFS snapshots for non-boot volumes in macOS with Carbon Copy Cloner: blog.bnjmn.id

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Vakt: my new custom homelab microserver: blog.bnjmn.id

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Time Moves Sideways: Using mapped time displacement on timelapse video footage: blog.bnjmn.id

","summary":"","url":"https://blog.bnjmn.id/2022/12/02/on-july-th.html","date_published":"2022-12-19T02:28:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Macphail","url":"https://blog.bnjmn.id","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F112928.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bnjmn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-19 02:28","date_timestamp":1671416927,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15141986","content_html":"

Testing a short post with an image here. Keep scrolling.

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New site at blog.bnjmn.id. I will continue to have fun on Twitter for as long as the site is tolerable but containing the shitposts to that site, and serious posts will go to the new one. Posts on the new site will be mirrored on the Twitter feed for now.

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Panasonic Lumix S5 4K Original Sample Footage Download: blog.bnjmn.id

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