Geeking - diagrams
I really like diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) for drawing diagrams. I have just discovered that it’s reasonably easy to add some interactivity (hide/show/highlight some diagram elements) into the diagrams by using custom links .
I am also thinking of trying writing some plugins for it.
Geeking - cool tools
- mdless - a great utility for viewing markdown files in terminal.
Bye Spotify and your crazy schemes of giving money to people who spread disinformation
I have used spotify-to-deezer - open source python tool to transfer music from Spotify to Deezer. Unfortunately it has a few defects.
Also some bands do not have the same name in Spotify as they have on Deezer. Korn vs KoЯn and some non-english bands sometimes write their names in latin alphabet, sometimes in their native alphabet.
So…. I fixed some of the defecs in my local copy, then threw away most of the stuff, added band name translation build a few extra scripts in go lang.
The end result is that now I have absolute majority of my music on Deezer.
Geeking
- tried to publish my photos on Netlify (using command line interface for netlify)
- set up an Azure account
Raspberry Pi as a smart music player
Ordered raspberry pi and received mini computer.
I have set up https://moodeaudio.org/ on it and connected it to soundbar. Moode is running an open source project MPD (Music Player Demon) on it.
Then I built a Java program to go through all my music collection and create a new playlist in MPD with the songs that I have rated 3 stars or more. (Thank you JavaMPD for building a library for that. Source of Java MPD .
Android app for playing RNZ news
RNZ releases news audio clip every 1 hour. So I have built a little android app which has only 2 buttons:
- play news locally (it just looks up the stream and launches a local media player - in my case VLC)
- play news on MPD (on my new Raspberry Pi) - in which case it just looks up the relevant news http stream and adds it to MPD playlist.
I love how instantanious it is!
I think I will tweak it a bit and publish the app to the Google Play store.
Android app for covid-19 locations of interest
In February I used Flutter to build an Android app to display locations of interest that are relevant to me based on open data provided by the Ministry of Health.
Then registered Google playstore account.
I was ready to publish the application and on the day I was planning to do that NZ government decided not to release any more updates for locations of interest (due to Omicron all NZ became the location of interest).
Reading
- Finished reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Continuing reading Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
- Continuing reading How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Watching
- In February I watched Squid Game.
Random links
- Radio stations around the world - fmstream.org