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2024 Checkin

Gosh it's already almost March and here I am ready to reflect on where I am at the start of this year. Time never slows down. I figured I'd update here on the blog with a couple things I have going on, if for no other reason than for my

Experiments with the Magewell Director Mini

This will be one of those really long posts with a very niche audience of a few people that are interested in the idea of "All-In-One" streaming box setups like Yolobox. If that's your thing, read on for really nerdy tech talk because I'm going deep. I first heard about

Could I be an Athlete Again?

I've had a very on again off again relationship with my body, weightloss, and strength conditioning for many a year. I grew up in a house where my father regularly battled it himself having been so successful in the early years of Weight Watchers existence that he was featured in

This Week at Reclaim

At this point in my life maybe I'm in danger of just replaying all the hits. From DTLT Today at UMW to Reclaim Today at Reclaim Hosting it's not a new or revolutionary idea that using video as a platform to talk about what's happening at your work is cool

Vertical Live Streaming

I have two projects recently I've started working on that double down on lots of past work involving video, live streaming while playing the games here at Reclaim Arcade, and recording a publishing a weekly update video on what's going on here at the arcade. I'll save the latter for

It's Complicated

I've been thinking a lot lately about the tension in running a business between experimentation and complication. No doubt part of what's driving these thoughts is the current seemingly unsustainable inflation that has been happening globally for years now and has only gotten worse in the last 6-12 months. It's

Link List 8/9/23

Only had one link in the queue last week so skipped it on to this week. Maybe the weekly cadence is too much of a push to try and find interesting things in this world. We'll see... Computers Are BadNow you can block OpenAI’s web crawlerNow websites can opt

Link List 7/19/23

Retro TV: Live 24/7 Vintage Cable TV Network on Raspberry PiDuring the pandemic lockdown, an old iPad became the catalyst for a three-year long passion project: transforming it into a 24/7 recreation (and parody) of 8…YouTubeSummer of spamThe internet used to be full of possibility. Now it’

Link List 7/12/23

Watch this massive LED sphere in Las Vegas light up for the first timeThe Sphere has 1.2 million LEDs dotting its display.The VergeWonders of Street ViewExplore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History FoundationNew study reveals

Link List 7/5/23

ForwardDomain.netDomain Forwarding Service using DNS. 100% free. No trackers.Wildan MThe Man Who Broke BowlingJason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.GQCondé NastThe Condiment Packet GalleryElectric flying car gets FAA approval for test flights | Boing BoingAlef

Building a Streaming Rig

As I started this post I realized I have a lot of posts with "Building" in the title. I guess I'll lean into it. I'm fairly sure I can credit ds106 at least in part to my obsession with streaming video to the web. At the time I was playing

Trading TT-RSS for Inoreader

It's wild that in 2023 we're still talking about Google Reader. But my journey with RSS started there and I remember the thrill of not only being able to follow blogs and sites and have content delivered to me much like an email inbox, but also being able to share

Goodbye Reddit

Today I used the Bulk Delete Reddit Posts & Comments History Chrome extension (and happily paid the $8 for full version and support the developer) to delete every single post and comment on my 17-year-old Reddit account before submitting the account for deletion. I went through the trouble to delete everything

Link List 6/28/23

I'm going to start gathering links from around the web that I've been reading or interest me each week into a once a week post here in the vein of Tom Woodward's Weekly Web Harvest. Enjoy! Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most

Video Wall 2: Electric Boogaloo

My previous post about the expansion of Reclaim Arcade ran rather long but honestly I could talk at length just about this one aspect of it, so I figured I'd go into more detail in a separate post (because it's my blog dammit!). I rely a lot on smart people

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The Expansion

This post has been several months in the making, in part because of just how long this evolution of the arcade had taken from concept to completion, but also because I strategically wanted to wait until after Reclaim Open to talk publicly about it. I do love a good surprise

Recap on our Mediterranean Cruise Vacation

I'm feeling a renewed interest in dusting off the blog and exploring new tools. Maybe it's because Reddit is following in the steps of Elon Musk and turning something that was great into a dumpster fire. Maybe it has more to do with having spent the last 11 days on

Event Planning for Reclaim Arcade

With my transition out of the day to day work of Reclaim Hosting pretty much solidified for the past 8 months it feels like the blog here has suffered a bit. While I was never a super consistent blogger, writing about technical experiments came naturally to me whereas the intense

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Thinking of a Domains API Future

I had a thrilling followup meeting today with Jim, Lauren, and Taylor to talk more about the potential of a Domains API and how we might use it. This is a concept that it feels like Jim and I have batted around every few years almost since the inception of

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 2

I hadn't planned to make this a two-part post but when looking back on this blog I realized I hadn't really set the stage much for all the work that had gone into just getting the doors open in January 2021. I mentioned in the previous post that the onset

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 1

This blog ain't dead yet but as is typically the case I've been head down grinding on plenty of different things, but these days most of those things look like retro arcade games. It's hard to believe Reclaim Arcade is about to celebrate 1 year of the doors being open

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Integrating SSO for OERxDomains21

I have a love/hate affair with SAML and SSO in general. Damn, two acronyms in the first sentence?! Nothing like that to thin out the crowds. Still with me? Ok let's go. The problem: While much of the conference we recently put on would be open (registration, main website,

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Remote Support for Parents

It probably comes as no surprise that I'm seen as the "tech help" of the family. Anyone with a job that involves computers probably also plays that side role at family gatherings. You're the one they pull to the side to ask about a popup on their phone, the one

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Building a Video Wall for Reclaim Arcade

Just when I think @ReclaimArcade can’t get any cooler, an idea surfaces from a conversation that will take the space to another level. Now to just see if I can make it work :) — timmmmyboy (@timmmmyboy) December 2, 2020 Part of the original plans for Reclaim Arcade had use removing

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The Arcade Internet of Things

The Fall has been a busy but fairly productive time here, so it's about high time I got off my ass and blogged some of that magic. Jim has an epic post about his trip to the states here that dovetails nicely with some of the work I was doing