Not super active, but I found some of the articles pretty useful (recently the fixing of incorrect addedAt timestamps in Plex helped me out), so I wanted to leave a link to it here: FWIW in my case I’m running Plex in a Docker container, so I connected to it with docker exec -it plex…
Author: herbcso
Quick screenshots in Python
This will be very anecdotal and specific to my setup, but here are some recent findings I had on my M2 Pro Mac Mini running MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 and how long it takes to grab a screenshot with Python via various methods. Screenshot method Library Time taken in ms pyautogui.screenshot() pyautogui ~1300-1500 ImageGrab.grab() pillow ~1300-1500…
Getting IP address on very limited Docker containers
Often Docker containers will have an extremely bare-bones Linux environment. In these scenarios, the ip and ifconfig commands are often not available. However I’d still like to be able to check what the Docker container’s IP address got assigned as. What do? Well, one thing you can try is running hostname which should still be…
CIFS mount input/output error -5 with reading SOME directories
This is mostly one of those “note to self” type posts so I can remember what I ran into. Maybe it’ll help somebody else as well, in which case: yay! ;] TL;DR: check if you have case-sensitivity enabled on the directories that are giving you problems using fsutil file queryCaseSensitiveInfo <directory>. If it is enabled,…
Avoid collisions in ~/bin
I have not actually run into this issue myself yet, but the idea of prefixing all your own ~/bin commands with a comma (as presented in this article) seems a decent one. So I’m posting this here as a reminder to self, in case I do need to use this idea later.
The State of the Python packaging process in 2022
OK, so let me preface this by saying that I’m a total newb at Python coming into this, so that is the perspective I’m writing this from. Looking at packaging tools and managing dependencies for your project is a bit daunting in early 2022. There is a LOT of history with lots of different approaches…
Upgrading Homeassistant in Proxmox/Portainer
So I’m running Proxmox on a little AMD Ryzen-based NUC now, and it’s awesome! I can run an amazing array of services on this teeny little box, and it handles it all like a champ. One of the things I’m running is Portainer to manager a bunch of Docker containers. And this is where our…
Everything you (n?)ever wanted to know about Unicode
Mostly posting this link as a reminder to myself about how difficult Unicode can get. https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-05-23-unicode-icu.html
Still alive…
I haven’t posted much here, but the site is still alive, just FYI. Nothing to see here, move along, move along… ;]
Heartbleed and why I’m happy I use LastPass
I think this LastPass blog post says it all. Safe and sound on LastPass and it tests every one of my passwords for me. Shweet! ;]