Here are some notes I made on how I upgraded various Peertube installs (video.jadin.me and archive.reclaim.tv, mainly) to version 5.0. Version 5 came with some big changes, and required some a new config for nginx, as well as a required setting in a new to me production.yaml file. Here are some quick notes if you are having trouble upgrading to version 5, and you are using a docker-compose based setup. There were some notes in the GitHub release for this new version that informed my notes below, but it did take me a little figuring and experimentation to make sense of all of it....

It is so cool to see how far MuseScore has come. When I was in college, using the open-source MuseScore was fully not an option between its bugs, and the quality of playback and the fiddliness of making anything legible. The idea of using it for anything serious was practically a joke. Even for simple stuff like I was doing, it would have been a huge time sink, so I saved up for a copy of Finale....

This site is amazing if you ever need to compress an image or need to make it into one of the new fancy formats like WebP. The only trouble is its URL is too cheeky for its own good and I never remember it or spell it correctly. I’ve got it in my Raindrop bookmarks now, but I figured I’d blog it, so I REALLY don’t forget it. Also, maybe other folks will find it handy....

I got the beta invite for Arc and I think I’m going to kick the tires on it for a week as my main browser. So far, I’d say it has some really smart ideas and genuinely useful features, but I think some of its opinions on browsing workflows probably won’t stick with me long-term. I like the way the address bar and pinned tabs work, Easels are genius, and Boosts have a ton of potential....

Two weeks ago, I did a stream on HTML flattening with a tool called HTTrack. I’ve been wanting to show this off for a while as I think it makes the process of flattening a site relatively easy, plus it works across macOS, Linux, and Windows. I’ve been a little behind on blogging this one, as I didn’t have the video available on video.jadin.me until recently. This video was my test case for setting up my Peertube instance to store its videos on Backblaze B2, which is a lot like Amazon’s S3 storage, but even cheaper for many use cases....

Work Putting into practice stuff I’ve been curious about for a while, but never had the time to actually work on, feels like a theme lately for a few of my projects at Reclaim. A lot of the stuff I’ve been learning about regarding Docker, as well as working with APIs, is really coming in handy right now across several projects. With both of those examples, I’ve worked with them in the past sporadically, but taking the time to participate in (and lead, in some cases) Reclaimed EdTech flex courses has immersed me in this stuff enough to give me more confidence....

This week I did a stream to document how I use hugo, the static site generator, for this blog that you’re reading right now! The point of the stream was to show how I use this tool, but all of this is really not a good starting point if you are looking to get started with hugo, or you just want to see how it works. For that, I’d recommend checking out the hugo quick start documentation!...

I recently needed to back up a bunch of files, about 6GB, from a Reclaim Cloud node so here are some notes on how I was able to connect directly to the Node. I like using the Reclaim Cloud SSH Gate for SSH or SFTP access to containers most of the time, but in my case because I had so many files to sync, I wanted to use rsync, which as far as I’m aware won’t work with the SSH Gate....

Family stuff Nat has been talking about horses a lot lately, so we brought her to a place near Sturgeon Bay to do a quick ride around the arena, she really liked it! We’re also in town to go out to dinner with my parents for my mom’s birthday! In our downtime today my dad has been using the Merlin Bird ID app to play bird calls in their backyard and identify birds they can hear....

I’ve been meaning to do more blogging thats small and simple, so I think I’ll start doing some more posts that are journal-ish. I’m not sure that I’m committing to a common format or time-frame or anything 🤷🏻‍♂️. We’ll see if i stick to this. Reading I just finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s far future sci-fi where humans have to escape earth and find a new home in the stars, and come across a terraforming experiment from a past human civilization....