sometimes.digital - personal website

For the past couple of weeks I have been trying to learn more about generative (procedural) art.

While playing with a €2 camera module I found a CircuitPython example of converting the camera’s video stream to ASCII art.

Turns out that a one-way mirror can hide the cracks of a display behind it.

I promise, I am not setting up a smart home.

I was working on a multi-language Eleventy site and I realised that configuring the translations from scratch (by writing a custom filter) would be easier than choosing an existing library.

At the end of September last year, I wired together a tiny solar-powered web server.

We’re renovating the apartment, which is why I haven’t been online as much as I’d like.

I have been tagged by Katherine and Jamie in the Blog Questions tag / challenge – thank you so much for thinking about me 💓 Why did you start blogging in the first place?

My second-hand Canon camera tagged all my photos with the name of the previous owner.

For the low price of an additional €2.5 to my monthly Internet bill (for the static IP) I can now just drag html files into a network folder on my Raspberry Pi and have them appear online, in the form of this site.

I like Eleventy because I can say “please take this folder and make a website out of it” and it will probably do that with little effort on my side, but at the same time there are also a lot of options for elaborate configuration and customization.

I added a photo stream to my site.

I often use Vinted to find second-hand clothes.

Here’s a neat way to prevent the scroll bounce in PWAs with CSS: @media all and (display-mode: fullscreen) { html { overscroll-behavior: none; } } Without the media query the rule will also work in browsers.

There is an NFC chip inside of my toothbrush head, and it counts the time.

I added the og:media image tags yesterday, and the approach seems to work, so I’m going to share it in this post.

I’m writing down all the mods I added to my grandma’s new Kobo Libra 2 before gifting it to her for Christmas, mostly for my own future reference, but also hoping that it may be useful for other people too.

Return to the times when buttons were not afraid of showing feelings.

I replaced faulty switches in my boyfriend’s Logitech G603 mouse and I thought I would share the process.

In July last year I bought a wireless mechanical keyboard on Aliexpress for $30.

(several ways to do this, but here’s one with the STM32CubeProgrammer and Windows) Download the .hex file.

USBASP drivers On Linux and MacOS this step should not be necessary.