Ben's Journal

With Passover fast approaching, I've been putting AI to use in my Seder prep. Specifically, I've been using it to discover an...

While browsing the YouTube API , I came across a section on captions and it hit me: if I could slurp down a video's subtitles, I...

I recently kicked off a nano-sized AWS server to run a cron job . Out of the box, the server doesn't support sending email. ...

I want my phone's background to automatically update to a dramatic looking image when there's an urgent email in my inbox ...

I'm ticking off the boxes needed to automate archiving images from a new camera I picked up. I have taken care of SD card acces...

I have a firm distrust of all things hardware. A side effect of this is that I tend to interact with a number of different devices ...

BLUF Using googlemeetassist it's possible to say: $ googlemeetassist -a new | clipit and a URL to a new Google Meet spa...

Shira and I have a trip coming up where I should have the chance to shoot some amazing night sky pics. While I've done some resear...

A few days ago I found myself in the lobby of my car repair shop waiting for our vehicle's inspection to be completed. The nightly ...

You can trivially run an entire Linux instance on your Android device by installing Termux , and then using proot-distro to inst...

Below is a script that combines the USGS Product API and Google's Geolocation API to make a shell script to retrieve topo ...

Every so often I find that I want to access a Micro SD card from within Linux on my Windows WSL2 setup. I put the card in my laptop a...

One of my disaster recovery strategies is to switch my primary work computer every week. I've got a Mac Mini, Intel Nuc and Lenov...

One of my favorite features of Gmail is that every message is backed by a unique URL. I frequently use this URL to easily refer back to...