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Bernard Szajner, creator of the laser harp, died on 31 August 2026. His instrument left a lasting legacy in electronic and experimental music.

Analysis of the .h264 files an Easytao camera records: why VLC cannot open them, how to identify raw HEVC, and how to convert them to MP4 with FFmpeg.

Configure Keras 3 with PyTorch and ROCm to train on a Radeon RX 7600. Verify GPU computation and compare performance against the CPU using MobileNetV2.

A guide to installing Request Tracker 6 with MySQL and publishing it through Apache and mod_fcgid on Ubuntu 24.04, without loading RT into Apache with mod_perl.

An up-to-date guide to installing DeepSeek Harness, configuring the DeepSeek API or subscriptions, and integrating it with Visual Studio Code.

Chronicle of a development project.

p5.js is a JavaScript library for creating art and interactive visualizations on the web. This article explains how to use it to make digital artwork.

Tutorial for building OSSFS2 with a recent toolchain on Ubuntu 26.04, and mounting OSS buckets using systemd.

A book about the machines that have shaped electronic music, written by legendary French musician Jean-Michel Jarre.

Guide to setting up a quadraphonic 4.1 speaker system on Linux with PipeWire, JamesDSP and systemd. Includes hardware analysis of the Cambridge FPS2000.

Guide to adding a per-article impression counter to a Cloudflare Workers blog using D1, with no separate server. Covers Astro (AstroPaper) and SvelteKit in SSR.

A guide to using Google Authenticator on more than one device: sync risks, backup codes, and how to avoid being locked out if your phone is lost or damaged.

Guide to installing SingularityCE on Debian 13 Trixie: source build, verification, configuration and troubleshooting. Also covers installing Apptainer.

Guide to installing SWI-Prolog on Debian 13 "Trixie" with four methods: Debian package, Flatpak, build from source with CPack, and Ubuntu's PPA for Debian.

How to convert a JPEG or PNG to ICO on the Linux CLI using ImageMagick.

Sooner or later, you have to administer services with systemd.

Mermaid: easily include mind maps, flowcharts, and more in Markdown.

This guide explains how to install the caveman skill in Visual Studio Code for Claude Code.

This guide shows how to deploy a Svelte+SvelteKit application on Cloudflare Workers (free).

This guide explains how to obtain authorization tokens to use the HuggingFace CLI.

The day Houston became the backdrop for the greatest laser and light show ever seen in America.

This guide explains how to install Argilla and its dependencies WITHOUT using Docker containers, on Debian.

This article describes how to restrict access to a website behind a Cloudflare proxy.

Tutorial on using Go modules from private GitHub repositories.

The legend of "Je l’aime à mourir" and María Félix.

This article describes how to view "rendered" markdown files on Linux.

A look at the rise of electronic music from the 1960s and Jean-Michel Jarre's career: key albums, historic concerts, and sonic innovation.

A brief introduction to MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface).