Weekly Retro
10 things that stuck with me in tech and business
Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud: This post documents the journey to find a cloud storage provider that is better than Microsoft OneDrive and migrating all cloud files there.
Makeshift beercan pinhole camera accidentally captures 'longest known exposure': In 2012, while studying for her MA Fine Art degree at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K., Regina Valkenborgh lined a beer can with photographic paper and built her own pinhole camera. Valkenborgh placed the can on a telescope at the university's Bayfordbury Observatory and eventually forgot to retrieve the can, accidentally creating perhaps the longest exposure image ever taken.
My Laptop is Faster than Your Cloud : Announcing MotherDuck: For the last ten years, the data ecosystem has focused on big data - the bigger the data set, the more exciting. But most workloads aren’t massive. Instead of requiring a scale-out database in the sky, most analyses are faster with an optimized database on your computer that can leverage the cloud when needed.
OpenCoDE: Open Source Code für die Öffentliche Verwaltung. Open CoDE ist die gemeinsame Plattform der Öffentlichen Verwaltung für den Austausch von Open Source Software. Durch die zentrale Ablage von offenen Quellcodes soll die Wiederverwendung und gemeinsame Arbeit an Softwarelösungen der Öffentlichen Verwaltung zwischen Verwaltung, Industrie und Gesellschaft gefördert werden.
Officelife: OfficeLife is the first EmpOps platform. It manages everything employees do in a company. From projects to holidays to 1:1s to teams.
“I record myself on audio 24x7”: What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24x7 using AI to process that information? A self-experiment and its the results.
FFmpeg - the ultimate guide: This guide covers the ins and outs of FFmpeg starting with fundamental concepts and moving to media transcoding and video and audio processing providing practical examples along the way.
