If you’ve ever tried to buy a high-demand product online as soon as it’s released, you’ve probably seen one of four things happen: This happens all the time with concert tickets, new video game consoles, and more. It’s an awful user experience made even worse by the fact that most of your competition are automated…

A few months ago I had to disable my browser’s ad blocker to test something out. At that point an ad snuck through, I wasn’t able to shut my eyes in time, and my life was changed forever! I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Someone said they could make my house smell like Las…

You too can convert broadcast MPEG-2 video to HEVC with one long and overly complicated ffmpeg command. However, doing it with captions intact requires a PhD.

Hi! Let’s make this! I did it for Halloween this year and I think it came out pretty well! I’m not the first person on the internet to have had this idea! While planning and researching the project, I was inspired by this dude, this lady, and this lady.  All of their efforts came out…

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This year for Halloween I was Gene Takavic. Gene manages a Cinnabon in Omaha. If you watch Better Call Saul, you’d be familiar. It was a relatively cheap costume to throw together, but sourcing the gear to make it happen – and getting the colors right – was a challenge. I used three reference photos…

T-Mobile users get one free hour of Gogo wifi on all flights. If you pay a little more to upgrade to “T-Mobile One Plus” you get unlimited Gogo access. In either case, that wifi is officially only available on your T-Mobile device. They also limit that access to a single device per subscriber, per flight….

Inspired by Nintendo’s upcoming NES Classic Edition, I spent some time last week setting up a Raspberry Pi-based emulation station. For about $100 all-in, this smaller-than-my-wallet computer plays thousands of games from the Atari 2600 all the way through the PlayStation 1/N64 era, and just about everything in-between. I’m very happy. My kids like it…

TV shouldn’t cost money. There’s a free and legal way to watch TV shows and it’s been around since the 40s. It’s called an antenna. When the US switched over to digital signals using the ATSC standard in 2008, many stations started broadcasting in HD. Most people don’t know this and it totally shocks me….