We recently had some summer stormy weather and we binged Twister and Twisters and Widows Bay and now I want a radar weather view in my homelab refreshing every 15 minutes. A spare monitor, this page, and the Firefox add-on 'Auto refresh page' c'mon now this is awesome...
Vallaquenta/jellyfin-arr-stack: A complete guide to setting up a Jellyfin server with automated requests via a full *arr stack
Just installed Jellyfin to access my stuff! Which includes an extensive home & family library of photography & videos that I'll be able to access remotely soon (as soon as I figure out how to do more with my VPN besides just turning it on and off)
This site runs the way Facebook or Nextdoor's marketplaces do, only it's a nonprofit, and it doesn't ply you with ads in the margin, and it doesn't track you (meets GDPR even though it's based in the U.S.) If you're looking for cool free stuff, check this site in your region every once in awhile.
I've found some fascinating, educational gems on /r/mealtimevideos. I think I found the user Every Frame A Painting through this subreddit! Excellent bite-sized videos that you can sort/filter by duration (I like 20-30 minutes but some 1-hour ones are great).
I just discovered this annual spring event in the Mojave desert in California, Neotropolis, through posts on /r/cyberpunk - it's basically a ren fair only cyberpunk. I would LOVE to attend. Gotta keep my eye out for when volunteer and/or tickets open up for 2027.
A professor at UIUC used this tool & I loved it! Mentimeter will be the basis of one of my upcoming tech ed classes soon called 'Symbols of Technology' where participants will goof around trying to guess various popular and common technology symbols.
Apparently, only 2% of this site's audiobooks are DRM protected; everything else is on the promise that your purchase is for personal, noncommercial use. Love this! Its own type of physical media (data is an infinitesimal piece of rock but it exists!). HQ is in Virginia, US.
Rome2Rio is questionable on local or state-wide stuff in the U.S. midwest, but fantastic (read: better than Google Maps) for international traveling. Based in Australia, so perhaps their regional stuff in Australia is on point (that would make sense).
Hosted by archive.org, Archive-IT is "The leading service for preserving and accessing digital cultural heritage" for institutions (government, academic, etc.)
Taylor & Tony are gone again! Thanks for watching!
We returned in late 2024 for a limited series featuring brand new video essays, followed by a short film – "The Second," starring Paul Sun-Hyung Lee & Ethan Hwang.
The original "Every Frame a Painting" was a series of video essays about film form, made from April 2014 to September 2016. We officially announced the end of the channel in December 2017. Nothing sinister, we just felt it was time. This post explains it all:
https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc
