Notes

2024-08-19
- Removing a solid colour background from an animated GIF using ImageMagick:
  
  magick INPUT.gif -coalesce -fuzz 40% -transparent white -layers optimize-plus OUTPUT.gif
  - -coalesce — Flatten and compose all frames.
  - -fuzz 40% -transparent white — Make white pixels transparent. Fuzz to th desired percentaged.
  - -layers optimize-plus — Optimize the coalesced animation. This perticular option adds frames in an attempt to separate the clearing of pixels from the overlaying of new additional pixels across frames.
2021-01-05
- Ditherpunk — an article about monochrome image dithering.
2020-12-16
- CIDCo MailStation
  - This is a niftly looking terminal device, originally designed for email. Has a keyboard, small screen and — in later models — is battery powered.
  - Discovered via ~diff’s sumbmission in the tilde.town zine 4.
  - Joshua Stein has an excellent post about these machines.
  - More information about MailStation devices can be found at Fybertech.
2020-05-31
- I like my UI in dark mode 24/7, but most website have awful dark colour schemes, so I prefer them with their original scheme. Prevent websites from using CSS prefers-color-scheme: dark in Firefox:
  - Open about:config and create the key ui.systemUsesDarkTheme, set to number 0.
2020-05-20
- Bare Bones Monitoring with Monit and RRDtool — Low power/usage monitoring??
2020-05-19
- Opus Interactive Audio Codec