Thursday, March 19, 2026

openspace command convention

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Quick note to self - when we want to use the built-in fadeIn or fadeOut  commands, we can't use the name of the object as seen in the in...
Monday, March 16, 2026

tumblerd prevents disk from being ejected on Linux

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When trying to eject a USB external disk, a message along the lines of "process tumblerd is currently using the disk, eject anyway?...

OpenSpace session recording "save frames" crash

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On my Lenovo ThinkCentre M93 machine with an NVidia GTX1050 graphics card, OpenSpace session recording playback with "save frames"...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

downloading from a server via http (no SSL) with auth

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Downloading some planetarium files from a server in Sweden, which had password protected directories but no SSL (no https) -  Directly downl...
Friday, February 27, 2026

github 14 day traffic stats

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Since github has a page which shows 14-day stats, like  https://github.com/hn-88/OpenSpace-AppImage/graphs/traffic but which is behind the ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

adjusting sound volume on Mac

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Since I don't have an Apple keyboard, adjusting the volume on the Mac mini was not very straightforward. An LLM's advice seemed to b...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

interesting - No-AI chatbot

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Interesting to see how chatbots can be programmed manually, without any AI -  https://p5js.org/tutorials/criticalai4-no-ai-chatbot/ Via  htt...
Monday, February 16, 2026

using Blender to mask bright scenes

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Using the same technique as in this previous post , but running on Blender 5 on Mac Mini, 3840x2160 video for Unseen Earth was being render...

close all Finder windows on Mac

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It looks like Option+Cmd+w is the keyboard shortcut to close all windows of an app. Also, Finder has this method of Option+click on the File...