Easy Blog Posting ("My Noting Book")

For my EasyBlogPosting project.. Testing out the Dropbox API.. 2020-12-09 trying this out Per here … pip install dropbox Went w/ that Getting Started page Through that page, I created a new test app for myself. Using the API explorer … I hit Get Token .. https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=xxxxxxxxx&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdropbox.github.io%2Fdropbox-api-v2-explorer%2F&state=file_requests_list!39%2B%2Bxxxxxxxx&token_access_type=online& That generated a token and I used https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#files_list_folder and I was able to see actual folders in my account. That’s cool except I thought I had chosen something like ‘single folder access’ so I’m slightly confused why I can see the other folders....

December 9, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 8 min · 1540 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Quick test drive this Mozilla/Baidu Deep Speech

Summary Ok managed to get DeepSpeech to run, but the output for my voice maybe does not translate to any text that makes sense hahaha. But it was pretty funny to read the interpretation. My recording was in m4a so I had to change over to wav first ffmpeg is good for m4a to wav conversion but my ffmpeg is having some issues. (deep3) $ ffmpeg dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl....

November 22, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 3 min · 607 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Summary of Mundanity of Excellence

This is a summary of “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers” by Daniel F. Chambliss. In three sentences The author has spent a lot of time reporting on all levels of swimming competition and writes about observations about the differences between them. The differences in abilities of different levels of competition are not because of quantitative differences like “more training” but qualitative differences like using a flip turn instead of just touching the wall and turning around....

November 21, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 3 min · 618 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Oh cool new washing machine is ruining the delicates

Are we getting warmer? The washing and drying machine units in our apartment was replaced because the drying machine was taking two plus cycles to do any drying and the washing machine came along for the ride. However, the new washing machine was basically destroying the delicates that required cold water. Somehow even on the coldest water setting, the water still ended up being too hot. One example, of what the super hot water was doing to the colors, Look behind you!...

November 18, 2020 · (updated March 18, 2023) · 1 min · 115 words · Michal Piekarczyk

blue bottle espresso troubleshooting

Trying out this Blue Bottle Opascope espresso w/ this hand grinder w/ my Kamira espresso maker. But the Kamira is not pulling the espresso for some reason. Comparing the Lavazza grounds to the Opascope grounds I can’t tell there’s a difference. Is it too fine? Not fine enough? This is the hand grinder. Here is what 2 out of 4 of the Blue Bottle pulls ended up like And after that I did a Lavazza pull and it looked pretty normal....

November 15, 2020 · (updated November 3, 2024) · 1 min · 182 words · Michal