Dev

Recently I was trying to figure out a way of accessing the “universal search” index available via the Synology UI, in a way that didn’t require logging into the UI itself.

I had a bit of bother getting Mastodon up and running on a Fedora box so figured I’d write up the main sticking points. Preamble The scope is to: Put most of this inside Docker Use AWS S3 for object storage Use AWS SES for mail If you’ve got Postfix already running locally, or don’t want to run storage on S3, just ignore these bits.

Even though I’ve literally purchased a couple of the ISO standards, I’m unable to open the files on Linux without access to a Windows VM (within which I can run their stupid PDF de-DRM-er).

For whatever reason, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe got rid of their mobile app this year - a decision that has not gone down too well with punters and performers alike.

For a small project I was working on, I wanted to distribute video via MPEG-DASH instead of my usual go-to, HLS. Like HLS, MPEG-DASH supports delivering video via adaptive bit rates.