Automated Blu-Ray Backups from a Dodgy Disc

Sep 13, 2026 3 min read

I'm an eBay-and-Plex based digital media hoarder, and I recently upgraded my gear to include an external Blu-Ray player (the LG BP60NB10 as recommended by the MakeMKV forums). After a firmware flash, this device - via ARM - has happily tore through my small collection. Frustratingly, however, disc 1 of Community Season 1 kept failing after the backup stage and before it could start transcoding. The disc plays fine both via the external drive itself and in the Sony hooked up to my TV (no, ball-knowers, I did not purchase it so my boycott holds) so what

DIY YouTube Rewind with yt-dlp

Photo by Hello Sunday / Unsplash

Jan 2, 2026 5 min read twiy tech media guide

Every year, the Wrapped-ification of the entire known world continues its slow march towards irrelevance through over-saturation. But what if you're just a nerd about your own data and you want to crunch it yourself?

Caddy DNS challenge and Porkbun

Quite frankly it was ridiculous to try to make all my post photos thematically relevant, I give up

Oct 24, 2022 2 min read infrastructure homelab network selfhosting tech guide privacy

Stuck between a rock and an expired-certificate-place, I deployed the Porkbun plugin for Caddy's ACME DNS challenge

Frasier x Columbo 16-page comic: very good

Excerpt from "I HEAR THE BLUES A-KILLIN'"

Oct 19, 2022 1 min read microblerg entertainment media notmyphoto review

Joe Chouinard, webcomic artist, has made this beautiful 16-page full-color comic specifically for me, apparently. A pitch-perfect crossover episode between Frasier and Columbo. Published on Twitter, read it via Threadreader.

Upscayl: AI image resolution increase-er

Upscayl is not capable of adding detail especially in challenging lighting, so this photo is unmodified

Sep 29, 2022 5 min read tech media gallery photo personal

Upscayl is a FOSS project that runs as an Electron application and utilizes a dGPU and machine learning to increase the resolution of photos, adding geometry via AI. I tried it out this weekend on a few old Facebook photos, and the results were interesting.