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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 04/10/2026

Went a bit further with the local music setup, and now have navidrome running on my NAS, and am using Amperfy for playback. Feels so much nicer than the streaming apps

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 04/10/2026

Just spent a bit of time trying to find a nice macOS music player and found Petrichor nice. Plus you can install it with brew petrichor.page

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Petrichor - An offline music player for macOS

Petrichor is a music player for macOS that plays almost any format and keeps your local library organized.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 28/09/2026

Ordered a battery and an SD reader HDD replacement for my 20-year-old iPod Video, and looking forward to my first little electronics fixing project.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 25/09/2026

Published the little local-first movie log app to GitHub that I've been slowly Codexing into existence. Recently swapped out Next.js with Astro + Svelte, and I'm honestly quite happy with how readable the code is despite being 100% generated. github.com/abbieschenk/...

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GitHub - abbieschenk/markino: A local-network watched movie app with charts, ranking, and more.

A local-network watched movie app with charts, ranking, and more. - abbieschenk/markino

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/09/2026

> Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 20? One of my favourite movies in general.

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Billy Beane: How Can You Not Be Romantic?

ALT: Billy Beane: How Can You Not Be Romantic?

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 22/08/2026

Watching Her for the first time in 2026 is an interesting, stressful experience

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 12/07/2026

In 2020 I started keeping track of watched movies in a notebook. Always thought it would be neat to have some stats, and found Letterboxed too restrictive, so got a little webapp running for myself.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 11/07/2026

My biggest cooking life hack is to only ever measure by volume once for a recipe, on a scale, and make note of the weight.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 05/07/2026

I found the first website I built in 2002 (when I was 11yo) on an old floppy, and thought it'd be fun to finally put it online, in all of its pre-HTML5-iness. star-wars-website.pages.dev github.com/abbieschenk/...

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Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 04/07/2026

At least we got 15 minutes of Davies playing for Team Canada to imagine what could’ve been

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 24/06/2026

Tonight it’s Canada vs Switzerland for the first time in a FIFA World Cup, and as a citizen of both countries, it’s fun to be cheering for a tie: the only scenario where both are guaranteed to advance

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

watching a movie. shout out to movies

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 06/04/2026

The only thing I was still missing from Lightroom!

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 29/03/2026

I had a small Gatsby site I built for a grant project that I've wanted to migrate to something modern, but haven't had time to deal with all the... Gatsby. With Codex, I migrated to Astro, and then also improved the dataviz and code itself, all with a lot less time and effort headstoneaddresses.com

Image of a data visualisation of headstones in Edmonton to their listed addresses in China. Lines connect the cities in China to the individual headstones on a small map of Edmonton. A time slider is shown to control the date range of year of birth and death.

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adumb @adumb.codes · 24/03/2026

I made a graph of every home run in MLB history and used it to discover interesting players, home runs, and stories from baseball history. youtu.be/LtJxJqAqt0Q

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I Made a Network of Every Home Run in MLB History

YouTube video by adumb

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 14/02/2026

Built a little component for hikes on my Astro site to show a leaflet map and metadata. The data (minus start + end) comes from a build script that converts .gpx files exported from SwissTopo straight to .geojson, so I can just drop the files in :) wayswe.travel/articles/hik...

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Ways We Travel @wayswe.travel · 24/12/2025

Sunlight and alps peak out from behind a mountaintop hut in Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Taken with a Fujifilm X-E4 and an adapted Canon FD 85mm f/1.2

Photograph of the silhouette of a mountain hut with some glare, and the alps peaking out from behind it.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 16/11/2025

and there we go — a little image carousel svelte island on the wayswe.travel main page, with a timestamp and a TV static transition effect.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 16/11/2025

Pretty happy with how this little component is coming along though :)

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 16/11/2025

Pitfalls of AI coding: trying to check if my Svelte unpic Image loaded, and was getting convoluted solutions using custom event listeners, runes, etc... the working and simpler way was to use "onload" instead of "on:load" b/c unpic doesn't implement on:load but onload gets passed down to the img.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 15/11/2025

Aftermath of the World Cheese Awards

Cheeses on tables at the World Cheese Awards

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/11/2025

Baseball is peak sport, and peak game.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/11/2025

As an Oilers fan and a Jays fan, I’m currently taking offers to become a fan of whichever team you want to lose in the final round.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

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A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

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Ways We Travel @wayswe.travel · 10/10/2025

Night drive through Taipei More: wayswe.travel/articles/tai... #photography #travel #taiwan

A red charm hangs from the rearview mirror in front of a bokeh-ed out windshield

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Ways We Travel @wayswe.travel · 28/09/2025

The Star Ferry approaches the Wan Chai terminal on Hong Kong island. More photos @ wayswe.travel/articles/sta...

The Star Ferry approaches the Wan Chai terminal on Hong Kong island. Photo taken through flowers from the Wan Chai terminal viewing platform.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 28/09/2025

I thought I’d post photos from my photo-blog to Instagram, to get some people to see my stuff. But opening the app is making me wonder if my motivation to post photos hasn’t been gone for the past 10 years because I worked in it, but because of the platform itself.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 22/09/2025

Worked on this site off and on for years and finally got it up! Basically a place to finally post a lot of travel photos, memories, etc. that my partner and I have collected over the years, that isn’t bound to someone else’s platform.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 13/09/2025

Good short article from Cal Newport. Social media gives the illusion of meaningfulness. “In reality, you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory, while billionaire overseers mock your efforts and celebrate their growing net worths.” calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...

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On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil Society - Cal Newport

Many of you have been asking me about the assassination of the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk earlier this week during a campus event at Utah ... Read more

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 30/08/2025

The mental tug-of-war between wanting to wait 3 years for the iPhone Turbomax with 27 new cameras vs. switching back to my Sony T700i

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 28/08/2025

Almost done a project I’ve been hacking away at for too long so it seems like the perfect time to finally learn vim

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 16/08/2025

Thinking about switching some apps just to make my dock less confusing

Five app icons on the MacOS doc with circular icons. In the row: Zen Browser, Capture One, Carbon Copy Cloner, ChatGPT, and Signal. Capture One and ChatGPT are both white with black lines, and Zen is black with white lines

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 05/08/2025

If Apple could make the German (Swiss) setting not show weird approximations of Swiss-German spelling in the weather app, and instead refrain from autocorrecting words with two s’s to ß, that would be great!

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 21/06/2025

Very cool thing I came across today: Strudel, a tool for creating music with code, with an in-browser REPL strudel.cc/workshop/get...

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Getting Started 🚀 Strudel

Strudel is a music live coding editor that brings TidalCycles to the browser.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 21/06/2025

I'm a rare X-E4 owner, and use it for stills, film scanning, and a bit of video. The X-E5 looks solid — all I'd want more is weatherproofing and tethering. But since IBIS for video is the only reason I'd have to upgrade (and it's really expensive) I'd sooner get a more video-focused camera.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 14/06/2025

After everything that happened over the last few months, I wanted to start self-hosting my few websites instead of relying on infrastructure hosted in a place descending into a hostile unknown — the rest of BlueSky is annoying enough about it so I won't get into it.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 09/05/2025

Surprised to find I'm not totally lost watching the follow-up to the Lego Island decompilation video. Turns out we were doing something similar at my first dev job when we were modifying and validating Neverwinter Nights save files via bytecode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthm...

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So we FINISHED decompiling LEGO Island...

YouTube video by MattKC

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 25/04/2025

Saw the original Terminator for the first time tonight, projected on 35mm film from its original 1985 run, scratches included. I don’t always agree with the people saying “the way it’s meant to be seen,” but this is for sure high on the list of ways it’s meant to be seen.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Back in 2005, the Wikipedia article for 2023 only had one piece of information

The hit Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark takes place in 2023

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 28/01/2025

Sometimes I roam Google Earth looking for remote islands I wish I could visit, but likely never will. The latest I found out about is Kerguelen. Some neat trivia and links:

A map showing the Kerguelen Islands in the south polar ocean, southeast of South Africa

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 20/01/2025

Really enjoyed The Making of Lego Island by @mattkc.com, a documentary about the development of a game I spent hours exploring as a kid! youtu.be/bG55COe_f8I?...

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The Making of LEGO Island: A Documentary

YouTube video by MattKC

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/01/2025

If you ever have a chance to see a silent movie with a live score, take it! Last year I saw Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. at the Metro in Edmonton, live-scored by the Oilers’ organist, and it was a very fun experience

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Keaton's brief nonspeaking appearance in his first-ever sound film (in this number & a solo dance routine) was a kind of teaser for his first real talkie, to come later that year. Note that he alone isn't singing, & that he plays his silent character's surprise at being in an MGM musical for laughs.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/01/2025

I didn’t realize Singin’ in the Rain was a song that preceded the 1952 film (12 years) — some interesting history on the wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singin%...

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Singin' in the Rain (song) - Wikipedia

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 01/01/2025

I’m really liking News Explorer for my RSS feeds as a replacement for Reeder due to their change in direction

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 22/12/2024

TIL Tailwind won't include dynamically named classes. e.g. it won't include the classes necessary for `row-span-${rows}` because it scans files for used class names (like `row-span-1`). The solution is to either define a safelist in the config, or use lookups, which is what I'm going with for now.

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