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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

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.

:o it works (and reduced from 30GB to 16GB because I wanted to check if it works before ordering a bigger microSD card)

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Honestly surprised this is still supported / automatically comes up

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The music library was last updated in 2012ish. highlights: - Dev - Bass Down Low - Far East Movement - Like a G6 - Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano - Justice - all the indie rock

using rockbox since at least 2012, maybe earlier, idk 😎

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

Highly recommend a metal tool, glad I threw it in my cart even tho the iFixit kit came with a plastic one. I couldn’t get it open with the plastic tool

iPod Video opened up beside a jimmy tool and angled tweezers

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As can be seen in the photo, the screen could also use a replacement, but I don’t want to fully ship-of-Theseus this thing just yet.

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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.

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

some recent screenshots (no this isn't my actual top 7)

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.

static.klipy.com

Billy Beane: How Can You Not Be Romantic?

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

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

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

Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 17/07/2026

We deserve a bunnicula cinematic universe

I'm getting the data from tmdb. I'd like to hook up an LLM to this for a movie-recommender. I also have no intention of hosting this externally, but will probably post it to GitHub someday.

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And rather than a (often arbitrary) rating system, I'm using an absolute overall ranking. I haven't organized this yet, but as an example... It leads to a lot of internal debates.

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and doing an X-Men movie marathon last year really skewed these results.

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imo this really illustrates the lack of movies coming out in my favourite genre, comedy.

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This chart makes me want to find a movie from every year to watch. (also again, only movies I've seen since 2020 are in here)

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It dips to zero when we stayed in Hong Kong for 3 months while moving countries.

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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.

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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also I know nothing about soccer, this is all vibes-based, and hopp schwiiz

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As bad as this game looks for them, it *is* cool that Canada made it out of the group stage. Wouldn’t have thought I’d see them in the WM at all, growing up.

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And especially being from Edmonton, I’m happy it wasn’t 0 tbh

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 03/07/2026

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

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.. and this was fixed in 1.9.0, so Zed’s back on the menu 😎

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

With CLI-based agentic coding, I now use the IDE less to code and more to read, understand, and navigate changes. I’d love to use something more resource efficient (I also tried lazygit + neovim) but familiarity helps so much with grokking.

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

Back to VS Code. I mostly use my IDE as a git diff viewer / file explorer + reader. Not a fan of how files all show up consecutively in Zed’s diff viewer vs only the one clicked.

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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 · 04/05/2026

This is the Noctis Sereno theme, which I've used with VS Code for years now.

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/05/2026

I’ve never even played Glover

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Abbie Schenk @abbieschenk.com · 02/05/2026

look I get the slop criticism, but I like image generation for letting me turn dumb random thoughts into images. like imagining a world where Glover is considered such a classic he becomes part of the MCU

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

Already happier with the results than the curve tool inversion workaround, and it's a much faster workflow than using plugins with LR. Plus it plays nicely with my Fuji RAW files so I don't need to convert them to DNG first.

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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

All this to say: I think coding agents are especially useful for maintaining these older sites and projects that would otherwise just slowly decay.

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

I originally built this with much less React experience, so I was able to make the code a bit more readable (note it's not perfect). At the time, I wanted to use GraphQL, so the data was loaded and processed on the client on load. Now it's all statically built — no more loading time!

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.