Quick Update One: July 2026
As a way of keeping me on track as well as giving updates as well as giving me an easy news I'll be every few months giving quick updates to things that I have kinda dropped on the floor and want to pick up. So lets go!
- VocoPro SDR-4000. Not much to say right now. I've been using it for it's intended purpose but I've made some changes to my audio system that I'll be discussing more later...
- LG V60. I did buy one. I did try to convert to using one. But my carrier didn (...)
Dave's garage
Dave Plummer had a cool video with associated source last week highlighting some of the how's and why's of Windows ASM software. It's an interesting summary of the power of Windows software... and at the same time why it's a bit pointless doing ASM; you're at the mercy of the Win32 libraries so if they are not running as efficient as your own code you are no longer the (...)
So ten months later I've caught up
I got behind on photos some months ago, and it really just kept getting worse. But it's done. I'm actually caught up... kinda. I suspect I'm really not as to get to this point I've been ignoring other stuff like video work. But it's a point.
It's funny really. While I had the time to sort them a combination of having a lot to sort plus a computer that was inadequate to the task (no names; it was low end and if you buy (...)
New Year, old issue, same solution
My custom site and this site have the current year displayed. Mine is a php element that is used by most pages, this one.... dunno actully. Could be a setting... Need to look into that. Mine is a manual change I do (generally) in early Janurary. But I've often considered making the year auto-update. But there's so many reasons why I don't. For one, the date is based on the server time, which won't align to everyones time so it's going to be at least (...)
The power of difference
I'm a lover of good audio but I don't consider myself an "audiophile". Why? Well I don't agree with a lot of the common beliefs that go with that label. For example I think DACs are important, but I don't think that the average person can hear the difference between an amplifier with a toridial power supply, and I certainly thing that polarised HDMI cables are sheer crazy town.... The problem is a lot of these claims are very subjective, and really can't be proven. However recently I did (...)
Five Months of Windows
I was out of the country and as a result my Windows 10 based server was on without a reboot for months. 5 months. I was rather stressed about it as I've never tested Windows 10 that long, but it did make it. During this time it was running as the house server and running some file management programs written by Sinner Computing and yeah... I got back and it was all running fine. Explorer had crashed and but it was all fine.
(Why no auto-reboots? 'cos I've blocked them. Why? My (...)
Build a better contact
Ahhh, contact pages. I'll have to make a giant rant about this one day, but for now a small rant will suffice. I've generally tried to have one. Direct EMails are just a spam pit, even today with better spam protection. But many contact pages/forms are not much better and often they get hacked in some way. SinnerComputing still has one and it's generally not mis-used, but at the same time I think people don (...)
An exercise in time management and priorities
Back in June I got back to this internet thing. I never really left, I just stopped making visible changes. So I stopped stopping. I had plans to get back to a rapid Beta release cycle so I could then finish this whole 1.9 thing started many moons ago. But due to many reasons, mostly website updates, photos and exercise, that has not happened. In reality, it's not going to happen now for several months as (...)
Not sure how I missed a whole protocol
iTimeSync has been a popular program all things considered, and unlike other popular programs it's one that has been used by me. It's been so long since I wrote it (2002) I can't even exactly remember why I even did. There's no useful comment in the ReadMe... and my motivations 20 years ago are a mystery in itself. Most likely I simply wanted a way to sync all my computers time and figured I might as well write it myself. It (...)
Very dead links
One of the links that I found was no longer valid went from a Software Association to some sort of sport network. Going by The Wayback Machine practically over night too. Weird... But I suppose that is where independent software developers are now. AI is probably going to make it all worse too. Which means it is time to make more software just the same!
