If you're a nerd like me, you can probably think of your favorite self-hosted application right now. Better yet, you can probably think of all the reasons you love it. You know, one of the staples of a great self-hosted application is its ability to make the configuration your own and do so easily! I've been working on a number of little applications lately and they all need configuration, so I've started setting this up with the help of Python and TOML!

Somehow, I've managed to build quite a few random Python package, and contribute to others. I've recently been working towards converting all of the Python projects I manage to the new pyproject.toml standards for packaging, and I've recently had to work through an interesting little challenge for some of the projects which only contain a sigle Python file. No module folder, no __init__.py. Just a single file.

We know that I'm something of an audio buff. I love having music around me all the time. But isn't that becoming more of a staple in the American home, anyway? I certainly think so. There's lots of folks who are also listening to music all the time. I have my own personal preferences, though. (Shocker, I know.) The thing is, I want my audio system to tie nicely into my home. I want play/pause buttons scattered around, and well... I've got more demands.

So, I've got an old (1992) Ford pickup, and it's got a newer-ish stereo. I love keeping my favorite tunes on a USB stick that I can play everything from, but I HATE it when the volume changes from one song to the next. I go from barely being able to hear the music to having my eardrums blown out in 0.5 seconds. So, I've come to the conclusion that I need to fix that. With PYTHON!

Finally! Python 3.11 is out! It's new, it's fast(er than previous Python versions), and it's got some dandy new features. And if you wanted to know how I go about putting it on a Windows machine, let me show you...

I've talked about how someone can make PlantUML diagrams come to life, directly in markdown for blog-sites, and I've touched on other automation techniques I use to make blogs come together from plain text, but how about some circuit diagrams? Well, there wasn't a neat tool to help make this a possibility, until now!

Python's telnetlib library doesn't like null-characters, SEL protocol does, that makes for some interesting challenges.

I'm pretty lazy... We've covered that already, but wouldn't it be exceptionally nice if I could make GitHub automate Python package releases for me? Lets do that...

I've been going a bit crazy with the web-app craze lately. Let me show you what I've been up to...

Wait... What? There's an API for VoiceMeeter? And there's already a Python API for it? Sign me up!