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Event Planning for Reclaim Arcade

Event Planning for Reclaim Arcade

With my transition out of the day to day work of Reclaim Hosting pretty much solidified for the past 8 months it feels like the blog here has suffered a bit. While I was never a super consistent blogger, writing about technical experiments came naturally to me whereas the intense

Thinking of a Domains API Future

Thinking of a Domains API Future

I had a thrilling followup meeting today with Jim, Lauren, and Taylor to talk more about the potential of a Domains API and how we might use it. This is a concept that it feels like Jim and I have batted around every few years almost since the inception of

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 2

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 2

I hadn't planned to make this a two-part post but when looking back on this blog I realized I hadn't really set the stage much for all the work that had gone into just getting the doors open in January 2021. I mentioned in the previous post that the onset

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 1

Year 1 of Reclaim Arcade Part 1

This blog ain't dead yet but as is typically the case I've been head down grinding on plenty of different things, but these days most of those things look like retro arcade games. It's hard to believe Reclaim Arcade is about to celebrate 1 year of the doors being open

Integrating SSO for OERxDomains21

I have a love/hate affair with SAML and SSO in general. Damn, two acronyms in the first sentence?! Nothing like that to thin out the crowds. Still with me? Ok let's go. The problem: While much of the conference we recently put on would be open (registration, main website,

Remote Support for Parents

Remote Support for Parents

It probably comes as no surprise that I'm seen as the "tech help" of the family. Anyone with a job that involves computers probably also plays that side role at family gatherings. You're the one they pull to the side to ask about a popup on their phone, the one

Building a Video Wall for Reclaim Arcade

Building a Video Wall for Reclaim Arcade

Just when I think @ReclaimArcade can’t get any cooler, an idea surfaces from a conversation that will take the space to another level. Now to just see if I can make it work :) — timmmmyboy (@timmmmyboy) December 2, 2020 Part of the original plans for Reclaim Arcade had use removing

The Arcade Internet of Things

The Arcade Internet of Things

The Fall has been a busy but fairly productive time here, so it's about high time I got off my ass and blogged some of that magic. Jim has an epic post about his trip to the states here that dovetails nicely with some of the work I was doing

Reclaim Today: Quit Google

Reclaim Today: Quit Google

Last week a good friend and colleague Pete Rorabaugh wrote to me asking for advice on how someone might start to extract themselves from the belly of the beast and get off Google services. I have a lot of ideas around this, particular as I have been experimenting more and

PHP Updates and Removals

PHP Updates and Removals

It's been almost 2 years since I last wrote about major PHP updates to Reclaim Hosting's platforms. At the time the big move was setting our default PHP to 7.0. The transition from PHP 5.6 to 7.0 was perhaps the biggest breaking change of all and at

Building Reclaim Studio: Lighting

Building Reclaim Studio: Lighting

One of many takeaways from a conversation with Andy about the studio is that video quality is dramatically influenced by lighting and audio, perhaps moreso than camera quality. In other words if your audio is clear with a good mic, and lighting is well balanced, you can make a cheap

Building Reclaim Studio: The Green Screen

Building Reclaim Studio: The Green Screen

Jim and I are currently reworking our plans for Reclaim Arcade and we will be looking to reduce the large amount of construction that was to take place and make better use of the existing space we have. That leaves us with this rather large room right between Reclaim Hosting

Reactivating @ds106radio on Twitter

Reactivating @ds106radio on Twitter

Jim has a great post talking about the migration of ds106radio to a new home in the cloud with a software upgrade to Azuracast. The previous software, Airtime, was no longer being developed so the writing was on the wall. But another reason for switching to Azuracast was a whole

Pandemic Cooking Adventures

I've always loved cooking. I grew up spending a lot of time in the kitchen watching and learning from my mother. She was not any kind of classically trained chef mind you, but out of necessity for feeding a family of 5 on a preacher's income and a reflection of

Dialing in the Home Office

Dialing in the Home Office

Like so many living the "Work from Home" life I have been taking some time to make a comfortable space for that work. As fortune would have it, a year and half ago I gave myself the Christmas present of some home office furniture. It was an idea my brother

#ds106 Revival

If you follow me on Twitter you may have recently noticed the use of more OG hashtags like #ds106radio and #ds106tv. It appears in light of everyone quarantined at home, many of us are finding that community to be a welcome escape for some creativity and collaboration. I've jumped on

Grateful

* My family is eating meals together at the table every day. * We are taking more walks. * I'm spending more time reconnecting with friends in ways that feel more authentic than a "like" on Facebook. * Everything feels less busy, the calendar is practically empty. * We are playing games together, doing puzzles,

Winning in Last Place

There has been a major transition in my work over the past 3 months that is worth noting and applauding. We had some goals in place last year that I would be able to remove myself as much as possible from the day to day support tickets. For a variety