One of my hobbies is writing code for whatever I need or am interested in. Certainly not commercial grade but it suits my purposes. I spent nearly 50 years writing code, designing software and hardware systems, building and managing tech teams. All in the service of someone else’s idea of products and services. Now I do it for myself. I’m back where I began so many years ago–doing it for the fun and satisfaction.

This page serves as a repository for code snippets and tricks that I’ve found and don’t want to have to hunt for again. And maybe some larger efforts when I think they are good enough to post.

• Audio with Static Image as a Video File - I came across a need for this when I wanted to upload an audio recording of coyotes to Facebook. FB doesn’t allow simple audio files. Nor does it allow a video file with an audio track but no video track. … Continue reading →