BrixIT Blog

Megapixels 2.0: DNG exporting

One of the things that is very broken in Megapixels 2.0 is actually saving pictures, so here I will embark on a side-quest to make a new DNG exporting library that moves the code out of Megapixels.

Megapixels

Adding hardware to libmegapixels

Let's dive a bit deeper in the config files and how to make them and more importantly, how to sustain this.

Linux

Megapixels 2.0

A look into the developments

Linux

Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700]

Figuring out hardware solutions to software problems

Electronics

Building a digital audio mixer

Hacking together bits of electronics to route audio

Squirrel Strings

Can SQL injections be avoided in a neater way?

Photography

Expensive cameras are actually better

Yeah the title sounds incredibly obvious. But how much better are high end DSLR cameras actually than an entry level model?

Linux

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

A look at Flatpak madness

Electronics

Can't get blinky on the BL602

Let's see if I can get blinky running on the PINE64 PineCone 3 years after it's release.

Digital Aerochrome

Aproximating Aerochrome with code and algorithms

Phones

NitroKey disappoints me

A look at NitroKeys latest article

OpenSwitcher

Reverse engineering the BMD camera HDMI control, part 2

Looking again at the HDMI control protocol for Blackmagic Design cameras.

Phones

Mobile Linux camera pt6

The last Linux Mobile photography post I've written is a bit more than a year ago. In the meantime I've updated a few things.

Electronics

Sensors and PCB design

Designing electronics is neat. This is a look into designing my own ESP8266 based sensor board.

Linux

Alpine Linux is pretty neat

None

Rewriting my blog again

Rewriting my blog in Python

Photography

Taking a good picture of a PCB

Taking a picture of a PCB is easy, taking a professionally looking one is a bit harder. So lets overengineer this

Finding an SBC

I found another hobby project...

Test setup

Automated Phone Testing pt.5

Putting all the components together in a production setup

Trying Plasma Desktop again

Trying KDE Plasma again after 8 years

Test setup

Automated Phone Testing pt.4

Now we can queue tasks for devices, we need a way to tell the devices what to do

Test setup

Automated Phone Testing pt.3

Implementing the controller and figuring out log transport

Test setup

Automated Phone Testing pt.2

Finishing up the test hardware and taking a look at the central control software

Linux

Configuring Blackmagic Design converters in Linux

A look at Blackmagic Design converters and controlling them with third party software.

Phones

Why I left PINE64

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Phones

Automated Phone Testing pt.1

A look at building a test setup for postmarketOS devices

Comparing Hare to Rust and Zig

The much asked for comparison between Hare, Rust and Zig

Photography

Taking pictures the hard way

A documentation of my journey into analog film photography

Linux

The end of the nice GTK button

A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away

Linux

Going IPv6 only

How would the current internet function when you're on a native IPv6 host without any IPv4 instead of using any of the IPv4 workarounds? Find out with a few firewall rules!