DylanLeigh.net (Posts about tech)

Processed Honours Final Presentation Video

Dylan Leigh — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:41:53 GMT

I've cleaned up and merged the videos of my final research presentation that I recently uncovered The cleaned up version has been put on my ZFS Research Page.

Alternatively you can watch it on YouTube:

Finally a Favicon

Dylan Leigh — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:12:07 GMT

When checking my sites network usage earlier, I was reminded that browsers will try to load a file called favicon.ico from any site and mine didn't have one. I was initially inspired by the two-triangle fast-forward symbol to make a site logo with my initials, in the form of a basic SVG.

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Videos of my Final Research Presentation

Dylan Leigh — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:21:23 GMT

While looking through some old USBs I've discovered a recording of the final presentation of my Honours Research in late 2014. I had believed this was completely lost, like the video of my BSDCan presentation which was not successfully recorded due to technical issues.

The video files have been put on my ZFS research page. The orignals are shot in profile on a 2013 era smartphone and the volume is very low - I might to try and clean them up a bit, but very glad to have the files regardless.

Small Site Retheme, and some File Size info

Dylan Leigh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:18:32 GMT

Inspired by some Solarpunk Lemmy discussion especially Smolweb.org I had a look at the overhead of my Nikola site theme and was suprised by how heavy the JS and CSS was even though it was barely doing anything.

Thus, I've switched to the lighter base theme for both my personal site and Research Site. These still contain (post-compression) 9.5 KB of CSS and 4.1 KB of JS, which still seems quite excessive but it's a big improvement for minimal effort on my part.

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didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net is moving to didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net

Dylan Leigh — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:52:48 GMT

To save US$20 per year on a domain name for a 20 year old joke, I'm moving the three sentence index page at http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net/ to a subdomain of this site, http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net/ . There's a redirect in place at the old site for now, but I'll probably let the domain expire when it is due for renewal.

How to extract an Android APK off an old device and install it to a new one with ADB

Dylan Leigh — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:46:10 GMT

The old OpenIntents shopping list app I have used on my Android phones since around 2011 is no longer available on either the Google Play Store or the F-Droid FOSS Android Repository. I've tried several alternatives since getting a new phone earlier this year but much prefer the old OI app so was quite annoyed that it's gone.

After a few months of struggling with inferior alternatives, today I realised I could simply pull the app off an old phone with ADB and put it on the new one.

The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a commandline tool for debugging Android apps, but can also be used for backups, file transfer from PC to/from phone, a remote shell from PC to phone and other purposes.

How to use a Unix PC as a Vocal Monitor

Dylan Leigh — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:36:38 GMT

If you have a computer running on Linux or BSD, a microphone connected to it, and a desire not to spend $50 on a very small amplifier, you can use a one line shell script to listen to yourself sing instead.

Listening to yourself through a vocal monitor gives a better indication of the pitch and timbre of your voice than just listening to yourself, as the sound reaching your ears from your mouth is affected by resonating through your head, like listening to someone talk through a bone wall covered by a wet blanket. A monitor will therefore be a more accurate reproduction of what you sound like to everyone else than "directly" listening to your own voice.

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Minimum Viable Page

Dylan Leigh — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:39:04 GMT

I've copied enough content (and put in redirects for everything missing) to be satisfied with replacing the old site.

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