Assorted personal tech mini-bites

Starting another software side project requires a combination of energy, time, and motivation that lately I haven't quite been able to muster up. In brief, energy => marathon training, time => full-time job, and motivation => waiting on me to come up with a great idea.

But even though I don't have anything big to announce recently, I haven't completely ignored the technical side of my hobbies. In this post I'm sharing a few small updates on existing projects and a couple of mini-projects that don't really warrant a full breakdown.

Streetwarp.com

• I added regional video storage because I got tired of waiting for videos stored in us-west to load over here in Europe. Now you can select a region on creation.
• Not really something I did, but interesting: someone's created a video of the Detroit Free Press Marathon, which goes for a quick loop into Canada: https://streetwarp.com/

Makejs.art

• Nothing new here except the domain name changed. The old one expired and it didn't make much sense to renew it, so now it's under my main domain. The new address is makejsart.pelmers.com
• It still works just as well as before!

GPX Nav

• A new web site: upload a gpx file and get a Google Maps directions link
  • The idea is you can share a GPS route with someone who doesn't have a fitness watch or bike computer and they can still follow the route
• Also, yes, the CSS is just GPX Replay but green themed.

VS Code Remote Clippy Buddy

• A long name but a simple function: clipboard access within the VS Code remote terminal session, under the familiar pbpaste and pbcopy command names
  • It works exactly like on a Mac: pbpaste outputs your local clipboard on standard output, and pbcopy takes standard input and puts it into your clipboard
• I'd thought someone would have made this by now, but I couldn't find it when I searched...