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TASCAM recovery

TL;DR if you have a TASCAM 788 backup and don’t know how to get the audio out of it this
script might help. Also: AI tools work best when paired with expertise.


I needed to take a very personal excursion into digital preservation recently as I attempted to listen to some audio recordings my brother John had made about 20 years ago. John died recently, and is sorely missed by his friends…

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Inside Out

I have a problem with RSS. Not RSS itself, RSS is _great_!

The problem is that I subscribe to more feeds than I can possibly read, so the unread count in FreshRSS climbs faster than I can bring it down. Some days I skim titles, declare bankruptcy, and mark everything as read. Other days I let it pile up and feel guilty.

I’ve tried to using newer tools like Current which was definitely an…

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OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

OpenCV 5 open-source computer vision library has recently been released with a brand-new DNN (Deep Neural Network) engine that provides better ONNX coverage and enables LLM/VLM support. The fifth version of the popular CV library also adds support for Intel, Arm, Qualcomm, and RISC-V hardware acceleration, improved 3D vision, and various new core features such as new data types, real…

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Seasons time-lapse - the video

In the first post of this series, I focused on the project foundations: what should I do to create a video from photos taken from the same position year after year? I dedicated the second part to aligning images. It wasn’t as easy as I expected. I stumbled upon new concepts, such as ORB and RANSAC. In this third and final post, I want to tackle the video creation itself, explain some 'artistic'…

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Sharpa Wave is a high-end dexterous robotic hand with 22 DoF, high-sensitivity dynamic tactile array

NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot in a half-baked press release for Computex 2026, with an “available-soon reference workflow” and availability sometime by the end of the year with the Unitree H2 humanoid chassis. One component of the kit that appears to be available now, albeit in limited quantity, is the Sharpa Wave high-end dexterous robotic hand with 22 degrees of…

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Dew Drop – May 29, 2026 (#4679)

Top Links Claude Opus 4.8 available via Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen) Automate evaluations | Microsoft Foundry (Zachary Cavanell) That’s a wrap: Everything Flutter at Google I/O 2026 (Emma Twersky) Create Multi-platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit (David Ramel & Alvin Ashcraft) Improve your agentic developer tools by grounding in Microsoft Learn … Continue reading Dew…

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2026 (#4678)

Top Links How AI coding agents actually use your technology (Waldek Mastykarz) AI-Powered Content Summarization and File Organization in Blazor File Manager (Keerthana Rajendran) GitHub Copilot: Your AI Companion for Every Workflow | GitHub Copilot Dev Days (Matt Soucoup) .NET Rocks! – Ten Things Scott Sauber Does On Every .NET App (Carl Franklin & Richard … Continue reading Dew Drop – May 28,…

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Gesture HW1 is a 10-DOF ESP32-S3 robotic hand with high-dexterity manipulation (Crowdfunding)

The HW1 by Gesture Platforms is a 10-degree-of-freedom (DOF) high-dexterity robotic hand and wrist built around an ESP32-S3 wireless MCU. It’s primarily designed for researchers, educators, and hobbyists; it bridges the gap between basic DIY robotic hands and expensive industrial models. The device weighs just around 500 grams but can handle a 1kg dynamic load and a 3kg static load. It…

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Modos Flow – An FPGA-based 13.3-inch USB-C touchscreen e-paper monitor (Crowdfunding)

Modos Flow is a paper-like, 13.3-inch USB Type-C touchscreen monochrome or color monitor that builds upon the Modos Paper devkit introduced last year with an AMD/Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA and STMicro STM32H750 Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller. The main difference is that the Modos Flow is more like a consumer product with a full enclosure, a touchscreen, and optional stylus support, 4096-color…

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Dew Drop – May 27, 2026 (#4677)

Top Links Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover (Gerald Versluis) WinUI agents and skills for Windows app development (Windows Dev Team) Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine (Mark Downie) Write Cleaner WinForms Code with Copilot and the WinForms Expert Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Klaus Loeffelmann) … Continue reading Dew Drop – May 27, 2026 (#4677)

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Dew Drop – May 26, 2026 (#4676)

Top Links VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #22 – Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan) Building an On-Device Voice Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local (Lee Stott) Building Fluent Icon Finder with the WinUI Copilot Skill (Joseph Finney) Cortex Episode #179 – The Philosophy of Obsidian, with CEO … Continue reading Dew Drop – May 26,…

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Dew Drop – May 25, 2026 (#4675)

Top Links Automatically getting API difference diagrams in your .NET PRs (Morten Nielsen) Automating Intakes to the Awesome Copilot Marketplace (Aaron Powell) Introducing Syncfusion Toolkit for Blazor: Free Open-Source Blazor Components (Saravanan G.) Learn how to host your agents on Microsoft Foundry (Pamela Fox) TechBash CLI – A GitHub Copilot CLI skill that connects your … Continue reading Dew…

Seasons time-lapse - alignment

In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them. You might have noticed the nearly part about viewpoint in the above paragraph. Indeed, it’s an approximation. I’m a human being, not a tripod. The position changes…

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Dew Drop – May 22, 2026 (#4674)

Top Links Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio (Rachel Kang) Windows App SDK Version 2.1.3 Stable Release Notes and Windows App SDK Version 2.1 Experimental 8 (2.1.4-Experimental8) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET (Jack Batzner) PowerShell is now notarized and hardened for macOS (Jason … Continue reading Dew…

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Dew Drop – May 20, 2026 (#4672)

Top Links Package Identity (Howard Kapustein) Build a Real-Time Weather Dashboard with .NET MAUI Tab View (Sneha Kumar) How to run evals for the model router (Sanjeev Jagtap, Lee Stott & Marie-Louise Onga Nana) S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups (Todd Bishop) Android Studio I/O Edition: … Continue reading Dew Drop – May 20, 2026…

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Dew Drop – May 19, 2026 (#4671)

Top Links NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports (Nikolche Kolev) Flutter’s multiplatform value for agentic development (Michael Thomsen) On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance (David McCarter) NuGet PackageReference for C++ Projects in Visual Studio (Augustin Popa) Material 3 in .NET MAUI — One Line to Transform Your ……

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Dew Drop – May 18, 2026 (#4670)

Top Links Improving Windows quality: Making Taskbar and Start more personal (Diego Baca) Advanced Shader Delivery expands Public Preview with AMD (Wendy Ho) fate 1.0 – A modern data client for React (fate team) Introducing Agent Skills for AI‑Assisted Syncfusion PDF Viewer Integration (Deepa Thiruppathy) Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 Is Now Available (Elvira Mustafina) The Coding … Continue…

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