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#PHP developer from Poland.

I rarely toot and if I do, I try to use English (with mixed results). I'm here to lurk, have nothing interesting to say, and just a quiet person overall.

My TODO list is long, and only keeps getting longer – "Ileż to razy w myślach osiągałem wszystko" seems to be my life motto.

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Nooooo!

I just spent like 2 hours rendering 6 videos in Kdenlive just to notice that a graphic at the end of all of them got cropped.
Everything looks fine in the preview, but not in the final file :<

Argh, now I'll have to fix that and render everything again :/

 Screenshot of a Kdenlive window with a map visible in the preview area. Map has a copyright information in the bottom right corner.
Screenshot of a VLC media player with the same map from the previous screenshot, but slightly cropped on the bottom and on the right. Copyright information is no longer visible.

I need to share this with the world – after 14 years I solved all tasks in "Net" category on TDHack.com (old polish site with hackmes, crackmes and similar stuff, that is somehow still active).

Years ago I was really into challenges like that, and managed to solve basically everything but the last hackme relatively quickly. It haunted me for years – I kept getting back to it from time to time with no luck.
And then, this week, I finally made some progress, and finished it within a few days.

I don't know what else to say, just wanted to brag about stuff that no one else cares about :D

 Screenshot containing list of 28 tasks, all marked as solved. Each tasks has name, creator, difficulty level, points and number of people that solved it. The first task is scored for 5 points with over 15000 people solving it, and the last one is scored for 100 points with 22 people solving it.
Screenshot containing list of people that solved the last task. Last row is highlighted as it contains my results – I started the task in 2012 and solved it in 2026.

I made a cabinet!

I needed some extra storage space and a place to keep a digital piano... so I just did it myself. It took a lot longer than I anticipated, but it's finally finished.

It's not perfect and a bit out of square, but overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Lots of firsts for me:

  • First cabinet that I'll actually use in my apartment (all the previous ones sit in my workshop).
  • Stained plywood (darker doors are accidental, but I think they actually look better that way).
  • Edge banding.
  • Lacquer applied with an HVLP spray gun.
  • Hidden fasteners.
  • Doors!

Done mostly using a track saw with parallel guides, a random orbital sander, and a drill (and some templates to position door hinges, holes for shelf pins and connectors).
Some mistakes were made, some things could be done better – but #woodworking is just a hobby for me, and I'll try to learn from this.

 A cabinet made with dark-stained wood. One of four doors is open, revealing a lighter inside. A cat is visible in front of the cabinet looking up.
Same cabinet from the previous photo, with the door ajar. A cleaning robot is docked next to it.
Top of the cabinet filling most of the photo. A reflection of a light is visible on the lacquer.
Inside of the cabinet, with a door hinge and part of a hidden fastener visible.
Inside of the cabinet, with visible shelf and two rows of holes for the shelf pins.
Taskmaster spoiler?
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I'm watching the #taskmaster (S19E01) and wondering... why are lockpicks illegal in Poland? It would be so cool to be able to pick a lock.

After briefly migrating from fosstodon.org to 101010.pl, I decided to setup and move to my own instance.

This instance runs on my NAS – it's not the most powerful piece of hardware, but at least I don't have to worry about disk space.
I somehow managed to build a Docker image with a 32-bit ARM version of GoToSocial, which is not recommended – we'll see how it'll work.
And just to make my life a little bit harder – I built the image on the SteamDeck (as I don't have a laptop – I really should change that).