After about 6 (!) months I recently finished a streamed playthrough
of Morrowind. As finished as TES III can get anyway - the main quests
of the base game and the two expansions complete. I played with around 85 mods,
mostly sourced from the lists on Modding OpenMW.
After the cut you'll find a list of the mods I used with links back to
nexusmods where they can be downloaded. Like the other
modded game I played in 2025 I don't recommend this list.
It's a better idea to pick one from modding-openmw.com and start
from there.
I recently finished a modded game of Fallout New Vegas that
I streamed on twitch. It was a good time & I used a pretty
fun selection of recent (2020? and later) mods that resulted in a mostly
crash-free and fun experience.
After the cut you'll find a list of the mods I had installed, all ~130 of
them, with links back to nexusmods where they can be downloaded.
I don't recommend this list, you should use (or at least start from)
Viva New Vegas instead, but I'll pass this list on anyway (for my
own records and because people asked for it).
Intro & Problem
For years I used a Stanton SCS.4DJ standalone player / mixer
to play digital music in mixes. The SCS.4DJ comes with a program called
QuickGrid that is used to generate metadata for music files you plan
to play on the device. Notably QuickGrid takes care of calculating BPM,
generating waveform displays, and so on.
Unfortunately QuickGrid is only publicly available for Windows and OS X,
and I'm a BSD / Linux user. So, after a bit of investigation,
I wrote a shell script wrapper around the djanalyze.exe
program that comes with the QuickGrid software package. This script lets
me do everything QuickGrid does from the comfort of my FreeBSD machine.
Here's a little about that shell script, scs4tool.sh:
Galaxy Of Funk by Scape One. Written & produced by
Kurt Baggaley, design by Plaxtika.com. Released on
Drivecom Records in 2004. Vinyl, 12" 33 RPM, cat# dcom002.
Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~138M. Tracklist and credits from the label
artwork. Durations & file properties are from my stored recordings
of the vinyl. BPM I tap-tempoed (and is probably wrong).
Galaxy Toobin' by the Galaxy Toobin' Gang (Eliot Lipp
& William T. Burnett). Released on Crème Organization in 2008.
Vinyl, 12" 33 RPM, Creme LP-07. Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, 262M. Tracklist and
credits from the label artwork. Track durations, file size, bit depth, and
bitrate are from my stored recordings of the vinyl. BPM I tap-tempoed
(and is probably wrong).
This Is A Shout Going Out by Central Fire. Written by
Courtney Nielsen, produced by Courtney Nielsen & DJ Spun
(Jason Drummond). A2 sliced & spliced by Jim Hopkins. First
released on Twitch Recordings in 1994, remastered and reissued
by Mint Condition in 2022. Vinyl, 12", 33 RPM. Flac, 16bit/44.1khz,
161M. Tracklist and credits from the label artwork. Track durations,
file size, bit depth, and bitrate are of my stored recordings of the
1994 vinyl.
The C* Music Player (AKA CMUS) is my preferred music player
and library program. It's lightweight, highly configurable, and is
controlled via the keyboard (all things I like). It works well with
my directory structure and standardized tags. And it supports a
wide variety of formats & seems to handle large collections well.
This short post will go over my CMUS configuration, including how I
have it set up to edit tags from the library views. This is the final
part of a three part series, the first part covered how I
organize my music files and the second how I
manage their tag metadata.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, 1985, dir.
Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton. VHS, NTSC standard, ~60
minutes long. x264 NTSC SD video + flac 16bit/44.1khz audio, ~1.2G,
archived on DVD+R media. Purchased over 20 years ago at my local
"Video USA" video rental store when they were closing that location.
The Max Headroom TV movie made for Channel 4. Strangely
unavailable on DVD (or any other modern format). A pretty clean copy
can be found on youtube thanks to user
Kevin Galvayne (tipsy1973).
Many Worlds by Permutation. Written and produced by
Permutation (Dmitry Bogdanov & Edgar D-Mode). Released on
Permutation Records in 2019. Digital release, flac, 16bit/44.1khz,
~145M.
Tracklist and credits from the album artwork. Bit depth, bitrate,
filesize, and track durations from my downloaded copy. BPM I tap-tempoed
myself.
Old Tracker Stuff by Fanu. Compilation of old .xm modules
mostly from the Most Valuable Playaz catalog, released March 2022
by Fanu on his bandcamp page. Digital release, flac, 16bit/44.1khz,
~242M.
Tracklist below is from the bandcamp release page. Bit depth, bitrate,
filesize, and track durations from my downloaded copy. BPM I tap-tempoed
myself (and is probably inaccurate).
I've written a number of shell scripts, mostly frontends or shims to
other programs, to help manage the tags & content of my music library.
In this article I will briefly go over some of those scripts and then
give a simple demonstration of how I process & prepare new music files.
The scripts discussed in this article are all available in my read-only
dotfiles git repo. (I'll hook up a way to directly download
them eventually).
This is part 2 of a series on how I handle my digital music collection.
Part 1 covered Formats, Names, and Tags, part 3 will cover
playback (and tag editing) with cmus.
No Disgrace In The Bass by T.E.S.T. & Excel.
Written and produced by Tim McDaniel (T.E.S.T.) & Jason Reep
(Excel), engineered by Larry McCormick (Exzakt), design by
AS1. Released on Exceleration Records in 2006.
Vinyl, 12", 33 RPM. Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~140M. Tracklist and credits from
the label artwork. Track durations, file size, bit depth, and bitrate are
of my stored recordings of the vinyl.
The Florida Electro Artists Volume Two compilation released on
Frajile Recordings in 2001. Catalog number FRJ1-006. Side A by
Factor E (remixed by Jackal & Hyde), side B by
Resident Alien (Exzakt and James Wolfe). Design by
Clutch. Mastered by Steve Smodish at Echo Beach Studios.
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM. Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, 86M. Tracklist and credits are
from the sleeve artwork and discogs. Track durations, file size, bit
depth, and bitrate are of my stored recordings of the vinyl.
I'm a person who often stops (or never starts) work on projects
because another related project hasn't been completed. I often think
to myself "I can't work on X because I haven't finished Y yet". One
such project that's been holding me back, a pretty basic requirement
for some things I'd like to do, is that I don't have a satisfactory
place to publish source code.
I recently solved that problem. I figured out how to serve Git
repositories over so-called "dumb HTTP" and then I wrote
a clone of Hiltjo Posthuma's stagit as a plugin for my static
site compiler Blogofile. I'm calling that plugin
blogofile_gitview. Read on to see why I'd do such a foolish
thing.
A common downside to static websites (like this one) is that there's no
easy way to handle user interaction. Comments, likes, trackback /
pingback / mention, etc. . A bunch of third-party systems exist that
solve this problem, the most popular probably being Disqus.
Disqus relies on browser javascript (which I strongly dislike) and has a
rocky history with user privacy, so it's not something I'm
willing to use. Most of the other comment systems available also require
javascript so, again, not willing to use.
But I still kind of want a way for visitors to leave comments and,
more broadly, for my site to interact with other websites. Enter the
IndieWeb community of web developers and their associated
standards and projects, notably Webmentions.
