onyx, a tech blog

thoughts related to programming and linux

by Aliénor Latour, Donia Chaiehloudj, and Pascal Bertrand

In November of last year I decided to take part in Manning's manuscript review program as I was already reading one of their MEAP books, Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects. Here are my thoughts after reading the entire manuscript...

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A few years ago I picked up a Midas MR18 Digital Mixer for mixing music and streaming online. After a while I discovered the need to make adjustments programmatically, however, there was no official API so I decided to investigate...

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by Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to get my hands on a complimentary copy of Head First C# Fifth Edition. There were things I expected and things that surprised me, here are my thoughts...

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More than a decade ago now the guys of the IceOps-Team developed a server extension for the stock MW1 game offering a programmable plugin API. In this article I will detail the process of writing a plugin to prevent IP and URL advertisement in a game server.

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I recently picked up the book C Programming A Modern Approach 2e by K. N. King. Although I've dabbled with C over the years this is the first time I've committed any period of time to learning it. I took this opportunity to do some programming with the Voicemeeter SDK while reading the book.

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Programming is my primary interest but Linux server administation is another. I find webhooks a valuable way of keeping up to date and more recently a convenient way to receive updates from Github.

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As mentioned in the previous post Voicemeeter Accessibility for the Blind I chose to work with PySimpleGUI when developing the NVDA Voicemeeter application.

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Voicemeeter is an excellent application for those who can navigate it with ease, however, for those with accessibility needs it can be a very frustrating experience. I know this for sure having spoken to a number of visually impaired users.

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A highly praised and well regarded book in the Go community, Let's Go by Alex Edwards walks you through the process of structuring and organising your code for a web application.

As noted in the Prequisites section some knowledge of Go's basic syntax, HTML/CSS, SQL and terminal use makes the book a more fluid experience.

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Voicemeeter has for a long time been an excellent option in the Windows audio space. For new users, especially those unfamiliar with audio mixers there is a learning curve.

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