Jekyll2026-07-23T21:15:05+00:00https://sigil.org/feed.xmlsigil.orgThe ramblings of a madman. Or the exploits of a coder, homelaber, father, and athlete. Maybe both...Richard KolkovichAnnouncing: sxm-streamer2026-07-07T00:00:00+00:002026-07-07T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/announcing-sxm-streamerI’ve made the jump to Roon for at least a year for my home music system (more on that coming at some point). One thing it was lacking over my previous solution using Lyrion was support for streaming SiriusXM stations. No longer!

Building on the awesome work of sxm, Claude and I have wrapped up a transcoding streamer for SiriusXM. You can find it on Github and easily get it deployed through docker.

This allows streaming through Roon with basic metadata passthrough. The HLS stream that the sxm base library produced was not something Roon could handle, so I had to wrap it to transcode for Roon. I’ve been using it for a couple months now with no issues to speak of. Please report any issues you may find on the Github project.

]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-06-052026-06-05T00:00:00+00:002026-06-05T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-06-05This week I learned:

  • some of the differences between alloy and composite bats
  • about Nounmaster - what an awesome name!
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-05-152026-05-15T00:00:00+00:002026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-05-15This week I learned:

  • I am continually learning just how difficult raising a teenager will be. And I’m still a year out from that milestone…
  • Another reason to avoid travel baseball: no pitch count limitations. Little League cares about kids’ arms, folks.
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-05-082026-05-08T00:00:00+00:002026-05-08T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-05-08This week I learned:

  • Go’s omitempty applies to the struct itself, NOT to the JSON decoding of it (i.e. - if the pointer is non-nil but encodes to empty JSON, it is NOT omitted)
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-05-012026-05-01T00:00:00+00:002026-05-01T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-05-01This week I learned:

  • my 12-year-old is done with baby teeth
  • what muscles start yelling at me after standing on one foot for 20 minutes
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-04-242026-04-24T00:00:00+00:002026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-04-24This week I learned:

  • (read): https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/
    • I’m thinking a lot about the current world of generative AI (so called), and this is a great piece and somewhat contrarian point of view. But I also think the author is on to something.
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-04-172026-04-17T00:00:00+00:002026-04-17T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-04-17This week I learned:

  • that I can’t realistically play CS2 on my Legion Go (with the controller)
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-04-102026-04-10T00:00:00+00:002026-04-10T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-04-10This week I learned:

  • long-lived feature branches considered harmful (working on a longer post on this topic)
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-04-032026-04-03T00:00:00+00:002026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-04-03This week I learned:

  • there are some sweet AI coding workflow tools in the world such as Citadel and octorus
  • Artemis II launched (learned about it and watched it). Also, read up on the rest of the Artemis plan - exciting stuff!
]]>Richard KolkovichTWIL: 2026-03-272026-03-27T00:00:00+00:002026-03-27T00:00:00+00:00https://sigil.org/twil-2026-03-27This week I learned:

  • asymmetric routing makes for some interesting homelab issues
  • PCA signed a 6-year/$115 mil contract with the Cubbies!
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