I’ve been working and polishing my CV lately: tightening the content, reviewing every line. It’s a work in progress labor. It’s tricky task and when you’re my age you need to know what to cull and what to keep. What to rewrite and what to set in stone. There’s no exact formula for a CV that lands you a new or better job. 🤷

Since I’ve been a busy bee on GitHub anyway and writing everything in Markdown — even started using Obsidian — I thought: why not use Markdown to write and work on my CV? So I decided to rewrite the whole thing to Markdown.

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This weekend I’ve been reviewing some code for the scripts I built to easily create a .nfo file for MP3-encoded albums 🎵

One variant uses ffmpeg and ffprobe to gather all the metadata. Sadly, this approach falls short when you need to know the specific encoding settings used during the actual rip. Unfortunately, that detail just isn’t available to read with ffprobe 😕

So I created another script using a tool that’s not quite open-source—but - still very cool— called mp3guessenc. This little gem provided exactly the information I was looking to output 🎯

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The last few weeks have been quite busy with GitHub activity 📦

For starters, I’m leaving WordPress — as you may have noticed — and using the powerful Hugo blog for my blogging needs. I’ve tried to migrate posts from WordPress, but it was troublesome. I just couldn’t quite get my head around it. Most likely, I’ll be manually importing blog posts from WordPress — just a few of them to populate the new platform 📝

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This is my first post on my new Hugo website! Testing this out before fully migrating from WordPress. :)

The switch isn’t exactly straightforward. I spent some time wrestling with migration tools, but nothing clicked quite right. So here I am — building content slowly, learning as I go, and as i failed to import stuff automagically, I’m planning to do it manually if and when the time feels right.

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