The meaning of "Winfred"
Some say that Winfred is old English for "friend of peace" or "peaceful friend". However, in a lot of cases, it really means "that sassy dude". Such is the bane of Winfreds everywhere.
This Winfred
This particular Winfred is passionate about the intersection between humans and technology. Feel free to explore the content on this site, and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Latest project
FLAC to MP3, without babysitting it: My Docker host doesn't have the CPU for audio conversion, so my workstation takes care of new FLAC files instead.
Notable mentions
That one time I was featured on Hackaday.
Projects
My projects can be roughly broken down into:
- PowerShell/Windows
- mostly systems administration
- Movies module: Movie file manipulation.
- iDRAC module: PowerShell/racadm Dell server management.
- FLAC to MP3 transcoder: Scheduled music conversion on Windows or Linux.
- Arduino
- BMW Windows XP startup and shutdown sounds
- ESP32/ESP8266
- RFID
- Mostly focused on one of a kind computer peripherals
- Trackball pheriperal This is a trackball extension that has a touch screen that has shortcuts for multiple programs.
- Python
- Raspberry Pi hd44780 with i2c LCD displaying performance
- Check for eBay Deals eBay Discord bot
- Reddit praw / pushshift
- Spacy / textcat goemotions
- Check for Craigslist Deals