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I’m finishing up my yearly summer stint here in Craig, AK, and I thought it might be a good time to actually build that Home Theater PC that I’ve been dreaming about for the last 3-4 years. For those unfamiliar with HTPCs, the basic idea is to have an all-in-one computer that is good for all media duties that you may have relating to your television. In my case, that means being able to watch movies and TV shows from many sources, including Netflix and Hulu (because I don’t have cable), as well as being able to play videogames, both old and new....

More info can be found at the Mopidy-Subsonic Github page.

Now that I’ve graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, I will be using my new free time to work on fun projects, including this site! Coursera Another coping mechanism, as I transition away from full-time schooling, will be to take a few online classes on Coursera, and independently continue my education, at least until I start a Master’s Degree program. I’m currently registered for one class, and will be writing about my experience here on my site....

I’ve been using vim for the last 4 years regularly as my text editor, and in many ways, vim has permiated all the other tools I use. In any application that I can, I will use vi/vim bindings if they are offered. I use vi-mode emulation in my terminal shell, zsh. I use a vim emulation layer in Firefox called Pentadactyl. I use a pdf reader called mupdf that has vim bindings, and the list goes on....

Ok, so my name is Bradon Kanyid, and I’m a Senior Computer Engineering student at Portland State University in the [Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science ]. I have a lot of interests, mostly computer-related. At the end of fall quarter, I decided that it would be useful to start documenting projects and things I enjoy somewhere online. Where to start? I decided to make this blog, but definitely do not have a lot of prior webdev experience....