voja's blog

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Using Bluetooth speakers on Linux

Using bluetooth speakers or anything bluetooth related is an infamously difficult task, so I wrote this short guide, primarily for myself.

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uploaded: Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Using the Lastfm API

A short walkthrough on using the sometimes confusing Last.fm API.

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uploaded: Thu, 07 Apr 2022

My Music Server

I made a personal music server. Check it out at music.lazic.xyz.

It's a Subsonic server running from a Raspberry Pi I have at always running at home. It's synced with my music library that I maintain on my main computer and that I also share on Soulseek (my username is vojoslav, if you're interested in adding me).

I wanted to cancel my Spotify subscription for some time now, but I couldn't think of a way to have my music library (aroung 30 gigs at time of writing) outside of my house. I've been using it for about a week now and there weren't any major problems (there was a couple of times where I couldn't connect from my phone, but only for a period of time, after that it resumed normally). Hopefully it continues working fine and I can switch over completely and stop giving my money to Spotify!

Feel free to check it out using the guest user. Enjoy!

uploaded: Sun, 08 Aug 2021

Kinoteka Kalendar

I've made a site that neatly lists the Yugoslav film archive monthly program. Hope you enjoy it!

Kinoteka Kalendar

uploaded: Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Crno/Beograd

A collection of photographs I took during the initial lockdown in March of 2020.

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uploaded: Mon, 01 Mar 2021

Recreating old photographs of Belgrade

My friend found a bunch of old photographs of Belgrade and we’ve decided to recreate them.

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uploaded: Thu, 16 Jul 2020

The site is back up and running

With well over a year after the last update, I think another one is long overdue.

In the meanwhile I've started college and am currently studying for my first year finals. More precisely, I'm currently putting off studying and going to bed to update a website I don't use.

Besides school, I haven't really been working on any project for myself. One big one is a program to help students with Uvod u organizaciu i arhitekturu racunara I, which is a class from my first semester. It's full of really dull, by-hand calculations of how computers process data and different arithmetic operations mixed in with some history of how computers came to be. I really liked it, but one thing that always bugged me about writing every step of how computers add two numbers up, was that if I messed up somewhere along the way, it was nearly impossible to find out where. The aim of this program is to give students a walk through of the process so that they check their work.
My goal was to have it be done by the fall semester, so that the freshmen can use it, which may be a bit unrealistic (big ups to covid), but I still have the summer ahead of me. (I hope, exams may not go as expected.)
Other than that I tried Linux from Scratch and failed miserably.

I hope this website will become more active from now on, I'll try and keep posted about what I'm doing and project ideas and such. All things for me to look back and cringe years later.

uploaded: Sat, 06 Jun 2020

The site is now live!

The site now has it's own domain and is hosted on a shared hosting server on Namecheap

It took a while to set up SSL and FTP, but now it should all work.

Next post will hopefully be more interesting.

uploaded: Sun, 03 Feb 2019

Big update to website, now with an RSS feed!

Made some big changes to how the website and the script that automate the process work.

And also, as the title suggests, an rss feed, for all those boomers.

It won't be flawless, I have to push the changes to see if the rss feed actually works, but it's functional.

Enjoy!

uploaded: Mon, 28 Jan 2019

Arch Install Guide

An install guide for Arch Linux, made to be followed by new and old users alike.

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uploaded: Wed, 02 Jan 2019