On the profitability of image hosting websites

I’ve been doing a lot of thought about whether or not it’s even possible to both run a simple website and turn a profit from it and maintain a high quality of service. In particular, I’m thinking about image hosts, considering that I run one (a rather unprofitable one, too), but I would think that my thoughts on this matter apply to more kinds of websites. That being said, I’ll just talk about media hosting because that’s where I have tangible expertise.

I think that all image hosts suffer from the same sad pattern of eventual failure. That pattern is:

Comment on Why another kymograph ImageJ plugin? by katpyxa

In reply to Johannes Schindelin.

Ok, thanks for pushing me in right direction.
I’ve made an update site and a page for plugin at Fiji’s wiki.

Comment on Why another kymograph ImageJ plugin? by katpyxa

In reply to Johannes Schindelin.

Yes, I thought about it, thanks for comment. I just need to go through the FIJI submission workflow/requirements.

Comment on Why another kymograph ImageJ plugin? by Johannes Schindelin

How about making this an update site? Otherwise the vast majority of life scientists will be unable to use it.

Process scheduling and multitasking in KnightOS

I’m going to do some blogging about technical decisions made with KnightOS. It’s an open-source project I’ve been working on for the past four years to build an open-source Unix-like kernel for TI calculators (in assembly). It’s been a cool platform on top of which I can research low level systems concepts and I thought I’d share some of my findings with the world.

So, first of all, what is scheduling? For those who are completely out of the loop, I’ll explain what exactly it is and why it’s neccessary. Computers run on a CPU, which executes a series of instructions in order. Each core is not capable of...

Let's compile like it's 1992

I have been tinkering with the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Even though it is more than 20 years old: It still compile and here is how to do it (with plenty of screenshots).

Game Engine Black Books

I am almost done with the first volume of what I hope will become a serie called "Game Engine Black Book". Each book would take further what I tried to do with my articles: Explain simply, yet in great details, a legendary game engine. For the first one I decided to go with Wolfenstein 3D.

2014-08-05

sinit 0.9.1 released: download

New Site

Every 6 years or so I'm revamping my website. This is the 3rd incarnation now (yes, I started early) featuring a new wordpress theme, a clean layout, and – most important – serious content improvements.

Python's datetime sucks

I’ve been playing with Python for about a year now, and I like pretty much everything about it. There’s one thing that’s really rather bad and really should not be that bad, however - date & time support. It’s ridiculous how bad it is in Python. This is what you get with the standard datetime module:

What you don’t get is:

Date and time support is a rather tricky thing to do and it’s something that the standard...