BitBlam is a personal development blog: technical projects, engineering experiments, tutorials, opinions, and random ramblings.https://bitblam.com/en-ushttps://bitblam.com/blog/cumberland-falls-moonbow/https://bitblam.com/blog/cumberland-falls-moonbow/A 2014 road trip to Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, to see the famous moonbow, what it actually looks like to the naked eye, and three long-exposure panoramas that show what the camera saw.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRamblingsphotographytravelKentuckymoonbowpanoramahttps://bitblam.com/blog/ai-video-creation/https://bitblam.com/blog/ai-video-creation/How I went from Midjourney stills to AI music videos with ChatGPT, Suno, RunwayML, and DaVinci Resolve, what worked and what didn’t, and what the whole toolbox costs per year.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTExperimentsaivideomidjourneysunorunwaymldavinci-resolvehttps://bitblam.com/blog/grandmas-cheesecake/https://bitblam.com/blog/grandmas-cheesecake/My grandmother’s no-bake lemon or lime refrigerator cheesecake, plus a less-sweet variation of my own made with heavy whipping cream.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRamblingsrecipescheesecakeno-bakefamilyhttps://bitblam.com/blog/haproxy-custom-load-management/https://bitblam.com/blog/haproxy-custom-load-management/How I used a small Lua script in HAProxy to pin each user to one backend server, cap the number of users per server, and expire idle assignments, with a Docker Compose test bed to prove it works.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTDevelopmentHAProxyLuaDockerload balancingPythonhttps://bitblam.com/blog/jekyll-blog-evaluation/https://bitblam.com/blog/jekyll-blog-evaluation/What I learned setting up a Jekyll blog for the now-retired Lime Coder site, from installation and configuration quirks to a small Ruby plugin for pasted images, before I moved on to Astro.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTDevelopmentJekyllstatic sitesRubyMarkdownWebStorm