USB Camera Video Not Displaying on Android

Summary The issue of a USB camera not displaying video on Android devices, despite working correctly on Windows and Linux, is a complex problem that stems from the camera’s UVC implementation. The root cause lies in the VideoControl interface not including an interrupt endpoint, which is incorrectly assumed to be mandatory by many Android USB … Read more

Event handler not firing on Plotly Bar Chart

Summary The core issue is a mismatch between frontend event handling and backend event propagation. Reflex’s rx.plotly component does not automatically forward raw Plotly click events to a Python backend @rx.event handler. Plotly generates events on the client side (JavaScript), but Reflex’s on_click prop expects specific framework-controlled events. The fig.update_layout(clickmode=”event+select”) configuration correctly enables Plotly’s native … Read more

RAM + SWAP full for pyrefly

Summary The issue at hand is related to memory management in a system running Ubuntu, where the RAM and SWAP space become fully utilized when working with a specific project, particularly when using pyrefly. This results in significant performance degradation and necessitates terminating the pyrefly process to regain system stability. Root Cause The root cause … Read more

Struggling to conceptualize Look At Matrix

Summary In 3D graphics, we typically move the world to the camera, not the camera to the world. The glm::lookAt function constructs a view matrix that transforms vertices from world space to camera space. To achieve this, the matrix must perform the inverse translation and rotation of the camera’s actual orientation. The confusion arises because … Read more

jitsi meet self hosted video is disabled to save bandwidth

Summary The issue described is not a bandwidth or CPU resource constraint, but rather a network transport failure causing UDP packet loss. The Jitsi Meet system interprets 4–18% packet loss as a degraded connection and proactively disables video streams to preserve the audio channel and session stability. The root cause lies in the VPS network … Read more

Should resume skills be stored as JSON, BLOB, or normalized tables for analytics and search performance?

Summary Technical Postmortem: Resume Skills Storage Architecture for Analytics and Search The central issue is a database schema anti-pattern where skills are stored as a BLOB (binary large object) in a MySQL user_data table. This approach fundamentally breaks analytics, search performance, and scalability. The root cause is treating semi-structured data (skills) as an opaque binary … Read more

How can I get historical pod start/end times and CPU/memory requests from Prometheus (OpenShift/kube-state-metrics)?

Summary This postmortem addresses a common operational gap: reconstructing historical pod lifecycles (start/end times) and resource requests in Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters using Prometheus and kube-state-metrics (KSM). The core issue is that while KSM provides real-time snapshots, historical queries for ephemeral resources require specific PromQL patterns and an understanding of metric cardinality lifecycles. The primary failure mode … Read more

How to get an software jobs in 2026

Summary A recent graduate from India, graduating in March 2026, is facing difficulties securing a software engineering job due to limited campus placement opportunities. The individual possesses a foundational technical stack including Linux, Python, SQL, Bash, AWS, Docker, and basic ML algorithms. The core issue is a lack of strategic direction on bridging the gap … Read more

BCH-ECC algorithm

Summary The core issue is a mismatch between the error locator polynomial roots and the actual byte/bit positions in the message buffer. The BCH decoder correctly identifies that errors occurred and how many, but the final step of applying corrections maps the calculated syndrome roots to the wrong indices in memory. This results in catastrophic … Read more