https://www.shaftek.org//Personal homepage of Yakov Shafranovich 2024-12-15T09:50:36-05:00 Yakov Shafranovich https://www.shaftek.org// Jekyll © 2024 Yakov Shafranovich /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-01-01T17:38:00-05:00 2023-01-01T17:38:00-05:00 https://www.shaftek.org//posts/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/ Yakov Shafranovich

This site was migrated from a Wordpress.com hosted blog to a Jekyll static site hosted at GitHub Pages and fronted by CloudFlare CDN. Here are some notes: The conversion from Wordpress.com to Jekyll is not foolproof. I tried both the “jekyll import” command and copying the blog to a local environment then using the Jekyll Export plugin for WP. In the end both approaches produced data which I...

2020-02-16T07:17:40-05:00 2020-02-16T07:17:40-05:00 https://www.shaftek.org//posts/two-potatoes-shepherds-pie/ Yakov Shafranovich

Notes Adapted from “The Real Food Dietitians”. It can be made with either sweet or regular potatoes. This recipe can be doubled and can also be frozen. Feel free to vary the types of vegetables added to the dish. Makes 8 servings, total cooking time is 1h 30 mins Ingredients For the meat: Cooking spray 1.5 pounds of ground meat (beef or beef/chicken mix) 1 large carrot 1/2 package of ...

2020-02-10T17:35:52-05:00 2020-02-10T17:35:52-05:00 https://www.shaftek.org//posts/left-over-chicken-sweet-potato-hash/ Yakov Shafranovich

Notes Great recipe for using up leftover chicken. Works best with dark chicken since it is juicier but white meat may work as well. This recipe can be doubled or tripled. Feel free to vary the types of vegetables added to the dish. Makes 2 servings, cooking time is 1h 10m Ingredients Cooking spray 1-2 pieces of cooked chicken legs or quarters 1 sweet potato 1 onion (optional) 1 smal...

2020-01-19T15:40:21-05:00 2020-01-19T15:40:21-05:00 https://www.shaftek.org//posts/most-amazon-owned-private-label-brands-have-no-warranties/ Yakov Shafranovich

As well documented elsewhere, in the past few years Amazon has been developing a slew of its own private brands for a wide variety of products. Now there is nothing wrong with a private label – lots of their competitors use them as well, however I recently ran into a situation that highlights an interesting side effect of using such brands – they don’t seem to have warranties. I had several Am...

2019-12-29T12:36:33-05:00 2019-12-29T12:36:33-05:00 https://www.shaftek.org//posts/unusual-way-to-compress-pdfs/ Yakov Shafranovich

I recently ran across an unusual way to achieve greater compression for PDF files. Usually, different streams and objects within the PDF file are compressed on their own - that means that do not necessarily share a common dictionary for compression purposes. If you uncompress the PDF streams and objects and then compress it using a utility like ZIP, the compression may sometimes be greater than...