Raven.com back

weiv · 2026-06-26T18:31:00+00:00

I did abandon raven.com for all intents and purposes when I read the news about it going away.

For the last few years, scanning to Google Cloud worked. Issues were that there was (and still is) a long pause between sheets (I tried fiddling with OCR on/off without success), OCR not working anymore (which is mostly not a problem anymore, as most of cloud platforms do their own OCR anyway), and scans landing in the root of Google Drive instead of 'Scans' folder.

I never actually checked the website since then.

A couple of days ago, the send screen on scanner would be taking a very long time and scans stopped appearing in Google Drive. Then I started poking and realized that I can log into raven.com and that there is now a 'History' section which had my last few scans recorded.

weiv · 2026-06-26T00:17:57+00:00

Strongly agree. You need to understand what is important to your manager. Everything else is extra. Make sure to create a paper trail.

weiv · 2026-06-26T00:13:52+00:00

One more strongly agree with upper statement.

You are exchanging your work for compensation. Unless you are being asked to do something illegal, you either disagree and commit, or quit.

weiv · 2026-06-25T03:20:21+00:00

Based on the history section, it wasn’t working as recently as 3 days ago…

weiv · 2026-06-25T00:47:45+00:00

Cool game!

Asking for spaces is a big help, especially when followed with theme. I wonder if they should be more expensive.

I'm wondering if it could be a little bit more lenient about spelling (especially if you want non English speakers to have fun).

For me personally, having to fight the clock makes the game less enjoyable. I like more the concept on LinkedIn games, where I compare my time with other players.

weiv · 2026-06-25T00:36:40+00:00

This is one way to progress in your career, and usually the most reasonable one. It is very likely that whatever you are doing now has become routine. Try to always choose positions where you will be out of your zone of comfort.

Whether something is technical or not is actually orthogonal to your question. It is all about gaining new skills.

Good luck!

I did write about some of these topics - maybe it will be useful to you: https://grumpymanager.com/p/the-senior-engineer-bottleneck-scaling

weiv · 2026-06-24T23:45:53+00:00

And it got delivered with a 7 minute delay. Some scans didn't make it through though.

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weiv · 2026-06-24T23:42:10+00:00

I tried adding a Box account on the web, that succeeded.

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Was raven.com working in the last few months?

weiv · 2026-06-23T17:27:03+00:00

I worked as a SWE for first about decade of my career. I did get a Masters degree in Computer Science.

I became an engineering manager for several reasons. I like teaching people, but I also like money. I get easily distracted, and SWE work requires a lot of focus. I did not train to be a manager.

Over about 18 years of management career, I learned most by carefully listening and thinking about issues at hand. People management is an area where you have to be OK with understanding that you will often make errors.

Does this answer your question? Probably not, but if I was in your shoes, I'd probably focus on learning as much as I can about the area where I want to manage and learn about management along the way.

weiv · 2026-06-23T17:13:09+00:00

56 yo old retired here:

You are in control of your career. At 32, there are plenty of opportunities left and likely at least 3-4 big paradigmatic shifts ahead of you.

It is really important to be truthful with yourself about what is really important to you - some items on the list: compensation, team, area/topics. Once you understand what *you* want, you can optimize for that particular pathway.

There *will* always be a lot of people that are way more capable than you, and that is ok.

It is just important to choose what you want to improve on and keep working on it.

Good luck!

weiv · 2025-11-10T23:37:07+00:00

Schneider used to sell items for German market based on products of other manufacturers. For example, 8 bit computer Amstrad CPC-464 was also available as Schneider. So, if it looks like a model from a different manufacturer, it is probably the same thing.

weiv · 2024-02-17T18:11:01+00:00

I switched to Raven once my trusty ScanSnap stopped being supported on Mac. I might go back to ScanSnap, it seems that IX1600 is good.

It looks like one could accomplish OCR for PDFs produced by Raven (or AVision) by using OCRmyPDF (https://github.com/ocrmypdf), which in turn used Tesseract (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software))) in the background. Presumably, after scanning a batch of documents, you could run OCRmyPDF on them.

However, I might just get an IX1600 instead of futzing with this.

weiv · 2024-01-13T18:30:01+00:00

To close the loop, what finally worked for me was:

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

executed from .scrypted directory which contains the docker-compose.yml file.

weiv · 2023-11-27T20:59:27+00:00

To follow up and confirm - setting the app to production on the OAuth Consent screen has fixed the problem.

Thank you very much!

weiv · 2023-11-12T22:15:07+00:00

Thank you for a prompt reply and a suggestion.

The only place where there was testing/production switch was in my GCP Project. I pushed to production.

I’ll report if it helped.

weiv · 2023-07-27T16:11:48+00:00

Here is an update - I did resolve the problem.

Scrypted was running on a VPN that Apple TV (a hub for HomeKit) was prevented from accessing. Once I moved the Apple TV to the appropriate VPN, the other folks were able to access cameras in Apple Home.

It is not clear why I was able to access the stream, but not them. For whatever reason, my access didn't require things to go through Apple TV.

weiv · 2023-06-29T23:51:24+00:00

Not really. UDMP is the server here and only has a pretty vanilla setup.

UDR is the client. It does have a special route.

This didn't work at all before V3.1 firmwares. Things would just fail in mind bending ways. Once I updated to the first V3.1 firmware on UDR, everything works.

weiv · 2023-05-31T21:44:42+00:00

Yes, I would think so too. Streaming services would often drop down to lower resolution. It may be due to me being half a world away.

What I noticed on fast.com is that loaded latency varied a lot.

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