tech and other interesting stuff
Poking and prodding at the Windows API Background There is an issue with cursors being rendered offset for DPI-scaled windows in OBS, illustrated in this video clip: I’ve been looking into this as it was suggested that my proposed fix of letting the user specify an offset amount was more of a workaround of the […]
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Information is power To process my Subscriber Crown videos for YouTube, I needed a little bit of information. I tend to split up longer videos for ‘ease’ of watching- psychologically, I am to an extent put off by seeing a video that runs to multiple hours. I also think there’s an advantage to coming back, […]
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Note: I write this from the perspective of an awk beginner, which I am! This is a pretty basic example, and I make some simplifications for the purposes of understanding. For further reading, see eg Awk A tutorial and Introduction, and the GNU Awk Manual. Context: I wrote a script to go through a file […]
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Navigating a series of pitfalls Background: I created a highlights video recently for the monthly subscriber crown that I run. I figured the highlights video itself was worth posting, but I like to have the speech captioned. I’ve previously written a small script to generate the appropriate transparent PNGs for overlaying, but that was for […]
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Okay, day-and-a-bit. First impressions! I’ve been coding up a dice roller for a friend’s in-development RPG, and I decided on a whim to give TypeScript a try. Here’s some early impressions of the language — both TS and JS — coming from a mainly python background. Interfaces My very first thought was “what the heck […]
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Not a guide A while back I installed Foundry VTT, the web-based tabletop system developed by Atropos (It’s great, check it out). I ended up writing a small module for it, for converting walls to drawings (ie lines) so that a GM doesn’t have to duplicate effort if he’s making up a quick map on-the-fly. […]
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Pick a team for me I’ve been known to stream on Twitch, and one of the things I do is a wee informal monthly ‘competition’ to give subscribers something to root for and cheer on. For November’s outing I wanted to assign everyone a team, which is simple enough for me to do using random.org […]
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Making the video editing workload much lighter Shotcut is a Free (GPLv3) cross-platform video editor. I’ve been using it a couple of times lately to put some simple clips together (like sorting the Take 2 copyright claim GTA Online video). I figured I’d use it to take a clip of my friends and I getting […]
Continue ReadingLong ago, I posted the simple way to get a frame of a video using ffmpeg. I’ve been using that technique for a long time. It can be a bit unwieldy for iteratively finding a specific frame, as when using a terminal you have to move the cursor to the time specification. So I wrote […]
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tl;dr: A bash script written in 15 minutes imports files as expected! I was clearing photos off an SD card so that I have space to photograph a friend’s event this evening. Back on Windows, I would let Lightroom handle imports. Darktable is my photo management software of choice, but it leaves files where they […]
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