Here's a little script I wrote to avoid copy-pasting the ffmpeg command from superuser every time I needed it. It converts a video to a GIF file by pr… ...more

In an insane world, Gradle sometimes seems like the sanest choice for building a Java or Kotlin project. But what on Earth does all the stuff inside b… ...more

I found something difficult in Python, which was a bit of a first, so I wrote a whole blog series about it, and now a whole video: Slides: Python Asy… ...more

I've been getting very excited about keybase.io recently, not least because it offers secure conversation, and you can have bots. I wrote a quick bot … ...more

Series: operations, images, opacity Not because I was enjoying it, I seemed compelled to continue my quest to understand the performance of various Ja… ...more