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What you NEED to Know Before Touching a Video File

Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos. A man can only read "Use Handbrake to convert your mkv to an mp4 :)" so many times before losing it, so I am writing this article to channel the resulting psychic damage into something productive.

If you are new to working with videos (or, let's face it, even if you aren't), please read through this guide to avoid making mistakes that can cost you lots of time, computing power, storage space, or video quality.

Browser Based

Web Wormhole https://webwormhole.io/ https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole
Localsend https://web.localsend.org/
FilePizza https://file.pizza/
~~ShareDrop sharedrop.io https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop~~ (SOLD, not recommended, use one of the forks)
1. ~~A clone SnapDrop snapdrop.net https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop~~ (SOLD, not recommended, use one of the forks)
  1. A fork PairDrop https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop
ToffeeShare https://toffeeshare.com/
Instant.io https://instant.io/

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Simple Atomic File Locking in Linux

If you have access to a traditional programming language, there are many methods1 to use2 locks in linux3. However, we don't necessarily have access to those methods within a shell script. In addition, using locks over different kinds of filesystems (such as NFS) can also have inconsistencies and bugs.

What if you just want a very simple form of locking that works on all filesystems? The answer is Maildir locking. The way Qmail / Maildir works is specific to mail files, so I'll break it down in a more general way below. You also don't have to strictly follow this method; the general idea can be modified.

I wrote a very primitive script to produce a flamegraph out of a number of asciidoc files. See this blog post for some idea of the result.

WARNING: It's heavily taylored to my own setup, so not sure it'll work directly with yours, or you might have some customization to do. (If there's enough interest I could do a more general script / Dockerfile.)

How to use?

How to play ASCII-Art Star Wars offline

Following will teach you how to play the "easter-egg" (which actually isn't, but many people describe this as an easter egg) of ASCII-Art Star Wars (or Star Wars in terminal/telnet, whatever), the one you normally starts like this:

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Before you start, ensure Node.js is installed.
Navigate to www.asciimation.co.nz, the original home of that ASCII-Art Star Wars.
Press F12 to open developer tools.

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"unsafe"

	"github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go"
	)

	func main() {

	#!/bin/bash

	gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'