Dragon Quest 64

Today's video and podcast players have a very useful feature that allows playing back the video/audio at an increased playback speed.

For decades, Linux installations was done using CDs, later DVDs.

For the better part of my career I used 'find' incorrectly, or at the very least very naively.

Quick review of basic find command before getting to the content. $ find .

Occasionally there is a need in bash scripting to execute a series of commands in sequence conditionally.

Bash has a little known concept of read-only variables.

A common, and often overlooked, need for scripting is addressing hanging, or unresponsive commands.

Running concurrent commands in a script generally is done by executing processes in the background.

Last year I cut my teeth at creating a Python package; Dividere Recently, building the package was encountering an error: python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel running sdist running egg_info creating dividere.egg-info writing dividere.egg-info/PKG-INFO writi…

Sometimes it's useful to slow, or extend the introduction of a video.

'Some folks' use youtube-dl on a regular basis, to pull raw video and create new content.

As camera resolutions continue to improve the feasibility of capturing a full scene of a classroom, lecture, presentation hall, or the such and autonomously focusing attention on the presenter becomes more practical.

I started dabbling with Python back in 2012'ish, using it pretty regularly over the years but generally keeping my projects close to home.

Like many folks, I've occasionally been drawn to 'write a book', despite a real need for it.

Systems that utilize a database benefit from an automated means of translating database CRUD operations to application language.

It’s an interesting thing about tools, when they deliver what you need from them you’re often uninterested in ’how the sausage is made’, but digging into the details often re-enforces your understanding in the end.

I received an anonymous comment on a past post FFMpeg Blending specifically asking how two video files could be concatenated with a blending effect transition.

Big hair, mullets and acid-washed jeans...the 1980's introduced us to a number of iconic treasures.

As our pandemic takes it's second revolution around the sun the list of things to occupy the surplus of time has taken a hit.

Recently presented 'Data Visualization with PyGal' to the Python Mn Meetup group https://www.meetup.com/PyMNtos-Twin-Cities-Python-User-Group/ A pretty remarkable group, full of very knowledgeable and supportive individuals.

FFmpeg allows dynamic filter adjustments, in past posts we've demonstrated how filters can be adjusted with respect to frame number and/or timestamp.

Seem like every couple months I need to re-look up how to perform numeric formatting with bash.

On a number of occasions I found it necessary to locate a list of files by extension (e.g. header/source files) and found that if I needed to locate files of multiple extensions I took the 'cowards way out', executing two 'find' commands and appending the…

As we enter our 6th month of self-quarantining, I find the hermit lifestyle no longer to my liking.

As much as I like using Wireshark, I'm a sucker for a command interface.