Nirbheek’s Rantings

For the past 6 months, I've been reading on-and-off the flurry of blog posts and articles written by very experienced software developers on AI, and the overwhelming feeling I get is, that they are all wrong.

A little while ago, my colleague Sebastian started complaining about OOMs caused by Evolution taking up tens of gigabytes of memory.

That's a reference to the 1983 film “WarGames”.

I have many thoughts about this film, and I don't really have the time to put it all together into one coherent whole, but an incoherent whole is also what the film also gave us, so I don't mind mirroring it.

If you’re new to WebRTC, you must’ve heard that it’s a way to do video calls in your browser without needing to install an app.

For the past 4 years, Tim and I have spent thousands of hours on better Windows support for GStreamer.

tl;dr: The GStreamer 1.18 release ships with UWP support out of the box, with official GStreamer binary releases for it.

Almost 3 years ago, I wrote about how we at Centricular had been working on an experimental port of GStreamer from Autotools to the Meson build system for faster builds on all platforms, and to allow building with Visual Studio on Windows.

In my previous blog post, I talked about how I improved the latency of GStreamer's default audio capture and render elements on Windows.

Digital audio is so ubiquitous that we rarely stop to think or wonder how the gears turn underneath our all-pervasive apps for entertainment.

We've come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell, and everything's turned digital.

This post is best read with some prior familiarity with GStreamer pipelines.

In other news, GStreamer is now almost buzzword-compliant!

For the third year in a row, Centricular was at GUADEC, and this year we sponsored the evening party on the final day at Hoepfner’s Burghof!

Two months ago, I talked about how we at Centricular have been working on a Meson port of GStreamer and its basic dependencies (glib, libffi, and orc) for various reasons — faster builds, better cross-platform support (particularly Windows), better toolch…

Anyone who has written a non-trivial project using Autotools has realized that (and wondered why) it requires you to be aware of 5 different languages.

आो मीलो (clap clap clap) शीलम शालो (clap clap clap) कच्चा धागा (clap clap clap) रेस लगा लो (clap clap clap) (जलदी से) आो मीलो शीलम शालो कच्चा धागा रेस लगा लो दस पत्ते तोड़े एक पत्ता कच्चा हिरन का बच्चा हिरन गया पानी में पकड़ा उस्की नानी ने नानी गयी लंडन वह…

Sometime last year, we worked on a client project to create a prototype for a server that is, in essence, a "transcoding proxy".

When I read Matthew’s post a week ago about creating desktop features that cater to developers, I found myself agreeing quite strongly with the sentiment put forth, and I started to wonder how we could better integrate development features into GNOME.

Yesterday, my 20-month-long stint at Collabora ended.

Almost a year ago, I worked with Pooja on transliterating a Hindi poem to Bharati Braille for a Type installation at Amar Jyoti School; an institute for the visually-impaired in Delhi.

For ages, I've wanted an option in Skype or Empathy to record my video and voice calls1.

Beginning with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), Android includes the ability to transparently encrypt your phone's storage using the phone's settings.

This will be my first GUADEC, and I'm looking forward to it.

Something has always bothered me about the story links on Wired magazine's home page.