This morning, I looked into improving the quality of compressed videos while keeping the file size down. I went into an ffmpeg rabbit hole for almost two hours. I didn’t know of -present for example, or the fact that ffmpeg still uses h264 by default, where you can specify h265… 🧠 🤓
Pick a monkey, any monkey… or an owl?
April Photo 📷 Challenge 3: Card
It’s not the first (or second) time I hear good things about Kagi. I tried it myself, and I ran out of searches quickly because I used it on my work browser, and I do research all the time.
Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
The nicest thing I can say about Kagi is that it has fully faded into the background of my life, and that I do not really realize or think about the fact that I am using Kagi. I mean this in a good way.
Another little gem I’ve been using for a while: org-toggle-narrow-to-subtree. I added an explanation to my emacs config:
Macro I created to focus on projects (headers in org-mode) that gets everything else out of the way. The idea is simple: when standing on a sub-header (in my case, this is usually level three. For example, I’m standing on “pay electric bill” in: * Personal > ** ACTIVE pay bills > ***TODO pay electric bill), jump to its parent (in this example, “pay bills”) and narrow. When running again, expand it back. This is working by using org-toggle-narrow-to-subtree. Very useful when working in a buffer with several projects.
(fset 'jr-project-focus
(kmacro-lambda-form [?\C-c ?\C-u ?\C-c ?n] 0 "%d"))
I wanted to fix company-mode for Emacs, and on the way I remembered that was something Emacs already comes with. Yep, and it has a name you’d not guess in 100 years: hippie-expand. Added to my config. See Mickey’s post about it if you don’t believe me.
I might have a shiny MacBook Pro for work and a Desktop with Windows installed to play the latest and greatest. But Linux feels like home. It’s the one place where I feel I can really do whatever I want, however I want. Everything else feels as if it’s on a loan.
An older photo from the archive of a… Hyacinth? Did I get that right? Right here at a nearby park
April Photo 📷 Challenge 2: Flowers
Expensive dinner yesterday, but I can look at it and say, “It’s just money.” There were periods in my life when someone told me “It’s just money,” and I looked back at them with jealousy and irritation. I remember what it was like, glad I’m not at this point.
Hmm I don’t know that I’ll do the challenge, but this was just looking at me, so…
April Photo 📷 Challenge 1: Toy
I know what I’m going to watch this weekend. What about you?
‘The Crow’ soundtrack turns 30: Looking back on the album that defined an era
…But before all these came The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original songs from The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, and Stone Temple Pilots. While grunge was mainstream by 1994, a soundtrack this hard-edged — flaunting heavy metal alongside goth rock — was far from common. But this album did more than sing the song of the eponymous anti-hero; it also sang of the lost Brandon Lee.