A digest of tweets for 2009-04-19

Sunday, April 19, 2009 
  • Me go run now, enjoy sun instead of cool glow of polarized CCFL #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Posted at 02:13:00 GMT-0700

Category: Twitter

A digest of tweets for 2009-04-18

Saturday, April 18, 2009 

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Posted at 02:13:00 GMT-0700

Category: Twitter

Twitter Tools is pretty cool

Friday, April 17, 2009 

If you have a wordpress blog and the thought of bidirectional integration with twitter is interesting, twittertools is pretty cool.  For a long time, used KBB RSS widgets to display the RSS feed of my facebook status on my personal, unedited, why would anyone else possibly care web site (aka “blog”) and never really noticed how slow it was to retrieve the RSS feed (and maybe the facebook fave icon) but it seriously hung the page load times.   Plus FaceBook is so last month.  I mean seriously, who uses it any more?

Twitter is only so last week and while it may already be uncool, the cool phase is so short that even with rapid software development tools it is hard to build an ecosystem around the hot new technology in the two weeks between when it has enough traction to be “hot” and when it is so mainstream as to be “burned out.”

Sometime in that brief arc, twitter tools appeared and it does a couple of simple things really well:

  • You can display a selectable number of your most recent tweets in your sidebar,
  • You can make tweets into blog posts (why? 140 characters is a short post!),
  • You can “digest” a day’s worth or a week’s worth of tweets into a post,
  • You can tweet your blog entries (like this) in some format we are about to discover,
  • It prefixes your tweeted blog entries with a fixed text to prevent a masturbatory circle tweet.

I messed around with twitterfeed, and that too seems cool, doing a similar thing, but it requires a third party site and I generally prefer to have my code local.

Posted at 14:35:37 GMT-0700

Category: PositiveReviewsTechnology

Kimrick’s Dad’s 80th

Monday, April 13, 2009 

Happy 80! Kimrick’s steam engine running on propane.

IMG00001-20090412-2306.jpg
Posted at 00:00:12 GMT-0700

Category: Geopostphoto

Splish Splash, an SRL prop takes a swim

Sunday, April 5, 2009 

An SRL prop takes a swim…

This was recorded on my Blackberry way back in the ancient era and I ffmpeged it back to life. Fun times in the gold olde days when SF still had a thriving art scene. The post is backdated to the contemporary era, but these comments are 2023.

If the video doesn’t play, dump your iPhone for a non-walled garden device.

Encode parameters

 ffmpeg -i splishsplash.MOV -vf vidstabdetect -f null -; 
 ffmpeg -i splishsplash.MOV -vf vidstabtransform=zoom=1:smoothing=5:optzoom=2:interpol=bicubic:input="transforms.trf" -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset 2 -svtav1-params tune=0 -b:v 0 -crf 41 -pass 1 -an -f null /dev/null && \
 ffmpeg -i splishsplash.MOV -vf scale=-2:960:flags=lanczos,vidstabtransform=zoom=1:smoothing=5:optzoom=2:interpol=bicubic:input="transforms.trf" -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset 2 -svtav1-params tune=0 -b:v 0 -crf 41 -pass 2 -c:a libopus -b:a 24000 splishsplash.webm

 

Posted at 19:23:58 GMT-0700

Category: GeopostSRLvideo