Projects
Here are some random projects that I want to tell you about, but not too much, because I want you to check them out yourself and figure out what they're about. Some of them are open source, some of them are not, but I am proud enough of all of them to share them here. If you want to know more about any of them, just click on the link and check them out!
Vizzy
Vizzy is a powerful online music video editor and effects compositor software. I did not create it, but I am the active code contributor and maintainer. It is not open-source, it is free (beer) with ads, so beware of the privacy implications. At the same time, I'm incredibly proud of my contribution to it, and the fact that it helped countless artists and netizens create amazing videos.
The predecessor to Vizzy is a project (yes, it still exists!) called musicvid and actually shares a little bit of code with Vizzy, kind of like Half Life: Alyx still has a bit of Quake code in it. It's open source and much, much simpler. I only contributed ideas to it, not code, as at that point I simply didn't know how to code lol.
I have indirectly contributed to internet meme culture by proxy. I fear it was not a good contribution, but it is what it is:
Among Us Drip Theme Song Original - by Leonz on YouTube:
That video was made with musicvid.org, and, no less, with a template based on one of mine! You can actually still access it here, the template was made by ronny_mp3 and is called "Wavy"
There was also a video made with one of musicvid's default templates that was featured in one of RoomieOfficial's videos:
There are probably thousands of videos by this point that were made with either platform - Vizzy highlights some prominent creators on the homepage, combined, they probably have many millions of views.
Koutube
Koutube is another one of my niche projects. It's a serverless web service that allows you to watch YouTube videos directly on Discord without opening a browser. Can also generate embeds for your Markdown (as seen above!). It wraps my Invidious instance, so it has the same privacy benefits and also the same potential for instability. It's fully open-source, though it does tend to be quite slow due to both Discord and Invidious being pretty bad at what they do. But it's cool, hence, "kou" tube.. get it?
Because Google is actively being a horrible, evil, profit-maximizing company, they have made it very difficult to bypass loading YouTube's 80MB JS-ridden pages for either the player or the embed. The embeds above used to be actually the real ones, just rendered into an image, but now I have to fake it. Screw 'em.
Buttercup
Buttercup is a Chromium extension that (used to) replace YouTube's built-in captions with ones generated by some bloke's Whisper transcription API. It's quite dead now, as it's difficult to fetch the audio of the video without some really pirate-y stuff which is hard to do in an extension.
Still, it was fun reverse engineering and replacing YouTube's caption system in a transparent way, and it did work pretty well for a while. Check out the cache database it had, quite a few videos captioned there! I also tried out an LLM summary feature for it (ew) but honestly it was just for the sake of it. And YouTube did it later anyway with their slop summaries.
Bad Apple reconstruction
I remade the iconic "Bad Apple!!" Alstroemeria Records/ft. nomico song completely in REAPER, pretty accurately too.
See the Archive.org upload to get the project file, stems and other stuff.
See also the YouTube upload for a rendered version of it.