A blog for turning my personal notes into public posts.
As a long-term FFmpeg user, it’s been a while that I simply used the static build of FFmpeg from the website. However, ever since I got a Mac Mini with Apple Silicon, I was worried about whether all the codecs I was using were properly optimized. I found out a few threads such as this initially talking about x265 requiring a NEON patch to be 2 to 3 times as fast as the unpatched version. For a…
I recently read a text that said something like “ stop caring about perfecting your side-projects because you’re not important and nobody cares, just take pride in doing things ”. Initially, I found myself disagreeing with this sentiment, maybe because deep down I don’t want such a thing to discourage me. Should we all just give up on doing our best? But after some involuntary reflection, it turns…
It’s been a while since I last wrote blog posts and after reading a nice post about this , I feel like it’s time to get back on track researching and posting summaries of things that I’ve learned recently. It’s also worth noting that with the rise of ChatGPT it’s been easier than ever to have interesting conversations that spark the crave to learn more about some subject. It’s an opportunity to…
Since I use git daily on my job and also on personal projects and experiments, I’m compiling here some nice configuration options and tricks that will help not just me but also anyone who stumble upon this article. It’s important to note this is an ongoing article I’ll be updating as I learn more about git and other options that are relevant to me. Always show signature when you do a git log…
In this article, I mean to document my journey planning, installing and deploying an Oracle database for the first time. Learning this was a requirement to do some projects in my database classes in college, so it’ll be useful to document things here while it’s still fresh in my mind. Environment All steps in this article were done on a Windows 11 instance running on top of VMWare, and macOS…
So I was reading recently a nice article called “ The small web is beautiful ” which got me inspired to take this concept to Android apps. For a long time already, I’ve used Boost to read posts on Reddit and I wanted to build something similar that would make reading comments on Hacker News just as pleasant. So in this series of articles, I’ll show all the process I’ve used to create a simple…