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Using ffmpeg to convert audio cassettes to videos

The excellent ffmpeg is the swiss army knife of all video processing. Just as a reminder to myself, here's a command line to convert an image and audio file to a video. ffmpeg -y -loop 1 -framerate 1 -i image.jpg -i Unknown.mp3 \ -c:v libx264 -preset medium -tune

Yet another rsync based backup script

Just putting this here for easy reference, or to help any random passers by. I know there are tools that are supposed to automate this like rsnapshot but I was disappointed to see that rsnapshot is probably unmaintained On top of that, this looked like something easy enough to roll

Setting up owncloud on ubuntu 18.04

In this article I will walk us throught installing a bare metal owncloud server based on ubuntu server 18.04. Throughout this guide we will assue that our server is named myowncloud.mydomain.com. Base system installation First steps as usual, we download the ubuntu server install image . If you

The story with keyboard switching shortcuts

And so one day, I set to build a lightweight desktop environment around lxde. After some customizations, the thing that bugged me was that I could not set the keyboard layout change shortcut to the Win + Space shortcut that I have grown to like. What's not to like about it.

OpenCV calibration patterns

It has been surprisingly difficult to find good opencv calibration patterns. I had found what I though was a good calibration image and ended up wasting my time. Turns out that file does not consist of squares . So I ended up making some high resolution PNG files for camera calibration.

Moving to a git monorepo without losing history

I am still hesitant to recommend to everyone to simplify their lives and move to a monorepo. But one can certainly go to extremes with many repositories. Juggling a system with tens of repositories is no fun either. So, how can we re-combine several repositories back to one, without losing

Type safe identifiers in C++

In many cases when writing an API, we need to express the concept of an identifier. In C++ there is a better, type-safe way to do identifiers.

John Carmack on Static code analysis

This is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. The most important thing I have

John Carmack on Parallel Implementations

This is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. I used to Code Fearlessly all

John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++

So, this is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. Probably everyone reading this has

John Carmack on Latency Mitigation Strategies

So, this is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. Abstract Virtual reality (VR) is

The World map of C++ STL Algorithms

I just found this little gem by watching this video by Jonathan Boccara Within it you will find the world map of STL algorithms. A handy thing to hang on your wall :-). You can get the map from the fluentcpp website . But if you don't fancy subscribing to a

The pure bash bible

The pure bash bible is such an impressive resource of bash tips and tricks catalogued in a very readable way, with excellent examples. It shows how much you can do with bash built-in methods. Even though I am a bit split on how much these should be used, as most

Words of wisdom from the trenches of KDE

If you are programming with Qt, or even C++ in general, the KDE project has some advice for you. I found that I frequently stumbled in some of these issues when working with Qt code.

Are your most used keys fading?

Well, just apply some automotive clearcoat. Let's see how that will work.