Weeknotes 113

Wavesurfer.js – very nice.

Wavesurfer.js is an open-source audio visualization library for creating interactive, customizable waveforms.

Another UTF-8 related question cropped up at work this week and yet again I seem to have completely forgotten anything I knew about file encoding.

The Beach Boys sing “Hurt” (AI) by There I Ruined It – lovely stuff 👏

Before COVID I was travelling quite a bit, which was great. More recently though the habit has fallen away, so I’m happy to be getting back on the travel-horse (🤔) by having three trips planned between September and October. I’ll be visiting Wroclaw, Amsterdam, and Chicago. A travel heavy couple of months. I’m really looking forward to it!

Yet more reason to lose the weight. Travelling as a tall overweight person is not fun in my experience. Transatlantic flights can be very unpleasant generally, but worse when you’re completely wedged into a plane seat.

RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601 - Time. Is. Fun.

In the course of working on the side project I decided to learn how to use Figma. Years ago I was more into the design and frontend side of web development but then focussed on the backend for years.

Is this procrastination from actually getting the thing done? Yes, undoubtedly. But I’m also enjoying learning something that is outside of my normal wheelhouse, and is also useful for my future endeavours. Better to do something than nothing, even if it isn’t technically necessary.

Talking of the side project, I seem to be extremely motivated exclusively after 10pm, but zero motivation during the day. So that’s really great.

There’s work for you by Greg Story from Jump Ship!

I have zero trust that accepting a role provides any more security than doing the same work as a consultant. Job security only exists as a facade.

Truth.

Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS.

It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from “the index”, revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

FFmpeg Explorer – very useful for figuring out FFmpeg filters.

A tool to help you explore FFmpeg filters.

Turns out there are a lot filters built-in to FFmpeg.