FFMPEG commands for audio/video mixing
Maybe you’ve heard of ffmpeg, the encoding program described as the Swiss Army knife of audio and video. If you’ve actually used it, you’ll know it’s a Swiss Army knife made out of buzzsaws.
Blog / Usability
Target blank
I’m delighted to see Marco Arment weighing in on the open links in new window debate. I’m fully on his side and couldn’t help chipping in my own two cents on Hacker News. There’s a weird fetishism people have about “keeping the user on our site” that smacks of hubris to me.
Be humble! Remember Jakob’s Law of the Internet:
Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.
Cooling a Playstation 3
Electrical tape is duct tape for nerds.
Remember all that Final Fantasy XII I’m playing? My poor PS3 starts doing its jet turbine imitation after half an hour.
Backup
Insurance won’t cover Hello Games office flood, dev says
Hello Games’ studio was flooded on Christmas Eve after a nearby river broke its bank, resulting in the loss of computers, furniture and personal items.
Backup. Then backup again. Then offsite backup. Then rotate offsite backup.
I wish some news article would mention if the Hello Games team was using offsite backup. It seems dangerous to store your game code on Dropbox or even in a private Github repository, but the physical world is equally happy to destroy your possessions.
Recabling fever
Every six months or so the planets align and I’m compelled to disassemble my entertainment center and put it back together, better than it was before. Okay, usually there’s a real reason, like a new console coming out or I’ve become disgusted with my previous efforts. After doing this probably 20 times I think I can call myself an expert. Last night I achieved my greatest cabling setup to date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want a section on your website to deal with the questions you field most often? Don’t call it “frequently asked questions.” Don’t abbreviate it to FAQ.
FAQ is a term that’s useful to exactly one person: the webmaster. People going to the website have no idea if their question is frequently asked or not. There’s not even any hint of an answer (what else can you do with questions besides ask them?). I’d sooner label navigation “Stupid Crap I’m Tired of Dealing With,” because at least that shows my true attitude to the user.
This is why we have so many euphamisms for “frequently asked questions”: knowledge base, help, support, documentation. Any of those would be better.
But the question and answer format is often useful, so why not rename it to that? “Questions and Answers” or just Q&A. Users would find that. They have questions, they want answers. Simple.
How I organize
In the vein of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, this is Organizational Schemes of the Middle Class and Nerdy.
Desktop
My objectives:
Tags
History
- Using FFVIIHook on Steam Deck for Final Fantasy VII Remastered
- The Last Rug Pull
- Mythic Quest Thoughts
- My PGP Public Key
- 307 Pages I Got Back, Part 5
- 307 Pages I Got Back, Part 4
- 307 Pages I Got Back, Part 3
- FFMPEG commands for audio/video mixing
- 307 Pages I Got Back, Part 2
- 307 Pages I Got Back, Part 1
- Configuring Samba 5 to share a folder with full write permissions to guest users
- Me Suffer Now
- Peace Among Worlds
- Halo: Installation 07
- From Zero to Hero of Time
- Remember to Forget
- That Next Next Next
- Pillars of Whateveritwas
- The Average Saiyan Warrior
- Bravely Diffident
- Blackout
- Landing gear deployed
- So Wildstar
- It's that very special time of year, Greendale
- iPhones and lizard brains
- From the context it is clear what you mean
- Do you still want to meet?
- Kill meeee
- Dark Souls II playthroughs
- The Amazing Spider-dope
- Final Archstone
- More Archstone
- Archstone
- Horror-ible
- Paranoia+
- Old Ben on the mountain
- Target blank
- Clan Centurio knows how to treat its hard working members
- Steam Machines
- We shall l'cie
- Cooling a Playstation 3
- Next gen resmolutions
- New Year's in Ivalice
- The commander is ashore
- Fantasies twelve and thirteen
- Into the Nexus
- Backup
- Collector's cretins
- The good olde days
- OpenEmu
- Mulling Mac mini
- Driving blind
- Hyrule Warriors
- Rosalina
- Elite: Dangerous
- Free play
- The Desolation of Smaug
- Fallout free
- iOS 7 adoption
- Xbox, did you see that?
- Goodbye, Stanley
- Wag the tail
- Gold coin for your thoughts?
- Beginning Bitcoin
- Final Fantasy VIII
- The Happy Room and the Stairs
- Stanley entered the door on the left
- Base secured. Standby for new orders.
- Single payer video game
- Storm in a teacup
- A trapped wolf will cut off its own leg
- Assassin's appendix
- The wheels on the bus
- Riding dirty
- Marketing is a feature
- Everything is permitted
- What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
- Day One
- Obsolete
- Xbox One hunting
- Uphill both ways
- Recabling fever
- Next gen jitters
- Thor: The Dark World
- Nintenbored
- I will see to it personally
- Reviewing the Playstation 4
- Node Foreeever
- Knockin' on Node's door
- Junk Jack X
- iPad Air
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
- The fastest way
- Internet Explorer-tan
- Back to the city
- Apocalypse cancelled
- Captain Zack Power
- It's crime time!
- People are protesting low land values
- Take a girl for a ride
- For Tyria!
- Guild Wars 2 is a bad game
- Reformat syndrome
- At the Nexus of madness
- It is now safe to use approved electronic devices
- iPhone tremors
- A challenger appearz
- Surface-level compromises
- 7.85 inch... oh no
- Magical, revolutionary advertising
- Gamer Theater
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution reflections
- Thoughts on Apple TV
- Fixing Apache on Mountain Lion
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Remnant
- Dark Souls
- EYE on Exodus
- Zeemote
- The Rolling Dead
- Sparrow flies away
- Memo to Charles Schumer: Publishers are not books
- The Binding of Seacrest County
- Brave
- Consuming iPads
- Frequently Asked Questions
- AMAZING MAN OR MENACE?
- Twitter cracking down
- Synthetic meat
- How I use Facebook
- Sublime Text hits version 2
- I have to touch it!
- EA as underdog
- Yes, I would like to gno mor
- My format: guardian
- Bad. Ass.
- How I organize
- Summer beach parties are coming
- Weyland Science Mission Procedures and Precautions
- Setting up Mac for PHP and Ruby websites
- Is there any life in the Vita?
- Do. Or do not. There is a 30-day trial.
- Moving to Mac
- You know what's wrong with Skyrim these days?
- I didn't ask for these boss battles
- This holy place has been desecrated
- Jordan's Mod Guide: FreeSpace + FreeSpace 2
- Jordan's Mod Guide: Descent + Descent 2 Rebirth
- It's a good day to kill, your majesty!