It is absolutely mind bending how many options ffmpeg has. I've been trying to convince it to use the old Radeon 2600 Pro graphics hardware acceleration. No luck finding the magic command yet! :)
I read this today on the fediverse: "I don’t think [static site generators] work for regular people - too much command line for grandma to use."
This is a surprisingly common sentiment among many people, on which I'd like to weigh in:
Conflating static site generation with "terminal interface" is technically wrong and conceptually counterproductive. I think part of why there isn't so much experimentation and diversity in the SSG space is because so many people are stuck with a mindset of the past (Tom-Preston Werner's «Blogging Like a Hacker»¹ was back in 2008!) instead of cultivating an awareness and imagination for what already is (and what else could be) there instead.
I don't know how far accessibility of SSGs can be pushed for general audiences in the end and where we will meet hard boundaries, but I feel that there is still so much untapped potential and space to try things, and not so many people taking notice or trying to go there. Be courageous and explore!
Correct usage of "grandma" is for instance "My grandma wrote a python script to detect reactionary jokes on the fediverse, and today she found a particularly bad one". The term the author was looking for is "non-technical audience". You're welcome, author!
Forgot to give a name to a screen when starting it? Find the id with $ screen -list and rename it like this: $ screen -rd id_number -X sessionname new_screen_name
OMG. There is this long-ongoing debate on whether the -v flag on linux #commandline tools should show the version, or should enable verbose output, right?
I just saw that the zip command solved it most elegantly, by making it do.... both!
If you run zip -v without further arguments, it will print the version.
If you run zip -v [other params], it will run in verbose mode.
Genius. Now we only have to solve the tabs vs. spaces debate.
Lovely is helping daddy learn about setting up #cron jobs from #CommandLine in #Linux. She's making sure he doesn't give himself a bad back by crouching over to read the #stackexchange webpage!
I wrote a matrix digital rain implementation in under 50 lines of pure Bash.. I chose Bash due to it being widely installed and extremely portable. With modern systems this shouldn't cause any noticable performance changes and seems more than efficent so far
Looking for feedback, contributions or whatever helps 😆. If it interest you at all, let me know what you think about it!
Can anyone tell me how to make fzf refresh or reload right after a key binding command completes? So you would only press one key binding, not press the desired key binding and then another to reload.
I can't find this again: a while ago, someone wrote a tool that'd create a webpage from any YouTube tutorial.
The generated page would show frames from the video, with the associated subtitles for each; so you could read the page like a step-by-step tutorial, instead of slowly watching the actual video.