Month: November 2020
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Recursively repackaging .mkvs as .mp4s
for f in **/*.mkv; do echo "$f"; ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i "$f" -c copy "${f%.mkv}.mp4"; rm "$f"; done
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Watching Films Together... Apart
This weekend, Dan hosted a film night for his friends via the magic of the Internet. Here's how he made it work.
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Why children stay silent following sexual violence
As a survivor of sexual assault and as a parent, Kristin Jones shares her thoughts on why child victims don't speak up. Dan summarises her thoughts within the framework of his own generation and culture.
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Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer.
If only there were a way to do it during lockdown?
Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2 -
The Longest Limebike ride in history
Dan shares Robin's latest digital creation, The Improbable Blog, with its write-up of the Lime Bikes adventure he went on the other year.
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
As they bring back the youtube-dl repository, GitHub announce a new set of standards by which they'll assess DMCA claims. Dan approves, and explains why.
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Dan replies to Jeremy's note about blood donation to observe that there's an underdeveloped IndieWeb post type that might one day be useful for this kind of content.
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Endpoint Encabulator
Dan shares his latest digital project, the Endpoint Encabulator, with an explanatory video.
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<blink> and <marquee>
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!
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Performed maintenance for GC90RH3 Tiny Log Book
This checkin to GC90RH3 Tiny Log Book reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Repaired and reinforced container.
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Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It's a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed...
Just kidding. It doesn't have a feed! (Yet?)
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Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
Google are launching a VPN service. The Proton team say why that's bad, and Dan takes a more-sarcastic look at the issue.
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Thames Path 2
Dan's partner Ruth and her brother Robin are walking the Thames Path over many instalments, and Dan suggests you read-along!