Notes & Miscellanea

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Goals Still with the home stuff 2025-03-08 08:15 Trying out my NUC in earnest today. Transcoding a bunch of files (around a hundred) for the media server. Watching all 6 cores light up is fun. Hearing that tiny fan in the NUC scream its lungs out, is not. Bringing them all down to 720p. for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -nostdin -i "$i" -vf scale="-1:720" -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -c:a copy /output-folder/"$i"; done I need to write Go a lot more. It’s not as intuitive1 as Python was. Irritated and lost as I read and write code. Need to get over feeling like this and be more gentle and focussed. I hate it when I read something or try to understand something and it does not make me go Aha! Done for the day. work more with prompt tomorrow Read prompt docs. figure out how to display a list Feedback on this post? Mail me at feedback at this domain. P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit. ...

Goals Same as yesterday, get lots of stuff out of the way, so I can get to focus on my upcoming presentation later this month 2025-03-07 10:20 Busy day. Finished a ton of tasks Sitting down to some Go. (I still cannot read it without struggle) Got an idea for how I want my program to run after reading the Cobra documentation Now need to figure out configuration stuff refigured out config files with viper trying to figure out prompts use prompt-ui tomorrow to try an interactive create for feeds Feedback on this post? Mail me at feedback at this domain. P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit. ...

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