Taking a cue from Simon Willison, a TIL (today I learned) about the moviepy library.
The library is very useful, but sometimes I have difficulty finding documentation on how to do specific things. For example, recently for NaMoGenMo I wanted to crossfade between 2 clips.
Suppose you have two 10-second …
This November, I worked on a project to create code to generate a movie. I got the idea from NaNoGenMo, which itself is based on NaNoWriMo.
My idea was to create a Memento-ized version of an existing movie. If you haven't seen Memento, it's structured where the order of scenes …
A question came up in a discord for Slay the Spire - what is the win percentage of players in their first time playing the game? I thought that was an interesting question, so I looked into it using the big dataset from Mega Crit, the creators of the game.
Overall …
Summing the values in an array in SQLite
Word clouds generated from runs during the SGDQ 2022 marathon
You may have heard of NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. It's a challenge where every November, participants work to write a novel, defined as 50,000 words of fiction.
You may not have heard of NaNoGenMo, National Novel Generation Month,, where participants write code to generate 50,000 words …
Recently, I was trying to use Apache Solr on my WSL install of Ubuntu 20.04. Following the docs, I could download and start Solr, but visiting 127.0.0.1:8983/solr/ from a browser in Windows gave me an "unable to connect" error. The solr logs showed no …
A software tool for converting video to emojis
The visual look and feel of movies is something that interests me. So I built a tool to visualize it.
Videosplatter is a tool to splat a video file into a mosaic of individual frames. It shows you at a glance the look and feel of the entire video.
You …
It's widely known that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leading scorer in the NBA, and LeBron stands a good chance of passing him when all is said and done.
What I've never seen before, is who is the all-time missed shots scoring leader? As in, who has missed the most …