How do video codecs work? How do they compress video into such tiny filesizes? A modern video codec is pretty complex, but you can get a pretty good idea of how they work at a high level.
Codec is short for COder/DECoder …
I've been working on improving Apse since I initially released it two months ago. Version 1.4 is now available. There are some exciting new features!
The FAA allows pilots to fly drones for commercial operations if they obey part 107 rules. They also pilots who meet sufficient safety requirements to operate outside the normal regulations via a waiver.
I had been compiling information on the number of part 107 pilots, and thought it would be …
APSE is an application I created to help me find things on my computer. It stands for A Personal Search Engine.
Apse is a desktop application that works as a search engine for anything that you see on your computer. As you use your computer, it captures …
reCAPTCHA is a system to prevent spam and abuse of web services. It's easy to integrate with Django. There are three steps to using v3 reCAPTCHA in your web app:
First, register a …
BOGO (Basically Optimal Graphics Ontology) is a lossless image compression format. BOGO derives its name from bogosort. Unlike traditional computationally-wasteful image formats that let your underutilized CPU sit around idle, BOGO maximizes your computer's time spent doing what it loves: computing.
Contrary to rumor, BOGO does not stand for Blockchain-Oriented …
Tom7 has an interesting video about portmanteaus. I took the idea to make a program to draw a graph as you move around nodes to shorten the lines (called edges) between them.
There are several models of Raspberry Pi with built-in wireless support. They
can be configured to connect to a wireless network before powering on, by
creating a file named wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot partition of your SD
card.
If you have your card properly configured, but the Pi won't …
Sphinx is a really useful tool, but one shortcoming is its markdown support. Specifically, it uses the recommonmark specification, which does not support tables. I wrote a Sphinx extension to render tables authored in markdown.
It can be installed via pip install sphinx-markdown-tables.
If you don't already have Sphinx configured …
I gave a talk on Steganography at Cyphercon 3.0. I want to give thanks to the organizers who put everything together. It was a blast - really fun conference with a lot of things to see, cool demos, and gadgets to try out.
The slides from my talk are available …