When My Tool Got Too Slow, I Tried Learning Rust
My toolkit worked, and it was slow. Not broken slow, just heavy enough that every run broke my flow, and most of…
Video Tools
The story of my first real build, a desktop video toolkit in Python and FFmpeg, from a cluttered first version to a working set of tools, including the bugs, the deletions, and the real code behind every fix.
This is a project series. The posts below are in order, starting from Part 1.
Moving My Video Tool Into the Browser With FFmpeg and WebAssembly
A desktop tool has a wall around it: installation. To use mine you needed Python, FFmpeg on the PATH, and my script,…
What Building My First Video Tool Really Taught Me
This series started with one annoyed person cutting movie clips by hand, and it ends with a small workshop of tools: a…