I occasionally write about video encoding and software development on this blog. Here are the most recent posts:

Jan 14, 2026
Creating Word Documents with Track Changes from Markdown Diffs Using pandiff
Nov 28, 2025
Safely Loading .env Files with Special Characters in Bash
Nov 27, 2025
Using SQL Expressions in Grafana with Elasticsearch Queries
Oct 30, 2025
Chrome Manifest V3 Service Workers Cache Aggressively – Even When You Don't Want Them To
Oct 25, 2025
Typst with Pandoc: A Modern, Fast Alternative to (Xe)LaTeX for PDF Generation
Oct 22, 2025
Forwarding HTTPS Requests to Elasticsearch with Self-Signed Certificates in Traefik
Oct 13, 2025
Using git-cliff for Changelogs and Migrating Away from gitchangelog
Oct 9, 2025
Propagating Upstream Data Changes in Elasticsearch Without Full Reindexing
Oct 1, 2025
Dynamic Versioning and Automated Releases in uv Projects
Sep 19, 2025
Running uv-Based Docker Containers in Read-Only Mode
Mar 1, 2017
Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx)
Feb 24, 2017
FFmpeg VBR Settings
Feb 24, 2017
CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx)

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