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

Jun 23, 2026
Typical Arguments and Rhetorical Tactics Used in Standardization
Jun 22, 2026
The One Thing I Hate About Claude
Jun 15, 2026
Making terminalcp Synchronous — Improving LLM CLI Calls
Jun 15, 2026
A Timeline of AI and Me
May 7, 2026
Academic Reviewing Is Not Fun Anymore
May 5, 2026
When WhatsApp Shows the Wrong Name for a Phone Number on Android
Apr 9, 2026
That Time ChatGPT Thought You Can Change a Bike Tube Without Removing the Wheel
Apr 2, 2026
Migrating from Mendeley Desktop to BibDesk
Mar 12, 2026
Counting the Number of Color Pages in a PDF
Mar 7, 2026
The Order of Redirections in Bash Matters
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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