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IMANG.

There’s not enough room here to include every way my home has adapted to help me through these rough patches. But the following has enabled me to bust through the seasonal inertia that weighs heavily on my emotions, as well as my body, during the shorter and colder days of winter.

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On The Propriety Of Punching Nazis, An FAQ

Isn’t this a slippery slope?

After we defeated the Nazis in World War II, did we keep shooting people or did the troops come home and start having babies?

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Let Me In

Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter,

Promises are sweet,

We hold out our pans, lift our hands to catch them

We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up

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Legit

Do you not realize that you only have the option to “come together” because the “other team” doesn’t literally want you dead?

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donmelton/video_transcoding is awesome

These are an excellent set of smartly-written wrappers to easily convert and manipulate video files. Huge fan. HUGE.

Hi, I’m Don Melton. I created these tools to transcode my collection of Blu-ray Discs and DVDs into a smaller, more portable format while remaining high enough quality to be mistaken for the originals.

What makes these tools unique is the special ratecontrol system which achieves those goals.

This package is based on my original collection of Video Transcoding Scripts written in Bash. While still available online, those scripts are no longer in active development. Users are encouraged to install this Ruby Gem instead.

Most of the tools in this package are essentially intelligent wrappers around Open Source software like HandBrake, MKVToolNix, MPlayer, FFmpeg, and MP4v2. And they’re all designed to be executed from the command line shell:

* transcode-video Transcode video file or disc image directory into format and size similar to popular online downloads.

* detect-crop Detect optimal crop values for video file or disc image directory.

* convert-video Convert video file from Matroska to MP4 format or from MP4 to Matroksa format without transcoding video.

* query-handbrake-log Report information from HandBrake-generated .log files.

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Forestry.io

Someone is building another way to wrangle static site content gracefully. I’m always interested in things like this to reduce friction when posting something to a jekyll site, but they always seem to be designed as a subscription service or heavy desktop application.

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Clawtar – Adaptive MIDI Controller

I use TouchOSC to control Lightroom when editing photos, and I haven’t tried Clawtar yet, but it looks like it could be pretty great for people using MIDI as it was intended.