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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

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This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?

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  1. xk3
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    Over the past couple days I did some research into space-efficient modern codecs and I settled on AV1 -c:v libsvtav1 -preset 8 -crf 44 for video AVIF 2400px for images Opus 96k for audio Pretty...

    Over the past couple days I did some research into space-efficient modern codecs and I settled on

    • AV1 -c:v libsvtav1 -preset 8 -crf 44 for video
    • AVIF 2400px for images
    • Opus 96k for audio

    Pretty neat to see my phone camera folder go from 20GB to 2GB. Of course the quality difference is noticeable when comparing against the originals (except for Opus... I can't really tell) but for images and video the difference is small enough for me.

    5 votes
  2. devalexwhite
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    Finally landed on a design I was happy with for my personal portfolio. Decided to just fully embrace my inner geek and styled the site after the 80s computer magazine “Compute!”. Still some things...

    Finally landed on a design I was happy with for my personal portfolio. Decided to just fully embrace my inner geek and styled the site after the 80s computer magazine “Compute!”. Still some things to tweak in the future, but had a ton of fun researching 80s design trends and reading old Compute! issues.

    Built the site with NextJS, Vercel, Typescript, Framer Motion and TailwindCSS. 100% overkill but hey it’s a portfolio!

    Here’s the site if anyone wants to check it out: alexwhite.fyi

    5 votes
  3. elight
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    Building a "cyberdeck", a custom portable computer with a cyberpunk theme, to support my hardware hacking habit with an eye toward exploring the cyberpunk space by playing with Kali. My work...

    Building a "cyberdeck", a custom portable computer with a cyberpunk theme, to support my hardware hacking habit with an eye toward exploring the cyberpunk space by playing with Kali.

    My work lately has been:

    1. imagining just how I will use the device and so its physical properties.
    2. From that, using OpenSCAD to design the parts that will make up the enclosure.

    I'm using an RPi4b, for now, to keep power consumption lower, to take up physically less space, and to constrain cost. The integrated GPIO is also huge for this: it allows me to prototype and deploy microcontroller code on one device.

    I looked into N-100 NUC-like devices that could run x86 Linux vs ARM Linux but not only did they cost more but the power consumption would be enough greater that battery life would be impacted. In my ideal world, I'd start with a Framework i3 board 11th Gen and an Pi for its GPIO and go from there but, again, power consumption. I'd really like portability here for fun but also greater utility.

    3 votes