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• Focus on one leg, drive knee up to hip height (this is important) while driving the same side elbow back
• Return foot same start position (this is also important) and bring elbow forward*
• Repeat on the same side for 10-20 or even 30 repetitions and then repeat on the side

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Basic syntax for re-encoding a video file did take me some time to memorize, but isn't in fact too hard:

ffmpeg <Input file(s)> <Codec(s)> <MAPping of streams> <Video Filters> output_file

• input file: -i, can be repeated for multiple input files, like so:

  ffmpeg -i file1.mp4 -i file2.mkv

If there is more than one input file then some mapping is needed to decide what goes out in the output file.

• codec: -c:x where x is the type of codec (v: video, a: audio or s:subtitles), followed by its name, like so:
  -c:v libx265

I usually never set the audio codec as the guesses made by ffmpeg, based on output file type, are always right (in my experience), but deciding the video codec is useful, and so is the subtitles codec, as not all containers (file formats) support all codecs; mkv is the most flexible for subtitles codecs.

• mapping of streams: -map ::, like so:
  -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:1 -map 1:a:0 -map 1:s:4

Map tells ffmpeg what stream from the input files to put in the output file. The first number is the position of the input file in the command, so if we're following the same example as above, '0' would be 'file1.mp4' and '1' would be 'file2.mkv'. The parameter in the middle is the stream type (v for video, a for audio, s for subtitles). The last number is the position of the stream IN THE INPUT FILE (NOT in the output file).

The position of the stream in the output file is determined by the position of the map command in the command line, so for example in the command above we are inverting the position of the audio streams (taken from 'file2.mkv'), as audio stream 1 will be in first position in the output file, and audio stream 0 (the first in the second input file) will be in second position in the output file.
This map thing is for me the most counter-intuitive because it's unusual for a CLI to be order-dependent. But, well, it is.

• video filters: -vf
  Video filters can be extremely complex and I don't pretend to know how to use them by heart. But one simple video filter that I use often is 'scale', for resizing a video:
  -vf scale=:
  width and height can be exact values in pixels, or one of them can be '-1' and then ffmpeg computes it based on the current aspect ratio and the other provided value, like this for example:
  -vf scale=320:-1

This doesn't always work because the computed value should be an even integer; if it's not, ffmpeg will raise an error and tell you why; then you can replace the -1 with the nearest even integer (I wonder why it can't do that by itself, but apparently, it can't).
And that's about it! ffmpeg options are immense, but this gets me through 90% of my video encoding needs, without looking at a manual or ask an LLM. (The only other options I use often are -ss and -t for start time and duration, to time-crop a video.)

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• If you've held your I bond for at least a year, you can move your funds to a better-paying CD. The issue date of your bond can tell you the optimal time to cash in, with 15 months being the sweet spot for many 2022 bond purchasers.

• But what has an even bigger impact this cycle is that anyone buying a new I bond between November 2023 and May 2024 will receive a fixed-rate component of 1.30%.
  That is notably higher than the 0.00% fixed rate assigned to I bonds purchased last year, and explains why new I bonds purchased today will pay a higher rate of 5.27% for the initial six months, while 2022 I bonds will only pay 3.94%.

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CVS 1.11.23 Fix
No one uses cvs any more... except me it seems. It does what I want with little or no fuss and I just don't see the point of fixing something that isn't broke...

Except that it doesn't compile for me any more. I often want to compile it because if I install it with apt-get then I get all the server nonsense installed and I just want to access it remotely using ssh. For that I just need a working binary of cvs on my path...

When you try and compile cvs you will get the error:

In file included from getline.c:25:0:
getline.h:15:3: error: conflicting types for ‘getline’
getline __PROTO ((char *_lineptr, size_t _n, FILE *_stream));

This is because the bundled version of getline is incompatible with the newer library versions of getline. The fix is to make the cvs rename getline to get_line in its source files so it uses its private version rather than the system version. This is a one line sed command run from the cvs-1.11.23 directory that will do that for you:

sed -i 's/getline /get_line /' lib/getline.{c,h}

You can then run configure, and make as normal.

As an aside, I recently had to do this on a Mac and the syntax for the sed command is slightly different:

sed -I -e 's/getline /get_line /' lib/getline.{c,h}

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Introducing Hackd

Hackd is based on Hack v3.003, used for most base symbols and upper/lowercase latin glyphs. I then merged in glyphs from FiraCode v6.002 for all ligatures and pretty much all other characters.
Further, I pulled the % glyph from Firacode and tweaked it slightly to look more “Hack”ish.

How I Did It

I used FontForge for all manipulations.

I started with FiraCode-Regular and FiraCode-Bold.

Replaced all the glyphs from ! through ascii 255 with the Hack glyphs.

Then pulled all the powerline glyphs from the Hack NerdFont ttf file.

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A look at text wrap balancing in CSS

Have you ever wished there is a native way in CSS to make two lines headlines consistent in the number of words per line? As a designer, I spot that a lot when dealing with varying content lengths while designing a website or a UI.

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Here’s my starting point for custom focus outlines:

*:focus-visible {
outline-color: currentColor;
outline-style: solid;
outline-offset: .25rem;
outline-width: .25rem;
}