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Comment by teh_klev | Hacker News Reader

I'd like to watch these and appreciate you've put a decent chunk of work into the content.

But...as a desktop user the video player only has two screen sizes...too small to be readable and full screen which is pretty useless because I like to multitask. Could I suggest offering different sized embedded players, or something that resizes with the browser window?

Hope you don't take this as negative criticism.

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Not that it excuses the poor choice of embedded player, per se, but:

  youtube-dl https://www.semicolonandsons.com/episode/sql-cascade-transactions-db-design -fhd_mp4-720p
  # -F for alternatives to hd_mp4-720p

works fine. (I don't care for video tutorials (vs text) due to temporal illegibility (things not being on screen long enough to read), but it definitely looks readable enough in terms of spacial size.)

I very much welcome the feedback. Full-screen is something I personally didn't consider.

I use the Wistia player and it seems to be fully responsive on page resizes -- the issue is more that the player is constrained by the size of its column in the css. I'll put that on the list of things to sort out once I get around to hiring a designer. The css at present is an extremely rough proof of concept.

With a bit of fiddling, bookmarking this wee snippet does the job good enough:

    javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('.lg\\:mx-8').remove();document.querySelector('.lg\\:w-3\\/5').setAttribute('class', 'w-full');})()

It removes the right hand panel and the width restriction in the player's containing div. Until of course you change your markup :)

With Firefox you can use the Picture-in-Picture feature for videos and size it as you like. For me it worked fine to read what's in the video.

Additionally you can then watch the movie and have i.e. your terminal open.

Heh...I never even noticed that before, thanks!

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