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modernlearneron You need to be able to run your system

I liked Firebase for prototyping, but for the same reasons you mentioned, I feel I should have just gone with Redis or something else that I can easily run locally.

I get the feeling that Firebase (and some parts of AWS) are meant as services for larger enterprises that are really hooked on GCP (or AWS).

modernlearneron Why do most top performers have the highest count of commits and pull requests?

It does sound from the article as if incumbents will always have a huge advantage and will be more likely to be labeled top performers.

modernlearneron Angular 11

My background is Rails, Django and AngularJS. I've worked with everything that came before Angular/React (MooTools, Ember, Backbone) and you're right, I like the idea of an opinionated framework that provides enough tools to get up and running and to maintain for the next few years (at least).

This is why I liked Elm as well because it bakes in a particular structure and adds static typing.

The other advantage is if you're hiring freelancing. From personal experience, anything that was custom and less opinionated cost more billable hours. Dealing with a framework like Laravel, Django, Rails cut costs in a noticeable way and the remaining work was actual hard problems to solve.

modernlearneron Angular 11

We started our project in Angular last year, and the updates are great. It feels like a proper framework a la Ruby on Rails or Django where as with React and Elm and other options it would have been more ad-hoc.

modernlearneron Angular 11

Just ran into this when building a component to display and filter data. It was starting to turn into a monster when trying to use Rx.js and in the end, the code was simpler to understand with multiple for loops and forEach and map/filter calls.

I ended up with a service that doesn't rely on observables.

modernlearneron Document your code just by hitting “record”

They're definitely two different workflows and for every day work, creating a video tutorial or a "codelab" is a lot more work than just writing some Markdown text in a README.

Creating incentives within a work environment to write better documentation is easier than trying to record video tutorials.

I agree it looks like a good tool for producing instructional videos.

modernlearneron Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

I've been using Gitlab and honestly it's pretty awesome; using a mono-repo setup and everything just works. The integration of CI jobs is also excellent.

modernlearneron Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

I had the same experience. I just went in and the app does nothing. I had to disable updates and disable the app completely and find Vanilla Music Player to replace it.

https://github.com/vanilla-music/vanilla

modernlearneron An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products

Poonia’s videos take on various claims that WhiteHat Jr has made. For instance, WHJ advertises a certain child called ‘Wolf Gupta’, who, after learning to code with the firm, got a job at Google that pays in crores. Poonia points out in his video that Wolf Gupta’s age keeps changing across advertisements, from nine to 14, as does his salary package—from Rs1.2 crore to Rs20 crore to Rs150 crore.

They're A/B testing any numbers/variables they can find?? Give someone a hammer and everything looks like a nail I guess.

Makes me glad truth in advertising laws exist: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advert...

modernlearneron An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products

They were acquired for $300m, could have put that in that title? https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/05/indias-byjus-acquires-whit...

modernlearneron FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

Seems like everyone has a notebook of ffmpeg commands: https://hhsprings.bitbucket.io/docs/programming/examples/ffm...

modernlearneron FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

This is great, ffmpeg has a lot of great utilities within it.

I'm using it for creating short videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NjLrwTyxs

And I'm scratching the surface since ffmpeg has so many amazing filters: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html

modernlearneron FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

There's this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

My startup is using ffmpeg filters to create video courses so the GUI is aimed towards that use case rather than being flexible: https://blog.modernlearner.org/product-update-split-content-...

The results aren't bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NjLrwTyxs

Great results depend on fine-tuning of the ffmpeg filters and having great quality video to work with.

The ffmpeg filter mini-language is easy to work with when you're targeting a particular use-case.