Alexander von Studnitz

Writing software at @clickbar_dev.

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

This is the reason why mediabunny is such a good project. A developer who cares about good software craft and isn’t tied to just a language or paradigm.

[Vanilagy @vanilagy]

It's written in Zig, which allows me to use WASM which enables a bunch of CPU instructions not reachable via JavaScript. And then it's a bunch of things: I avoid branches in the hot paths, I use SIMD wherever possible, and I use ILP (instruction-level parallelism) to have a single CPU core process multiple data streams at once.

A lot of is just: I write the naive version first, then see where I'm doing too much work, change the code, measure, and repeat this 500 times

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@karrisaarinen @linear I love that peek behind the curtains, thanks for sharing! Would also love access (clickbar).

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@simonw @benstein From pelican to pelimust

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@TommyFalkowski @thsottiaux Same

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

Always be selling

[Vanilagy @vanilagy]

This guy built a local "video -> HLS -> R2" to pipeline, which is cool, but he uses an FFmpeg script to do it. The same task could've been achieved with Mediabunny in about ~10 lines of code, would not need a script, and would probably run 5x faster due to proper HW acceleration.

The thing is: it's not like he didn't use Mediabunny because he hated it. He probably just didn't know Mediabunny existed or that it could do this. Marketing really is hard!

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@tequilafunks I lost count of how many times I told Codex to inline such functions. Bonus when it also create a test for this.

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

That’s how I also make my code 12px @vanilagy

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@vanilagy „Half-Life: Source“ has been finally achieved

[Vanilagy @vanilagy]

Mediabunny 1.42.0 is now out, adding THE most requested feature: full read/write support for HLS! 🚀

It's truly a game changer for client-side media processing. Here, I'm creating 5 renditions from a 40-second video in ~10 seconds, fully client-side, without a transcode server:

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@vanilagy After week of polish, czech this out.

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@jessfraz Basically verbs vs noubs

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@badlogicgames Oh neim :(

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@mitsuhiko I think it's just part of how slang evolves, hard to pin point to something specifically. But I also share your observation, it seems a lot more prominent in the Twitter tech bubble.

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@kitlangton You are going to work on Svelte???

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@nicbarkeragain There’s even a youtube premium feature that lets you skip often-skipped segments, which generally maps to the sponsor segments. :D

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@SawyerMerritt @DerektheCleric That’s the same as saying it’s a fraction of 100%

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@thekitze Wtf you don’t need mobx for vue. Just use state there or pinia

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@danshipper In that case that would mean that it wouldn't be worth 100m anymore haha

[Alexander von Studnitz @jvstudnitz]

@SebAaltonen With 365*65 (assuming very young people dont have wallets) possibilities and checks whether the phone numer is valid I wonder how long brute forcing the number would take.