Rino

Web creator helping visual thinkers build real things

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Jensen Huang in the Matrix, learning how Chinese spies work

Wait till the end 👀

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

Why AI can’t “kill” WordPress, it’s the opposite (Live w/ Jamie Marsland)

Going live in 30mins with @RinodeBoer 👇

https://t.co/5OvBwyXD7N via @YouTube

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@saifurrehmanwp Yep, the original file is saved and can be restored. And if you are happy with the conversion, then at some point you can also delete the whole folder with originals to clean up your database.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

These image optimise & compression plugins on the WordPress repo are always so annoying, trying to upsell you to their Pro plans, just to do some basic upload & bulk compression.

So I build one myself 😎

Compressino...

So far:
- Auto convert to WebP on upload
- Compress & restore from Media Library popup
- Instant visual preview of the compression with easy slider (with load in your own image from library)
- Bulk compress with 1 button
- Reduction preview and history
- Keep & restore original
- All free, no external server involved

What a time to be alive

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@PradGp1 In an ideal world, yes, but after working with clients many years, I've learned to keep it as easy as possible for them. Better for them, better for me.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@PradGp1 It's just convenience. And you cannot expect clients to also do that. And lastly, I built in a button to clean up the originals if you're happy. So, it's one click to clean up all the originals. That's a lot less clicks than having to compress every image before you upload.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@jrp_gg Thank you.
Not yet, but the next step is to connect to the YouTube API so that the video automatically gets uploaded after export.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

I tried to build my own AI Video Edit Mac app that talks to Claude or ChatGPT, and after a few hours I have this.

It already works and I've made my first MP4 export 🤯

How is building your own AI video editor a weekend project now?

Crazy times

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

"SaaS is dead” is just a bunch of bullshit.

The idea that everybody is going to build their own software and be happy with it is a tech bro bubble take. Or a sales pitch from tech CEOs selling you tokens.

I just spent a full day building my own video editing Mac App in Codex. And it is becoming incredibly good and useful.

Anything I throw at Codex, it builds it. Most changes are done within a minute. But that’s not where the hours go.

I ask for a feature, I wait, I try. I realise it doesn’t quite work how I imagined it. I figure out why (which takes skill), and then I figure out what to prompt next to fix it.

Over and over.

This is not easy. You need to understand how to describe what you want and need properly. And then you need to be able to judge whether the result is actually good. Having access to the best model in the world doesn’t automatically give you those skills. And the model can't know what I need for my specific workflow. It can't predict that. I need to describe that, after conceptualizing my own workflow in my mind.

I’ve been obsessed with software for 20 years, studied UX/UI design, I teach software, consult companies on their interfaces, and built multiple webapps. And it's still challenging for me.

So it is really cool that this is possible, and I absolutely wasn’t able to do this a few years ago, but it's still quite an exercise for my brain to get it right.

Now imagine doing all of this without that experience. How is a normal person going to pull that off? It can't. They don't have the same prompting and software judgment skills. That's what 20 years working in software gives you.

Will a big part of the group that works in tech build their own software? Sure, but most of the world is not part of that group. And software isn't just used by tech bros.

So tech bros that are promoting this idea of "Saas is dead" are just in their own bubbles and assume everybody is like them. But that's not how it works. And the next model doesn't change that.

Most people just want software that works so they can get on with their actual job. And we haven't even talked about the lack of free time that the modern human has.

So I don’t buy the “SaaS is dead” BS anymore. It just doesn't make sense.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@bradvin Yea, I agree.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@hoanghxn Not yet, it's just one day old. If it's good enough, then I will probably release it and make a video about it.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@i_mika_el Yes, I also built in a feature now that allows you to delete all of the original ones if you are happy with the results of the compression.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@IamYashKapoor It also works on older uploads. You can compress individual images or bulk compress all of the images you already have on your website.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@MrShahzadRaza @oldstackjournal Ah interesting, and I guess that isn't on a normal WordPress managed hosting setup then? But on a custom VPS server? Or can you pull this off on a normal hosting package as well. Do you know that?

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@MrShahzadRaza @oldstackjournal That's really interesting. But where it the Astro code saved then?

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

I guess I'm too old school. I've been editing in Descript for a year, and never touched the transcript editing. I just can't get used to it. But my agent can. So he is using transcript now. And I do like to see the text in the timeline to easily find stuff, so that's what I added now.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

ChatGPT SOL 6.1 really cooked with this one.

After a few hours of prompting, I got my own AI Video Editor Mac app, and it looks like it can already compete with other video editing software I use.

It can now:

- Save and reuse your own scene layouts
- Trim by dragging and camera & screen stay in sync
- Smooth scene transitions with (adjustable) easing and duration
- Layers panel with resize, corners, shadows, etc settings
- Local project files that any LLM can work with, so fast agentic editing, but manual control for details

I am making this because I saw what was possible with Remotion in combination with Claude. But Remotion Studio (their browser editor) didn't have great manual editing experience. And I found with video editing you often need those small adjustments to get the audio cut right. That's not a task you want to do via prompting. You need a proper timeline editor.

So I think this is the best of both worlds. Fully agentic editing, but also a UI for the small details.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@MrShahzadRaza @oldstackjournal Awesome, and what did you use to convert to WordPress to Astro?

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@Thealfredalv Haha awesome!

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@Thealfredalv Haha, No, I haven't launched it. It's literally just a side project I started over the weekend for fun. I don't have any plans to launch it yet, and there are still many features I should add.

[Rino @RinodeBoer]

@Thealfredalv What do you mean? Is this an AI response or something?