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Stop Re-Encoding Videos!

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Chris Griffith Opinion Video 4

I know this may sound like a weird statement coming from the author of FastFlix, but from the bottom of my heart, please stop the needless pixel loss! Every time you re-encode (aka transcode) a video it losses information, which lowers the quality and makes it...

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16TB Showdown – WD HC550 vs Seagate EXOS 16 vs Toshiba MG08

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Chris Griffith Hardware Build 3
Hard Drive Interals

Comparing the benchmark read and write speeds of the Seagate EXOS 16, WD Ultrastar DC HC550 and the Toshiba MG08 Series.

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Upload large files fast with Dropzone.js

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Chris Griffith Coding Tutorial 1

I have previously covered how to upload large files with dropzone.js, but it didn’t allow for parallel chunk uploads. In this article we will go over that new addition, as well as several other improvements. Download the final executable or view github to see all the...

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Keep Windows from going to sleep, no power settings needed!

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Chris Griffith Coding Tutorial 0

Say you have a long running process that you let go overnight, only to come back the next morning and realize “Oh no, only an hour into it, my computer went to sleep!”. Thanks to some Windows internals, it’s possible to make it realize there is...

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Favorite 3D Prints of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Chris Griffith Off Topic 0

This post is hardly coding tangential, even if you can programmatically generate 3D prints, but I thought would be a fun thing to share at the end of the year. These prints were all printed on an Ender-3 Pro using PLA or PLA+. Raspberry Pi Cases...

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