Hacker News: steelcm

New comment by steelcm in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

steelcm — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:36:44 +0000

Check out emdash.sh - each task spins up its own worktree with a bunch of pre-defined environment variables that are injected. This includes `EMDASH_PORT` a uniquey port for a 10 port range. Very useful for running multiple services from a single monorepo.

New comment by steelcm in "Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg"

steelcm — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:16:40 +0000

Hah! Of course. We're hoping to release our video editor early next year. So keep an eye out.

New comment by steelcm in "Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg"

steelcm — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:46:30 +0000

This sounds like a more robust tool, however I wanted to keep our external tooling to a minimum. The contact sheet generation sits as part of our transcoding pipeline for uploaded media which already uses ffmpeg.

New comment by steelcm in "Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg"

steelcm — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:37:32 +0000

Maybe thumbnail sprite sheet is a more accurate term? I would have thought thumbnail on it's own doesn't represent the fact we're stitching together all the thumbnails of the video into a single image.

New comment by steelcm in "Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg"

steelcm — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:35:28 +0000

We're using this method as part of our user media upload pipeline at editsquare.com I'm guessing you're using ffmpeg wasm on your editor? One thing to note, that I didn't mention in the article, is generating a JPEG output is substantially quicker than a PNG.

Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg

steelcm — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:30:09 +0000

Article URL: https://steelcm.com/blog/generating-video-sprites-using-ffmpeg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42258407

Points: 80

# Comments: 24

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: I made a free web alternative of Screen Studio"

steelcm — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:00:12 +0000

This is very impressive. Is the playback frame accurate? What are you using to retrieve the sub titles?

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps"

steelcm — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:30:06 +0000

Looks good, but doesn't implement video previews, which seems to be the case with most of these OG preview tools.

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices"

steelcm — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:44:07 +0000

I use FreeAgent. It connects with all my business accounts and does automatic transaction matching to invoices. Sends emails and follow-ups. It also figures out all the tax things for me in the UK, not sure about other countries though.

https://www.freeagent.com/

Show HN: Mockupclips.com – Showcase your app/website in a tracked 4k stock video

steelcm — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://mockupclips.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210045

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by steelcm in "Most-favorited Hacker News posts"

steelcm — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:33:13 +0000

TIL HN has favorite functionality!

Open-source headless CMS to build powerful APIs with no effort

steelcm — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/strapi/strapi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340837

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by steelcm in "Puppeteer Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Automation"

steelcm — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:58:04 +0000

Other than testing, it would be interesting to hear about some other usages.

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: Get emailed whenever your brand is mentioned on Hacker News or Reddit"

steelcm — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:49:26 +0000

I've tried to write something similar, but I found that I was hitting the upper comment limitation of reddits API (ie. If there are more than 10k comments on a subreddit within an hour). How did you get around this problem?

New comment by steelcm in "Airbnb expands to experiences"

steelcm — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:41:59 +0000

I presume they are capturing your phone number for nefarious marketing reasons...

New comment by steelcm in "Atomic – Design, prototyping and collaboration tool"

steelcm — Wed, 27 May 2015 07:25:10 +0000

If I remember correctly, Perforce SCM had this feature.

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: Dump receipts as you get them through the year, recall them at tax time"

steelcm — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:03:32 +0000

same - took me 2 attempts to get access to the demo account - also your register page exposes a whole bunch of information if that username is already taken.

New comment by steelcm in "Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components"

steelcm — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:07:06 +0000

I incorrectly assumed from the marketing page that this was a hosted CMS. It wasn't until after sign-up it became clear this was a self-hosted build. Why do I need to sign-up when it's available on github?

New comment by steelcm in "What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub"

steelcm — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:42:32 +0000

There is a namespace in C++ called WTF, which probably accounts for a skew in that column.

New comment by steelcm in "Chrome Extention for Hiding Medium.com articles on HN"

steelcm — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:40:49 +0000

I see what you did there