Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.
This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I’d made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg
So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!
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Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases.
O-kay…so you chose this route. Not going to read any of these walls, but to answer your initial point, I was merely alluding that it would be nice to declare the use of LLM tools these days.
And I too am a leet-full-stack-vibecoder but I rarely publish any of those tools other than for internal company use, always, ALWAYS, declare that the code is likely not fully verified/tested and never just say I did it. The tools work in my environment and test scenarios but might not in yours. I have seen how fragile the code/logic can sometimes be, perhaps not in this case, but who knows. And while things are getting better and better by each LLM release, it does not remove the importance of declaring the tools so people know what to expect.
But of course people tend to publish these with the usual ”look what I made” for some reason… Guess it makes people feel special?
Hey, my ask if simple: if you find a problem, let me know so I can fix it. I already have implemented fixes based on other suggestions, even though the commenter was kind of a dick, and my application is better for it. You’re the one who swung in here with nothing to add except a snide remark trying to antagonise me. Again, I’m not expecting approbation (except for the name, that was mine and I like it), I just shared it in case it was useful to anyone else.
If it doesn’t work on someone’s system, I want to know so I can fix it. If someone finds a bug I couldn’t, I want to fix it. I’m trying to learn - to read code better, but also technical project management. It sounds like you might be in or around technical projects yourself, so you know shipping something that works is actually quite a challenge. It’s an area I want to get some practical experience in.
If there’s a discourse that everyone is supposed to label everything that involves genAI, then I haven’t been part of it. There was no memo, there are no rules in the sidebar, so you can’t expect everyone to just know to follow those guidelines.
Finally, I don’t care if you read my other replies to other people. I was having an emotion about people piling on me, because I get enough of that shit at work, but here at least I get to speak in my defense, so I did. Do me a favour though and quit assuming things about my personality or how I think of my own skill set (I don’t think I’m any kind of coder, for one thing. I’m at best a warlock who read some wizard books but couldn’t even light a candle without his patron). So do you intend to engage with me in good faith, or were you just looking for a temporary punching bag?