For weekend project, I wrote a VidCutter app. The whole idea was to have kind-of-videoplayer that'll let me watch the video file and mark two points (start and end) and then create a new video file with only selected fragment of original file.

Technically you can use any video editing tool but I'm not aware of single one that can do this without performing re-encode, which is waste of time and electricity.

My solution - written in Lazarus-FPC - uses FFMpeg with copy "codec" so it's near instant (or "as slow as your storage medium") and DirectShow for video preview.

And use case? I keep archival recordings of interesting moments from my car's dash cam and they're in 3 minute segments, each takes around 650MB (it's 1920x1080 @ 30fps at 28Mbits/s bitrate) so my collection quickly grew to over 80 gigabytes of videos. And actually interesting is probably 1/5 of that, if not less. VidCutter will help me quickly throw away unneeded segments and reclaim storage.

Now the question is, is there a "market" for such tool? Is it worth sharing (even if it's only for Windows or anything that can imitate DirectShow)?

#weekendproject #programming

RE: https://tutter.org/@blint/116501158505927410

Well, I'm finished! #Tutter  now migrated from an old #Kubernetes cluster with custom built and patched container image to it's own #NixOS vm! 🎉
Hopefully this'll help me maintain it easier, the migration from the old node with the kubernetes was necessary, so at least I tried this!

Mental note: I'll need to write a blogpost about this process... So sad, that I still want to migrate my site from #Hugo to something static (manual html + css (maybe + js)) or ssg...

#Tutter #Sysadmin #NixOS #migration #Kubernetes #website #randomthoughts #weekendproject

I bought the wrong color of grout by accident, but I've been putting off repairing a crack in the shower for weeks now so I just went for it. It was an easier process than I thought it might be, and now my first attempt stands out so I can see it and re-do it in the right color when I need another project.

for now, it should keep water from getting into the wall with any luck.

#HomeRepair #DIY #Homeowner #WeekendProject

Start your DjangoCon US talk proposal today, submit it Monday morning. Then, you have until August to put together the talk! Check out @webology's list of talks he'd like to see for winning ideas: https://micro.webology.dev/2026/03/19/djangocon-us-talks-id-like/

#django #techtalks #weekendproject

Samstag Abend und ich sitze hier mit nem Raspberry Pi, der gerade mein neues Spielzeug geworden ist. 🥓

Wer kennt's? Man will "nur kurz" was testen und plötzlich sind 4 Stunden rum und man hat ein komplettes Monitoring-System aufgesetzt. 😅

Was sind eure aktuellen Wochenend-Projekte? Bastelt jemand auch gerade an was Spannendem?

#RaspberryPi #WeekendProject #HomeServer #Dresden #TechLife #SelfHosting

Still no auth logic, but it can now also process \S and \S{VAR} to show values from /etc/os-release with /usr/lib/os-release as fallback.

#Linux #JustProgrammerThings #WeekendProject (sort of) #Lua #agetty