Month: August 2022
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2-day More Concurrent Thinking class at CppCon 2022
I am excited to be going to CppCon again this year, where I will be running a 2-day class: More Concurrent Thinking in C++: Beyond the Basics. The class is onsite at the conference venue in Aurora, Colorado, USA, on Saturday 10th September 2022 and Sun…
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Outreachy August 2022 update
I had the pleasure of being a mentor this summer for an Outreachy internship for the Matrix organisation. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are liv…
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Microsoft C++ versions explained
Microsoft has five different version numbers to think about when it comes to C++. Here’s an attempt to explain what they all mean. Visual Studio versions What most people will see first is the Visual Studio release year. You’ll download Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio 2019 etc. These however also have a more normal major.minor … Continue reading Microsoft C++ versions explained
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Transcoding video files for playback in a browser
ffmpeg -i original.mkv -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -ac 2 -ab 384000 -ar 48000 new.mp4 (Short answer: use the above ffmpeg command line. Read on for how I did this in Tdarr.) I recently discovered Jellyfin, which gives me a Netflix-like UI for viewing my own …