These guys (https://evilmartians.com/) sure understands a thing or two about images and image compression. I have used their imgproxy[1] (Golang image resizer) for a long time and it has been solid from the very beginning.
I recommend Thumbor if you want the advanced manipulation and smart cropping features common in the hosted services: https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor
Last night I was testing DO managed Kubernetes cluster with persistent volume claim and the volume took 15 minutes to reattach after the pod is rescheduled to another host. I thought it was just some weird hiccup and went to bed.
The incident report indicated the problem started 4 hours ago (around 9pm GMT) but I was having problem around 4pm. It's definitely not a 2-hour incident.
our disks in London went down at about 8:45pm UTC (10 mins 100% disk utilization alert triggered at 5 to) and DO recovery message was sent out at about 2am UTC. We switched our service (keychest.net) on at 3:15am
Vietnam's second largest mobile network operator Mobifone was affected for 3 hours[1]. Now we know 3: UK, Japan and Vietnam. I'm sure it's possible track down the other 8.
Wow, Hong Kong's Smartone uses Ericsson and wasn't effected. I am surprised at how wide spread the problem is. How could Ericsson messed this up when the it has the biggest chance to grab business from Huawei.
Your blog posts are interesting, thank you for that. I have questions though: Since you are using both Terraform and Packer from HashiCorp, do you happen to use Nomad too? If you do, what is your experience with it? Can you compare Nomad vs. Kubernetes?
Just yesterday I built an Android app to cast audio-only (ogg format) from YouTube to Chromecast. Had to do it because:
1. Baby needs her white noise to sleep
2. No other sites have those "8 hours womb sounds" as good as YouTube
3. The YouTube app refuses to cast to Google Home mini
Came across ydls[1] which uses youtube-dl and ffmpeg to download then transcode media on-the-fly. It's not very effective but works great! We no longer have to turn on the TV in our baby room. Check out the source code[2] if you are also a new parent.
I've also used them for DSLs, i.e. the following grammar compiler (where the actions are literal functions defined in the grammar string as follows), sadly never released:
Our team worked on a similar idea and the test phone speakers died pretty fast, probably 2 out of 3 within a month. The cause may be (1) we over-stressed them too much (2) they were cheap Samsung phones and (3) we used frequency around 20kHz to avoid annoying human users (this library seems to operate at 17+kHz at most). Our conclusion at the time was consumer speakers and microphones are not good enough. Would love to hear whether Quiet has the same issue.
Funny, I say my cheap, 2 year old, $60 huawei phone die a couple of months ago. At the end it was emitting weird sounds from its speaker. It would not boot properly anymore.
I have been jumping between Videostream, Plex and VLC nightly in the last few months. They seem to play all kind of video files but subtitles remain to be a hard problem. VLC simply doesn't support it (or I didn't figure out how to enable subtitles). Videostream is buggy. Plex works with a specific version only (had to downgrade to get back subtitles)... The search continues I guess.
I like plex, despite its mysterious failures during streaming (dropped wifi, stuttering on old-generation chromecast). The UI is clear, easy for me to organize, and sub-organize things for my kids to use.
Story time: this past summer I wanted to travel from Canada to Florida (3 days 2 nights) with just me and two young kids. To save on airfair I decided to drive. I bought myself the dlink DIR-505, one of those vehicle power bars, packed my laptop running plex, plugged in my portable drive that houses all my media, and I had a mobile hotspot the kids connected to from each of their devices to watch movies using plex, it was intuitive enough for them to use. With each having headphones, I even streamed my music to the car's bluetooth using plex. We went for 12hrs on our longest day, it was a huge relief from the boredom at times.
I've never had a problem with subtitles though, can you explain what you mean?
How is Videostream buggy for you? I've been trying Videostream, VLC nightlies, and Emby. The latter two were buggy for me, but Videostream (although it is just Chrome embedded rly whatever that's called) works. So I just went for a one-time Premium tax and now I can stream. Including with a remote from my Android phone.
PS: and it has Opensubtitles support. I do sometimes have to resort to using VLC to grab subtitles (for a diff language) but even VLC sometimes does not work. Then I gotta resort to, well, a web browser to grab the sub.
I was running 1.9.6, after an auto update to 1.10.something subtitles stopped working on Chromecast. I looked around and found a thread[1] with many people reporting the issue with many versions of Plex. One guy said he reverted to have it working again so I tried that and... it worked! I haven't updated Plex since then. Good to know that you have subtitles working with the latest version, maybe I will update when I get home, fingers crossed!
[1] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy