Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 02 (January 9, 2023)

Easily identifying the CRF required to achieve a target VMAF : ffmpeg

A tool to quickly find the CRF setting needed for achieving target VMAF score.

FindThatMeme - The Meme Search Engine

A meme search engine that can search based on both text and image similarity.

One thing worth mentioning is that their architecture setup is kinda hilarious: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html

EWW Powermenu - dead airspace

A detailed guide on how to use EWW, a modern and beautiful widget system (aka. bar) that runs both on Wayland and X11. EWW is written in Rust and based on GTK+, so I expect it easier to extend than Polybar.

The configuration is written using a s-expression language, world's best configuration language. From a glance, the configuration language also makes more sense than Polybar's. Widgets are composable, dynamic data/text interpolation fits organically.

Mostly unsatisfied with Polybar, I previously even want to write a bar software on my own. Now it seems that EWW suits all my needs. I will make a switch to EWW when I have more time to tinker around.

Hacker's Guide to UART Root Shells - YouTube
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How to find UART on a PCB and tell the pin configuration?

Dotfiles Management - mitxela.com

A great way of managing system level dotfiles. TL;DR:

alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=/home/mx/.dotfiles --work-tree=/'
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Then managing the files would be simple basic git operations. No symlinking, installation, synchronization, etc.

Alternatively, it's also sensible to set the worktree to $HOME.