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Convert a video to an animated GIF using ffmpeg
This is an uber-quick post on how to convert a short video to an animated GIF using ffmpeg. As a bonus tip, we will also use ffmpeg to trim the video.
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1 min | snippet
This is an uber-quick post on how to convert a short video to an animated GIF using ffmpeg. As a bonus tip, we will also use ffmpeg to trim the video.
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In this post we will use a launchd agent to prevent macOS from going to sleep or activating the screensaver. This is particularly useful if you have a Mac laptop, enrolled in an MDM, with a policy that enforces the screensaver after a few minutes of inactivity. As a bonus tip we can tweak the agent to prevent sleep on battery power, a setting that was removed in the most recent versions of macOS.
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Apple don't make it easy to export and backup all your Notes, unless of course you want to export each note to PDF one by one. So I decided to write a quick and dirty Apple Script that will export all my Apple Notes to PDF in one go.
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Tired of those VC-backed companies screwing with your password manager? In this post we are going to self-host Vaultwarden on a local server using Caddy as a reverse proxy and Clouflare for DNS. All of this privately available on the local network and secured by an auto-provisioned Let's Encrypt certificate.
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In this post we are going to secure a freshly provisioned Linux server to protect it against the most common attack vectors. The aim of this approach is to create an acceptable security baseline while keeping the server easy to manage.
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