Tim Martin t-mart

Grab ffmpeg from https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

It's a command line tool which means you will have to type things with your keyboard instead of clicking on buttons.

The most trivial operation would be converting gifs:

ffmpeg -i your_gif.gif -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 500K output.webm

-crf values can go from 4 to 63. Lower values mean better quality.
-b:v is the maximum allowed bitrate. Higher means better quality.

Open all files with git merge conflicts in MacVim

git diff --name-only | uniq | xargs mvim

When git encounters a merge conflict, e.g. during a rebase, it drops you back into the shell with a dirty working directory. I like this one-liner for opening all files with a merge conflict in MacVim.

Once you're in Vim, you can then switch between the files with :n and :prev, or another favourite: :w | n (save current file and open the next command line-supplied file).

UPDATE: see below for a version that works with real terminal commands.

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys, os
	from PIL import Image
	import numpy
	import scipy.fftpack

	sourceImage = sys.argv[1]

	image = Image.open(sourceImage)

	# Quick fork by @mcjim to add stash status and tweak to suit his style.
	# http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/12/git-dirty-prompt
	# http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/13/show-your-git-branch-name-in-your-prompt/
	# host dir master $ # clean working directory
	# host dir master* $ # dirty working directory
	# host dir master*^ $ # dirty working directory with stash
	# host dir master^ $ # clean working directory with stash

	function parse_git_dirty {
	[[ $(git status 2> /dev/null \| tail -n1) != "nothing to commit, working directory clean" ]] && echo "*"

	module Jekyll
	require 'coffee-script'
	class CoffeeScriptConverter < Converter
	safe true
	priority :normal

	def matches(ext)
	ext =~ /coffee/i
	end