Month: April 2012
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Thumbnails are back
…it’s back. And it will not stop until it has accomplished its mission. This week, Daniel Thul fixed and reactivated the clip thumbnailing code for Pitivi’s timeline. But he didn’t just stop there. No sir. He implemented caching too, and that made my week. We don’t just process thumbnails on-demand anymore, we now save them to…
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La pression sociale
Voici quelques pensées générales sur la responsabilité, le déterminisme et sur la société dans laquelle nous vivons. Je vais à contre-courant sur une poignée de choses dans la vie: Je refuse d’utiliser Facebook pour gérer mes relations avec mes véritables amis (en d’autres termes, les « relations privées »), pour les raisons énumérées précédemment. À la…
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Surviving Git
Git can feel extremely unnatural to those who came from Bazaar. Only after a lot of advice from friends, the right tools and a few months of intensive usage did I feel confident enough to use it without fear. Many are probably in the same boat as me though, so I took a couple of…
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PiTiVi GES spring sitrep
Now that the Internet is back to normal, here’s a status update on what I’ve been busy doing lately. You may remember my initial donation experiment last month where I presented the new realtime trimming preview feature—I was not kidding. It’s merged in the pitivi “ges” development branch now, with some additional improvements tacked on.…