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Everlag

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About Everlag

There is an art to the creation and maintenance of suspense.

Engineer at Cloudflare doing video things.

Email is at github.com/Everlag/

ExcessiveLag on twitter

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[Disclaimer: opinions expressed in comments are my own and do not necessarily reflect my employer's stance or non-stance on any specific issue.]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #35214644

    If you're interested in seeing a use case of the APIs, there was a really cool talk at Demuxed last year where some folks built a compositor using this plus canvas[0] [0] https://w…

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    Comment #33980286

    nebula[0] may be interesting; you can allow list connectivity for specific groups, all burned into the cert used to join the network. It uses some NAT hole punching orchestration t…

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    Comment #31173808

    That's such a different approach than I've grown used to, but different platforms encourage different flows. I've been using bitbucket (not the shiny nice new bitbucket) at work fo…

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    Comment #30356068

    Honestly, RTMP is a workhorse that powers most live video ingest today; its not bad, its just mostly frozen in time. Some issues that came immediately to mind are: - It was develop…

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    Comment #30353721

    The current state of media ingest protocols is actually getting interesting. For quite some time its been a situation of 'everyone supports RTMP so you support RTMP' plus 'vendor X…

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    Comment #28743028

    I would be surprised and saddened if `?` as described in the blog was added to go. Error wrapping is critical for operating a service and staying sane; an operator encouraging `if …

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    Comment #27260792

    Heads up for anyone reading this on chrome, the examples may not render with a `Cannot read property '_gl' of null` exception; firefox worked fine when I tried it.

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    Comment #25717655

    Stream currently supports VOD delivered over HLS/DASH. We'd like to explore live in the future.

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    Comment #25708197

    My team agrees with you :) https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/ Happy to take any critique y'all may have.

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    Comment #25642021

    If you want to avoid the 'this chrome extension has been sold to a malicious actor' fiasco that hit me with the Great Suspender yesterday, you can load this as an unpacked extensio…

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    Comment #25425082

    Aye, this is the 'Cryptograph Doom Principle'[0]. To very lossily summarize: always authenticate before looking at the message. Its a handy rule of thumb when you're making choices…

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    Comment #25250191

    This labels itself small but, honestly, it feels too small. Why would I introduce a dependency that I can implement in 5 minutes from first principles? The entire implementation es…

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    Comment #25023387

    If you want to do fun things with ffmpeg as a cli, most roads end at filter_complex[0]. You can get some truly impressive results at the cost of maintaining really intricate comman…

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    Comment #23811932

    I am curious how many people mock their SQL queries and how they decide to mock vs not mock at that level. From the perspective of the services I'm knee deep in at the moment, SQL …

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    Comment #23463576

    I'm obligated to mention xmage: http://xmage.de/ Think cockatrice that trades ergonomics for a rules engine. Much easier to play when the game just 'works'. It even has loop detect…

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    Comment #23128335

    The first book has context that I'd say is required to fully enjoy the third book. So, second->first->third->... Most the downside of the first book is the quality of the writing; …

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    Comment #23128241

    Most good rules always have an exception, Malazan[0] is a fun set of exceptions to these. If you're not familiar, Malazan is a series of high fantasy novels and they're quite good.…

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    Comment #22339723

    Is the value proposition here the CSS performance benefits of shadow DOM without needing shadow DOM? If so, its surprising there's no direct comparison in the link. I could actuall…

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    Comment #20796507

    I've been there, I've got a bunch of entries that summarize to 'Bleh day'. For me, though it may differ for others, those entries are useful. They let me notice that something is o…

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    Comment #20795526

    The referenced idea of a 'human log' is great[0]. I started doing something similar 4 years ago and it eventually evolved from per-project notes into a full diary. Being able to se…

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    Comment #16950654

    Without looking at the code, it looks like its using a steering algorithm[0] to move a series of 'boids'(each individual stroke) along the path you define. A boid is controlled by …

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    Comment #16913943

    For those looking, here's the full anandtech review that also came out today. [0] @dang maybe change the link as the review is a superset of the announcement. [0] https://www.anand…

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    Comment #16844147

    From diving in, it looks like the contract backing a smart wallet implementation had a vulnerability/bug/design flaw allowing an arbitrary actor to kill it[0]. It looks like these …

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    Comment #16777062

    For those not following the consumer SSD market closely, this is a bit of an upset. Previously, Samsung was king and basically unchallenged on price/performance for mainstream and …