Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.
This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I’d made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg
So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!
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Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases.
O-kay…so you chose this route. Not going to read any of these walls, but to answer your initial point, I was merely alluding that it would be nice to declare the use of LLM tools these days.
And I too am a leet-full-stack-vibecoder but I rarely publish any of those tools other than for internal company use, always, ALWAYS, declare that the code is likely not fully verified/tested, and never simply say I did it. The apps work in my environment and test scenarios but might not in yours. I have seen how fragile the code/logic can sometimes be, perhaps not in this case, but who knows. And while things are getting better and better by each LLM release, it does not remove the importance of declaring the tools so people know what to expect.
But of course people tend to publish these with the usual ”look what I made” for some reason… Guess it makes people feel special?
I really need to stick to my rule of taking a day to think before I respond.
So here’s the thing, I understand why people would want me to label my posts as AI-assisted. I’m sure there are a lot of people who just ask the AI to build them a thing, slap it all together, and throw it up on the internet as a finished project, and it’d be exhausting to be looking at the 95th slopbucket of a codebase and realise you’ve been bamboozled again by genAI.
I’m explicitly trying to not be that guy, so here’s what I’m doing. I’ve added a preamble to the post disclaiming this project is AI-assisted, and why I think it’s fair to say I’m doing it differently than most. I’ll add something like that to my other post now, and I’ll include clean it up to include a shorter boilerplate version in future posts. It’s the internet, nobody knows me, so it’s only fair to introduce myself!
If you have any advice or feedback to contribute, I’d genuinely appreciate it - it’s just easier for me to take on board if I don’t have to fight through emotional dysregulation to read it.