Meta this is just SAD, Mark your company would be nothing without FF. Do the right thing and write a check today.
Readit NewsBorisMelnik commented on FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale engineering.fb.com/2026/0... · Posted by u/sudhakaran88
BorisMelnik commented on Show HN: Qlog – grep for logs, but 100x faster github.com/Cosm00/qlog... · Posted by u/cosm00
Awesome — thank you!
Access logs were one of the main motivations (lots of repeated queries like IP/user-agent/path/status). If you try it, two tips:
1) Index once, then iterate on searches: qlog index './access*.log' qlog search 'status=403'
2) If you’re hunting patterns (e.g. suspicious UAs or a specific path), qlog really shines because it doesn’t have to rescan the whole file on each query.
If you run into anything weird with common log formats (nginx/apache variants), feel free to paste a few sample lines and I’ll make the parser more robust.
ok thank you! I am prob going to have my cli agent read your docs and come up with some fun searches piped into different tools
As a staff, you don't even imagine what his salary is for screwing up like that.
That being said, interesting to see how salaries skyrocketed over the years: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie... but not that much for engineering.
that's insane...I am not donating anymore (not that I gave that much.)
BorisMelnik commented on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/11... · Posted by u/marvinborner
I'm surprised "faulty PSU" is not on GP's list of common problems. Almost every unstable computer I've ever experienced has been due to either a dying PSU (not an under-specced one) or dying power conversion capacitors on the motherboard.
yeah dell consumer pc psus were so awful
BorisMelnik commented on Show HN: Qlog – grep for logs, but 100x faster github.com/Cosm00/qlog... · Posted by u/cosm00
I spend a lot of time auditing access logs and use grep a lot - will try this
I love your micro viewport on desktop :)
..and your css. did you style this by hand?
BorisMelnik commented on Show HN: WooTTY - browser terminal in a single Go binary github.com/icoretech/woot... · Posted by u/masterkain
can you right click to paste?
BorisMelnik commented on Attention Media ≠ Social Networks susam.net/attention-media... · Posted by u/susam
"Over time, my timeline contained fewer and fewer posts from friends and more and more content from random strangers. "
It still baffles me that Facebook fills up my feed with random garbage I have no interest in. I barely use it now because their generated content gets in the way of the reason why I opened facebook to begin with. These algorithmic feeds clearly work for someone but its not what I am looking for, I want to see what I follow and nothing else unless I explictly go looking for it.
hey you know there is a feed on mobile, built into the app that only shows you your friends feed? not a fb employee or defending them just relaying info.
I like vi/vim and still use it because on certain systems and containers that is all you have sometimes.
I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.
I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.
and I know the teams love ffmpeg, there are some great folks at meta just not a lot in the c suite