Odd choice that the example text on the homepage is almost all obvious typos that a standard spell check would pick up.
Readit Newsklabetron commented on Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly writewithharper.com... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
klabetron commented on TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML tikzjax.com/... · Posted by u/steventhedev
klabetron commented on TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML tikzjax.com/... · Posted by u/steventhedev
Holy smokes. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I submitted many calculus homework assignments in LaTeX because Jim introduced it to me back at our high school. (Go Mankato West Scarlets!)
klabetron commented on Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM github.com/LukasOgunfeiti... · Posted by u/xfeeefeee
klabetron commented on Show HN: Kforward – Lightweight K8s proxy for local dev github.com/sanspareilsmyn... · Posted by u/sanspareilsmyn
Thoughts on providing pre-compiled releases? I’m at a TS/node shop and while I can compile go, getting the team to adopt this is a lot harder if step one is to install go, step two is clone a repo they’ll only need for building, etc.
klabetron commented on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app pimosa.app/... · Posted by u/anshrathodfr
Nothing to be sus about. I use this script to install the libraries that I made open source.
https://github.com/Ansh-Rathod/pimosa-builds/blob/main/macli...
Might want to add major version checks particularly with ffmpeg as IIRC filter syntax can vary between major versions (speaking as someone who is pretty sure he’s got an older version of ffmpeg installed because I don’t want to rewrite my scripts).
klabetron commented on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app pimosa.app/... · Posted by u/anshrathodfr
Looks great, beautiful landing page and it looks like a labor of love!
- Most of the page titles are the (same)[1] which doesn't seem good for SEO. Each of the pages like "Pricing" or "Compress Your Video Files" should be differently named.
- The "video compressor" tool would be much more useful if you could enter a target file size. This is a frequent use case, if you want to send a video over email or social media apps like Messenger with a file size limit. The only way I've been able to do that for myself is basically encode it repeatedly with ffmpeg at various quality settings until the file size is just small enough, but you could probably automate that with something more intelligent like a good guess and a binary search. I'm sure someone's made a library to do that already though.
- It needs a whole bunch of features related to subtitles, like making a subtitled GIF from a video file with subtitles.
- Maybe risky to include copyrighted work like the Spider-Verse movie in the demo video? Unless you really did rip it legally from a Blu-ray.
- There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. "What kinda files Pimosa supports?" and "Every files gets processed on your device only" as some examples. Might give some people pause.
- Could be worth to have a more prominent "Download" box at the top section that automatically detects your OS. Most landing pages have that so I assume it works.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fpimosa....
> - There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. …
Can I get a discount if I copy edit your site and docs for you? :) But, yea, agree that the typos give pause.
> - Could be worth to have a more prominent "Download" box …
And make it more clear what downloading gets you. Is it a trial? Or just a version of the app that doesn’t save?
Reading through the site and docs, I get the impression you’ve spent more time getting license keys to work than anything else. Certainly at least in the way of docs.
Congrats on the first release.
I love a good database of very specific turns of phrase.
Hat-tip to my English professor (from 2 decades ago!), Scott Newstok, for launching this. IIRC, his undergraduate degree was in Mathematics—I’m sure he’d have made as fine a CS prof as English.
I visited Snoqualmie Lower Falls with a friend a few years ago and had this weird feeling I’d seen the place before… and then it hit me: it was clearly modelled in the game.
(It’s a bit of a drive to get there but so worth it.)