It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
A plugin that lets Claude Code watch videos; image + audio
177 votes, 67 comments. Claude doesn't natively accept video or audio input, so every time I wanted it to "look at a video" I'd have to screenshot…
AI video is moving beyond clip slop
AI companies don’t just want Hollywood using AI for video, but for everything.
TV on the internet before YouTube
Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was also a thriving scene of RSS-delivered web TV shows. * The technology (RSS)
Quantizer support in Mediabunny v1.52.0 | Mediabunny
Mediabunny v1.52.0 adds quantizer-based video encoding for AVC, HEVC, VP9, and AV1, enabling constant-quality video encoding.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
We should rethink how we teach people to code | deadSimpleTech
It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck. Code quality is poor on the whole, made worse by the current spate of vibe coding and whatever other febrile ideas come out of Sam Altman's brain. Much of the software that we write is either useless or actively hurts people. And the talented, creative people that we most need in the industry are pushed to the margins of it.
Don't Learn to Code - Learn to Automate - DaedTech
Does anyone remember a few years ago, when the mayor of New York decided to learn to program? It was a heady time, because it wasn’t just him. I remember these surreal commercials where Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh was encouraging children to learn to code for the good of humanity or something. There was...
AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.
55 AI-Generated Video Statistics: Disclosure, Detection, and Trust
AI-generated video is projected to account for 10% of all digital video content in 2026
AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog
How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.
Short post this week — sharing a code sample for multi-part video upload!
Multi-part video upload for Bluesky
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