This week I freed (i.e. open sourced) a bot that claimed the reward from frebitco.in automatically, it served me for over a year but as I withdrew everything from the page I no longer care if anybody uses it.

[blog-post] High quality GIF with FFmpeg

A quick post that teaches you how to make GIFs from sections of videos usin ffmpeg, I think there is not an easier way of maing gifs than this, just a quick command and you are ready to go.

[movie] Minimalism: A documentary about the important things

Directed by Matt D’Avella, one of my favourite youtubers, this is a documentary about what is minimalism and how it has impacted the life of a lot of people.

At the core minimalism isn’t about owning less stuff for the sake of it, it is about being mindful of the things you own, of acknowledging the motivations you have for buying more stuff and taking control over them.

I think minimalism is rising amongst people because of the conditions in which we live today: never has been a time before in which there were more products being marketed to us than today, the internet revolutionized how marketing was done, allowing more people to be influenced even more effectively into consuming, that added to the image of the ideal life portrayed by the mainstream media, one of extreme wealth and material posessions; the constant reminder that you don’t have enough and should earn and consume more only serves to keep people unhappy with what they have.