Software developer 🇨🇦 "Less certainty, more inquiry" 🔎 "Just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him" - Office Space
Montreal, Canada
Joined March 2008
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True for SaaS, true for physical products:
Creating stuff without contact with customers is actually really risky.
The first versions are just there to get your foot in the door to talk to the people who are more knowledgeable about the domain.
"I made this thing..." is the first step
Then they educate you about what will and won't work, or show you a completely different path.
Added a recurring schedule for lighting.
It uses Flutter + Bluetooth, and the MCU's clock to turn lights on/off daily.
Josh Nussbaum retweeted
IKEA manuals, but they come to life.
I built the real BILLY instructions in 3D, so you can watch every step happen exactly as drawn. try it: sael.net/flatpack
Decided I need to learn how to sell.
Not the BS used-car or encyclopedia selling style.
But selling as a means of product development and as a way to help to help businesses.
Then using their feedback to update the product.
Makes it easy to create explainer videos using just HTML+CSS and render crisp 4K video.
Works very well with AI workflows
Open Sourced: Chrome Video Recorder
Repo: github.com/joshnuss/chrome-v…
- High quality rendering of CSS animations
- Crisp 4K & 120fps
- No FOCs. Waits for font/css/images to load before recording
Can also make overlays, just use a green background
body { background: green }
and then compose the video with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i background.mp4 -i overlay.mp4 \
-filter_complex \
"[1:v]chromakey=0x00FF00:0.15:0.05[fg];[0:v][fg]overlay=0:0:shortest=1[out]" \
output.mp4