Need logging in your Electron app to the cloud but don't want to pay for services like Sentry, Papertrail, Bugsnag etc.?

Problem: Calling HTML5 video play() programmatically gives NotAllowedError in Safari, even with muted set on the video element. This is often a problem when trying to load some video data asynchronously before calling play(), even though the playback was initally triggered by a user's click (which is required by Safari).

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Electron logs to stdout by default, so when you build a production app, those logs will not be saved anywhere. However winston opens up a whole plethora of options.

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This article describes how to setup GitHub Actions CI deploy to AWS S3 / CloudFront.

I made an example GitHub Action workflow that will automatically push all files in a specified directory to a different GitHub repo using a GitHub deploy key. By enabling GitHub Pages for the destination repo, you can serve content dynamically generated by a GitHub action workflow/job.

Check it out!

Hvordan Vippse penger til et kontonummer i stedet for et telefonnummer.

This article shows how to send money using the Vipps apps to an arbitrary bank account number instead of a phone number.

I previously attempted to do the same with an early version of the Vipps (Norwegian easy payment app), but the app has changed a lot since then. I decided to try again with the current version, and I learned that it has implemented quite a few new countermeasures preventing the old method from working.

Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. It allows you to easily and programmatically create a video from set of clips, images and titles, with smooth transitions between.

There is a simple command line for quickly assembling a video from a set of clips or images, or you can use it from Javascript!