LosslessCut has become more and more popular recently, and I've gotten literally over a hundred of emails from people thanking me and saying LosslessCut is what they have been looking for for a long time. In these corona🍺times I've had lots of time to work on it and I have added a lot of new features and improved the user interface.

Many people have requested LosslessCut to be distributed through more channels to reach more people and ease installation and auto updating. Major operating systems also show a scary warning now, when trying to open an executable downloaded from the internet.

I just released LosslessCut to stores on three different platforms Windows, Mac and Linux: Mac App Store, Microsoft Store, Snapcraft. I want to share the process and the hurdles I went through in this article.

Inspired by this post, I wanted to hike Coromandel Peak in Wanaka, New Zealand. It is actually a shorter hike than going to Roys Peak, but a bit more adventurous. And you will have it all to yourself.

If you need to scroll to a specific View in a ScrollView, specified by a prop scrollToId to that page, do something like this:

See also this article.

Oracle no longer provides compressed versions of JDK 😡 and require root to install (probably they also install an auto updater nagging you all the time)

I created an Instagram automation library in Javascript / Node.js using Puppeteer: https://github.com/mifi/instauto

I forked, improved and published on npm a script of auto-subs. Originally made by olup, this script allows you to easily download subs for any movie/series.

homebridge-telldus is a plugin for homebridge which allows you to control cheap 433MHz devices like wireless light switches and dimmers from Apple's Home integration. This is done through Telldus Live, which provides a free service and API integration for people who bought their devices like TellStick Net and TellStick ZNet Lite. It provides a very cheap way to control your house with Siri and Apple Home.

I created a Node.js CLI for exporting users from AWS Cognito User Pools, because AWS did not have any method of exporting/backing up the users.

https://github.com/mifi/cognito-backup

Note: Moved here.