Stuart Langridge

Iiiiiiiit’s #eurovision ! Got a beer, let the fun begin

I wanted to put a video on my website, but I wanted it to adapt to the viewer's bandwidth and screen (you know, how YouTube does, where you get the narrow 240p version if you're on a rubbish mobile connection, but you still get the video). After a bit of research, I worked out how (thank you to Scott Jehl about responsive video via CSS, and mux.com for HLS and ffmpeg instructions) and wrote a quick note in case anybody else needs the same.
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/04/16/serving-streaming-video-that-adapts-to-bandwidth-from-your-own-website/

if you've got a load of CSS files which may have many duplicate entries, what's a good tool for bundling them all together and deduplicating them? Ideally a standalone tool which mostly does that, not something like a webpack plugin which will require me to set up webpack.

@GreenSysAdmin was it you I was talking to about installing web apps on the Linux desktop? I wasn't sure if Vivaldi could do it. Well, I can confirm that Vivaldi can indeed do it, 'cos I've just checked by installing Farmbound as a PWA and it worked fine, so that's nice :)

I ran around asking all the people who I thought were candidates and nobody was. So, offer your suggestions (or own up!) for having been to all the OggCamps below #OggCamp2024
People I thought of who might have good ideas even though not themselves: @popey @marxjohnson @awfulwoman @andypiper @bigcalm @methoddan
https://mastodon.social/@oggcamp/113299608014216030

And now @Edent at #OggCamp2024 building an activitypub server while wearing a frankly ridiculous spangly jacket which I am very envious of

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“You may have heard about wave-particle duality? That’s all bollocks. Light is made of photons.”
@ralight unseats the most fundamental physics understanding at #OggCamp2024

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https://osspledge.com/

Two rules (from @getsentry who started this):

1. Give money to the open source projects which are probably 90% of your code base. $2000 per developer on your staff, although you can and should do better than that. (@buttondown are doing better than that.)
2. Report every year on whether and how you did it.

This seems like a good idea today, and a thing where non-participation should feel weird tomorrow.

OK, here is a weird CSS discovery. Media queries apparently can go around just a single property and value, not necessarily a whole rule.

That is:

@media ... { p { color:green } }

works as expected, but

p { @media ... { color: green } }

works as well!

Is this _supposed_ to work? Does everyone else use this all the time and I'm the last to find out? I had no idea this worked; I assumed you had to wrap whole rules only!

https://www.kryogenix.org/random/media-query-wrong-way.html demonstrates.

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HA HA HA HA HA HA I have found out why my iPhone iCloud backup was larger than 5GB but there was no way to reduce its size!

Turns out... if you bookmark a web app to your Home Screen then its data is included in your iCloud backup. This is very good! Nice one Apple.

But it doesn't show up in the "Backup Details" list of apps in your iCloud Backup settings, so you don't know where the space is gone. This is not as good. I shall file a bug.