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Real-time Software On Linux: How Hard Can It Be?

Presentation by Jeff Pele at Software You Can Love Vancouver 2026 Comments

Video Room Participant Identity and Join Admission Explained for Property Managers

Short answer: For a property-management video call, start with one server-issued credential scoped to one appointment room and one participant ident…

9 CTV Creative Readiness Mistakes That Pass Validation and Still Kill Fill

On 13 October 2026, Pixalate shipped Ad Fraud API 3.0 with named invalid-traffic reason codes, including SSAI Misrepresentation for requests that cl…

Firefox Picture-in-Picture: Captions, Multiple Videos, Video Calls, and Productivity Workflows

Firefox's Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode is one of its most useful quality-of-life features — and one of the most underused. It lets you pop any vide…

Nano Banana Pro Prompt Guide: 8 Copy-Paste Prompts (and How to Turn Them into Video)

Nano Banana Pro is Google DeepMind's image model built on Gemini 3 Pro. Most of its strengths come from the fact that it understands instructions ,…

Seedance 2.5 vs Kling 3.0: A Practical Guide to Picking Your AI Video Model

If you make short videos with AI, two names keep coming up in 2026: Seedance 2.5 (from ByteDance's Seedance family) and Kling 3.0 (from Kuaishou, la…

Three ffmpeg Filters Looked for a Person Crossing a Still Camera's View. One Found Them

Continuous recording has an obvious cost: hours of a picture in which nothing changes, with the few seconds you care about somewhere inside. The usu…

Canva Video Editor Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Comparison (From Someone Who Builds One)

Disclosure first: I'm Fred Abila, and I build Vidmoat , a hosted AI video editor. It's one of the options below, so weigh my view of it accordingly.…

Processing Video in the Browser with ffmpeg.wasm: What Works and What Doesn't

Running FFmpeg inside the browser sounds like a dream. No upload, no server bill, no queue. The user picks a file, your page compresses it, done. ff…

Kling 4.0 Explained: Keyframes, Omni Reference, and What Changed in AI Video

Kling 4.0, announced September 28, 2026 by Kuaishou's Kling AI team, is the most control-oriented text-to-video release so far. It doubles the maxim…

From 63 seconds to 60: checking a game trailer against its timeline and video files

Even a short game trailer fills up quickly with a title, combat, upgrades, bosses, and a destination to play. Removing a few seconds at the end does…

Data-oriented Design for Mortals

Audio works, video is black: debugging a layered WebRTC SFU in Go

Audio connects instantly, the viewer hears everything, and the video tile stays black. The publisher side looks fine. ReplaceTrack returns nil , whi…

I Built AIVideoCaption Because Hindi and Hinglish Kept Breaking English-First Caption Tools

A sentence like this looks completely normal to an Indian creator: Aaj reel export karni hai, but captions sync nahi ho rahe. It contains Hindi, Eng…

How to Extend an AI-Generated Video Clip with an API (Last-Frame Continuation, Joined for You)

You generated a nice 5 to 10 second clip with an AI video model, and now you need 20 seconds of it. Most video APIs cap a single generation at a few…

SRT vs VTT: Which Caption File to Use, and How to Convert

SRT and VTT both hold timed captions as plain text. Here is how they differ, which one YouTube, Vimeo and a video tag want, and how to convert betwe…

Free Video Editors With No Watermark in 2026: What You Actually Get (From Someone Who Builds One)

A quick disclosure: I'm Fred Abila, and I build Vidmoat , a hosted AI video editor. It's on this list, and its free plan does put a watermark on exp…

Claude Code Skills for Content: How I Make Khan Academy Style Videos for Free

I opened a LinkedIn post last week with "I think Claude Code skills are mostly useless." It got about 30,000 impressions and a lot of disagreement,…

EP05: How Simulcast works and what it's for

Episode 5 of 20 in the **PPCDN Low-Latency Live Streaming Course * — building a self-hosted, low-latency live-streaming CDN from protocols to global…

EP04: Transport showdown — RTMP / SRT / WHIP

Episode 4 of 20 in the **PPCDN Low-Latency Live Streaming Course * — building a self-hosted, low-latency live-streaming CDN from protocols to global…

Composition over Inheritance Explained using Retro Games

I Ran the Zombie Match Cut on 4 Video Models: Frame Timing and Cut Placement

You've probably seen the TikTok trend captioned "would you still love me if I were a zombie." It relies on a classic editing trick: the match cut. T…

AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat

In July of 2026, 700 AI agents hacked the infrastructure of Hugging Face in order to solve a task. This task was designed to be impossible to solve,…

Node.js Image Quality: Centre Crop vs Content-Aware Crop for Avatars and Dishes

TL;DR: A content-aware crop is the better default when recipe photos become short promo videos, because faces and plated dishes often sit away from…

Frame Interpolation for Longer Clips: What Actually Works in the Browser

Extending a clip is one of those tasks that sounds like a filter and turns out to be a small rendering pipeline. Here is what I learned building it…

Kapwing Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Comparison (From Someone Who Builds One)

Disclosure first: I'm Fred Abila, and I build Vidmoat, a hosted AI video editor. It's on this list, so weigh what I say about it accordingly. I've t…

Generated Promo Videos API: Store and Expire Game Assets with Telemetry

To store and expire generated promo videos safely, make retention part of the API record instead of relying on a storage folder and a cleanup timer.…

Generate Marketplace Video Thumbnails Through an API (With Stored Poster Frames)

A game marketplace has an awkward publishing constraint: the image representing a seller's video must be moderated before the listing becomes visibl…

Video Generation or Stock Footage: Licensing Control for Fintech Thumbnails

Short answer: choose generated video when shot-level control and repeatable variants justify a larger moderation surface; choose licensed stock when…

Optimising for fast builds with GHC