I have dealt with some of these topics before in different places but now want to weave a more coherent narrative around these topics and try to find a way how to tie them together so it makes...
This post deals mostly with Google's implementation of JSON-LD structured data. While the schema.org effort was undertaken in 2011/2012 by all major search engines at the time (Google, Bing, Yahoo,...
Licensing the code # There is also a licensing question: How is Matt Mullenweg allowing this non-GPL code into Wordpress? He has been very vigorous in the past in going after people who sold themes...
To validate my assumptions about Gutenberg I cloned my technical blog (The Publishing Project) and installed the Gutenberg plugin. My blog is not too sophisticated, it uses the two PHP functions below...
I got into the discussion for an issue in the _s theme repository regarding Gutenberg code blocks. It seems that after the first phase where they will be optional, meaning that if you don't want them...
Once support for AV1 comes to FFMPEG I will recompile it to include AV1 support. It will, supposedly, provide better compression than HEVC/H265 and not be encumbered by patents to the level of H265...
I've always thought about the concept of an encoding ladder without really knowing what it was and why it was important. I came across the concept again a few weeks ago when researching the AV1...
Apple announced support for HEIF and HEVC high-performance video and image formats in macOS High Sierra at WWDC in 2017. While you can create content and share it free of charge all other users...
Something to keep an eye out for regarding royalty-free video codexes is AV1 from the Streaming Media Alliance. While it's still under development with a final code freeze expected by 12/31/17 it...
I was working on reencoding videos to HEVC from DVD content I had ripped off before I lost access to a DVD player on my laptop. Yay, Apple. I couldn't understand why the captions (in .ass format)...