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trying to resist the (very rare!) temptation to make a twitter botPermalink Look on archive.org
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ok ok, i'm doing it. first test output (the bot part can come later). does this loop?Permalink Look on archive.org
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it does, although it is real potato quality encoding...Permalink Look on archive.org
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ah, i see the kind of game i'm playing nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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if anyone has an recommendations for encoding image sequences with ffmpeg into stuff that twitter will accept *and also* that encodes geometric forms so they look nice... do let me knowPermalink Look on archive.org
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barbaric that in TYOOL twenty twenty two i am trying to optimise gif filesize in order to give Twitter an image sequence that they can then transcode into an mp4 that looks somewhat decentPermalink Look on archive.org
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okay, mp4 time again??Look on archive.org
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ugh, yeah - preview frame looks good, but as soon as it starts to move it's a muddy mess. but at least it uploads!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I should stop taking my own advice @v21/988050683650805760Permalink Look on archive.org
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does this work?Permalink Look on archive.org
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yeah! that seems... pretty alright, actually!Permalink Look on archive.org
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(oh, yeah, btw: if you wanna mess with a similar circle-pattern like thing, check out v21.io/epicycles/)Permalink Look on archive.org
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btw, the ffmpeg incantation i am using for twitter video is: ffmpeg -i ${tmpDir}/img_%06d.png -framerate 40 -vcodec libx264 -profile:v high444 -tune animation -pix_fmt yuv420p -strict -2 ${videoPath} i write this here mainly so i can look it up laterPermalink Look on archive.org
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& making a new twitter app + authenticating the single bot account on it using v21.io/iwilldancetheoauthdanceforyou/Permalink Look on archive.org
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i still need to actually, y'know, automate it, but in the spirit of sharing: it's up! @epicyclesbot/1562922847202226178Permalink Look on archive.org
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you can see the tweet text get more refined over time. here's p much what it started as: @epicyclesbot/1562908258922565633Permalink Look on archive.org
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i do really enjoy tweaking these kinds of systems, trying to get some of the wilder variance in but also keep the "core" of their output tuned to the sweet spot parameters.Permalink Look on archive.org
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especially with Twitter bots, this is a nice thing to play with - it's fine if many of the tweets are kind of bad, it makes the ones that really go for it stand out. a durational performance, not a collectible.Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, this is a good one @epicyclesbot/1562925639757602816Permalink Look on archive.org
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setting this up on a server... man, i really need to migrate stuff away from my old server, modern node doesn't run properly any more due to a mismatch between userspace & kernel architecturesPermalink Look on archive.org
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but, y'know. the old stuff runs fine, so instead i'm just setting this up on the new server, which i *also* have. ... i love a chore that costs you money every month you put it off.Permalink Look on archive.org
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wish it was easier to get temporary read access to a private repo, so you could clone it down. but i understand that the main thrust of software dev is to put in complicated solutions to automate this kind of process.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i guess i am in the awkward middleground where i don't wanna make a fullblown personal SSH key with proper github access (the bodge way of doing it) and i also don't wanna make a deploy script for this thing i hope to never touch again after this week.Permalink Look on archive.org
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maybe i'm even in a weird middle ground by running this on a server with a persistent context, but that isn't a literal humming box in the corner of my living room.Permalink Look on archive.org
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more "coaxing things to work" - the server doesn't have ffmpeg, i don't want to globally install it, so trying github.com/kribblo/node-ffmpeg-installer. which doesn't work locally, but maybe just because I've got an M1 Mac. let's see if it works server-side??Permalink Look on archive.org
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two conclusions: 1) no, it doesn't. but maybe i'm calling it wrong 2) flip, i forgot to eat lunch, let's do that nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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good lunch! nice to be home & eat basically the same bowl of rice & mackerel & cucumber every day again aaaand... gave up on the nice installer thing, manually pulled down a static binary, and: @epicyclesbot/1563164166654832643Permalink Look on archive.org
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now just to deal with crontab, logging, etc...Permalink Look on archive.org
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difficulty mode selectPermalink Look on archive.org
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aaaand... i think i'm done?? time to make an announcement tweet & go rest my wrist for a bitPermalink Look on archive.org
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announced! @v21/1563173851689000962 and thanks for following along at home :)Permalink Look on archive.org