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Creating Animated Gifs from MP4 and WebM files using ffmpeg

Efficient video encoding has meant that sharing mp4/webm files has become more widespread. However for tools that don't readily support video playback (Google Slides..), it's sometimes still necessary to use gifs. Happily, ffmpeg makes this very easy!

Persistent WiFi failure on Ubuntu 24.04

Updates to Ubuntu 24.04 led to regular loss of wifi connection, often requiring a hard reboot. As ever with Ubuntu, there are about 3,928 possible solutions to any given problem. Here's the path which ultimately worked for me!

Internet connection problems with eircom efibre fixed

Eircom's eFibre product is their fastest home broadband offering, promising speeds of up to 100mb. The connection speeds are generally quite good, being capable of handling TV, Netflix and a handful of other connected devices all at once without any real issue on the speed. However the one black mark against the service would be the intermittent issues with the eircom DNS servers. This can often cause internet connection problems, where the net connection shows as active but nothing loads. Frustrating!

Mysqldump syntax error fixed

Recently I needed to move a database I had running in RDS to a machine on a new digitalocean account. Usually a fairly simple process, the first step of which is to export the database using mysqldump. But when I ran the command locally, I got an unusual error - "Couldn't execute 'SET OPTION SQL_QUOTE_SHOW_CREATE=1':You have an error in your SQL syntax"

CSS & Javascript truncated by nginx

On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines. My code was mounted from a windows host, and initially all was going well. Then suddenly my app started spitting out javascript errors. Digging in to chrome’s error console, it looked like the last 40 or 50 bytes of the file were missing. Same for the CSS files. A frustrating investigation had begun...

Symlink shenanigans - node.js, npm, express and vagrant

Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant. For those of you who haven't used it, vagrant is an amazing tool that makes it crazy-easy to set up and deploy uniform development environments on virtual servers. However, I ran in to a very frustrating issue when trying to install the node.js framework express through npm.

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