flickies: A Video Toolbox That Happens to Do Lipsync
I was neck-deep in an avatar pipeline and needed two unglamorous things at once: a lipsync pass, and a fistful of ffmpeg operations around it — trim the source, mux …
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I was neck-deep in an avatar pipeline and needed two unglamorous things at once: a lipsync pass, and a fistful of ffmpeg operations around it — trim the source, mux …
A while back I needed a box that could rip vocals out of a track, tell me the BPM and key, transcribe a melody to MIDI, and clean up a …
I got the OpenAI Whisper API bill for a month of hooking my own tooling up to it and just sat there staring at the number like it had personally …
I was hand-rolling ARIMA fits at 2am, again, for the fourth different side project, because every time I need “give me a forecast of this series” I end up re-solving …
A 3060 and no cloud budget. AI models behind one endpoint — six cloud providers with free tiers, five local engines that run on your own hardware, the rest on …
Every cloud TTS service is the same story. Send text, get audio, pay per character, pray the API doesn’t change. Your audio goes to someone else’s servers. Your costs scale …
Every time I build a tool that runs inside a Docker container, I hit the same problem: how do I let people interact with it remotely? The obvious answer is …