Insomniac's Dream Sequence

⚡ A lightweight, self-hosted YouTube video summarizer with Gemini AI

Does what it says. Works wonderfully to summarize and organize YouTube videos.

I watch a lot of videos for my podcast and I don’t always remember details especially when they are about specific weapons or perks in Destiny 2.

We’ll install gifsicle via brew install gifsicle and throw our GIF into it with the following:

gifsicle -O3 --lossy=65 --gamma=1.2 kitties2.gif -o kitties3.gif

So what’s going on here?`

• O3 is essentially gifsicle’s most efficient mode, doing fancy things like delta frames so changes between frames are stored rather than each frame separately
• lossy=65 defines the level of compression, 65 has been a good middle ground for me (200 I believe is the highest compression level)
• gamma=1.2 is a bit confusing, but essentially the gamma controls how the lossy parameter reacts to (and thus compresses) colors. 1 will allow it to be quite aggressive with colors, while 2.2 (the default) is much less so. Through trial and error I’ve found 1.2 causes nice compression without much of a loss in quality

The resulting GIF is now 23.8MB, shaving a nice additional 22MB off, so we’re now at a meager 5% of our original filesize.

This project is to use my ancient Pi Zero as a super low power bugout media and file server. This is inspired by jcorp-nomad project that uses an ESP32 board for a ultra tiny, low-power, portable media server.

My build has has:

• 12 movies
• 1 Season of a tv show
• 35 YouTube vidoes for the kids
• 3 music playlists
• A small collection of HTML & classic Flash games
• 2 full length wrestling live events

This setup broadcasts a wifi network and makes all the movies, music, YouTube videos, and games availabe at http://IP_ADDR:3939 and a mini Wikipedia at http://IP_ADDR:8080.

I love builds and ideas like this. A low-powered, likely forgotten piece of technology give new life as a single tasker.

It solves a problem. Its a simple solution to getting information and entertainment in the short term.

Inter is a workhorse of a typeface carefully crafted & designed for a wide range of applications, from detailed user interfaces to marketing & signage

Send files between devices using only a browser. No accounts. No logins.

Publish your writing effortlessly. All you need is email.

Instaloader is a tool to download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck.
A device designed solely for writing.
No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.
Just writing.