Webbed Briefs – Brief videos about web technologies and how to make the most of them.

Heydon is back with a new project named “Webbed Briefs”: WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They’re packed with information, fun times™, and actual goats. Yes, it’s a vlog, but it isn’t on Youtube. Unthinkable! The first video is entitled “What Is ARIA …

AV1, the video codec of the future

Next to praising the AV1 Codec and providing conversion examples (using ffmpeg), Andrey Sitnik also gives a good overview on containers and codecs – concepts every web developer who embed video should know imho – in his post on the subject: File extensions for video (.mp4, .wmv, .webm or .mov) barely represent containers. When you …

Awesome Talks

Great site developed by Sara Vieira (@NikkitaFTW): Awesome Talks is an awesome list of tech talks to watch that is constantly updated by the community and is a great way to find an interesting talk to watch during downtime. The talks are categorised, and one can submit talks themselves (if they’re on YouTube that is). …