A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, …
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Leveraging the JavaScript YouTube Player API and with a good pinch of CSS on top, Thomas H. Park created this record player for you to play with. Drop the needle and find your favorite track, more or less. It’s fuzzy and inexact, and emphasizes the continuous listening experience an album can be. Clever usage of …
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Tom Scott has uploaded a video to YouTube whose title reflects the number of views the video has. The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here’s the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all …
pipcorn
With pipcorn you can spawn a picture-in-picture YouTube player on your Mac without installing anything! Install it globally using npm, or run it directly using npx: npx pipcorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Basically it’s a wrapper around ytdl (to get the MP4 URL) and open-pip-cli (to open a PIP player). Love the name, too. pipcorn Source (GitHub) →
<lite-youtube-embed>By Paul Irish: Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. This custom element renders just like the real thing but approximately 224X faster. Installation per NPM: npm install lite-youtube-embed Usage: <!– Include the stylesheet, this could be direct from the package or bundled –> <link rel="stylesheet" href="node_modules/lite-youtube-embed/src/lite-yt-embed.css" /> <!– Include the custom element …
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Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers: One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against …
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James Bridle – whom you might know from his autonomous trap for self-driving cars – on the dangers of leaving your children on YouTube unattended: Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in return for advertising …
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