Projects for the upcoming Holiday break
2024-11-27
With a couple days of extra break for Thanksgiving, I’ve been pondering what I should work on next. My adventures in C++ tend to be frustrating so I think I’ll give it a rest and spend some time working on the blog. That leaves the problem of what else I’d like to see the blog do. One problem that I’ve been having with uploading media to this blog is that some devices automatically save to Apple’s mov format vs the more universal mp4. I tried in the past to implement an automatic conversion on the web server itself. I got this working but it isn’t build for larger files, and it’s far to heavy a process for a web server. This morning I was thinking about using AWS Simple Queue service for this task, but I suspect that using that service would be overkill considering how simple it would be to write a batch job that ran on a container whose sole job would be to check a folder for mov files, convert them, and move them to the production bucket. I never got around to increasing the logging that I am doing on the blog too so this would also be a good opportunity for a bit of refactoring as well as refining of my existing processes and logging.
With a couple days of extra break for Thanksgiving, I’ve been pondering what I should work on next. My adventures in C++ tend to be frustrating so I think I’ll give it a rest and spend some time working on the blog. That leaves the problem of what else I’d like to see the blog do. One problem that I’ve been having with uploading media to this blog is that some devices automatically save to Apple’s mov format vs the more universal mp4. I tried in the past to implement an automatic conversion on the web server itself. I got this working but it isn’t build for larger files, and it’s far to heavy a process for a web server. This morning I was thinking about using AWS Simple Queue service for this task, but I suspect that using that service would be overkill considering how simple it would be to write a batch job that ran on a container whose sole job would be to check a folder for mov files, convert them, and move them to the production bucket. I never got around to increasing the logging that I am doing on the blog too so this would also be a good opportunity for a bit of refactoring as well as refining of my existing processes and logging.