Raw Notes

I was thinking about how much of my time screen.studio is saving for editing videos. I think, it saves me at least 30–60 minutes of time for each video that I put on YouTube – my workflow has become a lot faster because of this one app.

When I record videos, it saves a lot of time in editing:

1. automatically creates the zooms highlighting important areas
2. automatically puts and records my camera feed in the video
3. splitting and removing certain sections is much faster
4. now, i can also blur/highlight certain parts in the video

And much more.

Screen.studio is one of those purchases that save you a lot of time and basically offer much much more value than the money you spent on it. Super happy for it, and I don't think I will be needing a separate setup for videos anytime soon.

I always say that the world is full of coincidences, we control a very few things (or rather even nothing), and all the things around us are so random.

I am watching this podcast where Paras Chopra is talking about randomness, and I became so happy after listening to the argument because I also think the similar way. While we like to think that we're in control of our lives, no, it's not the truth – things are so random that you don't even know what's going to happen tomorrow or even in the next minute.

It's chaos everywhere.

And that brings me to this post of mine where I've discussed about "uncertainty" and how everything revolves around that only. You know, I started playing badminton and got my leg fractured only 3-day after joining the court. Clearly, I wouldn't have predicted it.

But what do you do with this information that everything is random?

Nothing, really. Just know that not everything is in your control, so if you be successful in something, happy; but if you do not meet success, do not be too broken. Because you did not have all the cards.

Yes, hyping works in marketing, you have hype a little that your product works great, solves real problems, and is getting good response from the people. I understand that; but what I don't understand is people, at least on X, hyping every single thing about AI.

It's irritating.

You might have also come across these folks who unnecessarily try to hype every single of their tweets. I mean, hyping a good strategy to stand out and make a bold claim, but when you hype everything, you're slowing decreasing the value of your next tweets/posts.

People will start getting bored knowing that all your posts are hype, and then your social account will die a slow death.

Don't do it.

China is not holding back!

It's dropping mind-blowing developments in AI one-by-one. It was only a few weeks ago when DeepSeek was released and now they have released this AI which has the capabilities of Deep Research + Operator + Claude Computer combined. I mean, just see the demo by yourself.

Yes, it's a bit slow as of now (claim a few people who already have the access), but hey, it's just the start and I'm sure that it will become even better.

Excited for this!

I don't know why some people are worried or rather pissed about Pieter Levels building a simple flight simulator game like this and making money out of this. Obviously, it's not about how good the game is (one person was complaining about this, I don't remember who now), it's about "reach", it's about "distribution", about "placement". Advertisers are paying because so many people are trying this "mediocre" game and it's going to give them eyeballs. Simple.

I love it, have played the game, and it's fun despite being very simple.

I also noticed that this has given a lot of other people the motivation to build something like this and, surprisingly, those few people are also making money out of this:

Very cool, right?

I expect, there will be a lot more this kinds of game would be coming out in the near future which can be played directly in the browser.

ffmpeg is great!

If you want to compress a video without visible loss in the quality, here's the command:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -crf 28 output.mp4

And if you want to speed the video up by, say, 1.33x, you can just run the below command:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=0.75*PTS" -filter:a "atempo=1.33333" -r 60 output.mp4

And you can also combine both above commands into one, just run the below command and your video will be compressed as well as become 1.33x faster in seconds:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -vcodec libx264 -crf 28 -filter:v "setpts=0.75*PTS" -filter:a "atempo=1.33333" -r 60 output.mp4

Normalizes the audio of the video with a single command that I record using Screen Studio + Krisp.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a aac -af "loudnorm=I=-17:TP=-1.5:LRA=11" output.mp4

Make sure to cd into the folder where your video file is, and replace input.mp4 with the actual video filename you have.

I thought, I liked the having serif fonts on my personal website. But I was wrong, recently, I switched back to Inter and I think the site looks so much cleaner and modern.

For now, I would be using this Inter font, until I find a good one.

Actually, I found a good one called "Helvetica Neue" (inspiration from simonwillison.net), briefly googled but couldn't find anything solid on from where and how to use it. Will look it up again.

Came across this screenshot that someone shared, it was a response from the newly released OpenAI's GPT-4.5, and I immediately related to it. It just felt so true.

Humans never genuinely pursue happiness; they only pursue relief from uncertainty. Happiness emerges momentarily as a byproduct whenever uncertainty briefly disappears.

I screenshotted the screenshot that you're seeing above.

How accurate!

I have been using Placehold.co for a long time, and still didn't know that you can also add custom text, colors, fonts, etc. directly from the URL. For example, take a look at the below URL:

https://placehold.co/1200x630@2x/f9fafb/2563eb.png?font=playfair-display&text=DeepakNess

When you open it, you will see a retina 1200x630 image with "DeepakNess" written over it using the Playfair Display font.

How awesome!

Yes, truly.

I get bored working on old projects but working on new projects is always fun. I can be occupied for days without getting tired, as I am already doing the same with a current ongoing project (Search To Be). I'm good and settled for at least a month with this project.

Been creating new posts and pages, collecting useful resources, and whatnot.

Let's see how much time before I actually get bored with this one.

I came across this tweet by @levelsio and then did a Google Search to find which AI SEO related terms are actually understood by Google for what they actually is.

And it turns out:

1. AI SEO – 19.9k monthly searches
2. LLMO – 1.6k monthly searches
3. LLM SEO – 230 monthly searches

All searches are according to SEMrush.

Apart from the above terms, others are not properly understood by Google. For example:

• GEO is understood as geography-related
• LEO as zodiac sign
• AIO as all-in-one cooler (have no idea what it is)
• AEO and GSO are completely different as well

So... I think AI SEO and LLMO (Large Language Model Optimization) is going to win for now.

How does the AI-based search engines work?

They still rely on "content" and I think whoever has the most content in the AI-powered search era, is going to win. After all, blog posts are not outdated at all, they just became sexy once again.

I think, any new or old businesses should keep creating more and more "original" content.