notes

2025-06-12

i’m feeling pretty bummed. yesterday, i managed to use my camcorder as a webcam input with my laptop, and before i had to run errands, i was able to record a short video with it. and it worked! i used a bluetooth headset as the microphone because my laptop mic is crap, and that and the webcam is like, perfect to me. i love it when my videos look like shit but have good audio lol.

but when i got home from doing stuff, i tried again, and i recorded a video fine… and then i played it back and the video was unwatchable! every few seconds, it would flash the capture card’s default colorbars, for reasons unknown to me, and the audio would also cut out (probably because i processed it in the same ffmpeg command), so i can’t even salvage that. it really sucks.

in the video, i wrote a quick bash script and talked about Stuff. i really wanted to share the video. so that sucked.

i’ve been messing with this site a bit, at least. i added custom emojis (more on that later) and code blocks with copy buttons. here’s that bash script i mentioned before, in a cute little code block:

	#!/bin/bash

battery=$(upower -i $(upower -e | grep 'BAT') | awk '/percentage/ {print $NF}' | sed 's/%//g')
batteryint=$((battery))

if (( "$batteryint" < "50" )); then
	notify-send "battery is under 50%!"
elif (( "$batteryint" < "20")); then
	notify-send "battery is under 20%!"
elif (( "$batteryint" < "10")); then
	notify-send "battery is under 10%!!! charge ur laptop!!!!"
elif (( "$batteryint" < "5")); then
	notify-send "battery is under 5%!!!!! CHARGE LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!"
fi

how cool is that?! i wanna add a copy button but i’m so bad with javascript that all my attempts failed. better luck next time.

here’s the custom emoji! i don’t really have many places to use them, but at least i have them:

superlove#

comics#

(both of these are from new teen titans!)

idols#

(first two are newjeans, third is sato masaki)

nerd mascots#

misc#